Sentences with phrase «of robot body»

By considering the placement of the wheels and the shape of the robot body, students have the opportunity to explore the appearance, movement and behavior of the plant robot.

Also, you're typically on a space station with color coded doors that interact with the color of the robot body you have.

The AVA robot works by grafting an Android tablet onto a mobile style of robot body that looks a lot like a pillar with a wide wheelbase.

Watch a video demonstration of robot body language

Not exact matches

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.

Hitch said that when the company asked customers to describe the robot, «nobody realized it was two meters tall» because they focused on the smaller robot body (resembling the Star Wars cylindrical robot R2 - D2) and not its tower, which comprises the bulk of the robot's height of around 6.5 feet.

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.

Elsewhere, government bodies including the state of Virginia, have signed off on the use of delivery robots.

Weighing in at just 5.5 pounds, OpenROVs are telerobotically controlled underwater robots that can swim in any body of water the curious may want to explore.

Putting the tiny robots into the body delivers a strain of RNA that...

A.J. McCarron had an injury at one point just to make things interesting, and then came back with a knee brace on and led a fourth quarter touchdown drive because Alabama football players have robot bodies and the souls of ruthless sharks.

Fixed to a sliding chassis, this triage robot would work its way up and down the body of a wounded soldier, taking vital signs and inspecting wounds in the crucial moments between injury and treatment.

Will Steptoe's system is one way of doing this (see main story), but other projects are already giving people a physical form at their destination, allowing them to «inhabit» the body of a robot, say.

Sukho Park of Chonnam National University and a team of researchers affixed heart tissue from a rat onto the body of the robot.

Compared with previous humanoid robots with more rigid, bulky bodies, Kengoro's anatomically inspired design gives the bot a wide range of motion to perform humanlike, full - body exercises.

The robot, which is 47 centimeters long, swam at speeds of half a body length per second.

ROBO - FISH Tests with this robot snailfish, whose shape came from photographs of a real fish snapped from different angles, reveal why the deep - sea fish has a mysterious goo in its body.

The robot body is made of a light sensitive elastomer stripe with patterned molecular alignment.

The robots could move through the body to reach a particular point without damaging any of the organs or vessels along the way.

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

A new soft - bodied robot made out of silicon mimics caterpillars» ballistic roll, which is among the fastest wheeling behaviors in nature.

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

What's more, the bodies of these shoe - sized robots have been 3D printed, making them cheap and easy to reproduce.

The robot is guided through the body by genetically engineered bacteria to a tumor where it releases its cargo of cance...

The ability to accurately measure tiny displacements of microscopic bodies has applications in sensing trace amounts of hazardous biological or chemical agents, perfecting the movement of miniature robots, accurately deploying airbags and detecting extremely weak sound waves traveling through thin films.

RUBBERY LEGS A tripod of silicone legs helps position this soft - bodied robot prior to a jump.

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.

This work is an early glimpse at medical robots that doctors could navigate through a patient's body from the outside with a focused beam of light, Tang says.

«The properties of the robot were being assimilated as if they were a property of the animal's own body.»

BOUNCING BOT A 3 - D — printed body made from a combination of rubbery and rigid plastics lets a jumping robot push off the ground while keeping mechanical bits secure.

Choset's group programmed the robot to move in a similar manner, then altered the waves to change how much of the robot's body was in contact with the sand at any one time.

Without the fluid - filled sac at the base of the tail, the robot could barely swim forward, but it did just fine with the sac attached, as the sac helped fill out and streamline the body so it tapered smoothly to the tail, they report.

This robot not only stands like a person but also simulates human gestures, body warmth, and — creepiest of all — it can sweat.

Raibert showed this could be done, Singh says, by creating a robot that was able to sense its different body parts, just like an animal, without the use of cameras or laser sensors.

Khamesee hopes a version of the robot will someday zip around inside the human body delivering targeted drugs; first he needs to reduce the jitters in the bot's motion.

But he is sceptical about whether a robot musician needs a physical body, citing examples of AI composers that exist only in software.

«Incorporating intelligence into the body (via specific folding patterns, in the case of our actuators) has the potential to simplify the algorithms needed to direct the robot to achieve its goal.

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.

«Vacuum - based muscles have a lower risk of rupture, failure, and damage, and they don't expand when they're operating, so you can integrate them into closer - fitting robots on the human body.»

The team was even able to construct the muscles out of the water - soluble polymer PVA, which opens the possibility of robots that can perform tasks in natural settings with minimal environmental impact, as well as ingestible robots that move to the proper place in the body and then dissolve to release a drug.

But logging into a robot body allows people to move around in a relatively normal way, says Trevor Blackwell of Anybots.

To find out, the researchers developed a mathematical simulation of a robot with two legs attached to its body by hinges and springs.

«These self - healing, bioinspired actuators bring us another step closer to being able to build entirely soft - bodied robots, which may help to bridge the gap between humans and robots and open entirely new application areas in medicine and beyond,» said Wyss Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Boston Children's Hospital Vascular Biology Program, as well as Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

These studies are the latest in a significant body of research by Porfiri and collaborators utilizing robots, specifically robotic fish, to impact collective animal behavior.

The researchers had the robot go through the algorithm when it was in tip - top shape, and found that its chosen mode of movement was to generate enough momentum to throw its body forward, somewhat like an inchworm would.

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.

The wheeled 1.8 - metre - tall robot has an upper body that moves like that of a human dancer to gently guide novices through routines while adapting to their skill level.

«To improve the transparency of the robot, we studied the structure of the human body, then built our model based on a biometric design of the lower limb exoskeleton,» Chen continued.

Yale electrical engineer Roman Kuc developed his sensitive robot by mimicking the way bats use their ears to pinpoint an insect on the wing — the bats move their ears to pick up echoes from different parts of the insect's body.

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.