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Robots
Robotic systems continue to evolve, slowly penetrating many areas of our lives, from manufacturing, medicine and remote exploration to entertainment, security and personal assistance. Developers in Japan are currently building robots to assist the elderly, while NASA develops the next generation of space explorers, and artists are exploring new avenues of entertainment. Collected here are a handful of images of our recent robotic past, and perhaps a glimpse into the near future. (32 photos total)
Twendy-One demonstrates its ability to hold delicate objects by manipulating a drinking straw between its fingers at the Department of Mechanical Engineering laboratory in Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. The sophisticated robot has been developed by the university's team, led by Dr. Shigeki Sugano, in hope of supporting people in aging societies. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
NASA's Limbed Excursion Mechanical Utility Robot (LEMUR) is being designed as an inspection/maintenance robot for equipment in space. A scaled-up version of Lemur IIa, could help build large structures in space. The Lemur IIa pictured here is shown on a scale model of a segmented telescope. (NASA/Planetary Robotics Laboratory) #
Surgeons use a robot named da Vinci to aid a hernia operation, at the University Hospital Geneva, in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. The University Hospitals of Geneva opened the department for robotic surgery in 2008, where between 50 and 80 surgeons from around the world will have the possibility to train with da Vinci each year. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi) #
Spanish Queen Sofia King Juan Carlos, Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko react after watching watching a performance of a robotic suit called HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb), which can lift up to 30kg rice bags, at Tsukuba University north of Tokyo on November 12, 2008. (KATSUMI KASAHARA/AFP/Getty Images) #
Humanoid robots Wakamaru, produced by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, named Momoko (R) and Takeo (L) in the performace, take part in a drama for the world's first robot and human experimental theatre, written and directed by Japanese playwright Oriza Hirata, at Japan's Osaka University in Osaka, western Japan on November 25, 2008. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images) #
An Explosive Ordinance Disposal robot places an explosive device next to a suspicious package during a demonstration conducted by members of the Special Operations Command Central Command Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit for participants of the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference 72, at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, Oct. 21, 2006. (Defense Dept. photo by Cherie A. Thurlby) #
Tokyo Fire Department's rescue robot transfers a mock victim onto itself during an anti-terrorism exercise in the response to a radiological dispersal device in Tokyo, on November 7, 2008. Tokyo Metropolitan government conducted the exercise with eleven organisations including Metropolitan Police Department. (TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP/Getty Images) #
Two All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer (ATHLETE) rovers traverse the desert terrain adjacent to Dumont Dunes, CA. The ATHLETE rovers are being built to be capable of rolling over Apollo-like undulating terrain and "walking" over extremely rough or steep terrain for future lunar missions. (NASA) #
Japan's Health Minister Yoichi Masuzoe sits with an assistive robot called "My Spoon" during a demonstration of health care robots in Tokyo on November 10, 2008. "My Spoon", developed by Japan's Secom is designed to help disabled people eat meals with joystick for controls using one's jaw, hand and feet. (AFP PHOTO/JIJI PRESS) #
A mock intruder, tangled in a net that was launched by the remote-controlled security robot T-34, lies on the floor while posing beside the robot in Tokyo January 21, 2009. T-34 users can see live images from the robot's camera and control the robot using a mobile phone. The robot, which has sensors that react to body heat and sound, can launch a net against an intruder by remote-control during its surveillance. (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon) #
Farmer Wu Yulu drives his rickshaw pulled by a his self-made walking robot near his home in a village at the outskirts of Beijing January 8, 2009. This robot is the latest and largest development of hobby inventor Wu, who started to build robots in 1986, made of wire, metal, screws and nails found in rubbish sites. (REUTERS/Reinhard Krause) #
Clara Vu, a software architect with Harvest Automation, tests "Mr. Incredible", a second generation robot prototype, in the firm's Groton, MA office August 29, 2008. Mr. Incredible is a container handling system for greenhouses, automatically moving potted plants into a widening grid as they grow and need more space. (Ellen Harasimowicz for The Boston Globe) #
A student of the Tokyo Institute of Technology displays a prototype security robot "bino3" during a demonstration at a security show in Tokyo on March 3, 2009. The bino3 has four "eyes", which are two wide-angle stereo camera lenses and two tele-photo stereo camera lenses which can follow an subject or intruder smoothly. (AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO) #
Vince Martinelli, an account manager at Kiva Systems, right, checks packages on the "pods", or shelves with dummy merchandise as robots run through a demonstration of an inventory check at the company's "demo warehouse" used to show their warehouse automation robots in action. (Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe) #
A Navy Talon 3B robot approaches a claymore land mine on a sand dune during a training exercise at a training range in Djibouti, Africa, on April 14, 2005. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians from Mobile Unit 4 operate the robot from safe locations through the use of monitors and video equipment attached to the robot. (DoD photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Robert R. McRill, U.S. Navy) #
Mental commitment robotic baby seals named "Paro" are recharged at robot exhibition Robo Japan 2008 in Yokohama, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. The 350,000 yen (US$3,480) Paro, a cooing baby harp seal robot fitted with sensors beneath its fur and whiskers, is developed by Japan's Intelligent System Co, to soothe patients in hospitals and nursing homes. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) #
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover in the course of its assembly, before additions of its arm, mast, laboratory instruments and other equipment, seen in August of 2008. Its six wheels are half a meter (20 inches) in diameter. The deck is 1.1 meter (3.6 feet) above the ground. The MSL rover is being assembled and tested for launch in 2011. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) #
More links and information
JPL Robotics Nasa robotic systems
Robots on the move - Boston Globe, 8/31/2008
Intuitive Surgical - home of da Vinci robotic surgical system
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Picture #26
Where the hell are these men grown up? They should go to movie more often.
