Sentences with phrase «robot built for»

Way way before the likes of Wall - E and the recent Chappie there was Johnny 5 (Number 5), a prototype military robot built for use in the Cold War against the Ruskies (not really of course).

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His own description for himself is simpler: «I'm just a guy who likes to build robots.»

While the company got its start building bomb - sniffing robots for the military before pivoting into vacuums in 2002, Dyson stresses that it's coming at the product category from the other direction.

Others have experimented with the Kinect as a 3 - D camera, and an MIT student has built a robot with a Kinect for a head that can see its environment and obey verbal commands.

• Sphero, a Boulder, Colo. - based maker connected play robot Sphero, spun out a newly - created company, Misty Robotics, which will build personal robots for the home and office.

In April the company signed a «strategic cooperation agreement,» Rhee said, with the municipal government of Kunming City in the southwestern province of Yunnan, which will aid the company in robot building and developing artificial intelligence capabilities in Yunnan province for the purpose of making Kunming and other municipalities A.I. - enabled «smart» cities.

Amazon has a «top secret» plan to build robots for home use, unnamed sources tell Bloomberg.

It builds robots and is working with partners to create a globally connected ecosystem for operating smart machines.

On the other hand, making a robot that can disassemble an iPhone is probably pretty good practice for building robots that can assemble iPhones.

She read as much as possible, volunteering at the library for better book access, and joined an afterschool robot - building club even though it had just one other member.

In short, humans will need to establish workforce standards and build training programs for AI and robots geared toward filling ethical gaps in robotic cognition.

Sequoia Capital led a $ 13 million series A funding round in Cobalt Robotics, a start - up making security robots for use in commercial buildings.

Modern manufacturing requires buying robots and other expensive equipment and building facilities overseas, so Canada's exchange rate makes expansion harder for some companies.

It is best known for building robots that look as if they belong in science - fiction movies and are often co-developed or funded by the U.S. military.

At some factories, robots are even building other robots, producing about 50 robots per 24 - hour shift and operating unsupervised for as long as 30 days at a time.

One of the projects was dubbed the «Store of the Future» and consisted of a team building out a prototype for a small - format Target store that would be part showroom and part warehouse, with robots picking items behind the scenes to have ready for customers as they checked out, sources say.

6 Australian startups pitch me on VR therapy, food scrap collection, tree - planting robots, entrepreneurialism for kids, vets - pet owner platform, & homeowner all - in - one custom building

Anthony Onesto, vice president of human resources at Razorfish who is building a robot to help answer HR - related questions within companies, said it was still early days for hiring software.

Experiences will range from building activities for the younger kids, for example the 6 - year - olds will be programming robot cars and creatures to live on an imaginary planet, to computer programming for the older kids.

The Sidewalk Labs proposal in the competitive bid for the project floated all kinds of technological dreams: a thermal energy grid that would be carbon neutral, sensors that separate waste from recycling, modular buildings that convert from retail to housing, monitors that track noise and pollution, self - driving transit shuttles, shared - ride taxibots, adaptive traffic lights, delivery robots, heated bike paths and sidewalks that melt snow on their own.

He still writes code and builds robots for fun with his kids, but admits to liking Erlang better than Clojure, and Fischertechnik better than Lego Mindstorms.

Jason has designed and built robots for over a decade including lunar rovers, lunar landers, and aerial transportation drones.

Crowdfunding the Misty II robot aligns with our mission of building a community for developers and makers, and allows us direct access to our early backers for feedback and collaboration.

«At Misty, we are focused on creating the personal robot of the future that developers and makers can build upon as well as share skills and ideas for what a robot can be.

So, some guy built a robot that you can purchase to be there for you when you die, in case you'd rather spend your last breath with a machine than with those you love most.

A team of six girls from Herat, Afghanistan planned to compete in the inaugural FIRST Global Challenge — an international competition for young boys and girls to show off the robots they've built and match them up against teams from other countries.

What happens when they build their own robot king, with laser eyes and heat - seeking rockets and a built - in toaster, for breakfast on the go?

With Ocado announcing a deal to build a robot - run warehouse for a French supermarket group that will offer 50,000 foods, is a technology takeover coming?

