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Keller Rinaudo A mini robot powered by your phone

Sony has developed a music playing robot called Rolly, dog shaped robots called AIBO and a humanoid robot called QRIO.

So imagine this What about a robot accessory for your cellphone?

Here we've got naive subjects praising the robot Voice Nice robot.

Ritchie Can you do the same thing? Robot Yeah, sure.

This is a robot that wants to plug itself in to get more power.

And then there's a higher price point sort of robot toys the Sony Aibo. And on the right there, is one that the NEC developed, the PaPeRo, which I don't think they're going to release.

So an interesting question is, does the social embodiment really matter? Does it matter that it's a robot?

Then some droid in the back puts the name on a tickler and says, Oh, this is an important letter.

Okay. And actually of those hands, if you don't include Roomba how many of you have a robot at home?

Here's the first example of that. This is the Stanford Shape Deposition Manufactured robot, named Sprawl.

It's a military surveillance robot, to go in ahead of troops looking at caves, for instance.

Well, chances are I've got a droid who's picking up the phone, Yes, they called, and they said they didn't like it.

At the bottom right you see a robot performing a 360 degree flip in less than half a second.

So here you see the robot combining a motion that builds up momentum and then changes its orientation and then recovers.

So, you can put those properties in. It inspired them to show off this design by producing a little robot they named Sprawl.

And we're starting to see that same sort of thing with robots LEGO Mindstorms, Furbies who here did anyone here have a Furby?

They are pretty common. And they're a little tiny robot, a simple robot with some sensors, a little bit of processing actuation.

And the thing about blending science and art in this multidisciplinary stuff is you can do a robot, and then you go back and do the shape, and then you go back and forth.

And by leveraging the power of the iPhone's processor, we can create a robot that is wi fi enabled and computer vision capable for 150 bucks, which is about one percent of what these kinds of robots have cost in the past.

So in the videos I'm about to show you, you're going to see a visual attention system on a robot which has it looks for skin tone in HSV space, so it works across all human colorings.

So 20 years pass I am now a graduate student at MIT studying artificial intelligence, the year is 1997, and NASA has just landed the first robot on Mars.

Some recent stories nanobees zap tumors with real bee venom they're sending genes into the brain a robot they built that can crawl through the human body.

So when we have a robot which is surrounded by neighbors and let's look at robot I and robot J what we want the robots to do is to monitor the separation between them as they fly in formation.

And as it turns out, that's a really hard problem, because you have to build a small, portable robot that's not only really affordable, but it has to be something that people actually want to take home and have around their kids.

And when I was dealing with my robot over here, Chris, the robot, was measuring the prosody in my voice, and so we have the robot measure prosody for four basic messages that mothers give their children pre linguistically.

Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design Gecko System s home care robot looks rather like the Star Wars robot R2 D2.

But what will the presence of a sexbot do to the marital home? How will we feel if our spouse starts spending too much time with an inexhaustible robotic lover?

Industrial robots on the factory floor, introduced in the late 1970s These computer controlled welding arms and grippers could perform simple tasks such as attaching a car door quickly and flawlessly 24 hours a day.

Onstage at TEDGlobal, Péter Fankhauser demonstrates Rezero, a robot that balances on a ball. Designed and built by a group of engineering students, Rezero is the first ballbot made to move quickly and gracefully and even dance.

We couldn't believe that it could do this. It said to us that if you could build a robot with very simple, springy legs, you could make it as maneuverable as any that's ever been built.

You call your friend, she puts her handset in a robot, and, bam! You're a MeBot you can make eye contact, you can talk with your friends, you can move around, you can gesture maybe the next best thing to really being there, or is it?

David Hanson's robot faces look and act like yours They recognize and respond to emotion, and make expressions of their own. Here, an emotional live demo of the Einstein robot offers a peek at a future where robots truly mimic humans.

Every single book is robotic, so they all move, they all make sound, and when you put them all together, they turn into these walls, which have the gesture and the personality of Simon Powers. So he's disappeared, but the whole physical environment becomes this person.

And we had a robotic device, a humanoid robot, in Kyoto, Japan at ATR Laboratories that was dreaming its entire life to be controlled by a brain, a human brain, or a primate brain.

But if robots can be engaging, if we like to cooperate with robots, if robots are persuasive, maybe a robot can help you maintain a diet and exercise program, maybe they can help you manage your weight.

In this first of its kind demo, Heather Knight introduces Data, a robotic stand up comedian that does much more than rattle off one liners it gathers audience feedback and tunes its act as the crowd responds. Is this thing on?

Some recent discoveries There's an ant colony from Argentina that has now spread to every continent but Antarctica there's a self directed robot scientist that's made a discovery soon, science may no longer need us, and life may no longer need us either a microbe wakes up after 120,000 years.

So there's a clear message whether you care about a fundamental, basic research of really interesting, bizarre, wonderful animals, or you want to build a search and rescue robot that can help you in an earthquake, or to save someone in a fire, or you care about medicine, we must preserve nature's designs.