Robot Love Gone Awry
Japanese robot programmed to love...a little too much.
by Chris Iaquinta
March 6, 2009 - Ever have a super needy girlfriend that demanded all of your love and attention and would freak whenever you would leave her alone? Irritating, right? Now imagine the same situation, only with an asexual third generation humanoid robot with 100kg arms. Basically you get Fatal Attraction with a terminator cast in the lead role. Such was the torture subjected upon Japanese researchers recently when their most advanced robot, capable of simulating human emotions, ditched its puppy love programming and switched over into stalker mode. LOVE.....KILL....LOVE....KILL!
http://gear.ign.com/articles/959/959790p1.html
Isaac Asimov's 3 laws of robotics:
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
Dear friends by the way i really surprised to see these out comes of technologies in this modern planet. Actually this is my first glance to have such things on computer in my life. People suffered a lot to have such ideas, but some people do open web and just go through the pics. Share nothing as something special. What i would like to share, that people can go hundreds and thousands times forward to have new creation in technology still. Originality and reality is the main factors. TECHNOLOGY only can make visible. Bye.
OMG THESE ARE SO WEIRD ok im gettin outa here cause this is kinda scaren me a lil lol
@Brittany Lewis, post#172 :
Exactly WHERE are you planning to go to escape such horrific vision for the rest of your life ?
Let me remind you that the Ares rocket is not ready for launch yet ! And even if it were, you'd have to bring some of those mechanical "friends" along with you, if only for flying the rocket straight ...
Even with the snow falling out there, I feel intense heat coming from what can only be described as a gaping pit ...
Welcome to 2009 !!
Kill all humans! @ Bender
Kraftwerk said 35 years ago : "We are the robots"... yes, they were right ! In near future, we will depend on them for everything. They will rule the world !
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ich war hier.
Next thing youll know well be in our very own "Metropolis..." for those who dont know its a movie...A very good movie at that.
Very nice. Looks like General Electric is being beaten by farmer Wu Yulu.
It all can be traced to the fact that US does not know how to use Metric System.
Pls US Congress change the damn English units system to Metric units.
veryyyyyy nycccc!x
#28 made me sad. Why do the Asians want to replace humans with robots? You can never replace the human spirit with a cold lump of steel. Neither can you replace warm fuzzy animals with soulless robotic ones.
We've come a long way since the days of Rosie the robot maid on the Jetsons. God bless America!
This is MY kind of article
I didn't like the look of the robots playing the instruments, or the seals.
Overall though, I'll be interested to see how this progresses through to the future.
I hope that this machines wont be more intelligent than human, becouse if this is truth, we are lost.
No. 4
Don't call it HAL! Are you nuts, haven't you seen 2001?!
Whenever I see a baby seal I instinctively want to bludgeon it.
WOW :)
#21 is just a TRAXXAS E-MAXX with a camera on it.
Lol, I got one for x-mas.
huh! amazing......
thank you
i am 61 age
when i was 20 i want just see the computer
and now i wish see and kiss the robat
that will be very nice world in future
i wish i could see that time
cool
so sick, i want 1
It was Great!!!
This is terrifying. I will now retire to my underground shelter and not come back out until WWIII (Humans vs. Robots) is over.
What does the League of Women voters have against robots and robotics exhibitions? You have to wonder what is really driving their agenda.
cool
amar pokkir robot
great..................i think
I'm surprised NASA is not doing more with ROBOTS, it is much easier and less expensive, not to mention the human risk of sending ROBOTS to Space and beyond, Moon, Mars and other planets should continue to be explored by ROBOTS..they can do all if not more than what a human can do....ORION doesn't make sense..it will cost us $ Billions and most probably, will be discarded and replaced in 20 years....as a software architect I don't find ORION that advanced
Go ROBOTS!!!!
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oh my god wake up people they are here terminator also "No 30" bloody germans !!!
sick
Very nice site!
Amazing pictures and the informative informations. The human vs Robot war is still on and a lot more is yet to come.
My wife was operated on three years ago for esophageal reconstruction and a hiatal hernia by surgeons using a DaVinci. Her healing time was one-quarter of the usual for "old-fashioned" "open" surgery. All but three of the half-centimeter holes cut into her left no scar. The proceedure was 100% effective.
I'd venture to say that the DaVinci surgical system is a success.
I understand that many are apprehensive because of the "terminator syndrome".
Remember: almost anything that can be used for good, can also be used for "evil". Let's just employ a bit of self-control and personal responsibility.