On show for the first time in Mexico will be the fully - electric Golden Electric entry - level series, while other exhibits will include a high - performance hybrid machine specially designed for the packaging industry, as well as a turnkey system built around a vertical Allrounder with a six - axis robot.

BUT NOW I»LL FIX ALL YOU CRITICS, / ALL YOU DOUBTING, MENTAL ARTHRITICS, / (He points dramatically at Boog) FOR I»VE BUILT A ROBOT LIKE YOU / WHO CAN HIT — AND PLAY FIRST BASE, TOO!

The robot is built using Zoobs Jr, but you can also buy smaller Zoobs for older children.

It's easy to create animals, vehicles, robots and more.You can get building ideas from a downloadable app for phone or tablet, or you can just let the grandkids wing it.

We love that this pack is perfect for children — there are no directions needed as both robots feature built - in tutorials that teach children how to program Dash and Dot from the very beginning.

Now, imagine places that use sparsely inhabited land as havens for offering to build robot factories, the way some islands are tax havens.

As the city's tech sector explodes, one Manhattan building is a hotbed for new inventions — including robot - controlled ovens, cellphone alcohol testers, and even «smart diapers.»

«You all work for a totalitarian company that builds robots that kill people» An unnamed heckler interrupts the keynote speech at Google I / O, the firm's annual developers» conference, last week.

For example, they can build an upright robot (shown above) or a silly robo - monster that roams your home.

Building them is a huge task, but there are other ways for robots to aid bees

«For example, working with [Founding Core Faculty member and Molecular Robotics co-lead] William Shih, we built tensegrity - based DNA nanodevices that can be programmed to change shape on demand for biomedical applications, and with [Core Faculty member and Bioinspired Robotics co-lead] Radhika Nagpal, we engineered a self - deforming, modular robot that can perform a variety of maneuvers more quickly than traditional roboFor example, working with [Founding Core Faculty member and Molecular Robotics co-lead] William Shih, we built tensegrity - based DNA nanodevices that can be programmed to change shape on demand for biomedical applications, and with [Core Faculty member and Bioinspired Robotics co-lead] Radhika Nagpal, we engineered a self - deforming, modular robot that can perform a variety of maneuvers more quickly than traditional robofor biomedical applications, and with [Core Faculty member and Bioinspired Robotics co-lead] Radhika Nagpal, we engineered a self - deforming, modular robot that can perform a variety of maneuvers more quickly than traditional robots.

While the crowd is cheering for the robots outside, the heart of the operation is back in Building 9.

«I think Dr Bowyer's idea is very plausible,» says Matt Moses, a consultant who has built a small self - replicating robot and advises NASA on research into self - replicating machines for space.

Student - built robots vie for the high bar at the First Robotics Competition nationals at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.

The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self - Organization and Stony Brook University — could be used to build deformable surgical robots.

«Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy builds girl» could be the tagline for this stunningly realized early futuristic film, as scientist C. A. Rotwang (Rudolf Klein - Rogge) replaces the woman he loved with an erotic female robot.

For example, an aerial robot equipped with a radiation detector, 3D camera system, and temperature and humidity sensors could inspect something like the Fukushima nuclear reactors, where the radiation level is too high for humans, or fly into tight crawlspaces such as mines or collapsed buildinFor example, an aerial robot equipped with a radiation detector, 3D camera system, and temperature and humidity sensors could inspect something like the Fukushima nuclear reactors, where the radiation level is too high for humans, or fly into tight crawlspaces such as mines or collapsed buildinfor humans, or fly into tight crawlspaces such as mines or collapsed buildings.

Researchers build a 1000 - strong swarm, which could lay the groundwork for robot construction crews or robot search - and - rescue parties

Raj Rajkumar of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, identifies multiple ways in which companies can build maps for their robot cars.

Cleaning up some of the world's worst hotspots is not a job for humans; reports on the robots built to deal with the legacy of the nuclear arms race

Although commercial - scale power satellites would be huge and hard to build in orbit — with assembly done mainly by robots — they would have hardly any moving parts and could last for generations.

The design could serve as a model for building robots that can traverse constrained environments.