Robotics

Robotics

Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots...

is the branch of technology

Technology

Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

 that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robot

Robot

A robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous, semi-autonomous or...

s. Robotics is related to the science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

s of electronics

Electronics

Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...

, engineering

Engineering

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

, mechanics

Mechanics

Mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the behavior of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment....

, and software

Computer software

Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....

. The word "robot" was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek

Karel Capek

Karel Čapek was Czech writer of the 20th century.-Biography:Born in 1890 in the Bohemian mountain village of Malé Svatoňovice to an overbearing, emotional mother and a distant yet adored father, Čapek was the youngest of three siblings...

 in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Čapek. R.U.R. stands for Rossum's Universal Robots, an English phrase used as the subtitle in the Czech original. It premiered in 1921 and introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.The...

, published in 1920. The term "robotics" was coined by Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...

 in his 1941 science fiction short-story "Liar!

Liar!

"Liar!" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and was reprinted in the collections I, Robot and The Complete Robot . It was Asimov's third published positronic robot story...

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*batteries not included

*batteries not included

*batteries not included is a 1987 family-science fiction film directed by Matthew Robbins about small extraterrestrial living machines that save an apartment block under threat from property development....

- 20Q

20Q

20Q is a computerized game of twenty questions that began as an experiment in artificial intelligence . It was invented by Robin Burgener....

- 321 kinematic structure

321 kinematic structure

321 kinematic structure is a design method for robotic arms , invented by Donald L. Pieper and used in most commercially produced robotic arms. The inverse kinematics of serial manipulators with six revolute joints, and with three consecutive joints intersecting, can be solved in closed form, i.e...

- 3D Pose Estimation

3D Pose Estimation

3D pose estimation is the problem of determining the transformation of an object in a 2D image which gives the 3D object. The need for 3D pose estimation arises from the limitations of feature based pose estimation. There exist environments where it is difficult to extract corners or edges from...

- 5DX

5DX

The 5DX is an automated X-ray inspection robot, which belongs to the set of automated test equipment robots and industrial robots utilizing machine vision. The 5DX is manufactured by Agilent Technologies. The 5DX is a non-destructive structural test machine, using laminography to take 3D slices...

- 790 (robot)

790 (robot)

790 is a robotic character on the science fiction series Lexx.790 is simply a head with three screens, two displaying eyes, the last displaying a mouth. His original semi-organic body was devoured by a Cluster Lizard, during Zev's love slave transformation...

- 8 Man

8 Man

or is a fictional manga and anime superhero created in 1963 by science fiction writer Kazumasa Hirai and manga artist Jiro Kuwata. He is considered Japan's earliest cyborg superhero, predating even Kamen Rider , and was supposedly the inspiration for RoboCop.The manga was published in Weekly...

- 964 Pinocchio

964 Pinocchio

964 Pinocchio is a 1991 Japanese cyberpunk film from filmmaker Shozin Fukui. It deals with the theme of brain-modified sex slaves as well as mental breakdowns in a hallucinogenic thrill ride.-Plot:...

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A.P.E.X.

A.P.E.X.

A.P.E.X is a 1994 science fiction film by Phillip J. Roth about a group of scientists who explore the past using robotic probes known as the A.P.E.X or ˝Advanced Prototype EXploration units˝.-Plot:...

- Aaron Doral

Aaron Doral

Aaron Doral is a fictional character from the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series.Doral is a humanoid Cylon who first appeared as a civilian public relations specialist aboard Galactica just prior to the Cylon attack on the Colonies. Through conversation with the Cylon agent Number Six, Dr...

- ABB Group
- ABC Warriors

ABC Warriors

ABC Warriors is a long-running 2000 AD comic strip written by Pat Mills, which first appeared in prog 119 in 1979 and continues to run today. Art for the opening episodes was by Kevin O'Neill, Mike McMahon, Brett Ewins, and Brendan McCarthy - who between them designed the original seven members of...

- ABU Robocon
- Acoustical engineering

Acoustical engineering

Acoustical engineering is the branch of engineering dealing with sound and vibration. It is the application of acoustics, the science of sound and vibration, in technology. Acoustical engineers are typically concerned with the manipulation and control of sound....

- ACROSS Project

ACROSS Project

ACROSS is a Singular Strategic R&D Project led by Treelogic funded by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade activities in the field of Robotics and Cognitive Computing over an execution time-frame from 2009 to 2011...

- Action description language

Action description language

In artificial intelligence, Action description language is an automated planning and scheduling system in particular for robots. It is considered an advancement of STRIPS. Pednault proposed this language in 1987...

- Action selection

Action selection

Action selection is a way of characterizing the most basic problem of intelligent systems: what to do next. In artificial intelligence and computational cognitive science, "the action selection problem" is typically associated with intelligent agents and animats—artificial systems that exhibit...

- ActivMedia Robotics

ActivMedia Robotics

ActivMedia Robotics, former name of MobileRobots Inc, is a company in Amherst, New Hampshire that designs and manufactures autonomous robots, commercial service robots, robot software and navigation systems for robot developers and manufacturers....

- Actuator

Actuator

An actuator is a type of motor for moving or controlling a mechanism or system. It is operated by a source of energy, usually in the form of an electric current, hydraulic fluid pressure or pneumatic pressure, and converts that energy into some kind of motion. An actuator is the mechanism by which...

- Adam (robot)

Adam (robot)

Adam is a robot scientist or laboratory robot created and developed by the Computational Biology research group at Aberystwyth University. As a prototype for a "robot scientist", Adam is able to perform independent experiments to test hypotheses and interpret findings without human guidance...

- Adam Link

Adam Link

Adam Link is a fictional robot, made in the likeness of a man, who becomes self-aware, and the protagonist of several science fiction short stories written by Eando Binder . The stories were originally published in Amazing Stories from 1939 to 1942.In all, ten Adam Link stories were published...

- Adaptable robotics

Adaptable robotics

Adaptable robotics are generally based in robot developer kits.The kits come with an open software platform tailored to a range of common robotic functions....

- Adaptive control

Adaptive control

Adaptive control is the control method used by a controller which must adapt to a controlled system with parameters which vary, or are initially uncertain. For example, as an aircraft flies, its mass will slowly decrease as a result of fuel consumption; a control law is needed that adapts itself...

- Adelbrecht

Adelbrecht

Adelbrecht was a speaking, interactive robot in the form of a ball, designed by Martin Spanjaard .A first, simple version of Adelbrecht was presented in 1985....

- Admissible heuristic

Admissible heuristic

In computer science, specifically in algorithms related to Pathfinding, a heuristic function is said to be admissible if it is no more than the lowest-cost path to the goal. In other words, a heuristic is admissible if it never overestimates the cost of reaching the goal...

- Adventist Robotics League

Adventist Robotics League

The Adventist Robotics League is an operational partner of the FIRST Lego League serving the school and constituents of the Seventh-day Adventist school system and their constituents. The same rules are applied as in the FIRST Lego League. Due to the religious beliefs of the affiliated church the...

- Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is an American animated series that was first broadcast in September 1993, and only for one season...

- Aerobot

Aerobot

An aerobot is an aerial robot, usually used in the context of an unmanned space probe or unmanned aerial vehicle.While work has been done since the 1960s on robot "rovers" to explore the Moon and other worlds in the Solar system, such machines have limitations...

- Aerospace

Aerospace

Aerospace comprises the atmosphere of Earth and surrounding space. Typically the term is used to refer to the industry that researches, designs, manufactures, operates, and maintains vehicles moving through air and space...

- Affective computing

Affective computing

Affective computing is the study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects. It is an interdisciplinary field spanning computer sciences, psychology, and cognitive science...

- Agent Systems Reference Model

Agent Systems Reference Model

The agent systems reference model is a layered, abstract description for multiagent systems. As such, the reference model* provides a taxonomy of terms, concepts and definitions to compare agent systems;...

- AgentSheets

AgentSheets

AgentSheets is an educational Cyberlearning tool to create Web-based simulation games. AgentSheets is used worldwide to teach students programming and related information technology skills through game design...

- Agricultural robot

Agricultural robot

An agricultural robot or agribot is a robot deployed for agricultural purposes.-Examples:* "Ag Ant", an inexpensive foot-long bot that works cooperatively.* The Oracle Robot * The Shear Magic Robot * Fruit Picking Robot * LSU's AgBot...

- AI-complete

AI-complete

In the field of artificial intelligence, the most difficult problems are informally known as AI-complete or AI-hard, implying that the difficulty of these computational problems is equivalent to solving the central artificial intelligence problem—making computers as intelligent as people, or strong...

- AI box

AI box

An AI box is an isolated hardware system where an artificial intelligence is kept constrained inside a simulated world and not allowed to affect the external world. Such a box would have extremely proscribed inputs and outputs; maybe only a plaintext channel. However, a sufficient intelligent AI...

- AI winter

AI winter

In the history of artificial intelligence, an AI winter is a period of reduced funding and interest in artificial intelligence research. The process of hype, disappointment and funding cuts are common in many emerging technologies , but the problem has been particularly acute for AI...

- AIBO

AIBO

AIBO was one of several types of robotic pets designed and manufactured by Sony...

- Ajay Kapur

Ajay Kapur

Ajay Kapur is a computer scientist, musician, and educator known for his pioneering work in musical robotics and electronic instrument design. He has toured internationally with his self-designed electronic sitar and mobile robotic drummer, the MahaDeviBot and currently serves as professor at...

- Albert Hubo

Albert Hubo

Albert Hubo is a humanoid robot based on HUBO, but with Einstein’s face on top of it. It was developed by South Korean scientists and professor Joon Ho oh. The face is built by Hanson Robotics, a company specialized in making robot faces....

- Albert One

Albert one

Albert One is an AI chatterbot bot created by Robby Garner and designed to mimic the way humans make conversations using a multi-faceted approach in natural language programming.-History:...

- Alberto Broggi

Alberto Broggi

Alberto Broggi is a professor of Computer Engineeringat the University of Parmain Italy, and a pioneer of machine vision applied todriverless cars and unmanned vehicles in general.- Biography :Alberto Broggi was born in Parma, Italy, in 1966...

- Alchemy AI Software
- Alex Raymond

Alex Raymond

Alexander Gillespie "Alex" Raymond was an American cartoonist, best known for creating Flash Gordon for King Features in 1934...

- Algorithmic probability

Algorithmic probability

In algorithmic information theory, algorithmic probability is a method of assigning a probability to each hypothesis that explains a given observation, with the simplest hypothesis having the highest probability and the increasingly complex hypotheses receiving increasingly small probabilities...

- Ali Jadbabaie

Ali Jadbabaie

Ali Jadbabaie is an Iranian-American roboticist and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Jadbabaie is an internationally renowned expert in the control and coordination of multi-robot formations....

- Alice mobile robot

Alice mobile robot

The Alice is a very small "sugarcube" mobile robot developed at the ASL at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland between 1998 and 2004.It was designed with the following goals:* Design an intelligent mobile robot as cheap and small as possible...

- Alien 3
- Alien Resurrection
- Alienator

Alienator

Alienator is a 1989 science fiction/action/thriller, directed by filmmaker Fred Olen Ray—the producer, director, and screenwriter of over one hundred low to medium-budget feature films in many genres—and starring Jan-Michael Vincent, star of the CBS television series Airwolf. Alienator is among...

- Aliens (film)

Aliens (film)

Aliens is a 1986 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron and starring Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, William Hope, and Bill Paxton...

- Allen (robot)

Allen (robot)

Allen was a robot introduced by Rodney Brooks and his team in the late 1980s, and was their first robot based on subsumption architecture. It had sonar distance and odometry onboard, and used an offboard lisp machine to simulate subsumption architecture. It resembled a footstool on wheels.Allen...

- Almost Human: Making Robots Think

Almost Human: Making Robots Think

Almost Human: Making Robots Think is a book written by Lee Gutkind founder of Creative Nonfiction. Gutkind spent six years as a "fly on the wall" researcher at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Melon University in Pittsburgh...

- Alpha 5

Alpha 5

Alpha 5 is a fictional robot on the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers television series. On Alpha's chest is a yellow stylized lightning bolt similar to the Power Rangers' lightning bolt symbol, but inverted. His head is in the shape of a golden flying saucer with a visor that flashes when he is speaking...

- Amazo

Amazo

Amazo is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appears in The Brave and the Bold #30 and was created by Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson. An android, Amazo's special ability is to replicate the special abilities of various superheroes and...

- American robotics

American robotics

Robots of the United States include simple household robots such as Roomba to sophisticated autonomous aircraft such as the MQ-9 Reaper that cost 18 million dollars per unit...

- Analog robot

Analog robot

Analog Robot is a type of robot which uses analog circuitry to go toward a simple goal such as finding more light or responding to sound. The first real analog robot was invented in the 1940s by W. Grey Walter. The name of these robots were ELSIE and ELMER . The original circuitry was developed...

- And–or tree
- André Guignard

André Guignard

André Guignard is a Swiss engineer initially educated as a watchmaker. He is the creator of the mechanic of the Khepera, the S-bot and several other mobile robots....

- Andrew Martin (The Bicentennial Man)
- Andrew Ng

Andrew Ng

Andrew Ng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. His work is primarily in machine learning and robotics. He received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and finished his postdoctoral research in the University of California, Berkeley, where he...

- Android (film)

Android (film)

Android is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Aaron Lipstadt and starring Klaus Kinski. The film follows the story of a scientist and his assistant who are working on an illegal android program from their lab on a space station in orbit of the Earth....

- Android (robot)
- Android science

Android science

Android science is an interdisciplinary framework for studying human interaction and cognition based on the premise that a very humanlike robot can elicit human-directed social responses in human beings...

- ANDROS (robot)

ANDROS (robot)

The ANDROS is a series of remote control military robots designed by REMOTEC a subsidiary of Northrup Grumman. The ANDROS series is primarily designed for military, explosive ordinance disposal , and law enforcement or SWAT applications....

- Andy the Messenger Robot (Many Other Functions)

Andy the Messenger Robot (Many Other Functions)

Andy the Messenger Robot is a fictional character appearing in The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla, the fifth book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series. He is approximately 7 feet tall, has very large data banks and dictionaries, can reproduce music, and is superhumanly strong and near...

- Angel F

Angel F

Angel_F is a fictional child artificial intelligence that has been used in worldwide art performances focused on the issues of digital liberties, intellectual property and on the evolution of language and behaviour in information society...

- Animatronics

Animatronics

Animatronics is the use of mechatronics to create machines which seem animate rather than robotic. Animatronic creations include animals , plants and even mythical creatures...

- Ant robotics

Ant robotics

Ant robotics is a special case of swarm robotics. Swarm robots are simple and cheap robots with limited sensing and computational capabilities. This makes it feasible to deploy teams of swarm robots and take advantage of the resulting fault tolerance and parallelism. Swarm robots cannot use...

- Anthony Daniels

Anthony Daniels

Anthony Daniels is an English actor. He is best known for his role as the droid C-3PO in the Star Wars series of films made between 1977 and 2005.-Early life:...

- Anthrobotics

Anthrobotics

Anthrobotics is the science of developing and studying robots that are either entirely or in some way human-like.The term anthrobotics was originally coined by Mark Rosheim in a paper entitled "Design of An Omnidirectional Arm" presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and...

- Anticipation (artificial intelligence)

Anticipation (artificial intelligence)

In artificial intelligence , anticipation is the concept of an agent making decisions based on predictions, expectations, or beliefs about the future. It is widely considered that anticipation is a vital component of complex natural cognitive systems...

- Any-angle path planning

Any-angle path planning

Any-angle path planning algorithms search for paths on a cell decomposition of a continuous configuration space .Consider, for example, a uniform grid with blocked and unblocked cells...

- Anybots

Anybots

Anybots Inc. is a robotics company founded in 2001 by Trevor Blackwell. It is located in Mountain View, CA.- QA :QA, debuted at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show is the first of Anybots' two telepresence Robots. QA, a , robot, balances on two wheels, like a Segway, has 5-Megapixel cameras, two...

- Anytime algorithm

Anytime algorithm

In computer science an anytime algorithm is an algorithm that can return a valid solution to a problem even if it's interrupted at any time before it ends. The algorithm is expected to find better and better solutions the more time it keeps running....

- Aphrodite IX

Aphrodite IX

Aphrodite IX was a comic book series published by the Top Cow imprint of Image Comics. The comic series carries a sci-fi theme and is named after the central character of the series, Aphrodite IX...

- Applegeeks

Applegeeks

Applegeeks was a webcomic illustrated by Mohammad Haque, and written by Ananth Panagariya. The comic was usually updated every Monday and Thursday. A small, spin-off comic, dubbed Applegeeks Lite, was begun on April 18, 2006, and updates on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays...

- Applications of artificial intelligence

Applications of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence has been used in a wide range of fields including medical diagnosis, stock trading, robot control, law, scientific discovery and toys...

- Applied science

Applied science

Applied science is the application of scientific knowledge transferred into a physical environment. Examples include testing a theoretical model through the use of formal science or solving a practical problem through the use of natural science....

- Arbormon

Arbormon

Arbormon is a fictional character in Digimon and is a major character in Digimon Frontier. He was voiced by Richard Cansino , who did an impersonation of Sylvester Stallone as Rocky, and Kenji Nomura .-Description:...

- Archie Humanoid Robot

Archie Humanoid Robot

Archie is a humanoid robot, developed in Vienna University of Technology in Austria and University of Manitoba in Canada. The development of Archie started in 2004 at theInstitute of Handling Robots and Devices under supervision of Professor Peter Kopacek. Archie is in class a Teen size Humanoid...

- Arduino

Arduino

Arduino is an open-source single-board microcontroller, descendant of the open-source Wiring platform, designed to make the process of using electronics in multidisciplinary projects more accessible. The hardware consists of a simple open hardware design for the Arduino board with an Atmel AVR...

- Arizona State University

Arizona State University

Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...

- Arm Slave

Arm Slave

Arm Slaves are fictional mecha from the light novel, manga, and anime series Full Metal Panic!. These huge and tall robots are used primarily by military forces in the Full Metal Panic! universe, most especially by MITHRIL and Amalgam.-Overview:...

- Arm solution

Arm solution

In applied mathematics as used in the engineering field of robotics, an arm solution is a solution of equations that allow the calculation of the precise design parameters of a robot's arms in such a way as to enable it to make certain movements....

- Armored Combat Engineer Robot

Armored Combat Engineer Robot

The Armored Combat Engineer Robot is a military robot created by Mesa Robotics. Roughly the size of a small bulldozer and weighing 2.25 tons, ACER is among the larger of the terrestrial military robots. Nonetheless, like many other military robots, it has a modular body, allowing for adjustments...

- Armoured Gideon

Armoured Gideon

Armoured Gideon is a comics character who first appeared in British science fiction anthology 2000 AD. The stories were written by John Tomlinson, with art by Simon Jacob.-Fictional character biography:...

- Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...

- Arthur Saint-Leon

Arthur Saint-Leon

Arthur Saint-Léon was the Maître de Ballet of St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet from 1859 until 1869 and is famous for creating the choreography of the ballet Coppélia.-Biography:...

- Articulated robot

Articulated robot

An articulated robot is a robot with rotary joints . Articulated robots can range from simple two-jointed structures to systems with 10 or more interacting joints....

- Artificial Ants

Artificial Ants

In computer science, Artificial Ants stand for multi-agent methods inspired by the behavior of real ants. The pheromone-based communication of biological ants is often the predominant paradigm used. Combinations of Artificial Ants and local search algorithms have become a method of choice for...

- Artificial Architecture

Artificial Architecture

Artificial architecture, also referred to as algorithmic architecture and algorithmic design, is the research area combining architectural design and artificial intelligence...

- Artificial brain

Artificial brain

Artificial brain is a term commonly used in the media to describe research that aims to develop software and hardware with cognitive abilities similar to the animal or human brain...

- Artificial consciousness

Artificial consciousness

Artificial consciousness , also known as machine consciousness or synthetic consciousness, is a field related to artificial intelligence and cognitive robotics whose aim is to define that which would have to be synthesized were consciousness to be found in an engineered artifact .Neuroscience...

- Artificial Imagination

Artificial Imagination

Artificial imagination , also called Synthetic imagination or machine imagination is defined as artificial simulation of human imagination by general or special purpose computers or artificial neural networks....

- Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...

- Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...

- Artificial intelligence and law

Artificial intelligence and law

Artificial intelligence and Law is a subfield of artificial intelligence mainly concerned with applications of AI to legal informatics problems and original research on those problems...

- Artificial intelligence marketing

Artificial Intelligence Marketing

Artificial intelligence marketing is a form of direct marketing leveraging database marketing techniques as well as AI concept and model such as machine learning and Bayesian Network...

- Artificial Intelligence System

Artificial Intelligence System

Artificial Intelligence System was a distributed computing project undertaken by Intelligence Realm, Inc. with the long-term goal of simulating the human brain in real time, complete with artificial consciousness and artificial general intelligence...

- Artificial intelligence systems integration

Artificial intelligence systems integration

The core idea of A.I. systems integration is making individual software components, such as speech synthesizers, interoperable with other components, such as common sense knowledgebases, in order to create larger, broader and more capable A.I. systems...

- Artificial intelligence, situated approach

Artificial intelligence, situated approach

After several decades of success, traditional artificial intelligence approaches to modeling decision-making, such as expert systems, finite state machines or decision trees reached their limitations in the 1980s when researchers tried to use them to drive real robots in uncertain environments...

- Artificial Life

Artificial life

Artificial life is a field of study and an associated art form which examine systems related to life, its processes, and its evolution through simulations using computer models, robotics, and biochemistry. The discipline was named by Christopher Langton, an American computer scientist, in 1986...

- Artificial neural network

Artificial neural network

An artificial neural network , usually called neural network , is a mathematical model or computational model that is inspired by the structure and/or functional aspects of biological neural networks. A neural network consists of an interconnected group of artificial neurons, and it processes...

- Artificial psychology

Artificial psychology

Artificial Psychology is a theoretical discipline proposed by Dan Curtis . The theory states that when the artificial intelligence approaches the level of complexity where the intelligence meets two conditions:Condition I...

- Arts

ARts

aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....

- ASEA IRB

ASEA IRB

The ASEA IRB is an industrial robot series for material handling, packing, transportation, polishing, welding, and grading. Built in 1975, the robot allowed movement in 5 axes with a lift capacity of 6 kg...

- Ash (Alien)

Ash (Alien)

Ash is a character in the movie Alien, who was portrayed by actor Ian Holm, who, although known in the U.K. as a stage actor, was at the time unknown to American audiences. Ash serves as the secondary antagonist of the first film...

- Ashutosh Tewari

Ashutosh Tewari

Ashutosh K. Tewari is a board certified American urologist, oncologist, and clinical researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University in New York City where he directs the Institute of Prostate Cancer and Robotic Surgery. Tewari holds the Ronald P...

- ASIMO

ASIMO

is a humanoid robot created by Honda. Introduced in 2000, ASIMO, which is an acronym for "Advanced Step in Innovative MObility", was created to be a helper to people. With aspirations of helping people who lack full mobility, ASIMO is used to encourage young people to study science and mathematics...

- ASR-complete

ASR-complete

ASR-complete is, by analogy to NP-completeness in complexity theory, a term to indicate that the difficulty of a computational problem is equivalent to solving the central Automatic Speech Recognition problem, i.e. recognize and understanding spoken language...

- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence or AAAI is an international, nonprofit, scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines...

- ASTAR

ASTAR

ASTAR is a fictional golden humanoid robot. The character was created in the 1980s by the Canadian amputee organization The War Amps and is featured in material for their PLAYSAFE program to educate children about safety....

- Astro Boy
- Astro Boy (character)

Astro Boy (character)

is a fictional character, and the main protagonist of the Astro Boy franchise. Created by Osamu Tezuka, the character was introduced in the 1951 Captain Atom manga...

- Astro Boy (film)

Astro Boy (film)

Astro Boy, also called in Japan, is a 2009 computer-animated film loosely based on the long-running Japanese series of the same name by Osamu Tezuka. It was produced by Imagi Animation Studios, the animation production company of TMNT. The studio announced the project in September 2006...

- Astrochicken

Astrochicken

Astrochicken is the name given to a thought experiment expounded by theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson. In his book Disturbing the Universe , Dyson contemplated how humanity could build a small, self-replicating automaton that could explore space more efficiently than a manned craft could...

- Asuran
- ATHLETE (robot)

ATHLETE (robot)

The All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer is a six-legged robotic lunar rover test-bed under development by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

- ATLANTIS architecture

ATLANTIS architecture

The A Three-Layer Architecture for Navigating Through Intricate Situations is a hybrid reactive/deliberative robot architecture developed by Erann Gat at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.- See also :* Three-layer architecture...

- Atomic Robo

Atomic Robo

Atomic Robo is a comic book series depicting the adventures of the eponymous character, created by 8-Bit Theater writer Brian Clevinger and artist Scott Wegener.-Publication history:...

- Attributional calculus

Attributional calculus

Attributional calculus is a logic and representation system defined by Ryszard S. Michalski. It combines elements of predicate logic, propositional calculus, and multi-valued logic...

- Audiotrope

Audiotrope

In BEAM robotics, an audiotrope is a robot that reacts to sounds. This term, which literally means "sound turning," is generally applied to sound-seeking robots. More accurately, audiotropes can either seek or avoid sources of sound....

- Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was a French symbolist writer.-Life:Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was born in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, to a distinguished aristocratic family...

- Aura (satellite)

Aura (satellite)

Aura is a multi-national NASA scientific research satellite in orbit around the Earth, studying the Earth's ozone layer, air quality and climate. It is the third major component of the Earth Observing System following on Terra and Aqua...

- Autognostics

Autognostics

Autognostics is a new paradigm that describes the capacity for computer networks to be self-aware. It is considered as one of the major components of Autonomic Networking.- Introduction :...

- Automated guided vehicle

Automated Guided Vehicle

An automated guided vehicle or automatic guided vehicle is a mobile robot that follows markers or wires in the floor, or uses vision or lasers. They are most often used in industrial applications to move materials around a manufacturing facility or a warehouse...

- Automated Mathematician

Automated Mathematician

The Automated Mathematician is one of the earliest successful discovery systems. It was created by Doug Lenat in Lisp, and in 1977 led to Lenat being awarded the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award....

- Automated planning and scheduling

Automated planning and scheduling

Automated planning and scheduling is a branch of artificial intelligence that concerns the realization of strategies or action sequences, typically for execution by intelligent agents, autonomous robots and unmanned vehicles. Unlike classical control and classification problems, the solutions are...

- Automated reasoning

Automated reasoning

Automated reasoning is an area of computer science dedicated to understand different aspects of reasoning. The study in automated reasoning helps produce software which allows computers to reason completely, or nearly completely, automatically...

- Automated restaurant

Automated restaurant

Automated restaurant or robotic restaurant is a restaurant that uses robots to do tasks such as delivering food and drinks to the tables and/or to cook the food. Such a robots are hired to replace human labour ....

