The skill of these people will be tested through several steps in sand courts, which will measure the mobility the controller system, but will take into account the variation of its actual weight due to the lower gravity of Mars.

All information collected is achieved in a series of tests, including tests on the mound for and against the wind, will be used by a team of explorers in making decisions about the best path in the dunes of Mars, Curiosity robot must traveled on Mars.

But all of these tests will be given if the landing on the red planet’s surface is given under conditions that are expected, because this time for practicing new methods.

Information has begun to circulate through various media that also told that because the company is more than satisfied with the level of automation that has been achieved, given that these devices are completely new to the market because there is nothing to fulfill a similar task with this brilliant idea.

Before crossing the Atlantic, this harvesting robots have been organized series of exhibitions at Andalusia farm where it has been completed to improve the functioning of the machine, we must also note that for this development the company has been supported regionalgovernment’s economic as well as the logistical momentum to finish it.

While some would question whether this device will reduce the work in the fields, there are many others who believe that what will generate the transformation of how work is done now, because the process must be more qualified, trained in this field that is currently used for this work .

Not at all easy to teach a robot to draw a portrait of man, because you have to create the look of the robot through a special camera mounted on the arm, with great detail throughout the uniqueness of each person. Besides translating the image into the paper, it’s also not easy.

The scientists had to create an image processing program that seeks to contrast in the photographic image and translates them into coordinates that the system can understand. But it also had to teach the robot to understand that not all lines on the face of human are equal.

An example of this is the algorithm had to create for the robot to ignore the small wrinkles that the majorities of people have.
Source: LaTimes.com

Therefore, it should be able to interact in everyday objects (open and close the door handles glass bottles, a keyring …). This robot will also help a person to move home and help even if you fall.

Beyond their physical capabilities, Romeo must provide a human-machine interface which can be accessed by many people: the voice and gestures must be the primary means of communication and the robot must be able to understand what we are told, to keep a short dialogue, and even to see the intentions and emotions of his interlocutor and conclude what actions should be applied.

A first prototype humanoid robot whose size is between 1.20 m and 1.50 m will be developed before the end of 2010 and the second will be delivered several months before the end of the project in autumn 2011, for an evaluation with users in a situation of loss of autonomy of patients selected from the Vision Institute. Based on the findings of this evaluation, Aldebaran intends to develop products that can be available in 2015.

Project site : http://www.projetromeo.com/

In the consumer market, iRobot company is still only represent a simple model Roomba and Scooba cleaner robots. Tepre company is preparing to release something far more powerful and awesome, even by name. In mass production model will come the new iRobot Warrior 710, its mission has gone much further than cleaning the house.

This model is the latest model of corporate, military-grade robots rarely come to the public. This machine has particularly long arms, strong may be subject to double track platform. iRobot 710 Warrior weighs 200 kg, and his big hands on the platform can lift and hold items weighing up to 70 kg. Manipulator can act quickly and decisively, for example, when you have to deal with the glass in the car. Or can work with surgical precision, if required to work with explosives.

Remarkably, iRobot Warrior is controlled by the game controller for Xbox console, the manufacturer decided that it is the most convenient tool. By using this gamepad operator can control the direction of the robot manipulator control in any of the available modes. The maximum speed of iRobot Warrior 710 is 13 km / h, and its value is not specified.

The event, held annually in Singapore, recognizes the outstanding work of exponents in industrial segment. FRIDA, as it was called the conceptual robot, have the size of an average man and has a pair of arms and hands very similar to those of a human being, so it could replace an operator directly to their job.
The robot was designed by the Business Unit Robotics engineering group global leader in power and automation technologies, ABB.

According to the company the android was designed to operate in areas ergonomically designed for human workers. However, “FRIDA was not created to replace the work of man, but to be the partner of a worker on an assembly line. Is revolutionizing the robotic work, “he stresses.
The award is an internationally recognized quality, given by renowned professional and industrial design competition will present only the most prominent representatives of this discipline. After a hard deliberation, 252 design concepts were awarded the red dot and 43 were honored with “Red Dot: Best of the Best” for its outstanding design quality.

“Winning this award is an honor for us and a recognition of our work valuable,” said Per-Vegard Nerseth, Manager of Business Unit Robotics. “ABB is proud to lead trends and technology. Our vision was to design a high-tech security robot with an innovative design that could work next to people. This global recognition for the ABB team shows thanks to its design will work hand in hand with men, especially in the assembly lines.

