After defeating Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings at Jeopardy!, Watson, the robot by IMB, went on to become a physicians helper. What would be the most suitable job for a robot that can quickly search trough an immense database and find the answer to a question? We do not know. But diagnosing illnes
There have been two noteworthy developments in the last week for Aldebaran and Nao, their humanoid platform. Let's have a look at this exciting news. Nao Charging Station As announced in Tokyo last weekend, Nao get's a charging station that allows the robot to autonomously recharge itself when ne
The groundbreaking ceremony for the new RobotShop headquarters took place on March 8th. The first shovel full of dirt, symbolic of the beginning of construction work on the new RobotShop headquarters, took place at 305-18005 rue Lapointe, in the heart of the Proservin integrated industrial park, in…
Goggle made an impressive demonstration of their car in "aggressive mode". You can see the autonomous car perform around a closed course at high-speed in a parking lot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMdcWHnbhsw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaGJ6nH36uI It is exiting to see that the autonomous
Skynet is slowly becoming a reality. A Google researcher suggests that the future of robotics is in cloud-computing. This means that robots could offload their more complex tasks to remote servers that could do the heavy computations. It also means that robots could instantly learn new skills
