Sentences with phrase «for robot bodies»

Students can get creative with vibrobots and explore all kinds of different materials for robot bodies, arms, and legs.

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Such research could one day help lead to next - generation brain - machine interfaces for controlling prosthetics, exoskeletons and robots, as well as «electroceuticals» to treat disorders of the brain and body.

She said that the robots cut down on the wear and tear of the human body, which typically occurs for these blue - collar warehouse workers and thus prolongs their careers.

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Fortunately for the squeamish, some snake robots will be put to medical use outside the body.

This brain could sit on a shelf until technology has advanced enough for us to scan and re-create the neural network in a new robot body or virtual environment.

Miniature robots that doctors could guide through a patient's body to kill cancer cells are closer to reality thanks to winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Because the robot body changes shape in response to its surroundings, it can slip through narrow crevices to search for survivors in the rubble left by an earthquake or bombing, he said.

Engineers also describe how the structure of the boxfish could serve as inspiration for body armor, robots and even flexible electronics.

Their 10 - centimeter - long robot, named GoQBot for the Q - shape it forms as it rolls, is powered by shape memory coils that bend at three points to allow it to change its body conformation in less than 100 milliseconds.

Inspired by the snake's streamlined body and flexible spine, engineers are building robots that can slither into places too tight or dangerous for people to enter.

So when an international team of engineers wanted to design tiny robots that could move cells around, deliver drugs deep inside the body or clean clogged arteries, they looked to nature for inspiration: sperm.

The robo - fish project is an extension of Valdivia y Alvarado's doctoral thesis work at M.I.T., which sought to create «a methodology for building mobile robots by exploiting the natural vibration of compliant bodies,» he says.

«Soft - bodied robots: Actuators inspired by muscle: The new actuators could pave the way for entirely soft - bodied robots that are safer than their conventional rigid counterparts.»

«It lets the robot figure out itself what is appropriate for its own body.»

If robots are going to learn by imitation, one of the most powerful learning mechanisms we know, it will clearly be useful for our bodies to be alike.

On the horizon, nanoscale structures may one day be marshaled to hunt cancer cells in the body or act as robot assembly lines for the design of new drugs.

Inspired by our bodies» sensory capabilities, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed a platform for creating soft robots with embedded sensors that can sense movement, pressure, touch, and even temperature.

Following [20], two main regions were defined for each perspective, by dividing the control volume into: i) the region of fish - robot interaction (referred to as the «focal region»), which extended eight fish body lengths and was centered on the robotic fish center of mass, and ii) the non-interaction zone, which consisted of the remaining portion and was delimited by the two plastic honeycombs, that is, the front-most and back-most regions, respectively, shown in Figure 4.

It is based on the premise that intelligent algorithms will enable robots to support surgery using smart endoscopes that maneuver through intricate interiors of the body for improving the capabilities of surgeons.

You either begin to move like a robot, or you decide to remain in bed (for the time being), stuck in agony as you compress one of the joints in your body — the knee, the wrist, or the lower back in an attempt for the pain to subside just a little so you could kick start your day.

I for sure believe for bodybuilding and health benefits chasing the pump is right now how you do that is variable, I've been drop setting but with light weight and if i rest pause its with light weight and this adds to the pump if you just do 5 straight sets there is a trauma and effect but i think the bottom line as micheal states is total reps for the week 250 to 500 and thats my thing today i drop setted i didn't want to do 5 heavy sets it did not feel right so i altered my game and i had a great workout screw getting fixated on i have to do this exact detailed workout... man your body is not a robot it sounds like your used to that style from powerlifting programming.......

For some background, basically Humanity has completely given up their fleshy bodies to become onboard AI's and robots.

Play as Your Own Personalized TRANSFORMERS Robot - For the first time, players can customize their own TRANSFORMERS robot with a modular body part system.

For mild comic distraction in a movie that is skimpier than most in generating laughter, there is Minion (David Cross), Megamind's loyal assistant, who has a fishbowl head, the body of a robot gorilla and a fanged underbite.

It's not as homoerotic as Top Gun, then, but it does feature pretty boy Josh Lucas as lead pilot Ben Gannon, point man for an experiment by evil Capt. George Cummings (Sam Shepard) to introduce a robot brain into the body of a state - of - the - art fighter aircraft.

Alex Murphy (a flat but effective Joel Kinnaman), an undercover cop in near - future Detroit, is nearly killed by a car bomb set by corrupt cops, only to wake up in a robot body designed by benevolent scientist Dennett Norton (Gary Oldman) and paid for by OmniCorp CEO Raymond Sellars (Michael Keaton).

Disney has filed a patent for soft - body robots that will interact with guests at the company's theme parks.

The alien invaders create bio-mechanical monsters (half man and half machine robots, with the humans used for body parts) for the purpose of exterminating the virus they identify only as humans and to accomplish their aim of conquering the world.

At the station responsible for lowering the body on to a pre-assembled rolling powertrain, another autonomous robot circles the freshly arrived AGV, touching the chassis in a number of areas.

Modeled after the robot piloted by Gundam villain Char Anzable, customers can opt for a new body kit, special - edition wheels, heavily bolstered sport seats, sheets of graphics, and even a few performance upgrades.

You're using the same tool that forced you to work to escape by Later on you'll acquire a robot friend who can also be directed using your laser, his indestructible metal body and weight making him handy for solving a variety of puzzles, plus he can even be turned into a static cube.

Headlander tells a darkly - comedic story centered around the player as the last living human head in a transhumanist retro - future where mankind has traded in its organic bodies for slickly produced robot ones.

Both robots already have Figma figures, but Good Smile Company is now bringing Portal 2 «s ATLAS and P - Body into their Nendoroid series; both collectibles are shown in the master gallery below, but only ATLAS is colorized and ready for finalization.

Other highlights of the exhibition include Robot Bodies, Piper's 1988 seminal interactive digital work — updated and re-programmed for this exhibition — in which the robot, android and cyborg are examined as metaphorical carriers of contemporary anxieties around racial difference; and a series of mixed media works on un-stretched canvas, «future projected history paintings of the present», that reference 19th century history painting and have been commissioned by Bluecoat and Iniva.

In addition to learning about how this simple robot functions, students will have the opportunity to design new «bodies» for the plantbot, using recycled materials.

There's a lot of figurative work today — I'm actually curating a show right now for the Flag Art Foundation of artists who use dolls, mannequins, toys, robots, all surrogates for the human body.

Other highlights of the exhibition at Bluecoat include Robot Bodies, Piper's 1988 seminal interactive digital work — updated and re-programmed for this exhibition — in which the robot, android and cyborg are examined as metaphorical carriers of contemporary anxieties around racial difference; and a series of mixed media works on un-stretched canvas, «future projected history paintings of the present», that reference 19th century history painting and have been commissioned by Bluecoat and Iniva.

Recent robot fish, such as MIT's low - cost polymer fish, have flexible bodies, but Gymnobot is rigid save for a long undulating fin powered by twin crankshafts inside its body.