The ABB Group companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 130,000 people. Recently celebrated 50 years of operations in Colombia.

What is the problem? So far, all systems based on artificial intelligence software that works on the hardware has not changed. All changes to existing hardware to be done through software. But the development team from the University of Oslo (Oslo University) in Norway has taken a step which might form the basis of the next generation of hardware.

Professor Jim Torresen and Kyrre Glette built a developing hardware (Evolvable Hardware – EHW), which uses genetic algorithms. In other words, they created a computer “hardware” that can evolve.

System Torres and Gletta genetic means is that the hardware design, which can be most effective to accomplish the task. In the real world may need 20-30 thousand generations before the biological system will find a great configuration for solving a particular problem, and it can take 8-9 hundreds thousands of years. The system created by the Norwegian team spends the same amount of generation for a few seconds.

Work on EHW systems began in the late 90s. Torres Team began using evolutionary algorithms in 2004, when they made a robot chicken “Henriette”. Robot using evolutionary principles in its software in order to learn how to do some action, without attempting to understand the world and create a solution through the use of artificial intelligence.

Robot “Henriette” trying to apply random changes in their actions corresponding to the problem, and choose the best of them. So, after finding the best, it is able to solve their specific problems. Thanks to “Henriette” is to better understanding how evolution works. Similarly, the evolution of system hardware to work for finding configuration that will be most effective in solving problems.

Evolution can solve many problems that the programmer should generally provide capabilities to solve or address them. Let us assume the robot was sent to Mars and fell into the pit. Using evolutionary methods, the robot could learn how to climb out of the pit without human help.

Now the team wants to develop a robot to assist in the installation of oil pipes and other oilfield equipment at a depth of 2,000 meters. This depth makes it nearly impossible for a direct link with the robot. He should have 2-3 miles of wires extending behind it, or to transmit signals by means of the echo, which in turn will give a considerable delay between the command and its execution. Evolutionary robot could find a solution to problems encountered on site within a few seconds without operator intervention.

Advances in technology make human work more easily. For example, cleaning the house with mops, brushes and brooms now has been replaced by a vacuum cleaner, which has increased the efficiency, while keeping the same labor costs. And then, in recent years a growing number of emerging robot cleaner – small devices that do self cleaning, allow homeowners to do something more interesting, for example, watching TV, reading books or chatting with old friends.

The problem with most of these devices is that they are robotic vacuum cleaners, a powerful engine that produces a lot of noise, which is often hampered and even annoying. For that reason, the Mint Robot cleaner deserve to be alternative for the automatic cleaning robot. Unlike most other cleaning robots, this is not a vacuum cleaner, but scouring the floor (in the kit are provided fabrics for wet and dry). This means that there are only motor sound during those moves that we can ignored.

Another element of the robot’s navigation module is NorthStar, which is a small cube to be installed anywhere in the room. This module creates a digital map of “locality” and wirelessly transmits it to the robot so that the robot knew where and how to move. This whole process happens almost instantly, most of the time is cleaning.

During operation, Mint demonstrates the capabilities of artificial intelligence, excellent mastering with the task. Even getting lost, the robot will seek out and did not stop cleaning. The room in which the cleaning by hand requires 5-10 minutes, the robot will clean for about an hour, but all this time, owner of the house can do their own thing, not wasting time on everyday issues. And finally, the main advantage of this robot cleaner is low in price.

The Robot Prison Guards will monitor prisoners behavior, independently found signs of suicidal behavior or evidence of beatings. Of course, the guards did not lose control over the territory entrusted, just the most “striking” incident they will be notified in advance.

All data from the robot guards will be displayed on a single control center, and work in real time with two-way communication. This robot has a built-in speaker and microphone, which means that guards control center can communicate with the prisoners, this will solve many problems without personal contact, saving time and effort on both sides. The machine has a height of about 150 cm and weight 70-80 kg. The first to be built just three copies of this robot, they will be placed in jail in Pohang, the test will take about a month, and they start around March next year. At the end of the experiment the state Department of Justice will decide on future projects.

However, despite the fact that many of the humanoid robot called human-or, in reality they are like us only vaguely. However small team of scientists achieved a breakthrough of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) with his trademark wards robot HRP-4C, which already was very similar to human, or rather a pretty girl.