"We will not kill...today." --J. Tiberious Kirk
Wired for War is a good read on this subject
nice amazing work that has been made
I've been following the pursuits of Wu Yulu for the last two years. Built with only limited resources, his robots are of superb quality. Think of where he could be if he only had the support of his government.
Non beatable... awesome performance....
looking goooooooooooooodd
so interstingn isnt it
artifitial intelligence and robotics are future sience
these are the best robots that i have seen so far they should make a hovering skatboard
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wu Yulu will attend the 2009 Schicklefest in Orono Maine this summer. If you are interested in robots or fond of Kurt Schickle (who isn't) - please plan on attending.
I think that the robo lobster is AWSOME!!!
super tare.... sa am un robot care imi va face toate treburile marfaaa
this stuff is ko0l man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yes, its cool
Holy crap these pics are good!
this is very very very cool
your roborts are great because me in my class are making one.
i want to have all of these robots!!!!
Check out this solar powered robot, made here in Boston: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kbZzOYgCWg
These robots r so freiken awesome
Robots are cool. I'm a kid can you make a spy robot for me. Because my dad won't
make one with me.
GREAT THANKS !
very great.
quiero un robot de 50$ para la escuela Enrico Fermi
wow! that a mazing thakyou for the intertament but what about kides
Very interesting photos, are you going to make robots to be able to help people with disabilities? our pre -school children of Buen DIa Family School in the neighborhood of San Francisco are very into the Space and Robots, they are drawing different kinds of Robots and making one with recycle materials, so all this pictures will give them more ideas about what Robots can do.
my response to #156: i see your point about hollywood and fear, (wheres the drama without a threat), but i believe the stereotype-scifi-story about robots, turning on man kind is more an exploration of humanity (in the technological age), as with most sci fi/ fantacy storys (the good ones any way, usually the originals). after all humans turn on humans. and if we were to create a being in our own image, wouldnt they experience the same fears and desires that are at the core of our experience? most robot films reveal this side of their plight. i think of 'frankenstein; or the modern prometheus', in a way, as one of the originals, even though technically he isnt a robot, but the themes are as old as the human race. i do believe our obsession with robots stems out of our facination with life and the desire to create it, it also constantly reminds me of how magnificently we ourselves (and any other living organisms) are engineered.
ive got so much to say on the subject but id end up writing a huge essay. i would suggest watching some sci-fi/ fantcy again from this perspective and youll find theres a whole lot more being said than whats on the surface.
good job.
THIS IS SOME OF THE COOLEST STUFF I HAD EVER SEEN BEFOR. I CAN`T WAITE TO LOOK IN TO IT.
Amasing! ... These robots are great proofs of concept and definitly make me think that robots will be the 21 century leading business. Indeed, a quick search on the web allows to find some emerging consumer businesses based on robotics ... http://www.bestofrobots.fr sounds making good stuff ...
Awesome!
In 1964, the Triple Revolution memorandum was sent to President Johnson, suggesting that automation was breaking the rationale for a link between jobs and income. Around 1971, President Nixon and Senator Daniel P. Moynihan tried to pass a basic income plan (when everyone is entitled to a share of the benefits of automation not related to working). The plan nearly passed. Marshal Brain and many others are reviving this basic income idea forty years later, because it was and is a good idea. As robots continue to improve, and as demand for consumer goods becomes saturated gloabally (because the best things in life are free or cheap like friendship, family, helping others, and enjoying nature), jobs will be disappearing more and more, first in the USA, and later everywhere. A basic income is a good step on the way to a post-scarcity economy.
yes affirmative
because the humans are dead
These thing are caused by global warming
# 163, once robots take over everything there will be no more jobs for regular poor people, only rich people make robots so they don't have to pay anyone else.
Yeah, but who will make the robots? Rich people by definition don't do manual labor (I'm guessing that's your definition)
This website was really helpful for my school project! love it! mwah!
what about resizing the pictures? took 20 min to load...
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too many coments!!!
what kind of advice would you give to a 13 year old girl who is dreaming of building a rodot that will change the future?
thats so cool
Some nice robots the cutest was the seal's i could cuddle them all day
coolest website ever
those robots are SICK!!!!
they are awsome
this is some really cool stuff
youve really inspired me!!
wow ive never seen that
nice work!
very nice n great.
i like that ................
This is so cool, the best.
ROBOTS ARE TOTALLY AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (some are really freaky though!)
this is preety cool i wounder if they will cost more then half a milleon??
wow how sweet lol how much did it cost
very nice!!!!! i relly like that
that was cool are there any in america
wow that is incredible
wow these things r pertty cool LOL back then i bet they didnt even has robots and now a days we have awesome cell phones and T.Vs
this is coolio
#240-
While I do believe the capital infusion of robotics into the modern economy could have the effects you reply to, if robotics "evolve" to the point of being able to do anything humans are capable of (mechanically), why do we need people, per se, to make them? Robots building robots- that's the future. Hell, any car you see coming off the production line at Toyota has a dozen robotic arms welding on it.
omg dude these things r awesome :D
this stuff is so cool but i would have too see the little net shooting one for my self before i believe that it would really be affective.
i love these things they are like soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool
wow