- Automatic painting (robotic)

Automatic painting (robotic)

Automatic painting is also used to describe painting using a machine or robot.Industrial robots have been used for decades in automotive applications, including painting, from the first hydraulic versions, which are still in use today but cannot match the quality or safety of the electric robots,...

- Automatic waste container

Automatic waste container

An automatic waste container is a waste container which is automatic. This helps prevent the bin lids becoming clogged with trash.It has an infrared system that allows it to detect human presence and open or close the waste container....

- Automatika

Automatika

Automatika is a robotics and automation firm based in O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania. Started by two Carnegie Mellon University graduates in 1995, the company is now owned by QinetiQ North America....

- Automation

Automation

Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies to reduce the need for human work in the production of goods and services. In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization...

- Automatix

Automatix

Automatix Inc., founded in January 1980, was the first company to market industrial robots with built-in machine vision. Its founders were Victor Scheinman, inventor of the Stanford arm; Phillippe Villers, Michael Cronin, and Arnold Reinhold of Computervision; Jake Dias and Dan Nigro of Data...

- Automaton

Automaton

An automaton is a self-operating machine. The word is sometimes used to describe a robot, more specifically an autonomous robot. An alternative spelling, now obsolete, is automation.-Etymology:...

- Automotive engineering

Automotive engineering

Modern automotive engineering, along with aerospace engineering and marine engineering, is a branch of vehicle engineering, incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software and safety engineering as applied to the design, manufacture and operation of motorcycles, automobiles,...

- Auton

Auton

The Autons are an artificial life form from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and adversaries of the Doctor. First appearing in Jon Pertwee's first serial as the Doctor, Spearhead from Space in 1970, they were the first monsters on the show to be presented in colour.Autons...

- Autonomic Computing

Autonomic Computing

Autonomic Computing refers to the self-managing characteristics of distributed computing resources, adapting to unpredictable changes whilst hiding intrinsic complexity to operators and users...

- Autonomic Networking

Autonomic Networking

Autonomic Networking follows the concept of Autonomic Computing, an initiative started by IBM in 2001. Its ultimate aim is to create self-managing networks to overcome the rapidly growing complexity of the Internet and other networks and to enable their further growth, far beyond the size of...

- Autonomous agent

Autonomous agent

An autonomous agent is an intelligent agent operating on an owner's behalf but without any interference of that ownership entity. An intelligent agent, however appears according to a multiply cited statement in a no longer accessible IBM white paper as follows:Intelligent agents are software...

- Autonomous logistics

Autonomous logistics

Autonomous logistics describes systems that provide unmanned, autonomous transfer of equipment, baggage, people, information or resources from point-to-point with minimal intervention...

- Autonomous research robot

Autonomous research robot

The Denning Mobile Robot company of Boston was the first to offer ready-made autonomous robots, which were purchased primarily by researchers. Grinnell More's Real World Interface, Inc...

- Autonomous robot

Autonomous robot

Autonomous robots are robots that can perform desired tasks in unstructured environments without continuous human guidance. Many kinds of robots have some degree of autonomy. Different robots can be autonomous in different ways...

- Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

An autonomous underwater vehicle is a robot which travels underwater without requiring input from an operator. AUVs constitute part of a larger group of undersea systems known as unmanned underwater vehicles, a classification that includes non-autonomous remotely operated underwater vehicles...

- Autonomous vehicle
- Autonomous weapon

Autonomous weapon

Autonomous weapons are weapons capable of accomplishing a mission with limited orno human intervention. These systems are capable of self-propulsion, independent processing of theenvironment, and independent response to the environment....

- Ayanna Howard

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B&R

B&R

B&R is an Austrian company founded as a Ges.m.b.H in 1979 by Erwin Bernecker and Josef Rainer. Bernecker + Rainer Industrie-Elektronik Ges.m.b.H., with development and production headquarters in Eggelsberg , is currently one of the largest private companies in the field of automation and process...

- B.A.T. (G.I. Joe)
- Backward chaining

Backward chaining

Backward chaining is an inference method that can be described as working backward from the goal...

- Ballbot

Ballbot

A Ballbot is a mobile robot designed to balance itself on a single spherical wheel , both while in motion or staying in place. Through its single contact point with the ground, a Ballbot is omnidirectional and thus exceptionally agile, maneuverable and organic in motion compared to other ground...

- Bang-bang robot

Bang-bang robot

Bang-bang robot is a robot in which motions are controlled by driving each axis or degree of freedom against a mechanical limit stop....

- Barrett Technology

Barrett Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA-based Barrett Technology was incorporated by William T. Townsend in 1990. Barrett manufactures robotic arms and hands installed in 20 countries on 6 continents...

- Base Wars

Base Wars

Cyber Stadium Series: Base Wars is a futuristically-themed sports game, released for the Nintendo Entertainment System on June 1, 1991...

- Baseball robot

Baseball robot

A baseball batting robot is a robot that can hit a pitched ball, like a human baseball player would.Several engineers have independently attempted to build one....

- Bashir Syed

Bashir Syed

Bashir Syed or Bashir A. Syed, Sc.D., is Pakistani-American solar physicist and a NASA research scientist to the field of Robotics and solar sciences. He is the a member of New York Academy of Sciences. He...

- Bastion (comics)

Bastion (comics)

Bastion is a supervillain that appears in the fictional Marvel Universe. The character was created by Scott Lobdell and Pascual Ferry and first made a cameo appearance in X-Men #52 . His first full appearance was Uncanny X-Men #333...

- Battle droid

Battle droid

Battle Droids are a fictional, robotic combat unit used in the Star Wars Universe. Though developed earlier, battle droids served as frontline units in the Trade Federation Army and for the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars era. They were mass produced on Confederate planets...

- Bayesian network

Bayesian network

A Bayesian network, Bayes network, belief network or directed acyclic graphical model is a probabilistic graphical model that represents a set of random variables and their conditional dependencies via a directed acyclic graph . For example, a Bayesian network could represent the probabilistic...

- BEAM robotics

BEAM robotics

The word "beam" in BEAM robotics is an acronym for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanics. This is a term that refers to a style of robotics...

- Beautie

Beautie

Beautie is a fictional character in the comic book series Astro City. Created by writer Kurt Busiek and artists Brent Anderson and Alex Ross, Beautie is a powerful android hero and a member of Astro City's premiere super-hero team, the Honor Guard....

- Beer Launching Fridge

Beer Launching Fridge

The Beer Launching Fridge is a modified mini-fridge that catapults beer to the desired drinker by use of a keyless remote system. It has been featured on the Late Show with David Letterman, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and The Colbert Report....

- Bees algorithm

Bees algorithm

In computer science and operations research, the bees algorithm is a population-based search algorithm first developed in 2005. It mimics the food foraging behaviour of swarms of honey bees...

- Behavior-based robotics

Behavior-based robotics

Behavior-based robotics or behavioral robotics is the branch of robotics that incorporates modular or behavior based AI .- How they work :...

- Behavioral science
- Belief-Desire-Intention model
- Ben Burtt

Ben Burtt

Benjamin "Ben" Burtt, Jr. is an American sound designer who has worked on various films including: the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series, Invasion of the Body Snatchers , E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial , and WALL-E...

- Bender (Futurama)
- Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton

Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton

The Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton is a robotic device that attaches to the lower body. Its purpose is to complement the pilot's strength by adding extra force to one's lower extremity bodily movements...

- Bernhard Nebel

Bernhard Nebel

Bernhard Nebel, born 1956, is a German Artificial Intelligence scientist. He is a full professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg where he holds the chair for foundations of Artificial Intelligence....

- Bernoulli grip

Bernoulli grip

A Bernoulli grip uses airflow to adhere to an object without physical contact. Such grippers rely on the Bernoulli airflow principle. A high velocity airstream has a low static pressure. With careful design the pressure in the high velocity airstream can be lower than atmospheric pressure...

- Bicentennial Man (film)

Bicentennial Man (film)

Bicentennial Man is a 1999 American drama and science fiction film starring Robin Williams and Sam Neill. Based on the novel The Positronic Man, co-written by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg which is itself based on Asimov's original novella titled The Bicentennial Man, the plot explores issues...

- Big Trak
- BigDog

BigDog

BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped robot created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics with Foster-Miller, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station. BigDog is long, stands tall, and weighs , about the size of a small mule. It is capable of traversing...

- Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is a 1991 American science fiction comedy film, and the directing debut of Peter Hewitt. It is the second film in the Bill & Ted franchise, and a sequel to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure . Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter and George Carlin reprise their respective roles...

- Bill Corbett

Bill Corbett

Bill Corbett is an American writer and performer for television, film and theatre. He was a writer and performer on the cult television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 , for which he voiced the robot Crow T. Robot during the show's later seasons on the Sci Fi Channel and played the character...

- Bio-inspired computing
- BioHazard

Biohazard

Biohazard may refer to:* Biological hazard* Biohazard , a book by Ken Alibek* Biohazard , a New York hardcore punk band** Biohazard , a self-titled album from Biohazard...

- Biology

Biology

Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

- Biomechanics

Biomechanics

Biomechanics is the application of mechanical principles to biological systems, such as humans, animals, plants, organs, and cells. Perhaps one of the best definitions was provided by Herbert Hatze in 1974: "Biomechanics is the study of the structure and function of biological systems by means of...

- Biomimetic
- Biomorphic robotics

Biomorphic robotics

For the art movement, see biomorphism.Biomorphic robotics is a sub-discipline of robotics focused upon emulating the mechanics, sensor systems, computing structures and methodologies used by animals. In short, it is building robots inspired by the principles of biological systems.One of the most...

- Bionics

Bionics

Bionics is the application of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology.The word bionic was coined by Jack E...

- Biorobotics

Biorobotics

Biorobotics is a term that loosely covers the fields of cybernetics, bionics and even genetic engineering as a collective study.Biorobotics is often used to refer to a real subfield of robotics: studying how to make robots that emulate or simulate living biological organisms mechanically or even...

- Biped

Biped

Bipedalism is a form of terrestrial locomotion where an organism moves by means of its two rear limbs, or legs. An animal or machine that usually moves in a bipedal manner is known as a biped , meaning "two feet"...

- Bipropagation
- Bishop (Alien)
- Black Knight (Unmanned Combat Vehicle)

Black Knight (Unmanned Combat Vehicle)

The Black Knight is a prototype Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle designed by BAE Systems. Similar in size and appearance to a tank, it is armed with a turret-mounted 30mm gun and a coaxial machine gun...

- Black Knight (vehicle)
- Blackboard system

Blackboard system

A blackboard system is an artificial intelligence application based on the blackboard architectural model, where a common knowledge base, the "blackboard", is iteratively updated by a diverse group of specialist knowledge sources, starting with a problem specification and ending with a solution...

- Blackbox planning system

Blackbox planning system

In artificial intelligence and automated planning and scheduling, the Blackbox planning system is a planning system which unites SAT-based and Graph-based planning. It was developed by Henry Kautz and Bart Selman....

- Blaise Bontems

Blaise Bontems

Blaise Bontems was a noted Parisian specialist in the manufacture of automaton singing birds and the first of a dynasty of automaton manufacturers, which included his son Charles Jules and his grandson Lucien. Bontems' birds were famous for the realism of their song.-References:...

- Blendo

Blendo

Blendo is a combat robot designed and built by Jamie Hyneman. Adam Savage wired the electronics and control systems.Blendo had the first effective implementation of the full-body kinetic energy spinner weapon that became common in Robot Wars. The robot had a shell made from a wok and was spun by a...

- Blobotics

Blobotics

Blobotics is a term describing research into chemical based computer processors based on ions rather than electrons. Andrew Adamatzky, a computer scientist at the University of the West of England in Bristol used the term in an article in New Scientist March 28, 2005 .The aim is to create 'liquid...

- Bob May (actor)

Bob May (actor)

Bob May was an American actor best remembered for playing The Robot on the television series Lost in Space, which debuted in 1965 and ran until 1968...

- Boe-Bot

Boe-Bot

BOE–Bot is short for Board of Education robot. It is the trade name of a robot kit that is used in college and high school robotics classes. It consists of a main circuit board , a plug–in microcontroller, two small servo motors to drive the wheels, a bread board and a small aluminum chassis that...

- Boilerplate (robot)

Boilerplate (robot)

Boilerplate is a fictional robot which would have existed in the Victorian era and early 20th century. It was created in 2000 by Portland, Oregon, artist Paul Guinan...

- Bolo (tank)
- Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics is an engineering and robotics design company best known for the development of BigDog, a quadruped robot designed for the U.S. military with funding from DARPA, and DI-Guy, COTS software for realistic human simulation...

- Bottom-up design
- Boustrophedon cell decomposition

Boustrophedon cell decomposition

The boustrophedon cell decomposition is a method used in artificial intelligence and robotics for configuration space solutions. Like other cellular decomposition methods, this method transforms the configuration space into cell regions that can be used for path planning.A strength of the...

- Bow Leg

Bow Leg

The Bow Leg is a highly resilient robotic leg being developed for running robots at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. The key technology is the fiber-reinforced composite spring that bends like a bow to store elastic energy....

- Bowler Communications System

Bowler Communications System

The Bowler Communications System is an open protocol developed by Neuron Robotics for simplified communications between components in cyber-physical systems....

- Brains (Transformers)

Brains (Transformers)

-Transformers: Dark of the Moon:Brains is a drone, formerly known as the Brain Unit.-IDW Publishing:The drone calling itself Brains ran away from the Decepticons and runs into Bumblebee and Sam Witwicky in Philadelphia.-Books:...

- Branimir Makanec

Branimir Makanec

Branimir Makanec , was a pioneer of computer popularization in Croatia.In 1968, Makanec established the Multimedia Center of the Zagreb University Referral Center . The MMC was an open type computer center intended to be used for non-numerical purposes...

- Brave Raideen

Brave Raideen

is a super robot anime series. Produced by Tohokushinsha, Asahi News Agency and Sunrise, it aired on NET from 4 April 1975 to 26 March 1976, with a total of 50 episodes...

- Brent Spiner

Brent Spiner

Brent Jay Spiner is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of the android Lieutenant Commander Data in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and four subsequent films. His portrayal of Data in Star Trek: First Contact and of Dr...

- Brigitte Helm

Brigitte Helm

Brigitte Helm was a German actress, best remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double, the Maschinenmensch, in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film Metropolis.-Career:...

- Brynocki

Brynocki

Brynocki is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.-Publication history:Brynocki first appeared in Master of Kung Fu #33-35 , and was created by Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy....

- Building automation

Building automation

Building automation describes the functionality provided by the control system of a building. A building automation system is an example of a distributed control system...

- BURN-E

BURN-E

BURN-E is a short film by Pixar Animation Studios. It is a parallel spin-off from the feature-length movie WALL-E. Its protagonist, a repair robot named BURN-E, is a minor character from the first movie, and the film is intercut with scenes from WALL-E, which takes place concurrently.BURN-E was...

- Bush robot

Bush robot

Bush robots, as envisioned by Hans Moravec, are the ultimate in dexterity and reconfigurability. They earn their nickname from their appearance: bush robots repeatedly branch in a fractal way into trillions of nanoscale fingers...

C

C-3PO

C-3PO

C-3PO is a robot character from the Star Wars universe who appears in both the original Star Wars films and the prequel trilogy. He is also a major character in the television show Droids, and appears frequently in the series' "Expanded Universe" of novels, comic books, and video games...

- CALO

CALO

CALO was an artificial intelligence project that attempted to integrate numerous AI technologies into a cognitive assistant. CALO is an acronym for "Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes". The name was inspired by the Latin word "calonis," which means "soldier’s servant"...

- Cambot

Cambot

Cambot is one of the fictional robot characters on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 television series. It is through Cambot's "eye" that viewers watch Joel Robinson and the other robots as they watch the movies that are sent to the Satellite of Love each week.- Appearance :Cambot is only seen...

- Cameron (Terminator)
- Campus in Multidisciplinary Perception and Intelligence of Albacete 2006

Campus in Multidisciplinary Perception and Intelligence of Albacete 2006

"50 Years of Artificial Intelligence: Campus in Multidisciplinary Perception and Intelligence, CMPI-2006" was the most important event, for the celebration of the fifty years of the Dartmouth Conference, in spanish language. It was celebrated in the city of Albacete .In 2006 was celebrated the...

- Campus Party

Campus Party

Campus Party is an annual week-long, 24 hour a day technology festival and LAN Party. Thousands of hackers, developers, gamers and geeks equipped with laptops camp out in tents on-site for the conference and hackathon....

- Canadarm2
- Care-Providing Robot FRIEND

Care-Providing Robot FRIEND

The care-providing robotic system FRIEND is a semi-autonomous robot designed to support disabled and elderly people in their daily life activities, like preparing and serving a meal, or reintegration in professional life. FRIEND make it possible for such people, e.g...

- Carmen Toolkit

Carmen Toolkit

CARMEN, the Carnegie Mellon Robot Navigation Toolkit, is an open-source collection of software for mobile robot control. It is designed as a modular software to provide basic navigation functionalities, which include: base and sensor control, logging, obstacle avoidance, localization, path...

- Carter Bays

Carter Bays

Carter Bays is an American television writer. Along with writing partner Craig Thomas, he is best known as creator, writer, and executive producer of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. He has 70 episodes of the show under his belt from 2005-2009, and has been nominated for six primetime Emmy...

- Cartesian coordinate robot

Cartesian coordinate robot

A cartesian coordinate robot is an industrial robot whose three principal axes of control are linear and are at right angles to each other. Among other advantages, this mechanical arrangement simplifies the Robot control arm solution...

- Cartesian coordinates
- Caterpillar track

Caterpillar track

Continuous tracks or caterpillar tracks are a system of vehicle propulsion in which modular metal plates linked into a continuous band are driven by two or more wheels...

- Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller

Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller

The Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller is a type of neural network based on a model of the mammalian cerebellum. It is also known as the Cerebellar Model Arithmetic Computer...

- CETpD

CETpD

The Technical Research Centre for Dependency Care and Autonomous Living is an applied research and technology transfer centre created for the Universitat Politèncica de Catalunya and the Fundació Hospital Comarcal Sant Antoni Abat on behalf of the Consorci de Servei a les Persones de Vilanova i la...

- Chandra X-ray Observatory

Chandra X-ray Observatory

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is a satellite launched on STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999. It was named in honor of Indian-American physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar who is known for determining the maximum mass for white dwarfs. "Chandra" also means "moon" or "luminous" in Sanskrit.Chandra...

- Chatterbox Challenge
- Chebychev–Grübler–Kutzbach criterion

Chebychev–Grübler–Kutzbach criterion

The Chebychev–Grübler–Kutzbach criterion determines the degree of freedom of a kinematic chain, that is, a coupling of rigid bodies by means of mechanical constraints...

- Chee

Chee

The Chee are a fictional race of androids created by the extinct Pemalites, a race of pacifists from the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K. A. Applegate. The word Chee means "Friend" in the Pemalite language.-Fictional history:...

- Chemical engineering

Chemical engineering

Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...

- Chess as mental training

Chess as mental training

There are efforts to use the game of chess as a tool to aid the intellectual development of young people. Chess is considered the "drosophila" of cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence studies, because it represents the domain in which expert performance has been most intensively studied...

- Chi (Chobits)

Chi (Chobits)

is a fictional character in the manga series Chobits, and its anime adaptation. She is a Chobit, a type of persocom that is far more technologically advanced than regular persocoms, and who are said to possess true machine intelligence rather than relying on the execution of pre-loaded software...

- Chibi-Robo!

Chibi-Robo!

, fully titled Chibi-Robo! Plug Into Adventure!, is a platform-adventure video game for the Nintendo GameCube console. It was developed by Skip Ltd. with collaboration from Nintendo. The game was first released in Japan on June 23, 2005, in North America on February 6, 2006, and in Europe on May...

- Chico MacMurtrie

Chico MacMurtrie

Chico MacMurtrie was born in New Mexico in 1961. He has been awarded four grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for Interdisciplinary Artists. In 1990 he received the San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award....

- Chinese room

Chinese room

The Chinese room is a thought experiment by John Searle, which first appeared in his paper "Minds, Brains, and Programs", published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences in 1980...

- Chōdenji Machine Voltes V
- Chōdenji Robo Combattler V
- Chopping Mall

Chopping Mall

Chopping Mall is an American horror/science fiction film, produced by Julie Corman and originally released on March 21, 1986 under the title Killbots....

- Choromet

Choromet

HRP-2M Choromet is a 35 cm tall, 1½ pound humanoid robot which is, in a sense, the younger brother of HRP-2. It runs on ART-Linux which is a hard realtime linux developed at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan...

- Choujinki Metalder

Choujinki Metalder

is the sixth and shortest entry of the Metal Hero Series, running from March 16, 1987, to January 17, 1988, for only 39 episodes. The action footage of Metalder was adaptated for the first two seasons of VR Troopers...

- Christopher G. Atkeson

Christopher G. Atkeson

Christopher Granger Atkeson is an American roboticist and a Professor at the Robotics Institute and Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University...

- Clanking replicator

Clanking replicator

A clanking replicator is an artificial self-replicating system that relies on conventional large-scale technology and automation. The term evolved to distinguish such systems from the microscopic "assemblers" that nanotechnology may make possible...

- Class of 1999 II: The Substitute

Class of 1999 II: The Substitute

Class of 1999 II: The Substitute is a 1994 Direct-to-video film about a new teacher at a troubled inner city school, where students all are affiliated with gangs, drugs, and violence...

- Claudia Mitchell

Claudia Mitchell

Claudia Mitchell is the first woman to be outfitted with a bionic arm. She was outfitted with the arm to replace the arm she lost in a motorcycle accident....

- Claytronics

Claytronics

Claytronics is an abstract future concept that combines nanoscale robotics and computer science to create individual nanometer-scale computers called claytronic atoms, or catoms, which can interact with each other to form tangible 3-D objects that a user can interact with. This idea is more broadly...

- Cleanroom

Cleanroom

A cleanroom is an environment, typically used in manufacturing or scientific research, that has a low level of environmental pollutants such as dust, airborne microbes, aerosol particles and chemical vapors. More accurately, a cleanroom has a controlled level of contamination that is specified by...

- Climber (BEAM)

Climber (BEAM)

In BEAM robotics, a Climber is a robot that goes upward or downward with gradual or continuous progress on a track ....

- CMUcam

CMUcam

A CMUcam is a low cost computer vision device intended for robotics research. CMUcams consist of a small video camera and a microcontroller with a serial interface. While other digital cameras typically use a much higher bandwidth connector, the CMUcam's lightweight interface allows it to be...

- Cobie Smulders

Cobie Smulders

Jacoba Francisca Maria "Cobie" Smulders is a Canadian actress and former model, known for her role as Robin Scherbatsky on the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother.-Early life:...

- Cobweb (clustering)

Cobweb (clustering)

COBWEB is an incremental system for hierarchical conceptual clustering.COBWEB incrementally organizes observations into a classification tree. Each node in a classification tree represents a class and is labeled by a probabilistic concept that summarizes the attribute-value distributions of...

- Coco (robot)

Coco (robot)

Coco is the latest platform at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Humanoid Robotics Group, and a successor to Cog. Unlike previous platforms, Coco is built along more ape-like lines, rather than human. Coco is also notable for being mobile....

- Cog (project)

Cog (project)

Cog was a project at the Humanoid Robotics Group of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was based on the hypothesis that human-level intelligence requires gaining experience from interacting with humans, like human infants do. This in turn requires many interactions with humans over a...

- Cognitive Info-Communications (CogInfoCom)

Cognitive Info-Communications (CogInfoCom)

Cognitive infocommunications investigates the link between the research areas of infocommunications and cognitive sciences, as well as the various engineering applications which have emerged as the synergic combination of these sciences....

- Cognitive robotics

Cognitive robotics

a robot is a robot device that is built from inanimate matter. Its behavior in response to the environment is deterministic, based on how the robot was designed. Cognition is the process of acquiring and using knowledge about the world for goal-oriented purposes, such as survival...

- Cognitive science

Cognitive science

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...

- Cognitive tutor

Cognitive tutor

A cognitive tutor is an intelligent tutoring system which develops a cognitive model of a student as he or she interacts with the program, providing problems and individualized instruction based on this model....

- Colin Angle

Colin Angle

Colin Angle is co-founder, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of iRobot Corporation, maker of the Roomba vacuum cleaning robot and the PackBot military robot. He holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and a Master of Science in computer science from the Massachusetts...

- Collective intelligence

Collective intelligence

Collective intelligence is a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making in bacteria, animals, humans and computer networks....

- Combs method

Combs method

The Combs method is a method of writing fuzzy logic rules described by William E. Combs in 1997. It is designed to prevent combinatorial explosion in fuzzy logic rules....

- Comettor
- Common normal (robotics)

Common normal (robotics)

In robotics the common normal of two non-intersecting joint axes is a line perpendicular to both axes.The common normal can be used to characterize robot arm links, by using the "common normal distance" and the angle between the link axes in a plane perpendicular to the common normal...

- Commonsense reasoning

Commonsense reasoning

Commonsense reasoning is the branch of Artificial intelligence concerned with replicating human thinking. There are several components to this problem, including:* Developing adequately broad and deep commonsense knowledge bases....

- Comparison of domestic robots

Comparison of domestic robots

Domestic robots can vary widely in their capabilities and tasks. Sensors include: cliff or stair sensors, motion sensors, ultrasonic object sensors, dirt sensors, IR sensors, and more. Intelligence varies also. Some have none while others can map out their environment and maneuver using complex...

- Competitions and prizes in artificial intelligence

Competitions and prizes in artificial intelligence

-General machine intelligence:The Machine Intelligence Prize is awarded annually by the British Computer Society for progress towards machine intelligence....

- Computational creativity

Computational creativity

Computational creativity is a multidisciplinary endeavour that is located at the intersection of the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, philosophy, and the arts.The goal of computational creativity is to model, simulate or replicate creativity using a computer, to...

- Computational humor

Computational humor

Computational humor is a branch of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence which uses computers in humor research. It is not to be confused with computer humor ....

- Computational intelligence

Computational intelligence

Computational intelligence is a set of Nature-inspired computational methodologies and approaches to address complex problems of the real world applications to which traditional methodologies and approaches are ineffective or infeasible. It primarily includes Fuzzy logic systems, Neural Networks...

- Computational Intelligence (journal)
- Computational linguistics

Computational linguistics

Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective....

- Computational neuroscience

Computational neuroscience

Computational neuroscience is the study of brain function in terms of the information processing properties of the structures that make up the nervous system...

- Computationally enhanced craft item
- Computer-aided design

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided design , also known as computer-aided design and drafting , is the use of computer technology for the process of design and design-documentation. Computer Aided Drafting describes the process of drafting with a computer...

- Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided manufacturing is the use of computer software to control machine tools and related machinery in the manufacturing of workpieces. This is not the only definition for CAM, but it is the most common; CAM may also refer to the use of a computer to assist in all operations of a...

