The world's largest show and tell event is coming to Ljubljana. The Mini Maker Faire will take place on May 13, 2017 in the premises of the former Tobačna, where it will bring together technology, researchers and culture in one place.
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Remember the Kengoro humanoid robot that can do push-ups? Even Boston Dynamics has now moved its "athlete". Robot Handle is as agile as a gymnast and masters the art of parkour better than you ever will.
Piaggio, the famous scooter manufacturer, has set out to create a robot porter. We don't know if the Piaggio Gita droid is related to BB-8 from Star Wars, but we do know that it carries things for you, makes deliveries and automatically follows you around.
Will journalists be replaced by robots in the future and write articles for them? Indeed, Metropolis Daily published an article written entirely by robot journalist Xiao Nan, who is trained to write long and short articles. He wrote his first paper in a fraction of a second!
Do you remember the movie Ring of Fire (Pacific Rim) in which giant robots were controlled by pilots? Thanks to Vitaly Bulgarov and Korea Future Technology, these kinds of robots and mechanical muscles are no longer science fiction. The future is here and now. Meet the Hankook Mirae Method-2 robot suit.
When muscles are used, heat is generated as a by-product of their operation. When we really exert ourselves, the body cools down by sweating. Sweating removes water from the body, and when the water evaporates, it cools us down. By evaporating, sweat removes a lot of heat from the body and thus participates in the regulation of body temperature. Robots, especially dynamic ones like the humanoid Kengoro, also generate a lot of heat due to their many motors and electronics, which is often the main problem of technological devices, as they tend to overheat, which reduces their capabilities. At Kengoro, the engineers have solved this so that if the robot is working at full steam and producing a lot of heat, the robot will 'heat' and thus dissipate the excess heat and consequently not overheat, so it can also do push-ups and do them as a joke more than you!
Toyota has introduced the Kirobo Mini AI robot, which is capable of automatic learning, communication, reading facial expressions and recognizing emotions. Mini is the smaller brother of the Kirobo robot that went on a space excursion in 2013 to accompany the first Japanese astronaut to work on the International Space Station. Kirobo Mini will keep you company. Who says you can't buy friendship? For 350 euros, you get the friend and interlocutor you've always wanted!
Imagine if there was a robot that would take care of your garden 24 hours a day and do all the gardening work for you - from planting, watering, spraying to removing weeds. Too good to be true, right? It won't hold. Such a robot already exists and it goes by the name of FarmBot Genesis, which could completely change the way we grow fruits and vegetables. It is an innovative open source solution from the American company FarmBot, which brings precision agriculture to the home.
Soon our lives will be much easier. With the growth of artificial intelligence and technology, machines or robots are taking over more and more of our tasks. If on the one hand they are taking away our jobs, there is also another, more pleasant side of the coin. This page is SpotMini from Boston Dynamics, which has added a new member to its family of robots in the back, a robot dog, which is an upgrade of a robot dog named Spot from 2015. Why? Because, among other things, she is good at household chores!
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said that in the future, humans will be the pets of robots. Which, given the following, is still an optimistic scenario. And when we imagine the apocalypse, it doesn't usually start with an innocent game of ping pong, but the following footage of an Omron robot playing ping pong with humans and working to easily subdue not only its ping pong opponent but all of humanity suggests that we should also consider such a scenario.
Artificial intelligence is something fascinating and something scary at the same time when we think about what it is capable of. It comes in all kinds of forms, found in smartphones and other devices like robots. One such is the Musio robot from AKA, which puts a friendly face on artificial intelligence. It is a personal robot that wants to be your friend, that learns and helps with daily household chores, answering e-mails, etc.
Robots are becoming more developed year by year, so they can be used for more and more demanding tasks. As a result, they are more and more embedded in our everyday life. That's why jump to the ninth Industrial Robotics Days (DIR 2015), which will take place from March 30 to April 3, 2015 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.