Tag Archives: Robot

MNA Science & Technology Desk: French researchers got inspiration from desert ants and developed a first-of-its-kind walking robot that can move without GPS. The study published on Wednesday in the journal Science Robotics reported the brand-new robot design with the desert ants’ exceptional navigation capabilities. Scientists from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Aix-Marseille University created a robot called AntBot, equipped with an optical compass that is sensitive to polarized ultraviolet light and an optical movement sensor to measure the distance covered. AntBot has six feet, allowing it to move with agility in complex environments where wheeled ...

MNA Science & Tech Desk: A talkative little robot has been enlisted by police in Hungary to help bring an electric jolt to presentations in schools and pensioner clubs. “Hi kids!” said robot “Robi” to a class of primary school children in Szolnok, 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Budapest. About 40 centimetres tall and 20 wide (16 by eight inches), and weighing 1.6 kilogrammes (3.5 pounds), Robi’s 16-part body stood on a table, gesturing as he talks. Robi has been operational in the Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok county since May, and Erdos, 38, said there are plans to have similar robots jumping ...

MNA Science & Tech Desk: A robot with artificial intelligence, Sophia, is coming to Bangladesh during this year’s Digital World exhibition, said state minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak. At a press conference at the secretariat Palak said, “People will be able to meet and talk with Sophia, the human like robot on the first day of Digital World exhibition on 6 (from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm) December at Banganandhu International Conference Centre in the city.” “On the occasion of this year’s Digital World Expo, we invited the first ever social robot Sophia and its creator David Hanson, they ...

MNA National Desk: A 15-kilogramme ‘healthcare’ robot and a large consignment of spying and networking devices have been seized at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Monday. The seized goods were recently imported from China declaring as toys and computer materials. The customs authority temporarily seized the consignment on September 8, the day it arrived from China and seized today after examination, customs officials said. The other seized items included 120 smart watches (with SIM card slots), 10 mini digital cameras and 25 pen cameras, 63Ethernet Swiss, 25 antennas , 19 base stations and some networking devices. According to ...

MNA International Desk: Police militarization issue revives with Use of Dallas ‘bomb robot’. A veteran counter terrorism and security expert said that the way Dallas police bomb squad officers killed the suspected shooter in Thursday’s downtown attacks on police was a natural evolution of military style tactics used by US combat soldiers and marines overseas. Technology warfare experts said the use of a robot to kill someone had major technological and legal implications for 21st century policing. “It’s a first by police,” said Peter Singer, author of “Wired for War”, a book on the use of robots in conflict zones. ...

MNA Technology Desk: Researchers at Bielefeld University have developed a software architecture that could enable Hector, the robot to see himself as others see him making him prepared for self-awareness. A year ago, researchers showed that their software endowed the walking robot Hector with a simple form of consciousness. “With this, he would have reflexive consciousness,” explains Dr. Holk Cruse, professor at the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University. The architecture is based on artificial neural networks. Together with colleague Dr. Malte Schilling, Prof. Dr. Cruse published this new study in the online collection Open MIND, ...