American author, inventor, Google’s director of engineering and forward-looking prognosticator Ray Kurzweil once wrote, "We won't experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century - it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today's rate)." If he's correct, then the revolution in robotics…
This past Saturday the team from South Korea which designed, built and programmed their humanoid robot DRC-HUBO took home the $2 million dollar first-place prize as part of the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge. The focus of this year's challenge was to create a robot which could complete a vari…
Double Telepresence Robot System A robot invasion doesn't have to be scary, though it's important to know that it isn't science fiction anymore. When the film 2001 A Space Odyssey came out in 1968, Dr Floyd's casual use of a teleconference robot during a space station layover was as much science
