November 2008

Rescue Robot Exercise Brings Together Robots, Developers, First Responders

Robotics

NIST held a rescue robot exercise recently in Texas in which about three dozen robots were tested by developers and first responders in order to develop a standard suite of performance tests to help evaluate candidate mechanical rescuers.

Robots Created That Develop And Display Emotions And Become Attached To Certain People

Robotics

New robots develop and display emotions as they interact with humans, and become attached to them.

Prototyping With Industrial Robots

Robotics

A shipping company must exercise patience whenever it needs a new a ship's propeller: its production is time consuming because a foundry workers must first fashion a model and a mold based on it. Industrial robots will support them in the future.

Robots Show That Brain Activity Is Linked To Time As Well As Space

Robotics

Humanoid robots have been used to show that that functional hierarchy in the brain is linked to time as well as space. Researchers in Japan have created a new type of neural network model which adds to the previous literature that suggests neural activity is linked solely to spatial hierarchy within the animal brain.