Sentences with phrase «move robot arms»

In 2003, Nicolelis's Duke lab gained international attention by showing that monkeys could move robot arms with just their thoughts, feeding electrical impulses from their brains into a computer linked to robotic arms.

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The middle of that frame seemed a natural place to mount the screen that would facilitate interacting with the robot, but the team found that the moving arms often blocked the view of the screen.

Operating from a control room in Houston, they directed a nearly 60 - foot - long, Canadian - built robotic arm to grab a smaller, two - armed robot called Dextre, before moving it into position in front of a washing machine - size module attached to the station.

But if the camera is mounted on a robot arm, he added, the geometry of the arm will constrain how it can move.

Those electric fields help the nanomachine's arm move much more quickly than previous DNA robots, which relied on chemical interactions between DNA molecules to move (SN: 9/11/10, p. 18).

They programmed the robot arm to move towards a point in mid-air already occupied by a volunteer's outstretched forearm, so the robot would push the human out of the way.

Algorithms that can make a collaborative robot arm react to moving objects within milliseconds could mean a future where robots and humans work closer together on production lines.

The computer calculates the cordon's location every 0.7 seconds and updates the coordinates to move the robot's arm to new positions on the vine.

ROGR is a robot on wheels, has a forklift to move SPOTS, a mechanical arm for manipulating the plants, and a fluid delivery system that can provide fresh water or water with nutrients.

Meanwhile, new technologies allow engineers to dream beyond designing glorified mechanical arms: So - called «swarm bots» work together like army ants to move relatively heavy objects; a fire hose — cum - snake robot can slither across the floor before putting out a blaze; and Nissan is developing an avoidance system to prevent car crashes based on bees — which use their compound eyes to see nearly all the way around themselves while buzzing about, changing direction when they sense something in their path.

The skin covers the robot's entire arm, and stretches and flexes as the arm moves.

Although the robot didn't offer a glimpse of anything living there — it's not equipped with cameras or a sampling arm — it did provide invaluable data for scientists studying the swift - moving Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, which might be thought of as ground zero for the biggest Antarctic mystery of all, in the minds of many scientists: What is happening to the ice?

Armed with that simple concept, the team built a one - legged robot capable of crawling, and moved up in complexity as they added a second and then a third leg, allowing the robot to stand on its own.

Just by imagining the movements needed to move a computer cursor, they were able to direct a multi-degree of freedom robot arm to execute the maneuvers needed to play the game.

Once tossed, the player moves the robot's arms by using their own virtual arms to swing its weapons around and smash groups of enemies.

As I was firing at the robots, dodging lasers and blocking them back with my shield, I realized I was virtually moving around completely on what felt like a docking platform in some space city, but in reality I was dancing around in a hotel meeting room in the middle of downtown Chicago waving my arms around like a madman.

Here's the deal: it's a 1 vs 1 game mode where one player plays a robot golfer on your TV, and the other straps into a PS VR headset and becomes a sick - ass crab kaiju — complete with Move controller support for the kaiju's pincer arms!

Players each had a handle with two buttons on it to move the robots on small moving platforms and to make them throw short jabs with their right and left arms.

There's a backpack that lets the wearer move arms as if fighting as a robot, while on - screen the virtual robot's movements match the real world ones.

If one of the robot's arms hits something, like a person, it immediately stops moving.

When standing the robot can move its arms, torso, and head with remarkable speed, but the robot walks at an agonizingly slow pace making it impractical for home surveillance.