- Computer-assisted proof

Computer-assisted proof

A computer-assisted proof is a mathematical proof that has been at least partially generated by computer.Most computer-aided proofs to date have been implementations of large proofs-by-exhaustion of a mathematical theorem. The idea is to use a computer program to perform lengthy computations, and...

- Computer-assisted surgery
- Computer Audition

Computer Audition

Computer Audition is general field of study of algorithms and systems for audio understanding by machine. Since the notion of what it means for a machine to "hear" is very broad and somewhat vague, computer audition attempts to bring together several disciplines that originally dealt with specific...

- Computer cluster
- Computer Engineering

Computer engineering

Computer engineering, also called computer systems engineering, is a discipline that integrates several fields of electrical engineering and computer science required to develop computer systems. Computer engineers usually have training in electronic engineering, software design, and...

- Computer game bot Turing Test

Computer game bot Turing Test

The Computer game bot Turing Test is a variant of the Turing Test, where a human judge viewing and interacting with a virtual world should be unable to distinguish between other humans interacting with the world and game bots that interact with the world....

- Computer science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

- Computer Science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

- Computer software

Computer software

Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....

- Computer vision

Computer vision

Computer vision is a field that includes methods for acquiring, processing, analysing, and understanding images and, in general, high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g., in the forms of decisions...

- Conceptual dependency theory

Conceptual dependency theory

Conceptual dependency theory is a model of natural language understanding used in artificial intelligence systems.Roger Schank at Stanford University introduced the model in 1969, in the early days of artificial intelligence...

- Concurrent MetateM

Concurrent MetateM

Concurrent MetateM is a multi-agent language in which each agent is programmed using a set of temporal logic specifications of the behaviour it should exhibit. These specifications are executed directly to generate the behaviour of the agent...

- Connectionist expert system

Connectionist expert system

Connectionist expert systems are artificial neural network based expert systems where the ANN generates inferencing rules e.g., fuzzy-multi layer perceptron where linguistic and natural form of inputs are used. Apart from that, rough set theory may be used for encoding knowledge in the weights...

- Consolidated Robotics

Consolidated Robotics

Consolidated Robotics is a manufacturer and distributor of military-grade robots, and one of the chief robotics suppliers of the United States Military...

- Constrained Conditional Models

Constrained Conditional Models

A Constrained Conditional Model is a machine learning and inference framework that augments the learning of conditional models with declarative constraints. The constraint can be used as a way to incorporate expressive prior knowledge into the model and bias the assignments made by the learned...

- Constructionist design methodology

Constructionist design methodology

The Constructionist Design Methodology was developed by artificial intelligence researcher Kristinn R. Thórisson and his students at Columbia University and Reykjavik University for use in the development of cognitive robotics, communicative humanoids and broad AI systems...

- Contract Net Protocol

Contract Net Protocol

Contract Net Protocol is a task-sharing protocol in multi-agent systems, consisting of a collection of nodes or software agents that form the `contract net'...

- Control engineering

Control engineering

Control engineering or Control systems engineering is the engineering discipline that applies control theory to design systems with predictable behaviors...

- Control systems
- Coppélia

Coppélia

Coppélia is a sentimental comic ballet with original choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon to a ballet libretto by Saint-Léon and Charles Nuitter and music by Léo Delibes. It was based upon two macabre stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Der Sandmann , and Die Puppe...

- Corinna E. Lathan

Corinna E. Lathan

Corinna E. Lathan is the founder and CEO of AnthroTronix, an R&D robotics firm located in Silver Spring, Maryland. She received a BS in Biopsychology and Mathematics from Swarthmore College, a MS in Astronautics, and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from MIT...

- CoroWare

CoroWare

CoroWare is a robotics company based out of Kirkland, WA. CoroWare produces the CoroBot and Explorer mobile robotic product lines, which are four-wheeled robotic development platforms.- History :...

- Coupe de France de robotique

Coupe de France de robotique

Coupe de France de robotique is a robotics competition held in La Ferté-Bernard, France, organized by Planète Sciences and the commune of La Ferté-Bernard.-External links:* * *...

- Covariance intersection

Covariance intersection

Covariance intersection is an algorithm for combining two or more estimates of state variables in a Kalman filter when the correlation between them is unknown.-Specification:...

- Craig Thomas

Craig Thomas

Craig Thomas may refer to:* Craig L. Thomas , American politician who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate from 1995 to 2007...

- Crash and Burn (film)

Crash and Burn (film)

Crash and Burn is a 1990 science fiction movie.-Plot:Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse...

- Crawler (BEAM)

Crawler (BEAM)

In BEAM robotics, a Crawler is a robot that has a mode of locomotion by tracks or by transferring the robot's body on limbs or appendages. These do not drag parts of their body on the ground.-Genera:...

- Crevasse

Crevasse

A crevasse is a deep crack in an ice sheet rhys glacier . Crevasses form as a result of the movement and resulting stress associated with the sheer stress generated when two semi-rigid pieces above a plastic substrate have different rates of movement...

- Crow T. Robot

Crow T. Robot

Crow T. Robot is a fictional character from the American science fiction comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 . Crow is a robot, who, along with others, quips and riffs upon poor-quality B movies.- Overview :...

- CRS Robotics

CRS Robotics

CRS Robotics Corporation was a robotics company based out of Burlington, Ontario, Canada. CRS Robotics designed, manufactured, distributed, and serviced human scale articulated robots Articulated robot and laboratory automation systems...

- Cruise missile

Cruise missile

A cruise missile is a guided missile that carries an explosive payload and is propelled, usually by a jet engine, towards a land-based or sea-based target. Cruise missiles are designed to deliver a large warhead over long distances with high accuracy...

- Crusher (robot)

Crusher (robot)

Crusher is a autonomous off-road Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle developed by researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center for DARPA. It is a follow up on the previous Spinner vehicle...

- CSHALS

CSHALS

The Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences is a scientific meeting on the practical applications of semantic technology to pharmaceutical R&D, healthcare, and life sciences...

- Cubix
- Cyberdyne Inc. (Japanese company)

Cyberdyne Inc. (Japanese company)

Cyberdyne is a Japanese robotics and technology company most noted for the marketing and distribution of the HAL 5 robotic exoskeleton suit.-History:...

- Cyberflora

Cyberflora

The Cyberflora project is a project developed by the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The project is part of the Anima Machina program at MIT - a program that was developed by Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and Director of the Robotic Life Group Cynthia Breazeal...

- Cybernetics

Cybernetics

Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems. Cybernetics is closely related to information theory, control theory and systems theory, at least in its first-order form...

- Cyborg

Cyborg

A cyborg is a being with both biological and artificial parts. The term was coined in 1960 when Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline used it in an article about the advantages of self-regulating human-machine systems in outer space. D. S...

- Cyborg Anthropology

Cyborg anthropology

Cyborg anthropology is the discipline that studies the interaction between humanity and technology from an anthropological perspective. The discipline is relatively new compared to the broader field of anthropology, but offers novel insights on new technological advances and their effect on culture...

- Cyborg She

Cyborg She

is a 2008 Japanese film by South Korean director & writer Kwak Jae-yong starring Haruka Ayase and Keisuke Koide.- Story :It is November 22, 2007. Jirou Kitamura is spending his 20th birthday alone. As he buys a birthday present for himself, he spies a 'cute girl'...

- Cyborgs in fiction

Cyborgs in fiction

Cyborgs are a prominent staple in the science fiction genre. This article summarizes notable instances of cyborgs in fiction.-Examples in history:...

- Cylon (Battlestar Galactica)

Cylon (Battlestar Galactica)

The Cylons are a cybernetic civilization at war with the Twelve Colonies of humanity in the Battlestar Galactica science fiction franchise, in the original 1978 and 1980 series, the 2004 reimagining, as well as the spin-off prequel series, Caprica...

- Cylon (reimagining)

Cylon (reimagining)

Cylons are a race which appear in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series and its prequel Caprica. They have several forms, some of which resemble and even mimic the behavior of humans, while others are mechanical in appearance and function.In the first DVD, one of the show's creators...

- Cynthia Breazeal

Cynthia Breazeal

Cynthia Lynn Breazeal is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is the director of the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Laboratory...

- Czechs

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- D.A.V.E.
- Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
- Dan Danknick

Dan Danknick

Dan Danknick is a physicist and roboticist that graduated from UCI and has made several appearances on robotics related television shows.-Battlebots:...

- Daniel Paluska

Daniel Paluska

Daniel Paluska is an artist and roboticist known for his intelligent art installations and collaborations. Dan is originally from Michigan, but now resides on the east coast after receiving both his BS and Master's Degrees in Mechanical Engineering from MIT...

- Daniela L. Rus

Daniela L. Rus

Daniela L. Rus is an American roboticist and a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is director of the Distributed Robotics Lab at CSAIL, the Co-Director of the CSAIL Center for Robotics, and an Associate...

- Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. Her general research area is artificial intelligence and its applications in the biomedical sciences...

- Dario Floreano

Dario Floreano

Dario Floreano is director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. He is one of the pioneers in evolutionary robotics, a research field in which robots are evolved using artificial evolution.Floreano received an M.A. in visual...

- Dark Washu

Dark Washu

is a fictional character in Tenchi Muyo!, a recurring character in Hitoshi Okuda's The All-New Tenchi Muyō! manga series, published in the U.S. by VIZ Media.-Origins:...

- Darwin machine

Darwin Machine

A Darwin machine is a machine that, like a Turing machine, involves an iteration process that yields a high-quality result, but, whereas a Turing machine uses logic, the Darwin machine uses rounds of variation, selection, and inheritance.In its original connotation, a Darwin machine is any process...

- Data (Star Trek)

Data (Star Trek)

Lieutenant Commander Data is a character in the fictional Star Trek universe portrayed by actor Brent Spiner. He appears in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the feature films Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek...

- Data mining

Data mining

Data mining , a relatively young and interdisciplinary field of computer science is the process of discovering new patterns from large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and database systems...

- Data pack

Data pack

A data pack is a pre-made database that can be fed to a software, such as software agents, Internet bots or chatterbots, to teach information and facts, which it can later look up....

- David B. Samadi

David B. Samadi

Dr. David B. Samadi is the Vice Chairman of the Department of Urology and Chief of Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City...

- David Hanson (robotics designer)
- David Ross (actor)

David Ross (actor)

David Ross is an English actor who has worked in theatre, cinema, and television.His best-known roles include playing the first appearance of Kryten and the voice of the Talkie Toaster on the science fiction comedy series Red Dwarf, Elgin on the BBC sitcom The Green Green Grass, and as Mr...

- David X. Cohen

David X. Cohen

David Samuel Cohen , primarily known as David X. Cohen, is an American television writer. He has written for The Simpsons and he is the head writer and executive producer of Futurama.-Early life:...

- DC Comics

DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...

- Deadblow

Deadblow

Deadblow is a combat robot built and driven by Grant Imahara. It competed in BattleBots in the middleweight division using a fast pneumatic hammer as its weapon. Deadblow won 2 rumbles and was ranked number 2 among middleweights, right after Hazard...

- Deadeye (Starriors)

Deadeye (Starriors)

Deadeye is a fictional Marvel Comics character who first appeared in the Starriors series based on the toyline of the same name. Deadeye is a cosmittor, a huge Tyrannosaurus-style robot designed to hunt and kill giant mutant monsters to prepare the earth for the return of man, who is in suspended...

- Deadly Friend

Deadly Friend

Deadly Friend is a 1986 science fiction horror film directed by Wes Craven. It is based on the novel entitled Friend by Diana Henstell, which was adapted for the screen by Bruce Joel Rubin.-Plot:...

- Death Machine

Death Machine

Death Machine is a 1994 science-fiction action horror film written and directed by Stephen Norrington.-Plot:The film opens in a demolished roadside diner, everyone inside has been slaughtered by a malfunctioning secret project codenamed Hardman. It was manufactured by Chaank, a megacorporation that...

- Decision list
- Degrees of freedom (mechanics)
- Delphine Courtney

Delphine Courtney

Delphine Courtney is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe, an enemy of the super-team Alpha Flight.-Publication history:Delphine Courtney first appeared in Alpha Flight #7 , and was created by John Byrne....

- Delta robot

Delta robot

A delta robot is a type of parallel robot. It consists of three arms connected to universal joints at the base.The key design feature is the use of parallelograms in the arms, which maintains the orientation of the end effector...

- Denavit–Hartenberg parameters
- Description logic

Description logic

Description logic is a family of formal knowledge representation languages. It is more expressive than propositional logic but has more efficient decision problems than first-order predicate logic....

- Developmental robotics

Developmental robotics

Developmental Robotics , sometimes called epigenetic robotics, is a methodology that uses metaphors from neural development and developmental psychology to develop the mind for autonomous robots. The focus is on a single or multiple robots going through stages of autonomous mental development...

- Devil Girl from Mars

Devil Girl from Mars

Devil Girl from Mars is a black and white 1954 British science fiction film, directed by David MacDonald. It was adapted from a stage play and became a cult favorite.-Synopsis:...

- Dexter Industries

Dexter Industries

Dexter Industries is a third-party developer best known for their sensors which support the Lego Mindstorms NXT system. Dexter Industries has several products that relate specifically to the Lego Mindstorms NXT systems...

- Dextre
- Diagnosis (artificial intelligence)

Diagnosis (artificial intelligence)

As a subfield in artificial intelligence, Diagnosis is concerned with the development of algorithms and techniques that are able to determine whether the behaviour of a system is correct. If the system is not functioning correctly, the algorithm should be able to determine, as accurately as...

- Diamondback (comics)

Diamondback (comics)

Diamondback is the name of four fictional characters appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics.-Publication history:Diamondback first appeared in Captain America #310 , written by Mark Gruenwald and illustrated by Paul Neary.-Willis Stryker:The first Diamondback was a foe of Luke Cage...

- Dick Tufeld

Dick Tufeld

Dick Tufeld is an American actor, announcer, narrator, and voice actor from the 1950s onward.He is perhaps best known as the voice of the Robot in the TV series Lost in Space, a role he reprised for the 1998 feature film...

- Dieter Fox

Dieter Fox

Dieter Fox is a German roboticist and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is most notable for his contributions to several fields including robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and ubiquitous computing...

- Differential wheeled robot

Differential wheeled robot

A differential wheeled robot is a mobile robot whose movement is based on two separately driven wheels placed on either side of the robot body...

- Digesting Duck

Digesting Duck

The Canard Digérateur, or Digesting Duck, was an automaton in the form of a duck, created by Jacques de Vaucanson in 1739. The mechanical duck appeared to have the ability to eat kernels of grain, and to metabolize and defecate them...

- Digital control

Digital control

Digital control is a branch of control theory that uses digital computers to act as system controllers.Depending on the requirements, a digital control system can take the form of a microcontroller to an ASIC to a standard desktop computer....

- Digital image processing

Digital image processing

Digital image processing is the use of computer algorithms to perform image processing on digital images. As a subcategory or field of digital signal processing, digital image processing has many advantages over analog image processing...

- Dimensionality reduction

Dimensionality reduction

In machine learning, dimension reduction is the process of reducing the number of random variables under consideration, and can be divided into feature selection and feature extraction.-Feature selection:...

- Direct manipulation interface

Direct manipulation interface

In computer science, direct manipulation is a human-computer interaction style which involves continuous representation of objects of interest, and rapid, reversible, incremental actions and feedback. The intention is to allow a user to directly manipulate objects presented to them, using actions...

- Disability robot
- Discovery system

Discovery system

A discovery system is an artificial intelligence system which attempts to discover new scientific concepts or laws.Notable discovery systems have included,*Autoclass*Automated Mathematician*DALTON*Eurisko*Glauber*Machine for Questions and Answers...

- Distributed architecture for mobile navigation (DAMN)

Distributed architecture for mobile navigation (DAMN)

The Distributed architecture for mobile navigation is a reactive robot architecture developed by Julio K. Rosenblatt at Carnegie Mellon University. DAMN consists of a collection of independently operating behaviors such as "go-to-goal" and "avoid obstacle", each holding a vote, weighted according...

- Distributed artificial intelligence

Distributed artificial intelligence

Distributed artificial intelligence is a subfield of artificial intelligence research dedicated to the development of distributed solutions for complex problems regarded as requiring intelligence...

- Doctor Robotnik (Archie character)
- DOK-ING

DOK-ING

DOK-ING d.o.o is a large Croatian producer of unmanned multi-purpose vehicles established in 1992. DOK-ING is also developing a small electric city car called the XD.-Mine Clearance Vehicles:*MV-4*MV-10-International Users:-External links:* *...

- Don Cuco El Guapo

Don Cuco El Guapo

"Don Cuco El Guapo" is a pianist robot designed and built at the department of microelectronics of the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla , Mexico in 1992....

- Dors Venabili

Dors Venabili

In Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series, Dors Venabili is a good friend, protector and later wife of Hari Seldon, the primary character of Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation. At face value, Dors is an attractive woman, two years younger than Seldon...

- Doug Naylor

Doug Naylor

Douglas R. Naylor is a British comedy writer, science fiction writer, director and television producer.Naylor was born in Manchester, England and studied at the University of Liverpool. In the mid-1980s, Naylor wrote two regular comedy sketch shows for BBC Radio 4 entitled Cliché and Son of Cliché...

- Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams

Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television...

- Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs

Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs

Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs is a 1966 Italian spy-spoof film directed by Mario Bava and starring Vincent Price, Fabian, Francesco Mulé, Laura Antonelli and the Italian comedy team of Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia....

- Dr. Who and the Daleks

Dr. Who and the Daleks

Dr. Who and the Daleks was the first of two Doctor Who films made in the 1960s. It was followed by Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D....

- Dragon Runner

Dragon Runner

Dragon Runner is a military robot built for urban combat. At 9 pounds it is light enough to be carried in a Marine's backpack. The original project was funded by the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University...

- Driverless car

Driverless car

An autonomous car, also known as robotic or informally as driverless, is an autonomous vehicle capable of fulfilling the human transportation capabilities of a traditional car. As an autonomous vehicle, it is capable of sensing its environment and navigating on its own...

- Droid (robot)
- Dynamic Man (Timely Comics)

Dynamic Man (Timely Comics)

Dynamic Man is a fictional comic book character, first published by Timely Comics, the forerunner of Marvel Comics during the period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books....

- Dynamic time warping

Dynamic time warping

Dynamic time warping is an algorithm for measuring similarity between two sequences which may vary in time or speed. For instance, similarities in walking patterns would be detected, even if in one video the person was walking slowly and if in another he or she were walking more quickly, or even...

- Dynamic window approach

Dynamic window approach

In robotics, the dynamic window approach is a real-time collision avoidance strategy developed by Dieter Fox, Wolfram Burgard, and Sebastian Thrun in 1997. Unlike other avoidance methods, the dynamic window approach is derived directly from the dynamics of the robot, and is especially designed to...

- Dynamics (physics)

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E-puck mobile robot

E-puck mobile robot

The e-puck is a small differential wheeled mobile robot. It was originally designed for micro-engineering education by Michael Bonani and Francesco Mondada at the ASL laboratory of Prof...

- E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Eager (novel)

Eager (novel)

Eager is a children's science-fiction novel written by Helen Fox, and first published in 2003. Eager is the name of a self-aware robot in a futuristic society controlled by a company called LifeCorp...

- Eando Binder

Eando Binder

Eando Binder is a pen-name used by two mid-20th-century science fiction authors, Earl Andrew Binder and his brother Otto Binder . The name is derived from their first initials ....

- ED-209

ED-209

The Enforcement Droid Series 209, or ED-209, is a fictional robot in the RoboCop franchise. The ED-209 serves as a heavily-armed obstacle and foil for the series' titular character, as well as a source of comic relief due to its lack of intelligence and tendency towards clumsy malfunctions.The...

- Edmund H. North

Edmund H. North

Edmund Hall North , was an American screenwriter who shared an Academy Award for "Best Original Screenplay" with Francis Ford Coppola in 1970 for their script for Patton....

- Edward S. Ellis
- EKF SLAM

EKF SLAM

In robotics, EKF SLAM is a class of algorithms which utilizes the extended Kalman filter for simultaneous localization and mapping . Typically, EKF SLAM algorithms are feature based, and use the maximum likelihood algorithm for data association...

- Electrical engineering

Electrical engineering

Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...

- Electrical Engineering

Electrical engineering

Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...

- Electroadhesion

Electroadhesion

Electroadhesion is the electrostatic effect of astriction between two surfaces subjected to an electrical field. Applications include the retention of paper on plotter surfaces, astrictive robotic prehension etc...

- Electronic engineering

Electronic engineering

Electronics engineering, also referred to as electronic engineering, is an engineering discipline where non-linear and active electrical components such as electron tubes, and semiconductor devices, especially transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, are utilized to design electronic...

- Electronic Stability Control

Electronic Stability Control

Electronic stability control is a computerized technology that may potentially improve the safety of a vehicle's stability by detecting and minimizing skids. When ESC detects loss of steering control, it automatically applies the brakes to help "steer" the vehicle where the driver intends to go...

- Electronics

Electronics

Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...

- Elektro

Elektro

Elektro is the nickname of a robot built by the Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Corporation in its Mansfield, Ohio facility between 1937 and 1938. Seven feet tall, weighing 265 pounds, humanoid in appearance, he could walk by voice command, speak about 700 words , smoke cigarettes, blow up...

- Elephant's trunk

Elephant's trunk

* Elephant#Trunk, the proboscis of the elephant animal* Elephant Trunk Hill, a landmark and tourist attraction in Guilin, Guangxi, China.* Elephant's Trunk nebula, astronomy...

- Ellen Tigh

Ellen Tigh

After she is killed for treason against the resistance on New Caprica, Ellen resurrects aboard a Cylon ship, where John Cavil holds her prisoner. However, by downloading into a new body, she regains the memories that Cavil had blocked decades earlier...

- Embodied agent
- Embodied cognition

Embodied cognition

Philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists and artificial intelligence researchers who study embodied cognition and the embodied mind believe that the nature of the human mind is largely determined by the form of the human body. They argue that all aspects of cognition, such as ideas,...

- Embodied cognitive science

Embodied cognitive science

Embodied Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary field of research, the aim of which is to explain the mechanisms underlying intelligent behavior...

- Emergent behavior
- Emergent behaviour
- EMIEW

EMIEW

EMIEW is a robot developed by Hitachi. Another version has also been made called EMIEW 2. EMIEW stands for Excellent Mobility and Interactive Existence as Workmate. Two EMIEWs have been made, called Pal and Chum...

- EMIEW 2
- Encrypt (film)

Encrypt (film)

Encrypt is a television movie that premiered June 14, 2003 on the Sci-Fi Channel. Set in the year 2068, the Earth's surface is in a cataclysmic upheaval, much of it transformed into wasteland by unstoppable storms...

- Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot

Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot

The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot is a project by Robotic Technology Inc. and Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. to develop a robotic vehicle that could forage for plant biomass to fuel itself, theoretically operating indefinitely...

- Energid Technologies

Energid Technologies

Energid Technologies is an engineering firm providing robotics , machine vision and remote controlsoftware. Its headquarters are in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It has regional presence in New York, New York; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Tucson, Arizona; Austin, Texas; and Chicago, Illinois...

- Engineering

Engineering

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

- Engineering cybernetics

Engineering cybernetics

Engineering cybernetics or technical cybernetics, established by H.S. Tsien, is a field of cybernetics, which deals with the question of control engineering of mechatronic systems as well as chemical or biological systems...

- Enon (robot)

Enon (robot)

Enon is a personal assistant robot first offered for sale in September 2005 by Fujitsu corporation in Japan. The six-million yen rolling robot is self-guiding, with limited speech recognition and synthesis. Enon, an English acronym for "Exciting Nova On Network" can pick up and carry roughly in...

- Ensemble averaging

Ensemble Averaging

In machine learning, particularly in the creation of artificial neural networks, ensemble averaging is the process of creating multiple models and combining them to produce a desired output, as opposed to creating just one model...

- Ensemble axiom

Ensemble Axiom

The ensemble axiom proposes that cooperation within an ensemble permits extreme simplification of the parts and enhances the operation of the ensemble...

- Enthiran
- Entomopter

Entomopter

The Entomopter is a multimode insect-like robot developed by Prof. Robert C. Michelson and his design team from the Georgia Tech Research Institute , University of Cambridge , ETS Labs and others. The name 'Entomopter' is derived from entomo + pteron...

- Envelope (motion)
- Environmental Robots Inc.

Environmental Robots Inc.

Environmental Robots Inc., also known by its acronym ERI, is an Albuquerque, New Mexico based robotics company which specializes in artificial muscle technology and its applications....

- Epigenetic robotics
- Epistemic modal logic
- Epson Robots

Epson Robots

EPSON Robots is the robotics design and manufacturing department of Japanese corporation Seiko Epson, the brand-name watch and computer printer producer.EPSON manufacture Cartesian, SCARA and 6-axis industrial robots for factory automation...

- Erek King

Erek King

Erek King is a fictional character from the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate. He is a member of the Chee, a pacifistic android race created by the Pemalites. Erek King was the name of a real Animorphs fan who won a competition on the Animorphs Official Site to have his name included in one of...

- Eric Paulos

Eric Paulos

Eric Paulos is an American computer scientist, artist, and inventor, best known for his early work on internet robotic teleoperation and is considered a founder of the field of Urban Computing. Dr...

- Ernest Lenard Hall

Ernest Lenard Hall

Ernest Lenard Hall, Ph.D., PE, is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science in the School of Dynamic Systems in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati. He was also the Paul E. Geier Professor of Robotics in the Department of...

- Ernesto Morgado

Ernesto Morgado

Ernesto M. Morgado is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico since 1992...

- Ernst Dickmanns

Ernst Dickmanns

Ernst Dieter Dickmanns is a former professor at Bundeswehr University Munich , and a pioneer of dynamic computer vision and of driverless cars. Dickmanns has been visiting professor to CalTech, Pasadena, and to MIT, Boston teaching courses on 'dynamic vision'.- Biography :Dickmanns was born in 1936...

- ESTAR

ESTAR

The eSTAR project is a multi-agent system that aims to implement a true heterogeneous network of robotic telescopes for automated observing. The project is a joint collaboration between the Astrophysics Group of the University of Exeter and the Astrophysics Research Institute at Liverpool John...

- Ethics

Ethics

Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime, etc.Major branches of ethics include:...

- Ethics of artificial intelligence

Ethics of artificial intelligence

The ethics of artificial intelligence is the part of the ethics of technology specific to robots and other artificially intelligent beings. It is typically divided into roboethics, a concern with the moral behavior of humans as they design, construct, use and treat artificially intelligent beings,...

- European Robotic Arm

European Robotic Arm

The European Robotic Arm is a robotic arm to be attached to the Russian Segment of the International Space Station. It will be the first robot arm able to work on the Russian space station segments, and will supplement the two Russian Strela cargo cranes that are already installed on the Pirs...

- EusLisp Robot Programming Language

EusLisp Robot Programming Language

EusLisp is a Lisp-based programming system. Built on the basis of object orientation, it is designed specifically for developing robotics software. The first version of it ran in 1986 on Unix-System5/Ustation-E20.-External links:*...

