Robots and humans working together

Robots and humans working together.

LA VERGNE

The new Saks Fifth Avenue warehouse almost seems like a scene from Star Wars the way vacuum-sized orange robots and employees team to ship out products.Saks launched operations in July at a 560,000-square-foot warehouse that had been vacated by Borders and held a ribbon-cutting celebration Friday with Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, a former three-year president of this Saks Direct Logistics division of the New York City retailer before he was elected as mayor of Knoxville in 2003.
The company hopes to hire another 150 seasonal workers for day, night and weekend shifts to ship out products to mostly online customers, as well as those ordering by phone.
The number of workers exceeds the company’s agreement with the Rutherford County Industrial Development Board last March to provide at least 251 jobs in exchange for a $1.1 million seven-year tax break on personal property. IDB officials expect the agreement to generate an estimated $3.47 in tax revenues for every $1 in abatement.
The average pay should come to more than $28,000 annually, Kenneth “Pete” Ezell Jr., a Nashville attorney representing Saks, told the IDB.

The Robotic Arm

The Robotic Arm

The term robot comes from the Czech word robota, generally translated as "forced labor." This describes the majority of robots fairly well. Most robots in the world are designed for heavy, repetitive manufacturing work. They handle tasks that are difficult, dangerous or boring to human beings. Your arm's job is to move your hand from place to place. Similarly, the robotic arm's job is to move an end effector from place to place. You can outfit robotic arms with all sorts of end effectors, which are suited to a particular application. One common end effector is a simplified version of the hand, which can grasp and carry different objects. Robotic hands often have built-in pressure sensors that tell the computer how hard the robot is gripping a particular object. This keeps the robot from dropping or breaking whatever it's carrying. Other end effectors include blowtorches, drills and spray painters.

FIRA Robot World Cup



Bristol Robotics Laboratory led the bid to host the event in the UK



FIRA Robot World Cup

More than 200 robots are heading to Bristol for the first FIRA Robo World Cup to be held in the UK.

Twenty-seven teams will take part in football, basketball and weightlifting events in the At-Bristol science centre over six days, starting on Monday.

Advanced robots and their creators are travelling from Mexico, Canada, India and China for the competition.

The UK has a team from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and another from the University of Plymouth taking part.

The city won the chance to host the event due to the work of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), a joint research project between the University of Bristol and UWE Bristol.

Camouflage Robot's

   

DARPA Soft Robot

Camouflage Robot's

If you’re worried about the coming robot apocalypse, then worry some more because soft, squishy robots just got camouflage. Scientists at Harvard University working under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract have developed a way of turning soft robots into “chameleons” capable of blending in with their backgrounds and even hiding from infrared sensors. That’s pretty impressive (or scary) for robots that can be made for less than US$100 apiece.

Led by Dr's. George Whitesides and Stephen Morin at Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, the Harvard team took nature as their inspiration, modelling the robots on invertebrates that expand and contract their bodies in order to move or change their appearance. Such soft robots have been gaining a lot of attention lately, but the Harvard soft-bots took another page from nature’s notebook.
In the Harvard soft-bots, this isn’t quite so sophisticated. The robots are constructed using a 3D printer to create the molds used in their manufacture. These molds have networks of micro channels impressed in them. One set of channels carry the air that makes the robot squirm about in a frighteningly lifelike manner and the other carries coloured fluid. When the robot walks over a surface, the appropriate pre-selected fluid is pumped in to match the surface and break up the pattern of the robot, making it less visible. The whole process takes less than 30 seconds and the silicone molds make the cost of each soft-bot only about US$100.
But the soft-bots’ camouflage isn’t confined to colour. The fluid can be heated or cooled to match whatever surface the robot is walking on, making it all but invisible to infrared detectors. In addition, the robot can aid search and rescue missions by making itself more visible rather than less by filling itself with brightly coloured, fluorescent or even bioluminescent fluids.
 

Medical Robots

Medical Robots

We born, we live our lives and at the end - we die. That's the truth. However, the quality of our lives often correlates with our health. Generally, the healthier we are the more we can achieve - thus the happier we can be.
That's why health has always been an issue to deal with. Nowadays medicine has gone a very long way compared to the time of Hippocrates of Kos. Now humans are able to do very complicated surgeries, invent cures for various illnesses and so on. The question arises - can medicine go further and in what ways?
The answer on the first part of the question is "definitely". However the answers to the second part can differ. There are many notable fields which could change the course of medical history for example - stem cells. Still, I'm sure that the field of robotics and robotics-related fields such as medical bionics and biomechatronics will play a big role in medicine in near future.
Actually, many exciting things are happening in these fields right now. So, in this section of my site I will try to shed some light on questions about medical robots and robotics related fields in medicine now and in the future.

Medical robots that can do surgeries sounds marvelous, right? All existing surgery robots on this day are actually cleverly made manipulators controlled by competent doctors. There are some issues with the level of Artificial Intelligence needed to do surgeries independently but that can be achieved some day.
Nowadays, there are two fields where surgical robots are being developed and tested. One is telerobotics which enables a doctor to do a surgery at a distance. The other field is minimally invasive surgery - surgery done without making large cuts.

Robonaut

Robonaut

The first humanoid robot in space was sent to the space station with the intention of eventually taking over tasks too dangerous or mundane for astronauts, and the first such task identified for it was monitoring air velocity. Astronauts onboard the space station generally have to measure the air flow in front of vents inside the station to ensure that none of the ventilation ductwork gets clogged or blocked. The task involves holding a gauge in front of vents in five different locations on the station and taking several measurements of the air flow every 90 days or so.

What can robots do that humans can't

What can robots do that humans can't

Robots can go under water for more then humans can they can also fly and go to place's in space like mars as well they can defuse bombs which humans wont many of them will do our jobs and carry tonnes of weight that humans cant carry and they also can work non-stop 24/7 with out tiring when humans leave the jobs robots can take over and do the human jobs when humans close down there stores.