Robot Definition and 209 Threads

A robot has a rectangular prism for a body. The body is 10cm high, 2cm wide, 2cm long, has a mass of 1kg and it’s mass is uniformly distributed. An axle bisects the bottom face of the body. On each side of the body is a wheel that rotates on the axle. The wheels have a radius of 1cm and have no...

I saw I, Robot last night. I haven't yet read the book, so I can't say whether it has much to do with the book or not. But it was definitely better than I expected. Nice action scenes, an okay story, and the robots were done very well. I'd say it was worth my AU$9.

Meet ALICE, an AIML robot programmed from AIML with a vocabulary of more than 56,000. Meet ALICE. :wink:

... It was pretty good, worth the five dollars I spent to watch it. The movie isn't any story I ever read of Asmiov though. Its a good story about robots when subject to extreme situation like most of the story in the book I, Robot. Overall I would give it a 8 out of 10. Which is more then I...

Just wait until they modify this monster for law enforcement! How would you like to see this thing coming at you while you are still trapped in the rubble? http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/040325/photos_tc_afp/040325143741_mb8v4lga_photo0

There is an interesting article I have just read which details a neat perspective of :The Physics Of 'Now'. Just a simplified overview I want to ask this question:Can a Robot remember its Future?

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/02/23/robot.receptionist.ap/index.html

can someone advise me please, i want to build a PIC controled robot that can be programed via my pc,i have a maximum of $200 to spend, i have looked at loads of adds on the web but get confused, I am no stranger to printed circuits so self assembly would be no problem, the robot maybe a...

"Scientists have developed a robotic insect which walks on water. The team, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, were testing out a theory about how one family of foraging insects performs the same trick" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3126299.stm