- EveR-1

EveR-1

EveR-1 is a female android, developed by a team of South Korean scientists from the in Korea University of Science and Technology. The project is headed by Baeg Moon-hong and was unveiled to the public at in Seoul on May 4, 2003...

- Evolution Robotics

Evolution robotics

Evolution Robotics is an American company specializing in robotics technologies from Pasadena, California. The product range covers computer vision, localization and autonomous navigation....

- Evolutionary algorithms
- Evolutionary computation

Evolutionary computation

In computer science, evolutionary computation is a subfield of artificial intelligence that involves combinatorial optimization problems....

- Evolutionary developmental robotics

Evolutionary developmental robotics

Evolutionary developmental robotics , formally suggested and fully discussed in, and further discussed in a Dialog refers to methodologies that systematically integrate evolutionary robotics, epigenetic robotics and morphogenetic robotics to study the evolution, physical and mental development and...

- Evolutionary robotics

Evolutionary robotics

Evolutionary robotics is a methodology that uses evolutionary computation to develop controllers for autonomous robots. Algorithms in ER frequently operate on populations of candidate controllers, initially selected from some distribution. This population is then repeatedly modified according to...

- Evolver (film)

Evolver (film)

Evolver is a 1995 Mark Rosman horror/science fiction B-movie. It starred Ethan Embry, Cassidy Rae, Chance Quinn, and John de Lancie. It also had William H. Macy as the voice of Evolver...

- Evolving classification function

Evolving classification function

Evolving classification functions , evolving classifier functions or evolving classifiers are used for classifying and clustering in the field of artificial intelligence.-See also:*Evolving fuzzy rule-based Classifier...

- Evolving intelligent system

Evolving intelligent system

Evolving Intelligent Systems can be defined as self-developing, self-learning systems that have both their parameters but also their structure self-adapting on-line. They are usually based on fuzzy rule-based or neuro-fuzzy sysytems. Alternative frameworks are Hidden Markov Models, tree-based...

- Expert system

Expert system

In artificial intelligence, an expert system is a computer system that emulates the decision-making ability of a human expert. Expert systems are designed to solve complex problems by reasoning about knowledge, like an expert, and not by following the procedure of a developer as is the case in...

- Exploration problem

Exploration problem

In robotics, the exploration problem deals with the use of a robot to maximize the knowledge over a particular area. The exploration problem arises in mapping and search & rescue situations, where an environment might be dangerous or inaccessible to humans....

- Extended Kalman filter

Extended Kalman filter

In estimation theory, the extended Kalman filter is the nonlinear version of the Kalman filter which linearizes about the current mean and covariance...

- Extremal optimization

Extremal optimization

Extremal Optimization is an optimization heuristic inspired by the Bak-Sneppen model of self-organized criticality from the field of statistical physics...

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Fairground ride
- Family Inada

Family Inada

Family Inada is a Japanese manufacturer of robotic massage chairs. Based in Osaka, Japan, Inada was founded in 1962 by Nichimu Inada and invented the first automatic shiatsu massage chair. Mr. Meishoku Kim is Inada's director of development....

- FANUC
- FANUC Robotics America Corporation

FANUC Robotics America Corporation

FANUC Robotics America Corporation is a leading manufacturer of industrial robots for a variety of industries from automotive and fabricated metals to food and plastics...

- Farewell to the Master

Farewell to the Master

"Farewell to the Master" is a science fiction short story written by Harry Bates. It was first published in the October 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It provided the basis of the noted 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still and its 2008 remake...

- Federation of International Robot-soccer Association

Federation of International Robot-soccer Association

or FIRA for short is an international organisation organising competitive soccer - usually 5-a-side - competitions between autonomous robots.FIRA was founded in 1997....

- Feedback control
- Feelix Growing

Feelix Growing

Feelix Growing is a research project, started on December 1, 2006, that is working to design robots that can detect and respond to human emotional cues. The project involves six countries and 25 roboticists, developmental psychologists and neuroscientists....

- FemiSapien

FemiSapien

FemiSapien is a female humanoid robot that WowWee announced at CES in January 2008. It can respond to sight, sound, and touch and can be programmed with a sequence of movements...

- Festo

Festo

Festo is a German industrial control and automation company based in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany. Festo is an engineering-driven company that sells pneumatic and electric transducers primarily to the automation industry.-History:...

- Fiction

Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...

- Film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

- FIRST

First

First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one.First or 1st may also refer to:* First , minor summit below the Schwarzhorn in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland* First , mountain in Bernese Alps in Switzerland...

- Flame (robot)

Flame (robot)

Flame is the name of a roughly human-shaped robot, developed in the Netherlands by Daan Hobbelen of the Mechanical Engineering department of Delft University. Robot motion is more easily done with wheels, but this robot was designed specifically to study human walking...

- Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon is the hero of a science fiction adventure comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by and created to compete with the already established Buck Rogers adventure strip. Also inspired by these series were comics such as Dash...

- Flier (BEAM)

Flier (BEAM)

In BEAM robotics, a flier is an aero-robot that functions in an atmospheric environment. They possess a driven mode of locomotion through and/or supported by the atmosphere...

- Flight of the Navigator

Flight of the Navigator

Flight of the Navigator is a 1986 Disney science fiction film directed by Randal Kleiser and written by Mark H. Baker and Michael Burton, about a 12-year-old boy named David who is abducted by an alien space craft and finds himself caught in a world which has changed around him...

- Flight simulator

Flight simulator

A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and various aspects of the flight environment. This includes the equations that govern how aircraft fly, how they react to applications of their controls and other aircraft systems, and how they react to the external...

- Foot Clan

Foot Clan

The Foot Clan is a fictional ninjutsu clan in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe and the Turtles' main antagonists. It is usually led by the Shredder. The Foot Clan was originally a parody of the criminal ninja clan the Hand in the Daredevil comics...

- Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet is a 1956 science fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox, with a screenplay by Cyril Hume. It stars Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, and Anne Francis. The characters and its setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and its plot contains certain...

- Forest of stars

Forest of stars

A forest of stars is a set of star worlds whose adjacency matrix is a tree. This means that no intersecting star worlds create a cycle, or hole, in the overall space. If an object or space can be represented by a forest of stars, it can be mapped onto a sphere-world by mapping each star world...

- Forward chaining

Forward chaining

Forward chaining is one of the two main methods of reasoning when using inference rules and can be described logically as repeated application of modus ponens. Forward chaining is a popular implementation strategy for expert systems, business and production rule systems...

- Forward kinematic animation

Forward kinematic animation

Forward kinematic animation is a method in 3D computer graphics for animating models.The essential concept of forward kinematic animation is that the positions of particular parts of the model at a specified time are calculated from the position and orientation of the object, together with any...

- Forward kinematics

Forward kinematics

Forward kinematics is computation of the position and orientation of robot's end effector as a function of its joint angles. It is widely used in robotics, computer games, and animation. The reverse process is known as inverse kinematics....

- Foster-Miller

Foster-Miller

Foster-Miller, Inc., is a United States based military robotics manufacturer, a division of the United Kingdom's QinetiQ North America. Its two best-known products are TALON robots and LAST Armor....

- Foton-M

Foton-M

Foton-M is series of robotic spacecraft used by Russia and the European Space Agency for research conducted in the microgravity environment of Earth orbit. The Foton-M design is based on the design of the Foton, with several improvements including a new telemetry and telecommand unit for increased...

- Frame problem

Frame problem

In artificial intelligence, the frame problem was initially formulated as the problem of expressing a dynamical domain in logic without explicitly specifying which conditions are not affected by an action. John McCarthy and Patrick J. Hayes defined this problem in their 1969 article, Some...

- Francesco Mondada

Francesco Mondada

Francesco Mondada is a Swiss researcher in artificial intelligence and robotics. He is one of the creators of the Khepera, the S-bot and the e-puck mobile robots. He got a Master's degree in Microengineering at the EPFL in 1991 and a Ph.D. degree in 1997.He was the director of from its creation...

- Frank Dellaert

Frank Dellaert

Frank Dellaert is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also affiliated with the RIM@GT center and is well-known for contributions to Robotics and Computer Vision.-Early Education:...

- Frankenstein complex

Frankenstein complex

In Isaac Asimov's robot novels, the Frankenstein complex is a term that he coined for the fear of mechanical men.-History:Some of Asimov's S.F...

- Frankie Darro

Frankie Darro

Frankie Darro was an American actor and later in his career a stuntman. He began his career as a child actor in silent films, progressed to lead roles and co-starring roles in adventure, western, dramatic, and comedy films, and later became a character actor and voice-over artist.-Early life:Darro...

- Fred Chatterbot

Fred Chatterbot

-History:The name Fred was initially suggested by Karen Lindsey, and then Robby jokingly came up with an acronym, "Functional Response Emulation Device." Fred has also been implemented as a Java application by Paco Nathan called ....

- Fred M. Wilcox
- Freddy II

Freddy II

Freddy and Freddy II were experimental robots built in the Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception ....

- Friendly Robotics

Friendly Robotics

Friendly Robotics is a retailer of autonomous Lawnmowers and vacuum cleaners . It was founded in Pardesia, Israel in 1995, by Udi Peless and Shai Abramson. It supplies its products to the markets of the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Future plans for the Company...

- Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...

- Funnybot

Funnybot

"Funnybot" is the second episode of the fifteenth season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 211th episode of the series overall. "Funnybot" premiered in the United States on Comedy Central on May 4, 2011, the first time a South Park episode has aired in May since season...

- FurReal Friends

FurReal Friends

FurReal Friends is a toy brand division of Hasbro created in 2002 that sells robotic pets. The robotic toys range from guinea pigs, to dinosaurs. They also come in many different sizes, from being able to be held in a child's hand, to being able to be ridden by a child. And, of course, the prices...

- Futurama

Futurama

Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J...

- Future of robotics

Future of robotics

This article is about the future of robotics for civil use.- Types of robots :Humanoid robots:*Lara is the first female humanoid robot with artificial muscles instead of electric motors .*Asimo is one of the most advanced projects as of 2009.Modular robots: can be built from standard building...

- Fuzzy agent

Fuzzy agent

In computer science a fuzzy agent is a software agent that implements fuzzy logic. This software entity interacts with its environment through an adaptive rule-base and can therefore be considered as a type of intelligent agent....

- Fuzzy logic

Fuzzy logic

Fuzzy logic is a form of many-valued logic; it deals with reasoning that is approximate rather than fixed and exact. In contrast with traditional logic theory, where binary sets have two-valued logic: true or false, fuzzy logic variables may have a truth value that ranges in degree between 0 and 1...

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Gabbay's separation theorem

Gabbay's separation theorem

In mathematical logic and computer science, Gabbay's separation theorem, named after Dov Gabbay, states that any arbitrary temporal logic formula can be rewritten in a logically equivalent "past → future" form. I.e. the future becomes what must be satisfied. This form can be used...

- Gakutensoku

Gakutensoku

Gakutensoku , the first robot to be built in Japan, was created in Osaka in 1929. The robot was designed and manufactured by biologist Makoto Nishimura...

- Galaxina

Galaxina

Galaxina is a low-budget 1980 American comedy/science fiction film, best remembered for its lead actress, Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1980 Dorothy Stratten, who was murdered shortly after the movie's release....

- Galen Tyrol

Galen Tyrol

Galen Tyrol is a character on the television series Battlestar Galactica. Tyrol is responsible for the maintenance of the Vipers and Raptors aboard Battlestar Galactica...

- Game theory

Game theory

Game theory is a mathematical method for analyzing calculated circumstances, such as in games, where a person’s success is based upon the choices of others...

- Gardner Fox

Gardner Fox

Gardner Francis Cooper Fox was an American writer best known for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. Comic-book historians estimate that he wrote over 4,000 comics stories....

- Gary Chalk (actor)

Gary Chalk (actor)

Gary Chalk is an English-born Canadian actor, tri-national US-Canadian-UK citizen and voice artist. He has lend hit voice in over 30 animated television series and has been in films such as The Fly II and Freddy vs. Jason....

- Gastrobot

Gastrobot

Gastrobot, meaning literally 'robot with stomach', was a term coined in 1998 by the University of South Florida Institute's director, Dr. Stuart Wilkinson. A gastrobot is "An intelligent machine that derives all its energy requirements from the digestion of real food"...

- Gay Robot

Gay Robot

Gay Robot was originally a comedy bit on Adam Sandler's fifth album, Shh...Don't Tell. In the sketch, a group of friends are watching football when the neighbor calls to let them know that his invention, Gay Robot, is coming over. Gay Robot is very good with football statistics and is very horny...

- Gene Roddenberry

Gene Roddenberry

Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist, best known for creating the American science fiction series Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, California where his father worked as a police officer...

- George (robot)

George (robot)

George is a British humanoid robot created by Tony Sale in 1949. The robot has been built using scrap metals from a crashed RAF Wellington bomber...

- George A. Bekey

George A. Bekey

George A. Bekey is a renowned American roboticist and the Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow in various professional societies...

- George Devol

George Devol

George Charles Devol, Jr. was an American inventor who was awarded the patent for Unimate, the first industrial robot. Devol's patent for the first digitally operated programmable robotic arm represented the foundation of the modern robotics industry.As an inventor he had over 40 patents and was...

- George Lucas

George Lucas

George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an American film producer, screenwriter, and director, and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Lucasfilm. He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones...

- Gerd Hirzinger

Gerd Hirzinger

Gerd Hirzinger received his Dipl.-Ing. degree and the doctor’s degree from the Technical University of Munich, in 1969 and 1974 respectively. In 1969 he joined DLR where he first worked on fast digital control systems...

- Getter Robo

Getter Robo

is a Super Robot manga series created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa, as well as an anime series produced by Toei Animation. The series was broadcast on Fuji TV from April 4, 1974 to May 8, 1975, with a total of 51 episodes.- Plot :...

- Giant Robot Project

Giant Robot Project

The Giant Robot Project is an undertaking by US inventor Jaimie Mantzel to construct a large 6-legged robot.The robot is approximately 10 to 12 feet in height with a similar dimension in width and is made primarily from scrap metal and aluminum tubing. The machine is powered by a central electric...

- Gil Weinberg

Gil Weinberg

Gil Weinberg is an Israeli-born musician and inventor of experimental musical instruments and musical robots. Weinberg is a professor of musical technology at Georgia Tech and director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology.-Biography:...

- Gizmo (comic book)

Gizmo (comic book)

Gizmo is a black and white comic book series created by Michael Dooney first published by Chance Enterprises, publisher of Domino Chance, and later published by Mirage Studios in May 1986. It tells about the story of two space adventurers: Gizmo Sprocket, a robot with a cool attitude, and Fluffy...

- Gizumon
- Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle

Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle

The Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle was a remotely operated unmanned ground vehicle employed by the United States Marine Corps. It is described as the world's first multipurpose combat robot....

- Glossary of robotics

Glossary of robotics

Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots...

- Go Nagai

Go Nagai

, better known by the penname , is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror and erotica. He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating Cutie Honey, Devilman, and Mazinger Z in the 1970s. In 2005, he became a...

- Gobots

Gobots

Gobots was a line of transforming robot toys produced by Tonka from 1983 to 1987, similar to Transformers. In 1991, the Gobots range was acquired from Tonka Inc. by Hasbro.-History:...

- Gödel machine

Gödel machine

A Gödel machine is a self-improving optimal problem solver computer program invented by Jürgen Schmidhuber. It rewrites its own code when it can prove the new strategy is optimal.-References:* *...

- Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla

Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla

Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, released in Japan as , is a 2002 Japanese science fiction kaiju film directed by Masaaki Tezuka, written by Wataru Mimura, and produced by Toho Co., Ltd. It is the 26th installment in the Godzilla series of films. It is the fourth film to feature Mechagodzilla...

- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

, alternatively spelled Godzilla vs. King Ghidora, is the 18th installment in the Godzilla series of films. This is the fifth film to feature King Ghidorah and the first film to feature Mecha-King Ghidorah, . The movie was released theatrically in Japan on December 14, 1991...

- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

, originally known in the United States as Godzilla vs. Bionic Monster and subsequently Godzilla vs. Cosmic Monster, is a 1974 science fiction kaiju film. This was the 14th of the Toho studio's Godzilla series , it was directed by Jun Fukuda with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano and the...

- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II, released in Japan as , is a 1993 science fiction kaiju film directed by Takao Okawara and written by Wataru Mimura. It was the twentieth film in Toho's Godzilla series and the first to feature BabyGodzilla. It is also the fifth film to feature Rodan and the third film...

- Godzilla vs. Megalon

Godzilla vs. Megalon

is a 1973 Japanese science fiction kaiju film directed and co-written by Jun Fukuda with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano. It was the thirteenth film in the Godzilla franchise...

- Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla

Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla

is a 1994 science fiction kaiju film directed by Kensho Yamashita and written by Hiroshi Kashiwabara. It was the twenty-first film released in the Godzilla series and sixth in the Heisei series of films. It is the second film to feature the Moguera and Little Godzilla and also the seventh film to...

- Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.

Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.

Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S., released in Japan as , is a 2003 science fiction kaiju film directed by Masaaki Tezuka. It was the twenty-seventh film to be released in the Godzilla series. It is the twelfth film to feature Mothra, the second film to feature Kamoebas, and the fifth and latest film to...

- GOFAI

GOFAI

In artificial intelligence research, GOFAI describes the oldest original approach to achieving artificial intelligence, based on logic and problem solving...

- Goofy

Goofy

Goofy is a cartoon character created in 1932 at Walt Disney Productions. Goofy is a tall, anthropomorphic dog, and typically wears a turtle neck and vest, with pants, shoes, white gloves, and a tall hat originally designed as a rumpled fedora. Goofy is a close friend of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck...

- Google driverless car

Google driverless car

The Google Driverless Car is a project by Google that involves developing technology for driverless cars. The project is currently being led by Google engineer Sebastian Thrun, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-inventor of Google Street View, whose team at Stanford...

- Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still)

Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still)

Gort is a fictional humanoid robot in the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still and its 2008 remake.In the original short story "Farewell to the Master", on which the two films are based, the character was called Gnut.- 1951 depiction :...

- Grammar systems theory

Grammar systems theory

Grammar systems theory is a field of theoretical computer science that studies systems of finite collections of formal grammars generating a formal language. Each grammar works on a string, a so-called sequential form that represents an environment...

- GraphSLAM

GraphSLAM

In robotics, GraphSLAM is a Simultaneous localization and mapping algorithm which uses sparse information matrices produced by generating a graph of observation interdependencies ....

- Grendizer

Grendizer

is a super robot TV anime and manga created by manga artist Go Nagai. It is the third entry in the Mazinger trilogy. It was broadcasted on Japanese television from October 5, 1975, to February 27, 1977, and lasted 74 episodes...

- Grendizer (mecha)

Grendizer (mecha)

Grendizer is a fictional robot created by Go Nagai. Grendizer is the titular mecha of UFO Robo Grendizer, which debued in 1975.Grendizer is named after the fictional metal "Space Alloy Gren", a metal with similar properties to Super Alloy Z and its derivatives, the hardest material available on...

- Grounder
- Guardium

Guardium

The Guardium is an Israeli unmanned security vehicle , created by G-NIUS, an Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicles joint venture company established by Israel Aerospace Industries and Elbit Systems. The unmanned vehicle can guard areas and attack any trespassers using lethal or less-lethal weaponry.-...

- Guardromon
- Guidance, Navigation and Control

Guidance, Navigation and Control

Guidance, navigation and control is a branch of engineering dealing with the design of systems to control the movement of vehicles, especially, automobiles, ships, aircraft, and spacecraft. In many cases these functions can be performed by trained humans...

- Guided rat

Guided rat

A remotely-guided rat, popularly called a ratbot or robo-rat, is a rat with electrodes implanted in the medial forebrain bundle and sensorimotor cortex of its brain. They were developed in 2002 by Sanjiv Talwar and John Chapin at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center...

- Gumstix

Gumstix

Gumstix is a company founded in 2003 by Gordon Kruberg that produces small single-board computers. The name Gumstix refers to the size of the first such computer being the approximate size of a stick of gum....

- GuRoo

GuRoo

GuRoo is a humanoid robot developed at the Mobile Robotics Laboratory in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland. The design of the GuRoo is based on the human form and it is kept as anthropomorphic as possible. GuRoo is completely autonomous...

- Gynoid

Gynoid

A gynoid is anything which resembles or pertains to the female human form. It is also used in American English medical terminology as a shortening of the term Gynecoid ....

- Gypsy (Mystery Science Theater 3000)

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Haile (robot)

Haile (robot)

Haile is a robot created at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing programmed to listen to live musicians and accompany them by playing a drum. Haile's output is based on live-processing of the other musicians and not pre-recorded sequences....

- HAL 5

HAL 5

The Hybrid Assistive Limb is a powered exoskeleton suit currently in development by Tsukuba University in Japan. It has been designed to expand and improve physical capability of users, particularly people with physical disabilities...

- HAL 9000

HAL 9000

HAL 9000 is the antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction Space Odyssey saga. HAL is an artificial intelligence that interacts with the astronaut crew of the Discovery One spacecraft, usually represented as a red television-camera eye found throughout the ship...

- Halfmann Teleskoptechnik

Halfmann Teleskoptechnik

Halfmann Teleskoptechnik is a German based manufacturer of professional robotic telescopes. Halfmann Telescopes have been delivered worldwide for several projects.-Origins and History:...

- Halloween III: Season of the Witch

Halloween III: Season of the Witch

Halloween III: Season of the Witch is a 1982 science fiction horror film and the third installment in the Halloween film series. It is the only Halloween where the story does not revolve around Michael Myers. Directed and written by Tommy Lee Wallace, the film stars Tom Atkins as Dr. Dan Challis,...

- Hammerstein (comics)
- Handy Board

Handy Board

The Handy Board is a popular handheld robotics controller. The Handy Board was developed at MIT by Fred G. Martin, and was closely based on a previous controller designed by Martin and Randy Sargent for the . The Handy Board design is licensed free of charge. Thus, several manufacturers make Handy...

- Hans Moravec

Hans Moravec

Hans Moravec is an adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings on the impact of technology. Moravec also is a futurist with many of his publications and predictions focusing on...

- Haptic technology
- Hardiman

Hardiman

Hardiman was the first attempt to build a practical powered exoskeleton, by General Electric in 1965. The machine was intended to allow the wearer to lift loads of 1500 pounds with ease....

- Hardware (film)
- Haro (character)
- Harry Bates (author)

Harry Bates (author)

Harry Bates was an American science fiction editor and writer. His 1940 short story "Farewell to the Master" was the basis of the well-known 1951 science fiction movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.-Biography:Harry Bates was born Hiram Gilmore Bates III on October 9, 1900 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...

- Hartmut Neven

Hartmut Neven

Hartmut Neven is a scientist working in computational neurobiology, robotics and computer vision. He is best known for his work in face and object recognition. He is currently Director of Engineering at Google.- Education :...

- Hartmut Surmann

Hartmut Surmann

Hartmut Surmann is a Roboticist, Professor for Autonomous Systems at Applied University of Gelsenkirchen and Researcher at the Fraunhofer Institut Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssystem . His primary research interests are autonomous mobile robotics andcomputational intelligence...

- Harvest Automation

Harvest Automation

Harvest Automation, Inc. is a robotics startup founded by several former iRobot employees, including Joe Jones, the co-inventor of the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner. The company's goal is to find new applications for robots. Their first planned robot will be used at container farms to space apart...

- Heartbeeps

Heartbeeps

Heartbeeps is an American romantic sci-fi comedy film about two robots who fall in love and decide to strike out on their own. It was directed by Allan Arkush, and starred Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as the robots...

- Helen Greiner

Helen Greiner

Helen Greiner is the co-founder of iRobot and currently CEO of CyPhyWorks.-Career:Helen Greiner holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in computer science, both from MIT...

- Hendrik Van Brussel

Hendrik Van Brussel

Hendrik Van Brussel is a Belgian emeritus professor of mechanical engineering of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, world-renowned for his research on robotics, mechatronics and holonic manufacturing systems....

- Henrik I. Christensen

Henrik I. Christensen

Henrik Iskov Christensen is a Danish roboticist and a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At Georgia Tech, Christensen served as the founding director of the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines and the...

- HERO (robot)

HERO (robot)

HERO is the name of several educational robots sold by Heathkit during the 1980s. The Heath Company began the HERO 1 project in October 1979. The first units were available in 1982. Models included the HERO 1, HERO Jr., and HERO 2000. All three were available as kits, or for more money,...

- Hexapod
- Hexapod (robotics)

Hexapod (robotics)

A six-legged walking robot should not be confused with a Stewart platform, a kind of parallel manipulator used in robotics applications.A hexapod robot is a mechanical vehicle that walks on six legs. Since a robot can be statically stable on three or more legs, a hexapod robot has a great deal of...

- Hexapoda

Hexapoda

The subphylum Hexapoda constitutes the largest grouping of arthropods and includes the insects as well as three much smaller groups of wingless arthropods: Collembola, Protura, and Diplura . The Collembola are very abundant in terrestrial environments...

- Hexbug

Hexbug

‘’Hexbug’’ is a brand of toy robot developed and distributed by Innovation First, Inc. Hexbug was inspired by BEAM robotics, and uses many elements of it. Originally released in the US through Radio Shack, it is now sold in most major retail stores. The original was based on 6-legged arthropods,...

- Hidden Markov random field

Hidden Markov random field

A hidden Markov random field is a generalization of a hidden Markov model. Instead of having an underlying Markov chain, hidden Markov random fields have an underlying Markov random field.Suppose that we observe a random variable Y_i , where i \in S ....

- Hierarchical control system

Hierarchical control system

A Hierarchical control system is a form of Control System in which a set of devices and governing software is arranged in a hierarchical tree. When the links in the tree are implemented by a computer network, then that hierarchical control system is also a form of Networked control system.-...

- Hinokio

Hinokio

Hinokio is a 2005 Japanese science fiction film directed by Takahiko Akiyama and starring Masatoshi Nakamura, Kanata Hongo and Mikako Tabe. Its tagline is "Inter Galactic Love".-Overview:...

- Hiroshi Ishiguro

Hiroshi Ishiguro

Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro is director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, part of the Department of Systems Innovation in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University, Japan...

- History of artificial intelligence

History of artificial intelligence

The history of artificial intelligence began in antiquity, with myths, stories and rumors of artificial beings endowed with intelligence or consciousness by master craftsmen; as Pamela McCorduck writes, AI began with "an ancient wish to forge the gods."...

- History of robots

History of robots

The history of robots has its roots as far back as ancient myths and legends.Modern concepts were begun to be developed when the Industrial Revolution allowed the use of more complex mechanics and the subsequent introduction of electricity made it possible to power machines with small compact motors...

- History of technology

History of technology

The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques, and is similar in many ways to the history of humanity. Background knowledge has enabled people to create new things, and conversely, many scientific endeavors have become possible through technologies which assist...

