robot 機器人

At Asylum headquarters, the conversation often turns to robots, whether it be robot hookers, robots playing air hockey, or robotic arms controlled by monkeys.

 
The UMan robot has wheels, a battery pack, a one-meter arm, and a three-fingered hand, which it uses to prod objects on a table in order to determine how they move. 

Wii Fit and We Ski might be the only two official uses for the Wii Balance Board, but clever tech-heads are using its powers in lots of interesting ways - the latest a Spanish bloke using the accessory to control a robot.

The robot exists mostly as a way to show off the company's skills. Nuvation effectively specializes in taking other people's hardware and software and developing new systems that the original developers didn't think of. The air hockey terminator basically consists of an industrial robot rigged with an optical sensor that's programmed to follow, and react to, a specific moving object. That would be the puck covered with a shiny, metallic decal. The robot, by the way, does live up to its advance billing, according to Kanellos. In watching it for a half an hour at the Freescale Technology Forum, the bot never lost a goal and scored many. Granted, none of the players he witnessed were off-duty roofing contractors tanked up on a 12-pack of Keystone Lager, but some players were pretty good nonetheless. The most eerie moments come when the robot would block a shot without even moving. It mocks you with its stillness. Engineers at the company gave him some tips on beating it. He can't reveal them but offered these clues: Women do better than men and, if you can't master your anger, your anger will master you. 

Robotics have come a long way, but they still often miss that innate, nervous sense of reluctant touch. Intel researchers have achieved something similar with a robotic hand that uses electrolocation to create a robotic hand conform to the shape of an object before interacting with it. Shown at Research@Intel Day, the hand uses fish-like electrolocation to bounce electric fields off of objects and then conform the hand to that shape in real time. They call the dynamic "Pre Touch," and it could prove useful for configuring robotics before they interact with objects without, say, damaging them or missing the interface completely. We've been aware of the technology for some time, but as you can see in the video after the break, Intel finally has something to show, and the results are what can only be described as a strangely nervous robotic hand. 

看過「超完美嬌妻」嗎？在這部由尼可基嫚主演的電影中，每個男人都能娶到金髮碧眼，身材標緻，性情溫和，完全符合心目中理想的美嬌娘，因為這些女人都是按照需求量身訂做而成的機器人。 現在，Ai Robotics 似乎要將這段劇情搬到現實生活中。整件事是...咦？究竟是怎麼開始的呢？總之就是最近突然冒出來一個官方網站，裡頭介紹了這家公司發展出一種叫做 RKS 的技術，能夠提供機器人觸覺、聽覺以及視覺。因此這個機器人能夠料理、外出購物、幫忙按摩、和我們交談、甚至做一些家裡該做的事。( 是指打掃、洗衣服之類的事啦！ ) 網站上還有許多精心製作的宣傳廣告、痴心宅男使用者見証影片、以及電視專訪 ( ? ) 片段。根據官方說法，現在上網預訂不僅能夠自由選擇完美嬌妻的外觀、髮型、穿著，而且在六月十一日開始交貨，四十八小時內限時送達。 好的，只希望 Ai Robotics 的超完美嬌妻不必由 DHL 在五大洲上空運來運去( 雖然小編深深覺得...就是這麼一回事 )。總之，再過兩個星期，我們就會知道宅男的春天是否真的到來了！ 跳轉後可以看官方網站的專訪影片。 
Read - Ai Robotics 官方網站 

根據聯合國統計資料顯示，2025年老年人口總數將高達20億人，高齡化的社會來臨，對於醫療及居家照護的需求將更加依賴。在國內生活水準提高的同時，擁有良好的醫療品質及技術更是成熟的社會所需要求的，醫療機器人的出現對於協助手術順利進行與醫療品質提升將有所助益。本活動邀請英國皇家工程學院院士，也是醫療機器人開創學者，同時也是Acrobot公司的創辦者的Brian Davies教授來台。 Acrobot公司為英國知名的外科手術機器人研發公司，主要著重研發運用在骨科及關節上的外科手術機器人，外科醫師可用於骨科手術中切除及雕塑等手術，使病患重新活動自如。
會中Brian Davies教授將會分享醫療機器人從構想概念到開發過程到完成之經驗分享，並進行媒合活動，機會難得錯過可惜! 

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