Friday, September 28, 2012

And A Robotic Tuna Will Lead Us

Telepresence robots are on the march. The latest to join the seemingly endless brigade is Suitable Technologies Beam "Remote Presence System." It's 62 inches tall, weighs 95 pounds, and sports a 17-inch monitor on the top, which means the face of its remote human operator may be more life-size than other devices. But unlike some of these,Price Information CSUMTECH Robotic arm Motion control PLC servo it's actually going on sale, shipping in November for $16,000 plus another $950 for a charger dock. If you can ignore the annoying characters in the clip below, it'll remind you how useful this tech may be in the office of the near future.

Recently, there's been news of Toyota's Human Support Robot,GR 250 & 150 Series Robotic Arm Price List 201209 a device designed to help in the homes of people with reduced mobility. Now there's new video, which gives a sense of its impressive size and its dexterity. The HSR is not quite up to sci-fi levels of intelligence or object manipulation, but it's definitely a peek at a robot that could help manage the needs of our aging populations.

Although the Wall-Ye vineyard robot has been around for a while, he's hit the news this week and gained popularity due to his name and passing resemblance to that famous Pixar cartoon robot. He's an experimental machine designed to navigate autonomously by GPS around a vineyard--he's able to detect individual trees right now and perform mundane tasks like checking for disease and monitoring soil and temperature matters. In the future he'll be able to prune, too.Motion Test for 3-axis Parallel Robot

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