- HK-47

HK-47

HK-47 is a fictional assassin droid from the 2003 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, its sequel, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, and the Trials of Obi-Wan expansion pack to the massively multiplayer online game Star Wars: Galaxies...

- HOAP

HOAP

The HOAP series robots are an advanced humanoid robot platform manufactured by Fujitsu Automation in Japan. HOAP is an abbreviation for "Humanoid for Open Architecture Platform"....

- Hod Lipson

Hod Lipson

Hod Lipson is an American robotics engineer. He is the director of Cornell University's Creative Machines Lab , formerly known as Computational Synthesis Lab , at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering...

- Hollywood (2002 film)
- Holonomic

Holonomic

In mathematics and physics, the term holonomic may occur with several different meanings.-Holonomic basis:A holonomic basis for a manifold is a set of basis vectors ek for which all Lie derivatives vanish:[e_j,e_k]=0 \,...

- Homayoun Seraji

Homayoun Seraji

Homayoun Seraji was an Iranian scientist, engineer, a JPL senior researcher and former professor of Sharif University of Technology who published extensively in the field of multivariable control systems, focusing on optimal control, pole placement, multivariable PID controllers, and output...

- Home automation

Home automation

Home automation is the residential extension of "building automation". It is automation of the home, housework or household activity. Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC , appliances, and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and...

- Honda E series
- Honda P series

Honda P series

The P-series is a chronological progression of prototype humanoid robots as developed by Honda. The research conducted allowed the eventual creation of ASIMO.*P1 developed in 1993*P2 unveiled in 1996*P3 unveiled in 1997Notes:- See also :...

- How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...

- How to Make a Monster (2001 film)

How to Make a Monster (2001 film)

How To Make A Monster is a 2001 film starring Clea DuVall, Steven Culp, Jason Marsden and Tyler Mane. It is the third release in the Creature Features series of film remakes produced by Stan Winston. Julie Strain made a cameo appearance in the film as herself. How To Make A Monster debuted on...

- Howie Choset

Howie Choset

Howie Choset is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. His research includes snakebots, or robots designed in a segmented fashion to mimic snake-like actuation and motion, demining, and coverage...

- HRP-4C

HRP-4C

The HRP-4C is a female humanoid robot, created by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology - a Japanese research facility. An in-public demonstration was put on March 16, 2009. It measures 158 centimetres tall, and weighs 43 kilos - including a battery pack...

- HUBO

HUBO

HUBO is a walking humanoid robot, head mounted on a life-size walking bipedal frame, developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and released on January 6, 2005...

- Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte

Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte

Professor Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte is known for his pioneering work on probabilistic methods for robotics. The algorithms developed in his group since the early 1990s permit autonomous vehicles to deal with uncertainty and to localize themselves despite noisy sensor readings .From 1986-1995...

- Human-robot interaction
- Human–computer interaction

Human–computer interaction

Human–computer Interaction is the study, planning, and design of the interaction between people and computers. It is often regarded as the intersection of computer science, behavioral sciences, design and several other fields of study...

- Human leg

Human leg

The human leg is the entire lower extremity or limb of the human body, including the foot, thigh and even the hip or gluteal region; however, the precise definition in human anatomy refers only to the section of the lower limb extending from the knee to the ankle.Legs are used for standing,...

- Human robot interaction

Human robot interaction

Human–robot interaction is the study of interactions between humans and robots. It is often referred as HRI by researchers. Human–robot interaction is a multidisciplinary field with contributions from human–computer interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics, natural language understanding, and...

- Humanistic Robotics

Humanistic Robotics

Humanistic Robotics is a company that develops land mine–clearing technology. It is developing the SCAMP- Specialized Compact Automated Manual deminer replacement Platform...

- Humanoid

Humanoid

A humanoid is something that has an appearance resembling a human being. The term first appeared in 1912 to refer to fossils which were morphologically similar to, but not identical with, those of the human skeleton. Although this usage was common in the sciences for much of the 20th century, it...

- Humanoid robot

Humanoid robot

A humanoid robot or an anthropomorphic robot is a robot with its overall appearance, based on that of the human body, allowing interaction with made-for-human tools or environments. In general humanoid robots have a torso with a head, two arms and two legs, although some forms of humanoid robots...

- Humanoid Robotics Project

Humanoid Robotics Project

The Humanoid Robotics Project is a project for development of general domestic helper robots, sponsored by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization , spearheaded by Kawada Industries and supported by the National Institute...

- Hybrid Assistive Limb
- Hybrid intelligent system

Hybrid intelligent system

Hybrid intelligent system denotes a software system which employs, in parallel, a combination of methods and techniques from artificial intelligence subfields as:* Neuro-fuzzy systems* hybrid connectionist-symbolic models* Fuzzy expert systems...

- Hybrid neural network

Hybrid neural network

The term hybrid neural network can have two meanings:#biological neural networks interacting with artificial neuronal models, and#Artificial neural networks with a symbolic part ....

- Hybrot

Hybrot

A hybrot is a cybernetic organism in the form of a robot controlled by a computer consisting of both electronic and biological elements. The biological elements are typically rat neurons connected to a computer chip....

- Hydraulics

Hydraulics

Hydraulics is a topic in applied science and engineering dealing with the mechanical properties of liquids. Fluid mechanics provides the theoretical foundation for hydraulics, which focuses on the engineering uses of fluid properties. In fluid power, hydraulics is used for the generation, control,...

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I, Robot

I, Robot

I, Robot is a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, first published by Gnome Press in 1950 in an edition of 5,000 copies. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950. The stories are...

- I, Robot (film)

I, Robot (film)

I, Robot is a 2004 science-fiction action film directed by Alex Proyas. The screenplay was written by Jeff Vintar, Akiva Goldsman and Hillary Seitz, and is very loosely based on Isaac Asimov's short-story collection of the same name. Will Smith stars in the lead role of the film as Detective Del...

- I, Robot (short story)

I, Robot (short story)

"I, Robot" is a science fiction short story by Eando Binder about a robot named Adam Link.It was published in the January 1939 issue of Amazing Stories, well before the related and more known book I, Robot , a collection of short stories, by Isaac Asimov...

- ICAD

ICAD

ICAD was a Knowledge-Based Engineering system that was based upon the Lisp programming language...

- Ichigeki Sacchu!! HoiHoi-san

Ichigeki Sacchu!! HoiHoi-san

HoiHoi-san, full title , is a manga by Kunihiko Tanaka that spawned a PlayStation 2 game and a ten minute OVA In the year 20XX, insects have become immune to all pesticides. To combat the rising plague of cockroaches and other household pests, the tiny, doll-like extermination androids known as...

- IJCAI Computers and Thought Award

IJCAI Computers and Thought Award

The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is presented by the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence , recognizing outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. It was originally funded with royalties received from the book "Computers and Thought" , and is currently...

- Incremental heuristic search

Incremental heuristic search

Incremental heuristic search algorithms combine both incremental and heuristic search to speed up searches of sequences of similar search problems, which is important in domains that are only incompletely known or change dynamically. Incremental search has been studied at least since the late 1960s...

- Industrial robot

Industrial robot

An industrial robot is defined by ISO as an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes...

- Informatics (academic field)

Informatics (academic field)

Informatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process, access and communicate information...

- Information extraction

Information extraction

Information extraction is a type of information retrieval whose goal is to automatically extract structured information from unstructured and/or semi-structured machine-readable documents. In most of the cases this activity concerns processing human language texts by means of natural language...

- Insbot

Insbot

Insbot is an electronic cockroach developed by European scientists within the European project LEURRE to trick real cockroaches into following it.-References:*...

- Inspector Gadget (film)

Inspector Gadget (film)

Inspector Gadget is a 1999 American live-action comedy film loosely based on the 1983 animated cartoon series Inspector Gadget. It starred Matthew Broderick as the title character, along with Rupert Everett as Dr. Claw, Michelle Trachtenberg as Penny, and Dabney Coleman as Chief Quimby...

- Inspector Gadget 2

Inspector Gadget 2

Inspector Gadget 2 is a live-action comedy film, released directly to VHS and DVD in March 2003. It was based upon the cartoon series created by DiC Entertainment and is a direct-to-video sequel to the 1999 Walt Disney Pictures film Inspector Gadget and also released by DIC Entertainment...

- Institute for Personal Robots in Education

Institute for Personal Robots in Education

Institute for Personal Robots in Education was initiated by a $1 million grant from Microsoft Research to Bryn Mawr College and the Georgia Institute of Technology and announced in July 2006. IPRE is designing introductory computer science curricula centered around a Personal Robot...

- Institute of Automation

Institute of Automation

The Institute of Automation is a research lab belonging to the Chinese Academy of Sciences which researches robotics....

- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence...

- Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems

Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems

The Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems is part of the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. It replaced the existing of the ETH Zurich in October 2002, when Prof. Bradley J. Nelson moved from the University of Minnesota, USA, to ETH Zurich and succeeded the Prof. Dr...

- Institution of Engineering and Technology

Institution of Engineering and Technology

The Institution of Engineering and Technology is a British professional body for those working in engineering and technology in the United Kingdom and worldwide. It was formed in 2006 from two separate institutions: the Institution of Electrical Engineers , dating back to 1871, and the...

- Intelligence

Intelligence

Intelligence has been defined in different ways, including the abilities for abstract thought, understanding, communication, reasoning, learning, planning, emotional intelligence and problem solving....

- Intelligent Actuator

Intelligent Actuator

Intelligent Actuator, also called IAI, is a robotics design company. It was founded in Japan in 1976. The company designs, manufactures, and markets a complete line of motion control systems. IAI is the world’s largest manufacturer of cartesian coordinate robots and is an established leader in low...

- Intelligent agent

Intelligent agent

In artificial intelligence, an intelligent agent is an autonomous entity which observes through sensors and acts upon an environment using actuators and directs its activity towards achieving goals . Intelligent agents may also learn or use knowledge to achieve their goals...

- Intelligent control

Intelligent control

Intelligent control is a class of control techniques, that use various AI computing approaches like neural networks, Bayesian probability, fuzzy logic, machine learning, evolutionary computation and genetic algorithms.- Overview :...

- Intelligent Database

Intelligent Database

Until the 1980s, databases were viewed as computer systems that stored record oriented and business type data such as manufacturing inventories, bank records, sales transactions, etc. A database system was not expected to merge numeric data with text, images, or multimedia information, nor was it...

- Intelligent decision support systems
- Intelligent despatch

Intelligent despatch

Intelligent despatch is a term used to describe an artificial intelligence system, that automates and controls the allocation of resources for services. Applications range from courier services to taxi services to emergency services to repair services to battlefield management...

- Intelligent Small World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation

Intelligent Small World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation

Intelligent Small World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation is a European research project to develop millimeter-scale robots for dangerous activities. It is coordinated by Jörg Seyfried at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany...

- Intelligent vehicle technologies

Intelligent vehicle technologies

Intelligent Vehicle Technologies telematics comprise electronic, electromechanical, and electromagnetic devices - usually silicon micromachined components operating in conjunction with computer controlled devices and radio transceivers to provide precision repeatability functions emergency warning...

- Intelligent word recognition

Intelligent word recognition

Intelligent Word Recognition, or IWR, is the recognition of unconstrained handwritten words. IWR recognizes entire handwritten words or phrases instead of character-by-character, like its predecessor, Optical Character Recognition...

- International Conference On Intelligent Robots and Systems

International Conference On Intelligent Robots and Systems

The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, commonly known as IROS , is an annual academic conference covering advances in robotics. It is one of the premier conferences of its field, alongside RSS , and ICRA ....

- International Robot Exhibition

International Robot Exhibition

The International Robot Exhibition is the largest robot trade fair in the world. It is an event that has been staged once every two years in Tokyo, Japan since 1973 and is organized by the Japan Robot Association and the company Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd...

- International Standard Book Number

International Standard Book Number

The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering code created by Gordon Foster, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin, for the booksellers and stationers W.H...

- Intuitive Surgical

Intuitive Surgical

Intuitive Surgical Inc. is a corporation that manufactures robotic surgical systems, most notably the da Vinci Surgical System. The da Vinci Surgical System allows surgery to be performed remotely using robotic manipulators. The company is part of the Nasdaq-100 and S&P 500...

- Inverse dynamics

Inverse dynamics

Inverse dynamics is an inverse problem. It commonly refers to either inverse rigid body dynamics or inverse structural dynamics. Inverse rigid-body dynamics is a method for computing forces and/or moments of force based on the kinematics of a body and the body's inertial properties...

- Inverse kinematics

Inverse kinematics

Inverse kinematics is a subdomain of kinematics, which is of particular interest in robotics and computer animation. In contrast to forward kinematics, which calculates the position of a body after a series of motions, inverse kinematics calculates the motions necessary to achieve a desired...

- IRobot Dirt Dog

IRobot Dirt Dog

The iRobot Dirt Dog is a cleaning robot based on the Roomba platform designed for workshops and garages. It replaces the Roomba's vacuum cleaner with a series of brushes designed for cleaning up loose hardware and debris from workshop and garage floors...

- IRobot Seaglider

IRobot Seaglider

The iRobot Seaglider is a deep-diving Autonomous Underwater Vehicle designed for missions lasting many months and covering thousands of miles. In military applications the Seaglider is more commonly referred to as an Underwater Unmanned Vehicle ....

- Irwin Allen

Irwin Allen

Irwin Allen was a television and film director and producer nicknamed "The Master of Disaster" for his work in the disaster film genre. He was also notable for creating a number of television series.- Biography :...

- Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...

- IsaacRobot

IsaacRobot

IsaacRobot is a biped humanoid robot, produced and realized by the IsaacTeam, a group of students of the Politecnico di Torino.The project is a combination of several branches of engineering , and in March 2007 it will be presented in its second version, under the name of I2Project.Currently the...

- ITALK Project

ITALK Project

ITALK is a 4 year project funded by the European Commission through Unit E5 "Cognitive Systems and Robotics" of the ICT. It aims to develop artificial agents and robots able to acquire complex behavioural, cognitive, and linguistic skills through individual and social learning...

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J. Storrs Hall

J. Storrs Hall

John Storrs Hall is involved in the field of molecular nanotechnology. He founded the sci.nanotech Usenet newsgroup and moderated it for ten years, and served as the founding chief scientist of Nanorex Inc. for two years...

- Jacques de Vaucanson

Jacques de Vaucanson

Jacques de Vaucanson was a French inventor and artist who was responsible for the creation of impressive and innovative automata and machines such as the first completely automated loom.-Early life:...

- James S. Albus

James S. Albus

James Sacra Albus was an American engineer, Senior NIST Fellow and founder and former chief of the Intelligent Systems Division of the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology .- Biography :Born in Louisville Ky., Albus received the B.S...

- Janice Em

Janice Em

Janice Em—an acronym alias for Junctioned Articifial Neuro-Intigrated Cybernetic Entity M1—is a fictional android from the universe of Robotech...

- Janice Kawaye

Janice Kawaye

Janice Kawaye is a Japanese-American actress, notable for providing the voice of Jenny "XJ-9" Wakeman on My Life as a Teenage Robot, Ami on Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Sarah on Invader Zim, Gi on Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Kioko and Julia on All Grown Up! and Yuzu Kurosaki on Bleach...

- Japan Robot Association

Japan Robot Association

The Japan Robot Association is a trade association made up of companies in Japan that develop and manufacture robot technology. It was formed in 1971 as the Industrial Robot Conversazione. The association was reorganized and renamed as the Japan Industrial Robot Association in 1972, and was...

- Japanese robotics

Japanese robotics

- Humanoid Entertainment Robots :* ASIMO, manufactured by Honda* QRIO, by Sony* HOAP Robot Series , Manufactured by Fujitsu* Toyota Partner Robot, manufactured by Toyota...

- Jaquet-Droz automata

Jaquet-Droz automata

The Jaquet-Droz automata, among all the numerous automata built by the Jaquet-Droz family, refer to three doll automata built between 1768 and 1774 by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, his son Henri-Louis and Jean-Frédéric Leschot: the musician, the draughtsman and the writer...

- Jaydev P. Desai

Jaydev P. Desai

Jaydev P. Desai is an Indian roboticist and an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is known for his research in robotic surgery and the control and coordination of multi-robot formations.-Education:...

- Jean-Claude Latombe

Jean-Claude Latombe

Jean-Claude Latombe is a French-American roboticist and the Kumagai Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University...

- Jed the Humanoid

Jed the Humanoid

Jed the Humanoid is a song on the 2000 album The Sophtware Slump released by the Modesto, California indie-rock band Grandaddy. The song is a eulogy for an android who drinks himself to death, and is taken to be central to the nature versus technology parable of the band's second album...

- Jedikiah (Tomorrow People)

Jedikiah (Tomorrow People)

Jedikiah is a fictional character from the British television series The Tomorrow People. Jedikiah first appeared in the episode serial "The Slaves of Jedikiah", and later appeared in the serials "The Medusa Strain" and "The Revenge of Jedikiah." Jedikiah was initially played by British actor...

- Jeff Lieberman (roboticist)

Jeff Lieberman (roboticist)

Jeff Lieberman is the host of the show Time Warp on Discovery Channel.Lieberman, originally from Florida, holds two B.S. degrees, in Mathematics and Physics, and two M.S. degrees, in Mechanical Engineering and Media Arts & Sciences with a focus in Robotics, all from MIT. He is currently taking a...

- Jenny Wakeman
- Jesse Sullivan

Jesse Sullivan

Jesse Sullivan is an American electrician best known for operating a fully robotic limb through a nerve-muscle graft, making him one of the first non-fictional cyborgs....

- Jet Jaguar

Jet Jaguar

is a fictional character who appears in the Godzilla film Godzilla vs. Megalon .-History:In Godzilla vs. Megalon, Jet Jaguar is a robot created by the protagonist, Goro Ibuki. He is initially depicted as a mindless automaton, and is controlled by the evil Seatopians for most of the film...

- Jetter Mars

Jetter Mars

is an anime and manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka. Originally planned by Tezuka as a color remake of the original anime adaptation of his popular manga series Tetsuwan Atom, unfavorable circumstances during the pre-production phase of the project led him to abandon it temporarily...

- Jim Mallon

Jim Mallon

Jim Mallon is an American television and film producer and writer, most notable for being executive producer of the Peabody Award-winning series Mystery Science Theater 3000 ...

- JO-ZERO

JO-ZERO

The JO-ZERO is an agile humanoid robot designed by manga artist Minoru Kamiya, who created the anime show Act On!. The robot, manufactured by Himeji Softworks, was presented at the International Robot Exhibition 2009.-References:*...

- Joanne Pransky

Joanne Pransky

Joanne Pransky is an American robotics expert and futurist who provides professional advice on using and marketing robotics devices. She calls herself the "World's First Robotic Psychiatrist" for her expertise on issues concerning the human/robot relationship. She is a graduate of Tufts University...

- João Pavão Martins

João Pavão Martins

João Pavão Martins is a Full Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico .He was one of the persons behind the creation of the Computer Science and Engineering degree of Instituto Superior Técnico, in 1988, and one of the founders of the Department of Computer...

- Joel Hodgson

Joel Hodgson

Joel Gordon Hodgson is an American writer, comedian and television actor. He is best known for creating Mystery Science Theater 3000 and starring in it as the character Joel Robinson. In 2007 MST3K was listed as "one of the top 100 television shows of all time" by Time.com...

- Johann Borenstein

Johann Borenstein

Johann Borenstein is an Israeli roboticist and Professor at the University of Michigan. Borenstein is well known for his work in autonomous obstacle avoidance, and is credited with the development of the Vector Field Histogram....

- John Cavil
- John DiMaggio

John DiMaggio

John William DiMaggio is an American voice actor. A native of North Plainfield, New Jersey, he is known for his gruff, deep voice and New Jersey accent, which he uses to voice mainly villains and anti-heroes.-Filmography:...

- John J. Leonard

John J. Leonard

John J. Leonard is an American roboticist and Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , Leonard is a renowned researcher in simultaneous localization and mapping, and was...

- John Lenahan

John Lenahan

For the pianist, see John LenehanJohn Lenahan is an American illusionist and entertainer resident in the UK since 1984...

- Johns Hopkins Beast

Johns Hopkins Beast

The Johns Hopkins Beast was an early robot built in the 1960s at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The machine had a rudimentary intelligence and the ability to survive on its own. As it wandered through the white halls of the laboratory, it would seek black wall outlets....

- Joint Compatibility Branch and Bound

Joint Compatibility Branch and Bound

Joint Compatibility Branch and Bound is an algorithm in computer vision and robotics commonly used for data association in simultaneous localization and mapping. JCBB measures the joint compatibility of a set of pairings that successfully rejects spurious matchings and is hence known to robust in...

- Joint constraints

Joint constraints

Joint constraints are rotational constraints on the joints of an artificial bone system. They are used in an inverse kinematics chain, for such things as 3D animation or robotics. Joint constraints can be implemented in a number of ways, but the most common method is to limit rotation about the X,...

- Jorge Cham

Jorge Cham

Jorge Cham is a Chinese Panamanian cartoonist and roboticist best known for his popular newspaper and web comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper . Cham lives in the United States, where he started drawing PhD Comics as a graduate student at Stanford University...

- Joseph Engelberger

Joseph Engelberger

Joseph F. Engelberger is a physicist, engineer and entrepreneur who is referred to as the "Father of Robotics". Licensing the original patent awarded to inventor George Devol, Engelberger developed the first industrial robot in the United States, the Unimate, in the 1950s...

- Josh Weinstein

Josh Weinstein

Josh Weinstein is an American television writer and producer, known for his work on the animated comedy series The Simpsons. Weinstein and Bill Oakley became best friends and writing partners at St. Albans High School; Weinstein then attended Stanford University and was editor-in-chief of the...

- Jumper (BEAM)

Jumper (BEAM)

In BEAM robotics, a Jumper is a robot that has a mode of locomotion by propelling the robot off the ground and from place to place on the ground.-Genera:* Vibrobots : Produces an irregular shaking motion moving themselves around a surface....

- Junkbot

Junkbot

Junkbot is a puzzle video game created by Gamelab for the Lego Group, and hosted on Lego.com. It is about a robot called Junkbot who eats trash. The gameplay involves moving Lego bricks to get the main character, Junkbot to his goal of eating all the trash in each level...

- Justin (robot)

Justin (robot)

Justin is a humanoid robot developed by the German Aerospace Center controlable through telepresence. Justin will be mounted on its own satellite and will be able to maneuver in orbit and fix other satellites. In either 2013 or 2014, The European Space Agency plans to have astronauts aboard the...

- Juvenile (film)

Juvenile (film)

-Plot:11 year old Yusuke, and his classmates are camping in a woods when suddenly they see a bright light streak over the treetops and into the woods.The boys takes off into the woods towards the light....

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K-9 (Doctor Who)

K-9 (Doctor Who)

K-9, or K9, is the name of several fictional robotic canines in the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who, first appearing in 1977...

- Kalman filter

Kalman filter

In statistics, the Kalman filter is a mathematical method named after Rudolf E. Kálmán. Its purpose is to use measurements observed over time, containing noise and other inaccuracies, and produce values that tend to be closer to the true values of the measurements and their associated calculated...

- Karel Čapek

Karel Capek

Karel Čapek was Czech writer of the 20th century.-Biography:Born in 1890 in the Bohemian mountain village of Malé Svatoňovice to an overbearing, emotional mother and a distant yet adored father, Čapek was the youngest of three siblings...

- Karl Stefanovic

Karl Stefanovic

Karl Stefanovic is an Australian Gold Logie winning television presenter.Stefanovic is currently a co-host of the Nine Network's breakfast program, Today.-Early years:...

- KARR (Knight Rider)

KARR (Knight Rider)

KARR is the name of a fictional, automated, prototype vehicle featured as a major antagonist in two episodes of the television series Knight Rider and was part of a multi-episode story arc in the 2008 revived series....

- Katia Sycara

Katia Sycara

Katia Sycara is a Research Professor in the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She serves as the Sixth Century Chair in Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen. She directs the Intelligent Software Agents Lab at Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon...

- Keel (software)

Keel (software)

KEEL is a suite of machine learning software tools, developed under the Spanish National Project TIC2002-04036-C05, TIN2005-08386-C05 and TIN2008-06681-C06.-Description:...

- Kelex

Kelex

Kelex is a fictional robot created by John Byrne as caretaker of Superman's Fortress of Solitude in Superman comic books published by DC Comics...

- Ken Goldberg

Ken Goldberg

Kenneth Y. Goldberg is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and OperationsResearch , with a joint appointment in Electrical Engineering and...

- Ken Ishikawa

Ken Ishikawa

was a Japanese manga artist. He is renowned as the co-creator with Go Nagai, of the Getter Robo anime series, as well as four of their subsequent manga continuations...

- Kenny Baker

Kenny Baker

Kenneth George "Kenny" Baker is a British actor and musician, best known as the man inside R2-D2 in the popular Star Wars film series.- Career :...

- Kevin Warwick

Kevin Warwick

Kevin Warwick is a British scientist and professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom...

- KHR-1

KHR-1

The KHR-1 is a programmable, bipedal humanoid robot introduced in June 2004 by a Japanese company Kondo Kagaku. At the time of its introduction it was one of the least expensive programmable bipedal robots . The robot is 34 cm high and has 17 degrees of freedom...

- Kidnapped robot problem

Kidnapped robot problem

In robotics, the kidnapped robot problem commonly refers to a situation where an autonomous robot in operation is carried to an arbitrary location....

- Kikaider
- Kikaider (character)
- Killbot

Killbot

A Killbot is a generic term for a type of stereotypical fictional robot character, commonly appearing in works of science fiction. Killbots are usually large, menacing machines created to perpetrate murder or other damage....

- Kim Jong-Hwan

Kim Jong-Hwan

Kim, Jong-Hwan is a pioneer in the field of Ubiquitous Robotics and Soccer Robotics, nominated as the Father of Robot Football, . Micro-Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament was his brainchild in October 1995. He is the Founder of FIRA in June 1997 and IROC in October 1998...

- Kinect
- Kinematic chain

Kinematic chain

A kinematic chain is the assembly of several kinematic pairs connecting rigid body segments. The complexity of the chain is determined by the following factors:...

- Kinematics

Kinematics

Kinematics is the branch of classical mechanics that describes the motion of bodies and systems without consideration of the forces that cause the motion....

- Kinemation

Kinemation

Kinemation was one of the first inverse kinematics packages for 3D computer animation, created for Wavefront Technologies' package The Advanced Visualizer . In 1995, Wired described Kinemation as "a huge breakthrough in motion animation". It was used in the mid-1990s by companies such as...

- King Joe (Ultra monster)

King Joe (Ultra monster)

is a fictional robot from the tokusatsu TV series, Ultra Seven.Subtitle: .- History :Appearing first In the form of four ships, King Joe was sent by the Alien Pedan as their main weapon to conquer Earth. The four ships first appeared attacking and destroying a submarine as they alerted an SOS to...

- King Kong Escapes

King Kong Escapes

King Kong Escapes, released in Japan as , is a 1967 Kaiju film. A Japanese/American co-production from Toho and Rankin/Bass . Directed by Ishiro Honda and featuring special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, the film starred both American actors alongside Japanese actors...

