Robots that mimic the behaviour of fish have been developed by Japanese car firm Nissan, who believe the technique can be used in crash avoidance systems. The tiny robots, called ...
... and publicly demonstrated on March 16, 2009.[1] It is 158cm (5 feet 2 inches) tall and weighs 43kg (95 pounds) including battery. Its shape and joints are based on the 1997-1998 Japanese body dimension ...
Nothing better sums up the relationship between t Japanese and robotics than a giant robot model - 18 metres high and weighing 35 tonnes - ...
... are being idled as the country suffers its deepest recession in more than a generation as consumers worldwide cut spending on cars and gadgets. At a large Yaskawa Electric factory on the southern Japanese ...
Japanese giant Panasonic has created a robot that will dole out drugs to patients and that's set to happen very soon. According to an exclusive story on nikkei.net, the robot will help pharmacists complete ...
... deployment of such eldercare robots in the next three years. This could be future of elderly care Mr Trower noted that the Japanese might beat them to ...
A Japanese -built robotic arm has been unfolded on the International Space Station (ISS).
The 10m-long (33ft) crane is part of the Kibo laboratory, which
was built in Japan and installed aboard ...
... and Sweden are being given literally a
free ride to the Moon as India is charging them nothing for taking
their instruments there.
A recent Japanese and Chinese mission carried only instruments ...
... a future -- once the
stuff of science fiction -- where humans and intelligent robots
routinely live side by side and interact socially.
Robots are already taken for granted in Japanese factories, ...
... for granted in Japanese factories, so much
so that they are sometimes welcomed on their first day at work with
Shinto religious ceremonies. Robots make sushi. Robots plant rice and
tend paddies.
There ...
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Japan is an industrial robot powerhouse, with more than 370,000 in use in 2005 - about 40 percent of the global total and 32 robots for every 1,000 Japanese manufacturing employees - according to ...
... well known that the Japanese have a cultural fascination with robots – so there’s not a lot of surprise that the 2007 International Robot Exhibition was held in Tokyo this year A robot for ...
... missing the second phase. According to Japanese news reports last week, Japan plans to send an unmanned probe to land on the moon by 2015. It would cost about $437 million and consist of an unmanned ...
... to ensure for robots is safety."
Robots are now mostly used as industrial machinery and entertainment gadgets. But Hitachi's new robot is the latest attempt by several Japanese companies ...
... the first developed country to register more annual deaths than births, is promoting robots to help increase productivity by 50 percent in the next five years. Japanese service workers currently produce ...
... researching on the effects of robots on Japanese society. At a seminar, Robertson spoke on the decreasing human birthrate and increasing humanoid robot population in Japan, the university newspaper ...
... about Gundam, a popular animated series featuring giant robotic fighting machines. Five more bureaucrats wrote about Japanese movies, mistakes on billboards and local politics, officials said. ...
... companies,
said that exports of Japanese robotics will continue to expand, boosted
by firm demand from emerging markets in Asia and Latin America.
"Investment
in China is increasing due to ...
With steely arms sprouting cables and wires, the WAO-1 robot looks nothing like a relaxation device. But researchers at Tokyo's Waseda University hope the contraption will soon be deployed ...
... tightest places as simple as driving straight ahead. Thanks to the highly innovative Robotic Agent, you are never alone in the Pivo 2. With conversations possible in Japanese and English, the Robotic ...
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