Neato XV-11 Vacuum Cleaner Robot introduced by Neato Robotics

December 19th, 2009 by Robot Technology | No Comments | Filed in Robotics News

Our robotics world has a new guest. Guest’s name was neato XV-11, a commercial robot that will help you in doing homework. This robot is a robotic vacuum cleaner that will clean your entire floor, stairs and the corners of your home. Do you interested to have it ..?

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Neato Robotics, a maker of robots that are smart enough to perform household chores as intelligently and efficiently as a human, has stated that its newly unveiled Neato XV-11 is an all-floor smart, robot vacuum cleaner that makes use of Room Positioning System (RPS) Technology to map the entire floor space while cleaning and avoid most of the solid obstacles that other robots can detect only by impact.

The company claims that by making use of advanced technologies their team of engineers has made a smarter robot that can clean floors thoroughly in lesser time. Efficient cleaning means more power is saved which is redirected to run the robot’ powerful jet vacuum engine that can pick all types of debris. The Neato XV-11 is designed to meticulously clean floors on a daily basis; ensuring owners enjoy neater, healthier homes and more free time for themselves.

DORA, Door Opening Robotic Arm

November 25th, 2009 by Robot Technology | No Comments | Filed in Robotics News

Department of Computer Science of University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) observed a robot named DORA. This robot is designed to help people who use wheelchairs to open the door.

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A low cost robot arm system is developed that will increase a person’s accessibility to indoor spaces by unlatching door knobs and door handles. Implemented is a minimized arm configuration for use with a wheelchair or mobile platform and a gripper design that utilizes only a single motor to turn door knobs and door handles. This proof of concept prototype demonstrates how an arm with many degrees of freedom is not required if we target the expectations for its use.

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High-Speed Robotics Hand

November 2nd, 2009 by Robot Technology | No Comments | Filed in Robotics News

Researchers from the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory at the University of Tokyo presented the video of a high-speed robotic hand at the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

Lets, play the below video:

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Panasonic’s Dish Washing Robot

October 23rd, 2009 by Robot Technology | No Comments | Filed in Robotics News

This is the dish washing servant robot from Panasonic. Build based on robotic arm, this robot will wash your glass, food plate etc easily, but, of course not as fast as humans do. So, are we getting lazy due to the robots..?

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Rock Climbing Robot

October 14th, 2009 by Robot Technology | No Comments | Filed in Robotics News

NASA published their rock climbing robot project. The robots called TRESSA. TRESSA is a group of three autonomous robots that work together to climb steep slopes. And by steep we mean up to 90 degree slope angles. Two of the robots, called Anchorbots, remaining at the top and support the third robot, named Cliffbot, with tethers as it negotiates the rocks. The Anchorbots dynamically adjust the tension of the tethers, allowing Cliffbot to go up, down, or across the slope. This is more complicated than it sounds as the Anchorbots have to combine the amount of tether tension needed to offset gravitational forces with anticipation of desired motion of Cliffbot. The robots also monitor themselves and each other for faults and communicate any potentially unsafe conditions to each other.

nasa rock climbing robot

The TRESSA (Teamed Robots for Exploration and Science on Steep Areas) system, previously cited in the literature as Cliffbot (Pirjanian et al., 2002; Mumm,Farritor, Huntsberger and Schenker, 2003; Schenker et al., 2003b; Mumm, Farritor, Pirjanian, Leger and Schenker, 2004), is designed to allow access to steep slopes that are not feasible for traditional wheeled rovers.

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