Sentences with phrase «of robot hands»

«At the Sundaram Tagore Gallery on Wednesday night, an army of robot hands will be creating works of art for the «Synthetic Surrogate» exhibition.

Not exact matches

We can't imagine it'll be cheap, what with pretty much a good chunk of your child's upbringing in its metal - jointed robot hands and all.

Instead of workers walking back and forth to drop items off, they hand it to the robot to shuttle around.

Instead, the command will need to «not appear as being part of the task at hand — which means the robot must think it's deciding to turn itself off instead of obeying the orders of a pesky human.

We must hand it to the creators of the iFollow Club; they certainly brought a unique twist to the typical scam robot claims of secret proprietary algorithms from ex-Wall Street traders!

By the late 1970s, Japan's use of assembly - line robots in automobile manufacturing, which made human error nonexistent and boosted overall quality, sent shivers throughout the U.S. automobile industry, which was still assembling cars by hand.

SHENZHEN / SHANGHAI, China (Reuters)-- At its high - tech laboratories within the Chinese production hub of Shenzhen, Beike Biotechnology is growing clinical robots that would lend a hand deal with most cancers.

The story of his previous startup, Mako Surgical, could be a blockbuster movie («RoboDoc») about a dreamer from Hollywood (Florida) living hand - to - mouth, overcoming all odds to build something the experts said was impossible: A futuristic robot that gave surgeons the real - time «feel» of flesh, sinew and bone.

You can't just call «robots are people» ridiculous out of hand!

I love the way it illustrates waking up from the hands of the robot.

R2 - D2 and his robot companion C3PO escape to the remote planet of Tatooine, where they happily fall into the hands of the ingenuous Luke Sky.

A-B-C's 700 series robot palletizers effortlessly palletize cases, trays or bags in multiple configurations and deliver the flexibility of hand palletizing with no labor costs or liability.

His teams now look like they play like robots with the hand brake on worried to do something wrong, to be out of position.

The funkyplush robots transform from playmate to night pal with a simpleswipe of the hand.

The researchers scattered parts of a STEFAN - style IKEA chair around industrial robot arms, parallel grippers and force - detecting sensors — using two of each to mimic the hands and arms humans would use for such a task.

The robots, which work in teams of two, concentrate on the tasks at hand, not on bashing each other.

Additionally, since each coaxially - arranged arm rotates at 360 degrees, there is no distinction between right and left hands, which allows the user to freely change the layout of the robot's hands.

Placing a camera or other sensor in the hand of a robot has become feasible as sensors have grown smaller and more power - efficient, Srinivasa said.

If the situation dictates the use of my left hand to place a suture in a certain position, it's much easier to do that with the robot than using a freehand instrument.»

On one hand there are the temptations of the sociable robots in the lab and on the horizon, machines that offer themselves as ready — or nearly ready — to talk to us about almost anything.

But now two computer scientists report a tiny step toward that future with a robotic system that designs and builds robots with just a bit of help from a human hand.

Let a robot give a hand: AutoSaw helps users manufacture and assemble custom furniture with a team of robots.»

Surgical robots might allow precise operation in tiny places our unwieldy human hands can't go, but using those robots removes the surgeon's valuable sense of touch.

Just like the way fans of the Swedish furniture manufacturer derive a sense of fulfillment when they help assemble their own furnishings, people who took part in a study on robot assembly tended to feel more positive about the machines if they had a hand in making them, said S. Shyam Sundar, Distinguished Professor of Communications and co-director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory.

Users can step into the robot's metal skin and get a first - person view of the environment, or can walk around the robot to survey the scene in the third person — whichever is easier for accomplishing the task at hand.

What robots can never have, which humans have, argues Bringsjord, is phenomenological consciousness: «the first - hand experience of conscious thought», as Justin Hart of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, puts it.

That is why surgical robots have never been more than large, complex instruments wielded by human hands: an autonomous robot with a scalpel is too much of a risk.

In principle, the improved decoder can be applied to other BCI tasks such as three - dimensional control of a robot arm or even a person's own electronically reanimated arm or hand.

The robot's gait is quite different from a human's, and a spotter is on hand to catch it in the inevitable event of a fall.

In initial experiments, the application of decrypted grip types was transferred to a robot hand.

In addition to everyday electronics, Brückner would like to see these used in medicine, or on the gripper hands of robots as a secondary eye, providing a view as the hand closes in on an object and blocks the main camera.

The IPK project experts are tasked with developing three gripper prototypes: a gripper based on vacuum technology, a set of bionic gripper jaws (Fin Ray ®) and a customized «cucumber hand» based on OpenBionics robot hands.

His team has created a robot hand that is simply a rubber bag filled to about 80 per cent of its volume with glass spheres, each 100 micrometres in diameter.

Now, researchers at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) in Belgium have used rubbery polymers that resemble jelly to create a gripper, a robot hand and an artificial muscle (see photo).

A humanoid robot named Hubo uses a mechanical hand to turn a valve at the finals of the DARPA Robotics Challenge in California.

The pros to using robots are obvious: They minimize the risk to human life; they're impervious to chemical and biological weapons; they don't have emotions to get in the way of the task at hand; and they don't get tired like humans do.

Baxter the robot was trained on videos of humans shaking hands, waving, helping others up, passing a cup and high - fiving.

On the way are voice - driven typewriters, robots that can «see,» and hand - held computers that can summon up the contents of the Library of Congress.»

HELPING HANDS Use of surgical robots for laparoscopic kidney removal has been ramping up, but adding a robot to the mix doesn't necessarily make surgery more efficient.

Fifty - eight of the 60, he said, raised their hands when asked if they would like to halt further development of armed autonomous robots.

Our work unified existing research about how to teach robots to fall by giving them a tool to automatically determine the total number of contacts (how many hands shoved it, for example), the order of contacts, and the position and timing of those contacts.

While Nemiroski and colleagues were able to control simple robots by hand, using syringes, they turned to computers to control the sequencing of their limbs as the designs increased in complexity.

Although built by Boston Dynamics, the ATLAS project is unique in that multiple robotics teams around the nation can get their hands on one to test the extent of their programming skills in preparation for the DARPA Robotics Challenge, which «aims to develop semi-autonomous ground robots that can do «complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human - engineered environments.

But put a microphone in my hand and put me in a room full of people and I'm a dang robot.

Geeks of Doom was on hand for the «Pacific Rim» panel at which Guillermo Del Toro showed off a brand new trailer in which, «a 25 - story high Jaeger robot [dragged] an oil tanker behind it through the streets of Hong Kong, to use as a bat against a Kaiju, followed by a two - fist slap to the Kaiju's head.»

«The Iron Giant» (1999) 97 percent: Engaging, endearing, affecting and charmingly retro, this animated adventure — featuring the voice of Vin Diesel as the titular robot — tackles touchy subjects and complex relationships with a steady hand and beautiful direction from Brad Bird.

As the picture lumbers along, shedding sense and invention and gaining an army of the stupid robots from I, Robot that function like the stupid robots from Episode I, it becomes clearer that Total Recall doesn't have anything up its sleeve besides that one sleight of hand.

It's a veritable Pixar to - do list of elementary visual gags, and Wall - E indulges every scrap of physical comedy available for the first third of the picture (nearly completely free of dialogue), even handing the robot a traditional best pal of sorts in a loyal cockroach.

He wrote some hands on impressions, almost all of them positive, giving us the goods on our robot duo's adventures through science.

It's genuinely difficult to discern shot to shot whether the robot is physically there or rendered by computers (when you think it's CGI, someone will place their hand on it), which is makes it the best kind of visual trick.