Explore Britain's Tate museum after dark via robot
But it's not just any virtual tour: four telepresence robots, designed by space exploration technology company RAL Space, can be steered by users to view the museum's 500 years of British art. Users will be queued on the website, taking turns steering …
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Self-assembling origami robot is world's first Transformer
Harvard scientists have built the world's first working Transformer robot, inspired by the ancient Japanese paper-folding art of origami. The alien robots that feature in the Transformer movies conceal their true nature by taking on the form of cars …
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Robot butler piloted at California hotel
The robot uses sensors to travel through the hotel's corridors, and detects when a guest opens the door so that it can deliver what has been ordered. Rather than a tip, the robot takes a review from any guest it has served to report back to the main desk.
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