- Kinodynamic planning

Kinodynamic planning

In robotics and motion planning, kinodynamic planning is a class of problems for which velocity and acceleration bounds must be satisfied. The term was coined by B. R. Donald, P. G. Xavier, J. Canny, and J. Reif....

- Kismet (robot)

Kismet (robot)

Kismet is a robot made in the late 1990s at Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Dr. Cynthia Breazeal. The robot's auditory, visual and expressive systems were intended to allow it to participate in human social interaction and to demonstrate simulated human emotion and appearance...

- KITT

KITT

KITT is the short name of two fictional characters from the adventure TV series Knight Rider. While having the same acronym, the KITTs are two different entities: one known as the Knight Industries Two Thousand, which appeared in the original TV series Knight Rider, and the other as the Knight...

- Kiva Systems

Kiva Systems

Kiva Systems is a company that makes order fulfillment systems that use mobile robots for warehouse automation. Its material handling systems are used by Staples, Walgreens, GAP, Crate and Barrel, Toys "R" Us and Gilt Groupe, among others.-Overview:...

- Klann linkage

Klann Linkage

The Klann linkage is a planar mechanism designed to simulate the gait of legged animal and function as a wheel replacement. The linkage consists of the frame, a crank, two grounded rockers, and two couplers all connected by pivot joints....

- Knights (film)

Knights (film)

Knights is a 1993 science fiction movie starring kickboxing champion Kathy Long in her debut Hollywood movie.-Plot:A cyborg named Gabriel was created to destroy all the other cyborgs. He later runs into, and saves Nea by killing Simon who is one of the other cyborgs...

- Knowledge-based Configuration

Knowledge-based Configuration

Knowledge-based configuration has a long history as an Artificial Intelligence application area, see, e.g.,,,,,,,...

- Knowledge-based systems

Knowledge-based systems

Knowledge based systems are artificial intelligent tools working in a narrow domain to provide intelligent decisions with justification. Knowledge is acquired and represented using various knowledge representation techniques rules, frames and scripts...

- Knowledge compilation

Knowledge compilation

Knowledge compilation is a family of approaches for addressing the intractability ofa number of artificial intelligence problems.A propositional model is compiled in an off-line phase in order to support some queries in polytime...

- Knowledge level

Knowledge level

In artificial intelligence, knowledge-based agents draw on a pool of logical sentences to infer conclusions about the world. At the knowledge level, we only need to specify what the agent knows and what its goals are; a logical abstraction separate from details of implementation.This notion of...

- Knowledge representation

Knowledge representation

Knowledge representation is an area of artificial intelligence research aimed at representing knowledge in symbols to facilitate inferencing from those knowledge elements, creating new elements of knowledge...

- KO PROPO

KO PROPO

KO PROPO is a manufacturer of radio control equipment and humanoid robot KHR-1, established in Tokyo, Japan in 1945....

- Koolvac

Koolvac

Koolvac was a robotic vacuum cleaner sold in the U.S. by former iRobot distributor Koolatron, owned by Canadian Urus Industrial Corp. iRobot filed a lawsuit against Koolatron, claiming that Koolvac was an unauthorized copy of their Roomba model. iRobot won the court case and Koolatron was...

- Kronos (film)

Kronos (film)

Kronos is a 1957 black and white science fiction film directed by Kurt Neumann, starring Jeff Morrow and Barbara Lawrence. The film is also known as Kronos, Destroyer of the Universe...

- Kryten

Kryten

Kryten is a fictional character in the British science fiction situation comedy Red Dwarf. Kryten's registration code on Red Dwarf is "Kryten additional 001". The name Kryten is a reference to the head butler in the J.M...

- KUKA

KUKA

KUKA is a leading German producer of industrial robots for a variety of industries - from automotive and fabricated metals to food and plastics...

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L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...

- Laboratory automation

Laboratory Automation

Laboratory automation is a multi-disciplinary strategy to research, develop, optimize and capitalize on technologies in the laboratory that enable new and improved processes...

- Laboratory robotics

Laboratory robotics

Laboratory robotics is the act of using robots in biology or chemistry labs. For example, pharmaceutical companies employ robots to move biological or chemical samples around to synthesize novel chemical entities or to test pharmaceutical value of existing chemical matter.Laboratory processes are...

- Lamina emergent mechanisms (LEMs)

Lamina emergent mechanisms (LEMs)

Lamina Emergent Mechanisms also known as LEMs are a subset of compliant mechanisms fabricated from planar materials and have motion emerging from the fabrication plane. LEMs use compliance, or the deflection of flexible members to achieve motion....

- Land Walker

Land Walker

The Land Walker is a one-man, two-legged supposed walker transport, 3.40 metres in height. Made with the assistance of P.A. Technology, the walker is copyright of the Sakakibara Kikai Co. and Ltd....

- Language Acquisition Device (computer)

Language Acquisition Device (computer)

The Language Acquisition Device is a computer program developed by Lobal Technologies, a computer company in the United Kingdom, and scientists from King's College. It emulates the functions of the brain's frontal lobes where humans process language and emotion....

- Language/action perspective

Language/action perspective

Language/Action Perspective is based upon the notion as proposed by Terry Winograd that "expert behavior requires an exquisite sensitivity to context" and that such sensitivity is more in the realm of the human than in that of the artificial....

- Latent variable

Latent variable

In statistics, latent variables , are variables that are not directly observed but are rather inferred from other variables that are observed . Mathematical models that aim to explain observed variables in terms of latent variables are called latent variable models...

- Leg
- Legged robot

Legged robot

thumb|A [[Hexapod |hexapod robot]].Legged robots are a type of mobile robot. They are somewhat a recent innovation in robotics. However, many or all bipedal models are not practical seeing as they are cumbersome and slow. Most successful legged robots have 4 or 6 legs for further stability...

- Legged Squad Support System

Legged Squad Support System

The Legged Squad Support System is the project of a legged robot, planned successor to the BigDog quadruped robot.-Specifications:The Legged Squad Support System is to "Go where dismounts go, do what dismounts do, work among dismounts". The machine is to carry 400lb of squad equipment, sense and...

- Léo Delibes

Léo Delibes

Clément Philibert Léo Delibes was a French composer of ballets, operas, and other works for the stage...

- Leoben Conoy

Leoben Conoy

Leoben Conoy is a fictional character portrayed by Callum Keith Rennie appearing in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series....

- Leonardo's robot

Leonardo's robot

Leonardo's robot refers to a humanoid automaton designed by Leonardo da Vinci around the year 1464, when Leonardo was 12 years old.The design notes for the robot appear in sketchbooks that were rediscovered in the 1950s. Leonardo displayed his "robot" at a celebration hosted by Duke Sforza at the...

- Leonardo (robot)

Leonardo (robot)

Leonardo is a robot developed by Professor Cynthia Breazeal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab in conjunction with Stan Winston Studio and DARPA. Physically it appears to be anthropomorphic, covered in synthetic fur and having a vaguely humanoid body about two and a half feet...

- LESH

LESH

LESH is a recently proposed image descriptor in computer vision. It can be used to get a description of the underlying shape. The LESH feature descriptor is built on local energy model of feature perception, see e.g. phase congruency for more details...

- Leslie P. Kaelbling

Leslie P. Kaelbling

Leslie Pack Kaelbling is an American roboticist, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was a graduate of Stanford University and a student of Nils J. Nilsson...

- LEURRE
- Liar!

Liar!

"Liar!" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and was reprinted in the collections I, Robot and The Complete Robot . It was Asimov's third published positronic robot story...

- LIDA (cognitive architecture)

LIDA (cognitive architecture)

The LIDA cognitive architecture is an integrated artificial cognitive system that attempts to model a broad spectrum of cognition in biological systems, from low-level perception/action to high-level reasoning. Developed primarily by Stan Franklin and colleagues at the University of Memphis, the...

- Linear

Linear

In mathematics, a linear map or function f is a function which satisfies the following two properties:* Additivity : f = f + f...

- Linear actuator

Linear actuator

A linear actuator is an actuator that creates linear motion .Mechanical and hydraulic actuation are the most common methods of achieving the linear motion...

- Liquid handling robot

Liquid handling robot

- Summary :A liquid handling robot is used in automation of chemical or biochemical laboratories. It is a robot that dispenses a selected quantity of reagent, samples or other liquid to a designated container.- Versatility :...

- List of artificial intelligence projects
- List of Doctor Who robots
- List of emerging technologies
- List of fictional female robots and cyborgs
- List of fictional gynoids and female cyborgs
- List of fictional robots and androids
- List of life forms
- List of My Life as a Teenage Robot characters
- List of programming languages for artificial intelligence
- List of Robots characters
- List of To Heart series characters
- Literature

Literature

Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

- Little Orbit the Astrodog and the Screechers from Outer Space

Little Orbit the Astrodog and the Screechers from Outer Space

Little Orbit the Astrodog and the Screechers from Outer Space is a 1979 French animated science fiction film directed by Jean Image.- Plot :...

- Little Robots

Little Robots

Little Robots is a stop-motion animated children's TV series, produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Create TV and Film Limited and broadcast on CBeebies . The fiction series was based on the eponymous book by Mike Brownlow, published by Ragged Bears Publishing...

- Lock Martin

Lock Martin

Lock Martin was the stage name of American actor Joseph Lockard Martin, Jr. He is best remembered for playing the robot Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still ....

- Locomotion

Locomotion

The term locomotion means movement or travel. It may refer to:* Motion * Animal locomotion** Terrestrial locomotion* TravelLocomotion may refer to specific types of motion:* Gait analysis* walking* running, including trotting...

- Loebner Prize

Loebner prize

The Loebner Prize is an annual competition in artificial intelligence that awards prizes to the chatterbot considered by the judges to be the most human-like. The format of the competition is that of a standard Turing test. In each round, a human judge simultaneously holds textual conversations...

- Logic programming

Logic programming

Logic programming is, in its broadest sense, the use of mathematical logic for computer programming. In this view of logic programming, which can be traced at least as far back as John McCarthy's [1958] advice-taker proposal, logic is used as a purely declarative representation language, and a...

- Looj

Looj

The Looj is a rain gutter cleaning domestic robot made and sold by iRobot.The Looj is not an autonomous robot but rather a remote-controlled robot patterned after a toy tank with a power drill mounted on it.-Operation:...

- LOPES (exoskeleton)

LOPES (exoskeleton)

The goal of the LOPES project is to design and implementa gait rehabilitation robot for treadmill training...

- LORAX (robot)

LORAX (robot)

The Life On ice: Robotic Antarctic eXplorer or LORAX is an experimental robotics project being developed by the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, supported by NASA. The intent of the project is to create an autonomous rover to survey the distribution of microbes on Antarctica's ice...

- Lost in Space

Lost in Space

Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series created and produced by Irwin Allen, filmed by 20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast on CBS. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between September 15, 1965, and March 6, 1968...

- Lost in Space (film)

Lost in Space (film)

Lost in Space is a 1998 American science fiction film starring Gary Oldman and William Hurt. The film was shot in London and Shepperton, and produced by New Line Cinema. The plot is adapted from the 1965–1968 CBS television series Lost In Space...

- Lothar (Metabarons)

Lothar (Metabarons)

Lothar is a fictional robot in the Metabarons universe. He is presented firstly being in service of the Metabaron , who asks Tonto to narrate to him of his master's history...

- Ludobot

Ludobot

A ludobot is a type of artificial human companion: an entertainment robot, from Latin ludo and bot .Examples are battlebots, Sony Aibo, GoGo My So Real Walking Pup and so on....

- Lunokhod 1

Lunokhod 1

Lunokhod 1 was the first of two unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of its Lunokhod program. The spacecraft which carried Lunokhod 1 was named Luna 17...

- Lunokhod 2

Lunokhod 2

Lunokhod 2 was the second of two unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod program....

- Lyappa arm

Lyappa arm

The Lyappa arm was a robotic arm used during the assembly of the Soviet/Russian space station Mir. Each of the Kvant-2, Kristall, Spektr and Priroda modules was equipped with one of these arms, which, after the module had docked to the core module's forward port, grapples one of two fixtures...

- Lynxmotion

Lynxmotion

Lynxmotion is a robot parts and kits manufacturing company based in Pekin, Illinois. They design and manufacture a variety of hobby and research level robot kits and parts, and specialize in a modular robotics building system known as the Servo Erector Set....

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M. Anthony Lewis (roboticist)

M. Anthony Lewis (roboticist)

M. Anthony Lewis, Ph.D., is a robotics researcher and CEO of Iguana Robotics, a company specializing in the development of biomorphic robotics technologies....

- M.A.S.K.

M.A.S.K.

M.A.S.K. is an animated television series directed by several uncredited Japanese studios, KK C&D Asia, Studio Juno, Studio World, Ashi Production , and produced by the French-American DIC Enterprises, Inc and also the toyline of the same name sold by Kenner.-History:A total of 75...

- Machine Empire Baranoia

Machine Empire Baranoia

The is a fictional group of antagonists in the Super Sentai Series Chōriki Sentai Ohranger.-Background:Founded by Bacchushund, they are cruel race of machines who conquered an entire chain of galaxies before reaching Earth...

- Machine learning

Machine learning

Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a scientific discipline concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors based on empirical data, such as from sensor data or databases...

- Machine listening

Machine listening

Machine listening is a technique using software and hardware to extract meaningful information from audio signals. The engineer Paris Smaragdis, interviewed in Technology Review, talks about these systems --"software that uses sound to locate people moving through rooms, monitor machinery for...

- Machine olfaction

Machine olfaction

Machine olfaction is the automated simulation of the sense of smell. It is an emerging requirement of modern robotics where robots or other automated systems are needed to measure the existence of a particular chemical concentration in air...

- Machine perception

Machine perception

In computing, machine perception is the ability of computing machines to sense and interpret images, sounds, or other contents of their environments, or of the contents of stored media....

- Machine Robo Rescue

Machine Robo Rescue

was a Japanese anime television series produced by Sunrise and the most recent Machine Robo series to date. A total of 51 episodes and a two-episode special were aired on TV Tokyo from January 8, 2003 to January 3, 2004...

- Machine Robo: Battle Hackers

Machine Robo: Battle Hackers

is a Japanese animated television series produced by Ashi Productions. It ran on TV Tokyo from June 3, 1987 through December 30, 1987.-Connection to Revenge of Cronos:...

- Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos

Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos

is a Japanese anime television series produced by Ashi Productions. It ran on TV Tokyo from July 3, 1986 through May 28, 1987.A large portion of the Machine Robo toy-line was exported and sold by Tonka in America as GoBots and Rock Lords...

- Machine vision

Machine vision

Machine vision is the process of applying a range of technologies and methods to provide imaging-based automatic inspection, process control and robot guidance in industrial applications. While the scope of MV is broad and a comprehensive definition is difficult to distil, a "generally accepted...

- Magnus Egerstedt
- Mahoromatic

Mahoromatic

is a sci-fi romantic comedy manga and animeseries which contains elements of the literary genre of tragic dramas. It is about a female android former soldier, Mahoro...

- MAHRU

MAHRU

MAHRU and AHRA are the first network-based humanoids in the world that are endowed with artificial intelligence through network. Unlike other famous humanoids such as ASIMO, MAHRU and AHRA focus on network-based intelligence by using network infrastructure where South Korea has world-class strengths...

- MakerBot Industries

MakerBot Industries

MakerBot Industries is a Brooklyn, New York-based company founded in January 2009 by Bre Pettis, Adam Mayer, and Zach "Hoeken" Smith producing open source hardware, specifically 3D printers...

- Manifold integration

Manifold integration

Manifold integration is a combined concept of manifold learning and data integration, or an extension of manifold learning for multiple measurements....

- Manifold learning
- Manipulability ellipsoid

Manipulability ellipsoid

In robotics, the manipulability ellipsoid is the geometric interpretation of the scaled eigenvectors resulting from the singular value decomposition of the jacobian that describes a robot's motion....

- Manipulator

Manipulator

In robotics a manipulator is a device used to manipulate materials without direct contact. The applications were originally for dealing with radioactive or biohazardous materials, using robotic arms, or they were used in inaccessible places. In more recent developments they have been used in...

- Manix

Manix

Manix was both the title and main character of a comic strip serial published in the British comics anthology Eagle. The serial first appeared in issue 24 ....

- Manuela M. Veloso

Manuela M. Veloso

Manuela M. Veloso is a Portuguese Computer Scientist and Roboticist and the Herbert A. Simon Professor at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. She is the President of the International RoboCup Federation and a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence....

- Marc Raibert

Marc Raibert

Marc Raibert is a former MIT professor who founded the MIT Leg Lab in the 1980s, and went on to found Boston Dynamics, a simulation and robotics company in 1992. Raibert developed the first self-balancing hopping robots, a significant step forward in robotics...

- MARCbot

MARCbot

MARCbot is a low cost robotic platform used in Iraq for the inspection of suspicious objects. It is one of smallest and most commonly used robots in Iraq and looks like a small toy truck with an elevated mast on which a camera is mounted. This camera is used to look, for example, behind doors or...

- Marine technology

Marine technology

Marine technology is defined by WEGEMT as "technologies for the safe use, exploitation, protection of, and intervention in, the marine environment." In this regard, according to WEGEMT, the technologies involved in marine technology are the following: naval architecture, marine engineering, ship...

- Mark Leon

Mark Leon

Mark Leon is a civil servant with NASA Ames Research Center. His primary work is in education and communication systems.-Early life:Mark Leon grew up in a rather rough East San Jose neighborhood...

- Mark Overmars

Mark Overmars

Markus Hendrik Overmars is a Dutch computer scientist and teacher of game programming known for his game development application Game Maker. Game Maker lets people create computer games using a drag-and-drop interface. He is the head of the Center for Geometry, Imaging, and Virtual Environments...

- Mark Pauline

Mark Pauline

Mark Pauline is an American performance artist and inventor, best known as founder and director of Survival Research Labs. He is a 1977 graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida....

- Mark Stephen Meadows

Mark Stephen Meadows

Mark Stephen Meadows is an American author and artist. In addition to his illustration, books, and travelogues he also develops software. He is the co-inventor of several US patents relating to artificial intelligence and avatars, and he lectures internationally on this work.Meadows is known for...

- Mark Tilden

Mark Tilden

Mark W. Tilden is perhaps best known for his invention of BEAM robotics and the WowWee Robosapien humanoid robot. He is a robotics physicist who produces complex robotic movements from simple analog logic circuits, often with discrete electronic components, and usually without a...

- Mark W. Spong

Mark W. Spong

Mark W. Spong is an American roboticist. He is currently the dean of Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science and the Lars Magnus Ericsson Chair in Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas...

- Markov logic network

Markov logic network

A Markov logic network is a probabilistic logic which applies the ideas of a Markov network to first-order logic, enabling uncertain inference...

- Markov random field
- MarkV-A1

MarkV-A1

The MarkV-A1 is a bomb disposal robot designed by Northrop Grumman. It is part of the Remotec ANDROS line, which includes other robotic EODs. MarkV weighs 800 pounds and is about the size of a riding lawn mower. With its manipulator arm fully extended, the robot's height is 8 feet. The tread system...

- Mars Pathfinder

Mars Pathfinder

Mars Pathfinder was an American spacecraft that landed a base station with roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, and a lightweight wheeled robotic rover named Sojourner.Launched on December 4, 1996 by NASA aboard a Delta II booster a...

- Mars Science Laboratory

Mars Science Laboratory

The Mars Science Laboratory is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration mission with the aim to land and operate a rover named Curiosity on the surface of Mars. The MSL was launched November 26, 2011, at 10:02 EST and is scheduled to land on Mars at Gale Crater between August 6 and 20, 2012...

- Marvin (robot)

Marvin (robot)

Mobile Autonomous Robot Vehicle for Indoor Navigation is a mobile robot developed at Robotics Lab at University of Kaiserslautern, Germany....

- Marvin Miller (actor)

Marvin Miller (actor)

Marvin Elliott Miller was an American film and voice-over actor. Possessing a deep, baritone voice, he began his career in radio in St. Louis, Missouri before becoming a Hollywood actor...

- Marvin the Paranoid Android

Marvin the Paranoid Android

Marvin, the Paranoid Android, is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams. Marvin is the ship's robot aboard the starship Heart of Gold...

- Masahiro Mori

Masahiro Mori

is a Japanese roboticist noted for his pioneering work on the emotional response of humans to non-human entities, as well as for his views on religion and robots. The ASIMO robot was designed by one of Masahiro's students....

- Maschinenmensch

Maschinenmensch

The Maschinenmensch from Metropolis, is a gynoid played by German actress Brigitte Helm in both her robotic and human incarnations...

- Master of the World (1934 film)

Master of the World (1934 film)

The Master of the World is a German science fiction movie made in 1934 . Its themes are the replacement of human labor with robotic replacements, and the threat to humanity by robots used as war machines...

- MATILDA (Military robot)

MATILDA (Military robot)

Mesa Associate's Tactical Integrated Light-Force Deployment Assembly is a remote control military robot designed by Mesa Robotics. As with many other contemporary military robot designs, it is small and relatively portable; MATILDA is 30 inches long, 12 inches tall, 21 inches wide, and weighs 61...

- Matt Groening

Matt Groening

Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell as well as two successful television series, The Simpsons and Futurama....

- Matt Nagle

Matt Nagle

Matthew Nagle was one of the first persons to use a brain-computer interface to restore functionality lost due to paralysis. He was a C3 tetraplegic, paralyzed from the neck down after being stabbed.-Biography:...

- Matthew T. Mason

Matthew T. Mason

Matthew T. Mason is an American roboticist and the Director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University...

- Mazinger Z

Mazinger Z

, known briefly as Tranzor Z in United States, is a Super Robot manga and anime series created by Go Nagai. The first manga version was serialized in Shueisha Weekly Shōnen Jump from October 1972 to August 1973, and it later continued in Kodansha TV Magazine from October 1973 to September 1974. In...

- Mazinger Z (robot)

Mazinger Z (robot)

Mazinger Z is a fictional mecha from the anime and manga series of the same name, created by Go Nagai. Within the story, Mazinger Z was created by Professor Juzou Kabuto and piloted by his grandson Kouji...

- Means-ends analysis

Means-ends analysis

Means-Ends Analysis is a technique used in Artificial Intelligence for controlling search in problem solving computer programs.It is also a technique used at least since the 1950s as a creativity tool, most frequently mentioned in engineering books on design methods...

- Measurement (intellect)
- Mechani-Kong

Mechani-Kong

is a remote-controlled robot double of King Kong introduced in the 1966 animated television series The King Kong Show and featured again in the 1967 film King Kong Escapes. The robot was created by Dr...

- Mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...

- Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...

- Mechanics

Mechanics

Mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the behavior of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment....

- Mechanismo

Mechanismo

Mechanismo is the title of a Judge Dredd story published in the British comic Judge Dredd Megazine in 1992. It was the first story in a series of stories published over the next two years in both the Megazine and 2000 AD, most notably the epic "Wilderlands." The stories concern the Mechanismo...

- Mechanon

Mechanon

Mechanon is a fictional villain in the Hero Universe, setting of the Champions game. He was one of the first "master villains" created for the game and is still used in its publications today.-Fictional origin:...

- Mechatronics

Mechatronics

Mechatronics is the combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, computer engineering, software engineering, control engineering, and systems design engineering in order to design, and manufacture useful products. Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary field of engineering, that is...

- Mechatronics engineering
- Media Lab Europe's social robots

Media Lab Europe's social robots

Joe Robot and Anthropos were social robots at Media Lab Europe. They were developed to aid in research on anthropomorphism and to explore the illusion of life and intelligence during the development of a meaningful social interaction between artificial systems and people...

- Megasaurus

Megasaurus

Megasaurus and Transaurus are transforming robotic dinosaurs. Megasaurus is owned by Mike West and Transaurus is owned by Rick and Sheri Dorritie. They are modeled after a Tyrannosaurus rex and have hydraulically-activated arms, grasping claws, and jaws, as well as flame throwers set up in the...

- Megatron (Transformers)
- Meinü robot

Meinü robot

A Meinü robot is a Chinese gynoid model which was reported on in Chinese news sources in 2006. In Mandarin, Měinǚ Jīqìrén 美女机器人 literally means "beautiful-woman robot" and is officially translated "beauty robot"...

- Mendel Stromm
- Mercurymon

Mercurymon

Mercurymon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, appearing as one of the villains of Digimon Frontier. He was voiced by Yasunori Masutani and Daran Norris , the latter who used a medieval accent...

- Message-passing method

Message-passing method

Message-passing methods are a set of algorithms in statistics/machine learning for doing inference through local computation. Belief propagation on Bayesian networks is a good example of a message-passing method.* Variational message passing...

- Metal Mickey

Metal Mickey

thumb|Metal Mickey, a robot character on UK children's television in the 1980sMetal Mickey was a five-foot-tall fictional robot, which was created, controlled and voiced by Johnny Edward. A modernised vision of a 1950s space toy, Metal Mickey first appeared on British television in the ITV...

- Metal Sonic

Metal Sonic

is a fictional character and a recurring antagonist in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series. In the series, Metal Sonic is an evil identical robotic duplicate of Sonic the Hedgehog, created by the series antagonist Dr. Robotnik, and is able to match Sonic's every move and even surpass his...

- Métamatic

Métamatic

In the mid-1950s Jean Tinguely began production of a series of generative works entitled Métamatics: machines that produced art works. With this series of works Tinguely not only problematised the introduction of the robotic machine as interface in our society, but also questioned the role of the...

- Metin Sitti

Metin Sitti

Metin Sitti is a professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University. He obtained his PhD in Tokyo University. He is interested in micro/nanorobotics, nanomanufacturing, MEMS/NEMS, biomimetic micro/nanosystems, directed self-assembly,...

- MetraLabs GmbH

MetraLabs GmbH

MetraLabs GmbH, develops and produces Mobile Robotic Platforms for the industrial and the commercial market. MetraLabs was founded in 2001 in Ilmenau, Germany...

- Metropolis (anime)

Metropolis (anime)

Metropolis is a 2001 [anime] film and loosely based on the 1949 Metropolis manga created by the late Osamu Tezuka, itself inspired by the 1927 German silent film of the same name, though the two do not share plot elements. The anime, however, does draw aspects of its storyline directly from the...

- Metropolis (film)

Metropolis (film)

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and...

- Michael Chorost

Michael Chorost

Michael Chorost is an American writer and teacher. Born with severe loss of hearing due to rubella, his hearing was partially restored with a cochlear implant in 2001. He subsequently wrote a memoir of the experience, titled Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human...

- Michael Collins (computational linguist)

Michael Collins (computational linguist)

Michael J. Collins is a researcher in the field of computational linguistics.His research interests are in natural language processing as well as machine learning and he has made important contributions in statistical parsing and in statistical machine learning...

- Micro air vehicle

Micro air vehicle

A micro air vehicle , or micro aerial vehicle , is a class of unmanned aerial vehicles that has a size restriction and may be autonomous. Modern craft can be as small as 15 centimetres...

