Nigerian Police force gets bomb disposal robot from United States [DETAILS]

by Damilola Jagun The new Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba was presented with a high tech bomb disposal robot by the US Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, during a visit of latter to the force headquarters on Wednesday, 20 August. The robot was presented alongside other equipments which will assist in the counter terrorism war,... Read More

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April 2, 2013

i-Stalker: Robot ‘lover’ programmed to fall in love with woman turns into a dangerous stalker (PHOTO)

The dream of those scientists who sit in labs all night programming robots is to create artificial intelligence so real that it no longer seems artificial. But then, there is a point where keeping it real goes wrong. Researchers working on a robot at Toshiba’s Akimu Robotic Research Institute found that their skill sets were... Read More

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October 28, 2012

Life imitates art: Meet Pet-Proto, the ‘iRobot’ that acts like a human being (WATCH)

by Rachel Ogbu Meet Pet-Proto, a Boston Dynamics-designed bipedal robot that is capable of analyzing and navigating complex obstacle courses, making decisions autonomously, and with, if not the actual dexterity of a human being, at least the functional semblance of one. Pet-Proto is part of DARPA‘s (Defense Advance Research Projects Agency) work to promote its... Read More

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