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1.4 metres tall, weighing 36 kg, capable of recognising faces, walking and grasping objects – please meet Romeo, the Nao robot’s cousin! The Romeo robot was unveiled in a world exclusive at the Innorobo 2014 event , in which Génération Robots has participated since 2011. For the moment it is still only a research prototype[…]
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Humans have always turned to nature in search of the inspiration they needed to create new inventions and make technological progress. From the Shinkansen, that famous Japanese high-speed train whose design was inspired by the kingfisher, to the new Speedo swimsuits made of a material imitating shark skin, not forgetting the aeroplane and Velcro®, our[…]
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Generation Robots , who will be presenting the Baxter collaborative robot by Rethink Robotics is one of the 200 bâtisseurs pour demain who are going to assemble from 4 au 7 décembre 2014 in the central concourse of the Grand Palais. This event, organised at the initiative of Osons la France (France, let’s be daring!), will[…]
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Génération Robots gets new Twitter profiles: English, German and French As the European specialist for service robots, and already having a trilingual website, we decided to take it a step further and go the extra mile for our English-speaking and German-speaking communities ! We just created two new Twitter accounts : one in English ([…]
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The possibility of Europe’s becoming the world leader in robotics is not unreasonable; the project certainly has enough fervent support – and the success of the CNES’ Philae robot confirms this idea. Within the framework of European Robotics Week, the Midi-Pyrénées region is organising two events to be held from 27–30 November at the Cité[…]
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Rethink Robotics announced on Nov. 3rd the availability of a new feature: “Robot Positionning system”. Baxter collaborative robot is now able to manage and adapt to a changing working environment. Intera 3.1, the latest software upgrade, the feature “Robot positioning system” allows to react more quickly to unexpected changes in a working environment such as[…]
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An increasing number of French schools are embracing the digital revolution and consequently, new subjects are making their way into the educational facilities. In addition, the national curriculums revision which should come into effect in 2015, aims to implement extracurricular activities in every French school. In light of this, the INRIA (French Institute for Research[…]
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The quickly evolving field of robotics will face numerous challenges in a near future. Engineers and experts such as Rodney Brooks , the visionary who made vacuum robots popular, are now putting all theur knowledge and efforts into the creation of collaborative robots. They need to be affordable, easy to use, adaptative and safe for[…]
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On October 10th, the University of California, San Diego, hosted within its walls the « Contextual Robotics Technologies International Forum ». Rodney Brooks, the founder of Rethink Robotics, and creator of the collaborative Baxter robot , was joined by 8 of the world top leaders in the field of ubiquitous consumer robotics to discuss the[…]
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Rodney Brooks is hailed as one of the most important roboticists in the world who led a career as a famous and distinguished researcher in artificial intelligence at Stanford university, Carnegie Mellon and MIT. After co-founding iRobot in 2008, he leaves the latter and the academics world to create his company Heartlands robotics, considered as one of[…]
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