- Microbotics

Microbotics

Microbotics is the field of miniature robotics, in particular mobile robots with characteristic dimensions less than 1 mm...

- Microelectromechanical systems

Microelectromechanical systems

Microelectromechanical systems is the technology of very small mechanical devices driven by electricity; it merges at the nano-scale into nanoelectromechanical systems and nanotechnology...

- Microrobotics
- Microsoft Robotics Studio

Microsoft Robotics Studio

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio is a Windows-based environment for robot control and simulation. It is aimed at academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers and handles a wide variety of robot hardware....

- Mighty Orbots
- Mikamo and Yataka

Mikamo and Yataka

and are fictional characters in the Tenchi Muyo! franchise, currently exclusive to Hitoshi Okuda's No Need for Tenchi! manga series, published in the U.S...

- Mil Mascaras vs. the Aztec Mummy
- Military science

Military science

Military science is the process of translating national defence policy to produce military capability by employing military scientists, including theorists, researchers, experimental scientists, applied scientists, designers, engineers, test technicians, and military personnel responsible for...

- Mindpixel

Mindpixel

Mindpixel was a web-based collaborative artificial intelligence project which aimed to create a knowledgebase of millions of human validated true/false statements, or probabilistic propositions. It ran from 2000 to 2005.-Description:...

- MindRACES
- MineCam

MineCam

The MineCam is a remote exploration camera built by I.A.Recordings. It is used for mine shafts exploration and other similar environments. It was originally conceptualized in 1988, and since went under several design revisions...

- Minimally invasive surgery
- Minimum redundancy feature selection

Minimum redundancy feature selection

Minimum redundancy feature selection is an algorithm frequently used in a method to accurately identify characteristics of genes and phenotypes and narrow down their relevance and is usually described in its pairing with relevant feature selection as Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance...

- Miomir Vukobratović

Miomir Vukobratovic

Miomir Vukobratović is a Serbian mechanical engineer and pioneer in humanoid robots. His major interest is in the development of efficient modeling and control of robot dynamics.-Education:He received the B.Sc. and Ph.D...

- Mission Mars

Mission Mars

Mission Mars was the 2003-04 challenge theme of FIRST Lego League. It revolved around the NASA missions to Mars with the Spirit and Opportunity rovers.-Project:...

- Mitsuteru Yokoyama

Mitsuteru Yokoyama

was a Japanese manga artist born in Suma-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo. His personal name was originally spelled , with the same pronunciation. His works include Tetsujin 28-go, Giant Robo, Akakage, Babel II, Sally, the Witch, Princess Comet, and adaptations of the Chinese classics Outlaws of the Marsh and...

- Miyu Greer

Miyu Greer

is a character in the anime and manga series My-HiME. She also exists in the alternate universe My-Otome, where she is known simply as Miyu. She is voiced by seiyū Kiyomi Asai in Japanese and Maizun Jayoussi in English.- My-HiME anime :...

- Mobile Land Mine

Mobile Land Mine

The Mobile Land Mine was a British World War 2 remote controlled tracked explosive device. It was wire guided and powered by two electric motors.The Mobile Land Mine was designed by Metropolitan-Vickers 1940...

- Mobile manipulator

Mobile manipulator

- Definition :Mobile manipulator is nowadays a widespread term to refer to robot systems built from a robotic manipulator arm mounted on a mobile platform. Such systems combine the advantages of mobile platforms and robotic manipulator arms and reduce their drawbacks...

- Mobile robot

Mobile robot

A mobile robot is an automatic machine that is capable of movement in a given environment.-Overview:Mobile robots have the capability to move around in their environment and are not fixed to one physical location...

- Mobile robot navigation

Mobile robot navigation

For any mobile device, the ability to navigate in its environment is one of the most important capabilities of all. Staying operational, i.e. avoiding dangerous situations such as collisions and staying within safe operating conditions , radiation, exposure to weather, etc.) come first, but if any...

- Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit

Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit

The Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit is a cross-platform and open source C++ library aimed to help robotics researchers to design and implement algorithms related to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping , computer vision and motion planning...

- Modal logic

Modal logic

Modal logic is a type of formal logic that extends classical propositional and predicate logic to include operators expressing modality. Modals — words that express modalities — qualify a statement. For example, the statement "John is happy" might be qualified by saying that John is...

- Model-based reasoning

Model-based reasoning

In artificial intelligence, model-based reasoning refers to an inference method used in expert systems based on a model of the physical world. With this approach, the main focus of application development is developing the model...

- Model robot

Model robot

Model robots is an area of modeling with its origin in the Japanese anime genre of mecha. The majority of model robots are produced by Bandai and are based on the Mobile Suit Gundam anime metaseries. This has given rise to the hobby's common name in Japan, Gunpla...

- Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System

Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System

The Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System is a robot that is being developed by Qinetiq. A member of the TALON family, it will be the successor to the armed SWORDS robot...

- Moguera

Moguera

is a Kaiju featured in two of Toho's science fiction films. The name is derived from the Japanese word for mole.-Showa:...

- Molecular nanotechnology

Molecular nanotechnology

Molecular nanotechnology is a technology based on the ability to build structures to complex, atomic specifications by means of mechanosynthesis. This is distinct from nanoscale materials...

- Monte Carlo localization

Monte Carlo localization

In robotics and sensors, Monte Carlo localization is a Monte Carlo method to determine the position of a robot given a map of its environment based on Markov localization. It is basically an implementation of the particle filter applied to robot localization, and has become very popular in the...

- Monte Carlo Machine Learning Library (MCMLL)

Monte Carlo Machine Learning Library (MCMLL)

The Monte Carlo Machine Learning Library is an open source C++ template library which already relies on some C++0x specs. MCMLL is licensed under the GNU GPL. It is developed under the 64 bit Linux OS...

- Monte Carlo POMDP

Monte Carlo POMDP

In the class of Markov decision process algorithms, the Monte Carlo POMDP is the particle filter version for the partially observable Markov decision process algorithm. In MC-POMDP, particles filters are used to update and approximate the beliefs, and the algorithm is applicable to continuous...

- Moravec's paradox

Moravec's paradox

Moravec's paradox is the discovery by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that, contrary to traditional assumptions, high-level reasoning requires very little computation, but low-level sensorimotor skills require enormous computational resources. The principle was articulated by Hans...

- Morphogenetic robotics

Morphogenetic robotics

Morphogenetic robotics generally refers to the methodologies that address challenges in robotics inspired by biological morphogenesis.The term morphogenetic robotics was first coined in a project discussion in 2009 by Yaochu Jin and his colleague who first published a formalized definition of...

- Morphological computation (robotics)
- Motion (physics)

Motion (physics)

In physics, motion is a change in position of an object with respect to time. Change in action is the result of an unbalanced force. Motion is typically described in terms of velocity, acceleration, displacement and time . An object's velocity cannot change unless it is acted upon by a force, as...

- Motion controller

Motion Controller

A motion controller controls the motion of some object. Frequently motion controllers are implemented using digital computers, but motion controllers can also be implemented with only analog components as well.-Implementation:...

- Motion planning

Motion planning

Motion planning is a term used in robotics for the process of detailing a task into discrete motions....

- Motoman

Motoman

Motoman Inc. is an American subsidiary of the Japanese company Yaskawa Electric Corporation.Motoman produces robotic automation for industry and robotic applications, including arc welding, assembly, clean room, coating, dispensing, material cutting , materials handling, materials removal, and spot...

- Motor

Motor

Motor is a device that creates motion. It usually refers to an engine of some kind. It may also specifically refer to:*Electric motor, a machine that converts electricity into a mechanical motion...

- Motor control

Motor control

Motor control are information processing related activities carried out by the central nervous system that organize the musculoskeletal system to create coordinated movements and skilled actions...

- Movax

Movax

Movax is a Brand name for Finnish excavator mounted Side Grip Sheet Pilers and other same kind of accessories made by Finnish Company Unisto LTD...

- MRI Robot

MRI Robot

An MRI robot is a medical robot capable of operating within a magnetic resonance imaging scanner for the purpose of performing or assisting in image-guided interventions ....

- Multi-Agent Programming Contest

Multi-Agent Programming Contest

The Multi-Agent Programming Contest is an annual international programming competition with stated goal of stimulating research in the area of multi-agent system development and programming.-History:...

- Multi-agent system

Multi-agent system

A multi-agent system is a system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents. Multi-agent systems can be used to solve problems that are difficult or impossible for an individual agent or a monolithic system to solve...

- Multiple discriminant analysis

Multiple discriminant analysis

Multiple Discriminant Analysis is a method for compressing a multivariate signal to yield a lower dimensional signal amenable to classification....

- Musa (robot)

Musa (Robot)

MUSA is a robot that can fight using Kendo. It was completed in July 2005 by the Manufacturing & Mechatronics Lab of Seoul National University headed by Professor Young-Bong Bang. it is 163 cm tall and weighs 70 kg.-References:* *...

- Musa (Robot)

Musa (Robot)

MUSA is a robot that can fight using Kendo. It was completed in July 2005 by the Manufacturing & Mechatronics Lab of Seoul National University headed by Professor Young-Bong Bang. it is 163 cm tall and weighs 70 kg.-References:* *...

- Music and artificial intelligence

Music and Artificial Intelligence

Research in artificial intelligence is known to have impacted medical diagnosis, stock trading, robot control, and several other fields. Perhaps less popular is the contribution of AI in the field of music...

- My Life as a Teenage Robot

My Life as a Teenage Robot

My Life as a Teenage Robot is an American animated television series, created by Rob Renzetti for Nickelodeon. The series follows the adventures of XJ-9, better known as Jenny Wakeman, a female robot designed to protect Earth, who is excessively addicted to teen-related activities, which are almost...

- Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc., that ran from 1988 to 1999....

- Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie is a 1996 theatrical adaptation of the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, produced and set between seasons 6 and 7 of the show. It was released by Gramercy Pictures and Best Brains with distribution held by Universal Pictures...

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Nabaztag

Nabaztag

Nabaztag was a Wi-Fi enabled ambient electronic device in the shape of a rabbit, invented by Rafi Haladjian and Olivier Mével, and manufactured by the company Violet...

- Nano Quest

Nano Quest

Nano Quest was name of the 2006-07 challenge theme of FIRST Lego League. It revolved around the emerging field of nanotechnology.-Project:Teams were tasked with identifying an application of nanotechnology, see where current research stands and creatively improve upon it...

- Nanoengineering

Nanoengineering

Nanoengineering is the practice of engineering on the nanoscale. It derives its name from the nanometre, a unit of measurement equalling one billionth of a meter....

- Nanomorph

Nanomorph

A nanomorph, term first coined by Science Fiction writer David Pulver in 1986's GURPS Robots, is a fictional robot entirely made of nanomachines. Its brain is distributed throughout its whole body, which also acts as an all-around sensor, hence making it impossible to surprise as long as the target...

- Nanorobotics

Nanorobotics

Nanorobotics is the emerging technology field of creating machines or robots whose components are at or close to the scale of a nanometer . More specifically, nanorobotics refers to the nanotechnology engineering discipline of designing and building nanorobots, with devices ranging in size from...

- Nao (robot)

Nao (robot)

Nao is an autonomous, programmable, medium-sized humanoid robot, developed by Aldebaran Robotics, a French startup company headquartered in Paris. Project Nao was launched in 2004. On August 15, 2007, Nao replaced Sony's robot dog Aibo as the robot used in the Robot Soccer World Cup Standard...

- NASA

NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...

- NASA robots

NASA robots

NASA robots are robotic devices used to aid, augment, or substitute for astronauts in order to do difficult or rote tasks such as repairs in dangerous environments , routine procedures , etc....

- National Engineering Robotics Contest

National Engineering Robotics Contest

National Engineering Robotics Contest is an inter universities robotics competition held annually since 2005 at the College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan ....

- Natural City

Natural City

Natural City is a 2003 South Korean science fiction film about a colony world that integrates robots, androids and cyborgs amongst the population.- Plot :...

- Natural language processing

Natural language processing

Natural language processing is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages; it began as a branch of artificial intelligence....

- Natural language understanding

Natural language understanding

Natural language understanding is a subtopic of natural language processing in artificial intelligence that deals with machine reading comprehension....

- Navigation function

Navigation function

Navigation function usually refers to a function of position, velocity, acceleration and time which is used to plan robot trajectories through the environment...

- Navigation research

Navigation research

Whereas originally the term Navigation applies to the process of directing a ship to a destination, Navigation research deals with fundamental aspects of navigation in general...

- Neato Robotics

Neato Robotics

Neato Robotics is a robotics company located in Newark, California. Their product, the Neato XV-11 robotic vacuum cleaner, began selling in 2010 for $399.00...

- Necrons
- Neil Harbisson

Neil Harbisson

Neil Harbisson is a Catalan raised, Northern Ireland born artist, musician and performer best known for his self-extended ability to hear colours. In 2004 he became the first person in the world to wear an eyeborg. The inclusion of the eyeborg on his passport photo has been claimed by some to be...

- Nemesis (film)

Nemesis (film)

Nemesis is a 1992 science fiction film by director Albert Pyun, who also directed the film Cyborg, and stars Olivier Gruner. It is the first installment in the Nemesis film series.-Plot:...

- Nemesis 2: Nebula

Nemesis 2: Nebula

Nemesis 2: Nebula, also known as Nemesis 2, is a 1995 science fiction film by director Albert Pyun, who also directed the film Cyborg. It is the sequel to Nemesis....

- Nemesis 3: Prey Harder

Nemesis 3: Prey Harder

Nemesis 3: Prey Harder, also known as Nemesis 3 and Nemesis 3: Timelapse, is a 1996 science fiction film by director Albert Pyun, who also directed the film Cyborg....

- Nemesis 4: Death Angel

Nemesis 4: Death Angel

Nemesis 4: Death Angel, also known as Nemesis 4 and Cry Of Angels: Nemesis 4, is a 1996 science fiction film by director Albert Pyun, who also directed the film Cyborg. It is the fourth and last installment in the Nemesis film series....

- Neural modeling fields

Neural modeling fields

Neural modeling field is a mathematical framework for machine learning which combines ideas from neural networks, fuzzy logic, and model based recognition. It has also been referred to as modeling fields, modeling fields theory , Maximum likelihood artificial neural networks .This framework has...

- Neural network

Neural network

The term neural network was traditionally used to refer to a network or circuit of biological neurons. The modern usage of the term often refers to artificial neural networks, which are composed of artificial neurons or nodes...

- Neuro-fuzzy

Neuro-fuzzy

In the field of artificial intelligence, neuro-fuzzy refers to combinations of artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic. Neuro-fuzzy was proposed by J. S. R. Jang...

- Neuron Robotics

Neuron Robotics

Neuron Robotics is an robotics development system manufacturer and retailer in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. Their primary focus is developing software and hardware products that allow easy creation of robotics and cyber-physical systems for use in educational settings. Their flagship...

- Neurorobotics

Neurorobotics

Neurorobotics, a combined study of neuroscience, robotics, and artificial intelligence, is the science and technology of embodied autonomous neural systems. Neural systems include brain-inspired algorithms , computational models of biological neural networks Neurorobotics, a combined study of...

- Nomad 200

Nomad 200

The Nomad 200 or N200 was a commercial research robot manufactured in the 1990s by Nomadic Technologies, Inc. It was a cylindrical robot around 1 metre tall and 20 inches in diameter and moved on three wheels. It could travel at 0.5 metres per second and rotate at 60 degrees per second.The basic...

- Nomad rover

Nomad rover

The Nomad rover is an unmanned vehicle designed as a test for such a vehicle to ride on other planets.From June 15 to July 31 of 1997, Carnegie Mellon University deployed the robotic rover Nomad to traverse the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile...

- NOMFET

NOMFET

NOMFET is a nanoparticle organic memory field-effect transistor. The transistor is designed to mimic the feature of the human synapse known as plasticity, or the variation of the speed and strength of the signal going from neuron to neuron. The transistor uses gold nano-particles of about 5—20 nm...

- Non-silicon robot

Non-silicon robot

Non-silicon robots are robotic systems that include no traditional computers, integrated digital or analog solid state devices, or other solid-state electronic devices...

- Norby

Norby

Norby is a fictional robot created by Janet Asimov and Isaac Asimov who stars in his own series of children's science fiction books, The Norby Chronicles. His first appearance was in the 1983 book Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot, in total he appeared in 11 novels in the 'Norby' series...

- Nouvelle AI

Nouvelle AI

During the late 1980s, the approach now known as nouvelle AI was pioneered at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Rodney Brooks. Nouvelle AI is different from classical artificial intelligence in that it tries not to reach for human-level performance, but rather tries to create systems...

- NS-2 (literary character)

NS-2 (literary character)

NS-2 is a Nestor Series 2 robot first appearing in an Isaac Asimov story.Asimov's story "Little Lost Robot" concerned a robot in the Nestor series, the NS-2, which had a modified First Law that enabled it to allow a human being to come to harm through inaction....

- Number Eight (Battlestar Galactica)
- Number Four (Battlestar Galactica)

Number Four (Battlestar Galactica)

Simon , is a fictional character, a Cylon from the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series. He first appears in The Farm , an episode written by Carla Robinson and directed by Rod Hardy...

- Number Seven (Battlestar Galactica)
- Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)

Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)

Number Six is a family of fictional characters from the reimagined science fiction television series, Battlestar Galactica. She is portrayed by Canadian actress and model Tricia Helfer. Of the twelve known Cylon models, she is the sixth of the "Significant Seven"...

- Number Three (Battlestar Galactica)
- Nurse (Ultra monster)

Nurse (Ultra monster)

is a fictional robot from the tokusatsu TV series, Ultra SevenAlien Wild's robot . Nurse appeared in Episodes 11.Subtitle: .- Ultra Seven :His height is around 120 meters tall. He weighs around 150,000 tons....

- Nv network

Nv network

An Nv network is a term used in BEAM robotics referring to the small electrical Neural Networks that make up the bulk of BEAM-based robot control mechanisms.- Basic Building blocks :...

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Object Action Complex

Object Action Complex

Object-Action Complexes are proposed as a universal representation enabling efficient planning and execution of purposeful action at all levels of a cognitive architecture...

- Obstacle avoidance

Obstacle avoidance

In robotics, obstacle avoidance is the task of satisfying some control objective subject to non-intersection or non-collision position constraints...

- Occupancy grid mapping

Occupancy grid mapping

Occupancy Grid Mapping refers to a family of computer algorithms in probabilistic robotics for mobile robots which address the problem of generating maps from noisy and uncertain sensor measurement data, with the assumption that the robot pose is known....

- Odometry

Odometry

Odometry is the use of data from moving sensors to estimate change in position over time. Odometry is used by some robots, whether they be legged or wheeled, to estimate their position relative to a starting location. This method is sensitive to errors due to the integration of velocity...

- Omega Doom

Omega Doom

Omega Doom is a 1996 film by Albert Pyun, starring Rutger Hauer who plays a robot who, during a nuclear winter, plays both sides of a robot civil war against each other in a small town...

- Omnibot

Omnibot

The Omnibot is a toy robot originally manufactured by Tomy in the mid 1980s. The name then came to apply to the successful line of robots manufactured by the company. The initial Omnibot was announced with expectations of restoring popular interest in robots, at a time when it was becoming obvious...

- Ontology engineering

Ontology engineering

Ontology engineering in computer science and information science is a new field, which studies the methods and methodologies for building ontologies: formal representations of a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts....

- Ontology learning

Ontology learning

Ontology learning is a subtask of information extraction. The goal of ontology learning is to semi-automatically extract relevant concepts and relations from a given corpus or other kinds of data sets to form an ontology.The automatic creation of ontologies is a task that involves many disciplines...

- Open-source hardware
- Open-source robotics

Open-source robotics

An open-source robot is a robot whose blueprints, schematics or source code are released under an open-source model.-Full robot projects:*, Open Hardware Medical-Research liquid handling robot*, Mobile Telepresence Research Project, Est...

- Open Directory Project

Open Directory Project

The Open Directory Project , also known as Dmoz , is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links. It is owned by Netscape but it is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.ODP uses a hierarchical ontology scheme for organizing site listings...

- Open Mind Common Sense

Open Mind Common Sense

Open Mind Common Sense is an artificial intelligence project based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab whose goal is to build and utilize a large commonsense knowledge base from the contributions of many thousands of people across the Web.Since its founding in 1999, it has...

- OpenAIR

OpenAIR

OpenAIR is a message routing and communication protocol for artificial intelligence systems that has been gaining in popularity in recent years . The protocol is managed by Mindmakers, and is described on their site in the following manner:...

- OpenCog

OpenCog

OpenCog is a project that aims to build an open source artificial general intelligence framework. OpenCog Prime is a specific set of interacting components designed to give rise to human-equivalent artificial general intelligence...

- OpenIRIS

OpenIRIS

OpenIRIS is the open source version of IRIS, a Semantic Desktop that enables users to create a “personal map” across their office-related information objects.- Overview :...

- OpenRAVE

OpenRAVE

Open Robotics Automation Virtual Environment provides an environment for testing, developing, and deploying motion planning algorithms in real-world robotics applications. The main focus is on simulation and analysis of kinematic and geometric information related to motion planning. OpenRAVE’s...

- Operator (Ghost in the Shell)

Operator (Ghost in the Shell)

An is a fictional class of robot in the Ghost in the Shell series. They are voiced by Eri Oono and Debra Jean Rogers.-Bio:The Operators are designed to handle various tasks within the government agency Public Security Section 9, such as operating computers, carrying equipment within the agency's...

- Opportunity rover

Opportunity rover

Opportunity, MER-B , is a robotic rover on the planet Mars, active since 2004. It is the remaining rover in NASA's ongoing Mars Exploration Rover Mission...

- Optical engineering

Optical engineering

Optical engineering is the field of study that focuses on applications of optics. Optical engineers design components of optical instruments such as lenses, microscopes, telescopes, and other equipment that utilizes the properties of light. Other devices include optical sensors and measurement...

- Optimus Prime

Optimus Prime

Optimus Prime is a fictional character from the Transformers franchise. Prime is the leader of the autobots, a faction of transforming robots from the planet Cybertron. The autobots are constantly waging war against a rival faction of transforming robots called Decepticons...

- Orazio

Orazio

Orazio is a multifunctional robotic vacuum cleaner manufactured by the Italian Zucchetti Group, which both vacuums, cleans and polishes floors.-External links:*...

- Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) Aggregation Operators

Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) Aggregation Operators

Introduced by Ronald R. Yager, the Ordered Weighted Averaging operators, commonly called OWA operators, provide a parameterized class of mean type aggregation operators. Many notable mean operators such as the max, arithmetic average, median and min, are members of this class...

- Osamu Tezuka

Osamu Tezuka

was a Japanese cartoonist, manga artist, animator, producer, activist and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion and Black Jack...

- Outline of artificial intelligence
- Outline of automation
- Outline of machines
- Outline of technology
- Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary , published by the Oxford University Press, is the self-styled premier dictionary of the English language. Two fully bound print editions of the OED have been published under its current name, in 1928 and 1989. The first edition was published in twelve volumes , and...

- Ozma of Oz

Ozma of Oz

Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein published on July 30, 1907, was the third book of L....

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Pachinko machine
- PackBot

PackBot

PackBot is a series of military robots by iRobot. More than 2000 PackBots are currently on station in Iraq and Afghanistan, with hundreds more on the way.-Current PackBot 510 variants:...

- Paint robot

Paint robot

Industrial paint robots have been used for decades in automotive paint applications from the first hydraulic versions - which are still in use today but are of inferior quality and safety - to the latest electronic offerings...

- Panda-Z

Panda-Z

is a Japanese anime television series and a parody of Go Nagai's Mazinger Z. The series premiered on April 12, 2004 and ended in the same year with 30 episodes.-Theme:...

- Parallel manipulator

Parallel manipulator

Parallel robots and parallel manipulators are articulated robots that use similar mechanisms for the movement of either the robot on its base, or one or more manipulator arms...

- Parity benchmark

Parity benchmark

Parity problems are widely used as benchmark problems in genetic programming but inherited from the artificial neural network community. Parity is calculated by summing all the binary inputs and reporting if the sum is odd or even...

- Particle filter

Particle filter

In statistics, particle filters, also known as Sequential Monte Carlo methods , are sophisticated model estimation techniques based on simulation...

- Passive dynamics

Passive dynamics

Passive dynamics is an approach to robotic movement control , based on utilising the momentum of swinging limbs for greater efficiency. This method is based on using the morphology of a mechanical system as a basis for necessary controls...

- Patient registration

Patient registration

Patient registration is the concept and set of methods needed to correlate the reference position of a virtual 3D dataset gathered by computer medical imaging with the reference position of the patient...

- Patrick Brantseg

Patrick Brantseg

Patrick Brantseg was the Art Director and puppeteer for "Gypsy" on Mystery Science Theater 3000, taking over the character from Jim Mallon, the show's producer, mid-way through the show's eighth season. He began his career at Best Brains, Inc. as an intern in 1992. In that same year he was hired to...

- Paul Verhoeven
- PEAS

PEAS

P.E.A.S. is an acronym in artificial intelligence that stands for Performance, Environment, Actuators, Sensors.-Performance:Performance is a function that measures the quality of the actions the agent did....

- Percept (artificial intelligence)

Percept (artificial intelligence)

A percept is the input that an intelligent agent is perceiving at any given moment. It is essentially the same concept as a percept in psychology, except that it is being perceived not by the brain but by the agent. A percept is detected by a sensor, often a camera, processed accordingly, and acted...

- Perceptual Computing

Perceptual Computing

Perceptual Computing is an application of Zadeh's theory of computing with words on the field of assisting people to make subjective judgments.-Perceptual Computer:...

- Perceptual Robotics

Perceptual Robotics

Perceptual robotics is an interdisciplinary science linking Robotics and Neuroscience. It investigates biologically motivated robot control strategies, concentrating on perceptual rather than cognitive processes and thereby sides with J. J. Gibson's view against the Poverty of the stimulus...

- Perrone Robotics

Perrone Robotics

Perrone Robotics is a robotics software company based out of Charlottesville, Virginia and formed in 2001. The company formed as a low budget side project in 2004 to build an autonomous robotic dune buggy for participation in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge...

- Personal Robot

Personal Robot

A personal robot is one whose human interface and design make it useful for individuals. This is by contrast to industrial robots which are generally configured and operated by robotics specialists...

- Pete (Disney character)
- Peter Nordin

Peter Nordin

Peter Nordin is a Swedish computer scientist, entrepreneur and author who has contributed to artificial intelligence, automatic programming, machine learning, and evolutionary robotics.- Studies and early career :...

- Pfaffian constraint

Pfaffian constraint

In robot motion planning, a Pfaffian constraint is a set of k linearly independent constraints linear in velocity, i.e., of the formA \dot q=0One source of Pfaffian constraints is rolling without slipping in wheeled robots....

- Pharmacy automation
- Phidget

Phidget

A phidget is a physical representation or implementation of a GUI widget. For example, an on-screen dial widget could be implemented physically as a knob....

