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Robot Movies: What's Your Favorite?
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Robot movies have always been popular. From Metropolis by Fritz Lang to Transformers, movies featuring all types of robots have enjoyed more than 70 years of recurring success. Let's explore the main themes of robot stories as I pick up a few of my favorites movies along the way. For my Top 3, though, you can check my top 3 favorite robot films. 1) Science without conscience is the ruin of mankind. But not all machines will go against humankind. Some robot movies will build on the fact that it's the ...
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Humanoid Robots, the edge of robotics
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Hum Difficult question. Let's see what humanoid robots can do right now, first. You may think they can do a lot of things, because you saw an awesome video the other day with the Toyota partner robot running like a real human. Or you are sure they can't do anything: if they could, they would be everywhere on the street like in the movies I, Robot or Star Wars. Well, whatever your answer, you are kind of right. But also kind of wrong. Click here to learn more about Fembots. 1) What is a humanoid robot?
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Mars Rovers are looking for traces of life!
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Why are they so cool? Mars Rovers are the new explorers of modern time. They are sent where no humans can reach yet to discover and conquer new territories. I just love them as you can see: I think the duo Spirit Opportunity are two of the greatest robots ever! 1) What is a Mars Rover? Let's see their common features, and what they can do before judging. Mars rovers and the Phoenix Mars Lander. Since they operate on Mars, these robots need to be autonomous. To gather energy, and have to find their way by...
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Pepper Robot Programming: Tools and Tutorials
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Need some help with Pepper Robot programming? I have been doing it for several years now, even before Pepper ever existed. I have been a Behavior Architect at Aldebaran for 2 years, creating complex apps on Nao and Pepper. I have used most of the 1350 APIs available to control the robots, and even created a few of my own when necessary. Pepper Robot Programming Tools. Choregraphe will be your main tool to program Pepper. Can you program Pepper to do the cleaning? The Community website of Aldebaran. Is me...
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Pepper Robot, the fully interactive robot ready to conquer the World
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Pepper Robot, the Fully Interactive Robot. The Pepper Robot is the first of its kind:. Fully interactive, it can hold full conversations with you,. Safe, even when dancing with high speed and complex movements, Pepper will not make a single scratch to the kids at its feet,. Fun, it has its own personality and the best game/show designers are already working on it to make it the most lively robot ever made,. Let's see more about this awesome Pepper robot that started its carreer in Japan. Every half an ho...
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Robotics Companies: the Small, the Big, and the Geeky.
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The Small, the Big, and the Geeky. 1) Industrial robots: where it all started. The first breakthrough of robotics was to optimize the industry production lines with robots that could endlessly and accurately repeat the same movements. The first industrial robots were used in the 1960s. Now, there are more than 1 million units working around the world, with around 100,000 new robots sold every year. So industrial robotics companies have a lot of work. 2) One Company, One Robot. Today, you can find many mo...
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Share the Personal Robot Guide
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Share the Personal Robot Guide. Do you like the Personal Robot Guide? Do you like the articles on unique robots? Have you discovered your own home robots on this site? Please don't keep it for yourself. It is kind of a favor I ask you: if you like my website and its content, please share it with your friends, family, social network. I build this website to tell people about robotics, and teach the basics. When you share this site, it helps other people finding it and building a bigger community. Are you ...
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Make Pepper know everything using Wikipedia
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Make Pepper know everything using Wikipedia. In this tutorial, I explain the code available on the Github PepperWiki. You can download it for free on Github. PepperWiki is a simple Pepper/Nao app that uses STT (Speech To Text) and Wikipedia to answer any question the user asks. At the time of writing, the app supports English and Japanese. This app demonstrates how to do a few common things when creating Choregraphe projects for Pepper or Nao:. Using the STT from the Dialog and qiChat. Setting up the app.
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Space Robots, Between Dream and Reality
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When Dream Meets Reality. For me who has always loved science-fiction, space robots have always seemed like a dream come true. I was 17 when the duo Spirit Opportunity sent back there first images from Mars. That is basically why I chose the science major in college. And I am now working in a robotics lab. That's how much influence robots in space can have on people. And I don't think I'm the only one. 1) Robots Space Programs. A) NASA Robots: 1st Mars Rover,. 1st humanoid robot in space. Niel Armstrong ...
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