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Mar 25, 2015 · Discover the very best robot videos YouTube has to offer - brought to you by National Geographic Kids! Subscribe for more National Geographic Kids videos: h...
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Meet some real-life robots, and find out what robots really are, and what they do for us every day!-----Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also ...
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Jun 24, 2022 · Times of India. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is another space agency that plans to send a half-humanoid robot named Vyommitra to space by the end of 2022 on an uncrewed mission ...
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Jul 19, 2024 · Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor. Animals hug trees, and now robots can too. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE ...
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This robot violinist isn’t a musical genius—it just has a good grip. To show off its precision and movement, the Toyota Partner Robot played the instrument at the Shanghai World Expo in China. Engineers hope that these robot skills may someday assist the elderly with household tasks.
Just like a real dinosaur, Pleo the dino robot sleeps, eats, and explores. Don’t forget to give it lots of attention—Pleo responds positively to petting. It also reacts to light and temperature. It’s a real-life Jurassic World!
Tiro was first developed as a teaching assistant in an elementary school classroom, helping students in South Korealearn English. But when one of the engineers who helped create the robot got married, Tiro stepped up and performed the wedding ceremony.
These four robots zip up and down a collection of 1.5 million books at North Carolina State University library, retrieving obscure tomes for students and faculty in mere minutes. Together called bookBot, theselibrarians won’t ever tell you to quiet down.
Need someone to wake you up, tell you when to pack an umbrella, and read aloud your emails and text messages? Meet wakamaru! This robot takes care of you anditself—the digital helper will take itself to its charging station in your house when it’s running low on power.
Pets can relieve stress and make people happy. But hospital patients usually can’t snuggle with a real pup. Enter PARO—a fuzzy robotic harp sealpup that responds to touch and sound. Doctors hope that by snuggling this “pet,” patients will feel better, reducing their stress and making them more comfortable in hospitals.
If the iCub robot looks like a kid to you, that’s what its creators were hoping for—this robot was designed to look like a three-year-old child. And kids are great at learning, which is what the super-curious iCub is used for: to study how it would figure out the world and learn things the way you do!
The Curiosity robotic rover might be the most well-traveled robot—it works on Mars! Using advanced instruments to study the soil and climate, Curiosity helps scientists understand what Mars was like in the past and if the red planet ever hosted life. Photo credits: RUNGROJ YONGRIT, EPA, Newscom (Toyota Partner Robot); ASSOCIATED PRESS (bookBot); NA...
Pupils will learn about how technology has been developed to create robots that help humans with everyday tasks in our National Geographic Kids’ Robot designs primary resource sheet. The teaching resource can be used in study group tasks for evaluating robot designs and what these products are capable of; as a printed handout for each pupil ...
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Mar 25, 2015 · Discover the very best robot videos YouTube has to offer - brought to you by National Geographic Kids! Subscribe for more National Geographic Kids videos: h...
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