Carnegie Mellon's Chimp robot is reporting for duty, sir

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Carnegie Mellon's Chimp robot is reporting for duty, sir" data-src-height="500" data-src-width="517" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/cmuchimp.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">See that guy? He's for real. He's also from Pittsburgh. A team of wizards from Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center is presently building a new "human-scale" robot in order to compete in DARPA's Robotics Challenge. Part of its charm revolves around the rubberized tracks on its feet as well as on the extremities of each of its four limbs -- not surprisingly, these are engineered to help it maneuver in some pretty sticky situations.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> According to the institution, it'll move much link a tank, but it'll also be able to chug along on the treads of just two limbs when needed, such as when it must use one or more limbs to open a valve, or to operate power tools. Oh, and in case you're curious, CMU has affirmed that it'll "be able to perform complex, physically challenging tasks through supervised autonomy," which sounds precisely like the kind of vague description an ill-willed robot would explain to its master before completely taking over his / her life. Just sayin'.</div></div>

Carnegie Mellon's Chimp robot is reporting for duty, sir

  See that guy? He's for real. He's also from Pittsburgh. A team of wizards from Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics...

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Robovie the talking robot gets schooled by elementary students

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><hr dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" /><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Talking robot gets schooled by elementary students" data-src-height="362" data-src-width="500" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/robotschooled.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Higashihikari elementary school welcomed a robot through its doors this week. A new model Robovie will join the Japanese school's students for classes over 14 months, aiming to <strike>gain sentience</strike> strike up interactions with multiple people -- and learn from it. The Robovie's conversation level is apparently equal to a five-year-old child, although it's been augmented with all the know-how of a fifth-grade science textbook and preloaded with 119 facial photos and voiceprints of teachers and students. It's the first long-term project for the International Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute's 1.2-meter bot, with the scientists reckoning that the school environment should offer its robot major input.</div></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/AbkbU32X5dI?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe></div>

Robovie the talking robot gets schooled by elementary students

Higashihikari elementary school welcomed a robot through its doors this week. A new model Robovie will join the Japanese school's studen...

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