- Phil Tippett

Phil Tippett

Phil Tippett is a movie director and an award-winning visual effects supervisor and producer, who specializes in creature design and character animation.-Early career:...

- Philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

- Philosophy of artificial intelligence

Philosophy of artificial intelligence

The philosophy of artificial intelligence attempts to answer such questions as:* Can a machine act intelligently? Can it solve any problem that a person would solve by thinking?...

- Phobot

Phobot

Phobot is a robot that exhibits behaviour that mimics fear and overcoming it by graded exposure. The robot was voted the public's favourite at a conference on human-robot interaction in Amsterdam. It was designed by a team of students at the University of Amsterdam, and constructed from Lego...

- Phoenix-bot Phoenix King

Phoenix-bot Phoenix King

Phoenix King is a South Korean animated feature film. It was later dubbed into English and released in America and Europe as Defenders of Space and parts of its footage was used to create Space Thunder Kids...

- Photoreflector

Photoreflector

A Photoreflector is a light emitting diode and a phototransistor housed in a compact package that can be used for detection of proximity and colour of objects.They are a popular component in line following robots and other robotics....

- Phototrope

Phototrope

In BEAM robotics, a Phototrope is a robot that reacts to light sources. Literally, "light turning," this term is generally applied to light-seeking robots...

- Physical computing

Physical computing

Physical computing, in the broadest sense, means building interactive physical systems by the use of software and hardware that can sense and respond to the analog world. While this definition is broad enough to encompass things such as smart automotive traffic control systems or factory automation...

- Physicomimetics

Physicomimetics

Physicomimetics is derived from physis – φύσις and mimesis - μίμησις ....

- Physics

Physics

Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

- PINO

PINO

The Open PINO Platform is an open humanoid robot platform, with its mechanical and software design covered by the GNU Free Documentation License and GNU General Public License respectively....

- Pipeline video inspection

Pipeline video inspection

Pipeline video inspection is a form of telepresence used to visually inspect the interiors of pipelines. A common application is to determine the condition of small diameter sewer lines and household connection pipes....

- Pitch

Pitch

Pitch may refer to:* Pitch , a viscous substance produced by plants or formed from petroleum* Pitch * sales pitch** elevator pitch, a very short sales pitch such as that made during an elevator ride* Pitch accent-Music and acoustics:...

- Planeta Bur

Planeta Bur

Planeta Bur is a 1962 Soviet film directed by Pavel Klushantsev.The film is also known as Planet of the Storms, Planet of Storms, Planet of Tempests, Planeta Burg and Storm Planet....

- Planner (programming language)
- Plantoid

Plantoid

A plantoid is a hypothetical robot or synthetic organism designed to look, act and grow like a plant. The concept was first scientifically published in 2010 and has so far remained largely theoretical...

- Player Project

Player Project

The Player Project is a project to create free software for research into robotics and sensor systems . Its components include the Player network server and Stage and Gazebo robot platform simulators...

- Plen

Plen

Plen is a small desktop toy humanoid robot that can replicate complex human movements. It is controlled remotely by use of a Bluetooth enabled phone. When programmed, it is able to use a skateboard, rollerskates, pick up, kick and throw small things, and stand up if he tumbles to the floor...

- Pleo

Pleo

Pleo is an animatronic pet dinosaur toy designed to emulate the appearance and behavior of a week-old baby Camarasaurus. It was designed by Caleb Chung, the co-creator of the Furby, Chung's company Ugobe sold pleo and was manufactured by Jetta...

- Plug & Pray

Plug & Pray

Plug & Pray is a 2010 documentary film about the promise, problems and ethics of artificial intelligence and robotics. The main protagonists are the former MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum and the futurist Raymond Kurzweil.- Synopsis :...

- Pluto (Astro Boy)

Pluto (Astro Boy)

, known as Bruton in the English dubbed 1980 Astro Boy television series, is a fictional character created by Osamu Tezuka. He was introduced in story arc of the Astro Boy manga....

- Pneumatic artificial muscles

Pneumatic artificial muscles

Pneumatic artificial muscles are contractile or extensional devices operated by pressurized air filling a pneumatic bladder. In a vague approximation of human muscles, PAMs are usually grouped in pairs: one agonist and one antagonist....

- Pneumatics

Pneumatics

Pneumatics is a branch of technology, which deals with the study and application of use of pressurized gas to effect mechanical motion.Pneumatic systems are extensively used in industry, where factories are commonly plumbed with compressed air or compressed inert gases...

- Pocketdelta robot

Pocketdelta robot

The PocketDelta robot is a micro robot based on a parallel structure called “Delta robot”. It has been designed to perform micro-assembly tasks where high-speed and high-precision are needed in a reduced working space...

- Polly (robot)

Polly (robot)

Polly was a robot created at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Ian Horswill for his PhD and published in 1993 as a technical report....

- Pose (computer vision)

Pose (computer vision)

In computer vision and in robotics, a typical task is to identify specific objects in an image and to determine each object's position and orientation relative to some coordinate system. This information can then be used, for example, to allow a robot to manipulate an object or to avoid moving...

- Powered exoskeleton

Powered exoskeleton

A powered exoskeleton, also known as powered armor, or exoframe, is a powered mobile machine consisting primarily of an exoskeleton-like framework worn by a person and a power supply that supplies at least part of the activation-energy for limb movement.Powered exoskeletons are designed to assist...

- PreAct

PreAct

PreAct is a cognitive engine technology that is driven both by changes in the state of the world and the intent of the system’s users called associate systems. Associate systems are a knowledge-based system that are designed to work in conjunction with a human operator...

- Principle of rationality

Principle of rationality

In the context of knowledge-based systems, Newell proposed the following principle of rationality:This principle is employed by agents at the knowledge level to move closer to a desired goal.-See also:*Artificial intelligence...

- Probabilistic logic network

Probabilistic logic network

A probabilistic logic network is a novel conceptual, mathematical and computational approach to uncertain inference; inspired by logic programming, but using probabilities in place of crisp truth values, and fractional uncertainty in place of crisp known/unknown values...

- Probabilistic roadmap
- PROGOL

PROGOL

Progol is an implementation of Inductive Logic Programming used in computer science that combines "Inverse Entailment" with "general-to-specific search" through a refinement graph. "Inverse Entailment" is used with mode declarations to derive the most-specific clause within the mode language which...

- Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly

Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly

The PUMA is an industrial robot arm developed by Victor Scheinman at pioneering robot company Unimation...

- Programming by Demonstration

Programming by demonstration

In computer science, programming by demonstration is an End-user development technique for teaching a computer or a robot new behaviors by demonstrating the task totransfer directly instead of programming it through machine commands....

- Progress in artificial intelligence

Progress in artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence has been used in a wide range of fields including medical diagnosis, stock trading, robot control, law, scientific discovery and toys...

- Project Joshua Blue

Project Joshua Blue

Joshua Blue is a project under development by IBM that focuses on advancing the artificial intelligence field by designing and programing computers to emulate human mental functions.-Goals:...

- Project Shadowchaser

Project Shadowchaser

Project Shadowchaser, also known as Shadowchaser and Project: Shadowchaser, is a 1992 science fiction film by director John Eyres. It is the first installment in the Project Shadowchaser film series.-Synopsis:...

- Project Shadowchaser II

Project Shadowchaser II

Project Shadowchaser II, also known as Shadowchaser II, Night Scenes: Project Shadowchaser II, Night Siege and Armed And Deadly, is a 1994 science fiction film by director John Eyres...

- Project Shadowchaser III

Project Shadowchaser III

Project Shadowchaser III, also known as Shadowchaser III, Project Shadowchaser 3000 and Edge Of Darkness, is a 1995 science fiction film by director John Eyres...

- Project Shadowchaser IV

Project Shadowchaser IV

Project Shadowchaser IV, also known as Shadowchaser IV, Shadowchaser: The Gates Of Time, Orion's Key and Alien Chaser, is a 1996 science fiction film by director Mark Roper...

- Prosthetic
- PROWLER

PROWLER

PROWLER was a mid-1980s experimental robot mobile sentry gun device.The name was an acronym standing for "Programmable Robot Observer With Logical Enemy Response" ;...

- Psychology

Psychology

Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

- Push the Talking Trash Can

Push the Talking Trash Can

Push the Talking Trash Can is a radio-controlled robot, created by Daniel Deutsch, which makes daily rounds throughout Tomorrowland inside the Magic Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida; Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure park in Anaheim, California, Hong Kong...

- Puzzlehead

Puzzlehead

Puzzlehead is a Sci fi drama starring Stephen Galaida, Robbie Shapiro, and Mark Janis. It was written and directed by James Bai and the film debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 21, 2005 before opening in limited release in New York City on March 23, 2006.- Plot :Walter, a scientist living...

- Python Robotics

Python Robotics

Python Robotics is a project designed to create an easy-to-use interface for accessing and controlling a wide variety of real and simulated robots.-History:...

- QRIO

QRIO

QRIO was to be a bipedal humanoid entertainment robot developed and marketed by Sony to follow up on the success of its AIBO toy. QRIO stood approximately 0.6 m tall and weighed 7.3 kg...

R

R. Daneel Olivaw

R. Daneel Olivaw

R. Daneel Olivaw is a fictional robot created by Isaac Asimov. The "R" initial in his name stands for "robot," a naming convention in Asimov's future society...

- R.O.B.

R.O.B.

R.O.B. , released in Japan as the , is an accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released in July 1985 in Japan and later that year in North America. It had a short product lifespan, with support for only two games which comprised the "Robot Series"; Gyromite and Stack-Up. R.O.B...

- R.U.R.
- R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Čapek. R.U.R. stands for Rossum's Universal Robots, an English phrase used as the subtitle in the Czech original. It premiered in 1921 and introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.The...

- R2-D2

R2-D2

R2-D2 , is a character in the Star Wars universe. An astromech droid, R2-D2 is a major character throughout all six Star Wars films. Along with his droid companion C-3PO, he joins or supports Anakin Skywalker, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Obi-Wan Kenobi in various points in the saga...

- Radiotrope

Radiotrope

In BEAM robotics, a radiotrope is a robot that reacts to radio frequency sources. Literally, "radio turning," this term is generally applied to radio frequency seeking robots. More accurately, radiotropes can either seek or flee sources of radio waves....

- Randall Beer

Randall Beer

Randall D. Beer is a professor of cognitive science, computer science, and informatics at Indiana University. He was previously at Case Western Reserve University. His primary research interest is in understanding how coordinated behavior arises from the neurodynamics of an animal's nervous...

- Randall Munroe

Randall Munroe

Randall Patrick Munroe is an American webcomic author and former NASA roboticist as well as a programmer, best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd...

- Ranx the Sentient City

Ranx the Sentient City

Ranx the Sentient City is a fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Comics universe. It first appeared in the short story "Tygers", written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill, in Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Annual #2 ....

- RanXerox

RanXerox

Ranxerox is a science fiction graphic novel series by Stefano Tamburini and Tanino Liberatore, two Italian artists who had worked on such magazines as Cannibale and Frigidaire...

- RAPID

RAPID

RAPID is a high-level programming language used to control ABB industrial robots. RAPID was introduced along with S4 Control System in 1994 by ABB, superceeding the ARLA programming language.Features in the language include:* Routine parameters:...

- Rapid prototyping

Rapid prototyping

Rapid prototyping is the automatic construction of physical objects using additive manufacturing technology. The first techniques for rapid prototyping became available in the late 1980s and were used to produce models and prototype parts. Today, they are used for a much wider range of applications...

- Rapidly-exploring random tree

Rapidly-exploring random tree

A Rapidly-exploring random tree is a data structure and algorithm designed for efficiently searching nonconvex, high-dimensional search spaces. The tree is constructed in such a way that any sample in the space is added by connecting it to the closest sample already in the tree.RRTs, developed by...

- RapidMiner
- RAPOSA

RAPOSA

RAPOSA is a robot for Search and Rescue operations, designed to operate in outdoors hazardous environments, such as debris resulting from structure collapses. At this stage, the robot is equipped for search operations only, defined as the tele-operated detection of victims, using specific sensors,...

- Rational agent

Rational agent

In economics, game theory, decision theory, and artificial intelligence, a rational agent is an agent which has clear preferences, models uncertainty via expected values, and always chooses to perform the action that results in the optimal outcome for itself from among all feasible actions...

- Ray Solomonoff

Ray Solomonoff

Ray Solomonoff was the inventor of algorithmic probability, and founder of algorithmic information theory, He was an originator of the branch of artificial intelligence based on machine learning, prediction and probability...

- Raymond Goertz

Raymond Goertz

Raymond Goertz was an early pioneer in the field of robotics, specifically remote-controlled robots . In 1951, while working for the Atomic Energy Commission at Argonne National Laboratory he developed the first master/slave manipulator in order to handle radioactive material...

- RB5X

RB5X

The RB5X is a cylinder-shaped robot with an arm and a transparent, dome-shaped top. It has an RS-232 communications interface. It was first released circa 1983. Its inputs include eight bumper panels, a photodiode and a sonic transducer. The robot learns from experience.The robot was often given...

- Real Robot

Real Robot

is a genre of Japanese animation. The genre contains mecha robots that are powered by conventional power sources and weapons explainable by real world science, and that use ranged weapons and speed to survive battle situations....

- Real Steel

Real Steel

Real Steel is a 2011 American science fiction film starring Hugh Jackman and directed by Shawn Levy. The film is based in part on the 1956 short story "Steel" by Richard Matheson, though Levy placed the film in U.S. state fairs and other "old-fashioned" Americana settings. Real Steel was in...

- Recurrent neural network

Recurrent neural network

A recurrent neural network is a class of neural network where connections between units form a directed cycle. This creates an internal state of the network which allows it to exhibit dynamic temporal behavior. Unlike feedforward neural networks, RNNs can use their internal memory to process...

- Red Dwarf

Red Dwarf

Red Dwarf is a British comedy franchise which primarily comprises eight series of a television science fiction sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999 and Dave from 2009–present. It gained cult following. It was created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, who also wrote the first six series...

- Red Dwarf characters

Red Dwarf characters

This is a list of characters from the TV sitcom Red Dwarf.-Major characters:-Ace Rimmer:Ace Rimmer is an alter-ego of Arnold Rimmer, also played by Chris Barrie. Ace first appears in the episode Dimension Jump and is the antithesis of Rimmer, modest despite being a popular, knowledgeable daredevil...

- Red Whittaker
- REEM-B

REEM-B

REEM-A and REEM-B are the first and second prototypes of humanoid robots created by PAL Robotics. REEM-B can recognize, grasp and lift objects and travel by itself, avoiding obstacles through simultaneous localization and mapping. The robot accepts voice commands and can recognize faces.-...

- Reinforcement learning

Reinforcement learning

Inspired by behaviorist psychology, reinforcement learning is an area of machine learning in computer science, concerned with how an agent ought to take actions in an environment so as to maximize some notion of cumulative reward...

- Reis Robotics

Reis Robotics

Reis Robotics is a leading technology company for robotics and system integration. Their robotic automation solutions are used by all major application fields such as solar energy, foundry and welding. The Reis Robotics group comprises three German subsidiaries and eight international subsidiaries...

- Remote Center Compliance

Remote Center Compliance

In robotics, a Remote Center Compliance, Remote Center of Compliance or RCC is a mechanical device that facilitates automated assembly by preventing peg-like objects from jamming when they are inserted into a hole with tight clearance...

- Remote handling

Remote handling

Remote handling is the synergistic combination of technology and engineering management systems to enable operators to safely, reliably and repeatedly perform manipulation of items without being in personal contact with those items.-Overview:...

- Remote manipulator

Remote manipulator

A remote manipulator, also known as a telefactor, telemanipulator, or waldo , is a device which, through electronic, hydraulic, or mechanical linkages, allows a hand-like mechanism to be controlled by a human operator...

- Remote surgery

Remote surgery

Remote surgery is the ability for a doctor to perform surgery on a patient even though they are not physically in the same location. It is a form of telepresence. Remote surgery combines elements of robotics, cutting edge communication technology such as high-speed data connections and elements...

- Replicant

Replicant

A replicant is a bioengineered or biorobotic being created in the film Blade Runner . The Nexus series—genetically designed by the Tyrell Corporation—are virtually identical to an adult human, but have superior strength, agility, and variable intelligence depending on the model...

- Replicator (Stargate)

Replicator (Stargate)

In the military science fiction series Stargate SG-1, the Replicators are antagonistic self-replicating machines that propagate by ingesting the metals that make up civilizations and use them to create either blocks that form the bug-like version or smaller cells that compose the human-form...

- Rescue robot

Rescue robot

A rescue robot is a robot that has been designed for the purpose of aiding rescue workers. Common situations that employ rescue robots are mining accidents, urban disasters, hostage situations, and explosions. Rescue robots were used in the search for victims and survivors after the September 11...

- Rescue Robots

Rescue Robots

Rescue Robots was a British game show that was made by the creators of Robot Wars and Techno Games and was presented by Anna Williamson. The series was based on an original idea of Adam Clark. The show was first shown on CITV in 2003....

- Research and development

Research and development

The phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of...

- Reverse-Flash

Reverse-Flash

Reverse-Flash is a title that has been taken by three supervillains in DC Comics. All of them have super-speed and are enemies of the Flash dynasty.-Golden Age:...

- Reymond Clavel

Reymond Clavel

Reymond Clavel is director of the at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. He is one of the pioneers in the development of parallel robots, and the inventor of the notable Delta robot. His interest in research and his teaching are related mostly to robotics, micro-robotics...

- Reza Olfati-Saber

Reza Olfati-Saber

Reza Olfati-Saber is an Iranian roboticist and Assistant Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Olfati-Saber is an internationally renowned expert in the control and coordination of multi-robot formations.-Education:...

- Richard Vaughan (robotics)

Richard Vaughan (robotics)

Richard Vaughan is a robotics and artificial intelligence researcher at Simon Fraser University in Canada. He is the founder and director of the SFU Autonomy Laboratory. In 1998, Vaughan demonstrated the first robot to interact with animals and in 2000 co-founded the Player Project, a robot...

- RNA Automation

RNA Automation

RNA Automation, a member of Rhein-Nadel Automation, was established in Birmingham UK in 1986, and has progressed into becoming the major supplier of parts handling equipment in the UK...

- Ro-Busters

Ro-Busters

Ro-Busters is a British comic story that formed part of the original line-up of Starlord. Similar in premise to that of the Thunderbirds television series, it was created by writer Pat Mills and was drawn by Carlos Pino and Ian Kennedy initially, before Starlord's merger with 2000 AD...

- Rob Grant

Rob Grant

Robert Grant is a British comedy writer and television producer, who was born in Salford and studied Psychology at Liverpool University for two years....

- Robai

Robai

Robai is a company that develops robotics products for the consumer, research, and educational communities. Robai’s primary product is the line of Cyton Alpha robotic arms. These robot arms have seven degrees of freedom and are kinematically redundant with a structural layout similar to that of...

- Robbie (short story)
- Robby the Robot

Robby the Robot

Robby the Robot is a fictional character who has made a number of appearances in science fiction movies and television programs after his first appearance in the 1956 MGM science fiction film Forbidden Planet.-Overview:...

- Robert C. Michelson

Robert C. Michelson

Robert C. Michelson is an American engineer and academic widely known for inventing the entomopter, a biologically inspired flapping-winged aerial robot, and for having established the International Aerial Robotics Competition. He has received degrees in electrical engineering from the Virginia...

- Robert Heinlein
- Robert Kinoshita

Robert Kinoshita

Robert Kinoshita is an artist, art director, and set and production designer who worked in the American film and television industries from the 1950s through the early 1980s.-Biography:...

- Robert Llewellyn

Robert Llewellyn

Robert Llewellyn is an English actor, presenter, and writer. He is best known as the mechanoid Kryten in the hit sitcom Red Dwarf, and for his role as presenter of Scrapheap Challenge.-Early career:...

- Robert Wise

Robert Wise

Robert Earl Wise was an American sound effects editor, film editor, film producer and director...

- Robert Wood (roboticist)

Robert Wood (roboticist)

Robert Wood is a roboticist and an assistant professor of electrical engineering and of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, and is the director of the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley...

- Robin Sparkles
- Robita

Robita

Robita is a fictional character, a robot who appears in Osamu Tezuka's manga series Phoenix. It is also a character in the modern Astro Boy animated series.-Phoenix:...

- Roblog

Roblog

Roblog is a neologism for a blog written by a robot with no human intervention.Roblogs were made possible with a new generation of robots which are capable of uploading images and texts automatically to the Web...

- Robo Machine

Robo Machine

Robo Machine was a European transforming robot toyline released by Bandai from 1982 to 1988. The line was initially a European release of their Machine Robo line, before gradually becoming the counterpart to Tonka’s Gobots line...

- Robo Machines

Robo Machines

Robo Machines was a short-lived European transforming robot toyline released by Bandai from late 1992 to 1993. It was meant as an attempt to revive the European Robo Machine toyline that ran from 1982 to approximately 1988...

- Robo Machines (comic)

Robo Machines (comic)

The Robo Machines was a comic serial which ran in Eagle from 10 November 1984 to 27 July 1985. It was based on the Bandai toyline of the same name, the British version of Gobots.-Background:...

- Robo One

Robo One

Robo-One is a robot competition category of bipedal humanoid robots. The first ROBO-ONE contest was held in Japan in 2002 and consisted of an initial judged autonomous "Demonstration" stage, followed by one-on-one matches...

- RoboCop

RoboCop

RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction-action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future, RoboCop centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg known as "RoboCop"...

- RoboCop 2

RoboCop 2

RoboCop 2 is a 1990 science fiction action film directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bayer, Tom Noonan and Gabriel Damon. Set in the near future in a dystopian metropolitan Detroit, Michigan...

- RoboCop 3

RoboCop 3

RoboCop 3 is a science fiction action film, released in 1993, set in the near future in a dystopian metropolitan Detroit, Michigan, and filmed in Atlanta, Georgia. Most of the buildings seen in the film were slated for demolition to make way for facilities for the 1996 Olympics. Nancy Allen as...

- Robocrane

Robocrane

The Robocrane is a kind of manipulator resembling a Stewart platform but using an octahedral assembly of cables instead of struts. Like the Stewart platform, the Robocrane has six degrees of freedom .It was developed by James S...

- RoboCup 2D Soccer Simulation League

RoboCup 2D Soccer Simulation League

The RoboCup 2D Simulated Soccer League is the oldest of the RoboCup Soccer Simulation Leagues. It consists of a number of competitions with computer simulated soccer matches as the main event....

- RoboCup Middle Size League

RoboCup Middle Size League

The RoboCup Middle Size League or MSL is one of the RoboCup robot soccer leagues.Two teams of 5 mid-sized robots with all sensors on-board play soccer on a field...

- RoboDynamics

RoboDynamics

RoboDynamics develops technologies that enable robotic telepresence. Robotic telepresence is the ability of a person to instantly transport his presence to a remote location by using a robot to embody him in the remote location....

- Roboexotica

Roboexotica

Roboexotica is an annual festival where scientists, researchers, computer experts and artists from all over the world build cocktail robots and discuss technological innovation, futurology and science fiction....

- RoboGeisha

RoboGeisha

is a 2009 Japanese sci-fi action B movie written and directed by Noboru Iguchi, visual effects directed by Tsuyoshi Kazuno, and special effects directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura. All three had previously worked together on The Machine Girl, and Nishimura worked on Tokyo Gore Police. The film...

- RoboLogix

RoboLogix

-Overview:RoboLogix is a robotics simulator which uses a physics engine to emulate real-world robotics applications. The advantages of using robotics simulation tools are that they save time in the design of robotics applications and they can also greatly increase the level of safety associated...

- Robomagellan

Robomagellan

SRS RoboMagellan or Robomagellan was created by the Seattle Robotics Society and is a small scale autonomous vehicle race in which robots navigate between predefined start and finish points. The start and finish points are usually represented as GPS coordinates and marked by orange traffic cones...

- Robomaxx

Robomaxx

Robomaxx is a robotic floor cleaner.However, in contrast to most other robotic cleaners, no vacuum cleaner mechanism is present, nor are there any circuits to decide on which path the robot takes. Instead an oil impregnated cloth is attached to the bottom of the robot and this picks up dirt...

- RoboMop

RoboMop

- The RoboMop, is a robotic floor duster introduced RoboMop International AS. :The device consists of a hat-shaped frame with an electrostatic dust pad on the bottom, driven by a self-propelled ball, about 8 cm diameter tall, that fits into the middle of the frame. The product is powered by a...

- Robonaut

Robonaut

Robonaut is a humanoid robotic development project conducted by the Dextrous Robotics Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas...

- Robonexus

Robonexus

Robonexus is the largest robotics event in the U.S.. Over 10,000 Attended RoboNexus in 2004. Another event is scheduled for 2005 in Silicon Valley....

- Robopsychology

Robopsychology

Robopsychology is the study of the personalities of intelligent machines. The term and the concept were popularised by Isaac Asimov in the short stories collected in I, Robot, which featured robopsychologist Dr...

- RoboRocks

RoboRocks

RoboRocks is an annual high school robotics competition that challenges teams to create autonomous robots in seven weeks for a game. The competition makes use of the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kit.-Sponsors:...

- RoboSapien

RoboSapien

RoboSapien is a toy-like biomorphic robot designed by Mark Tilden and produced by WowWee toys. The RoboSapien is preprogrammed with moves, and also can be controlled by an infrared remote control included with the toy, or by either a personal computer equipped with an infrared transmitter, and an...

- Robosapien v2

Robosapien v2

The Robosapien V2 is the second generation of Mark Tilden's Robosapien robot. It is nearly twice the size of the original robot, standing around tall. Instead of the original caveman grunts the V2 can speak a large list of pre-recorded phrases...

- Robot

Robot

A robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous, semi-autonomous or...

- Robot-assisted heart surgery
- Robot-sumo

Robot-sumo

Robot-sumo, or pepe-sumo, is a sport in which two robots attempt to push each other out of a circle . The robots used in this competition are called sumobots....

- Robot AL-76 Goes Astray
- Robot Archie

Robot Archie

Robot Archie is the name of a fictional comic book character who first appeared in Lion #1 published in February 1952.-Publishing history:...

- Robot as a Service
- Robot B-9

Robot B-9

The B-9, Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot was a character in the television series Lost in Space. Known and addressed simply as "Robot", his full designation was only occasionally mentioned on the show.-History:...

- Robot calibration

Robot calibration

Robot calibration is the process of determining the actual values of kinematic and dynamic parameters of an industrial robot . Kinematic parameters describe the relative position and orientation of links and joints in the robot while the dynamic parameters describe arm and joint masses and...

- Robot combat

Robot combat

Robot combat is a hobby/sport in which two or more custom-built machines use varied methods of destroying or disabling the other. As of today, in most cases these machines are remote-controlled vehicles rather than autonomous robots, although there are exceptions, particularly in the field of...

- Robot competition

Robot competition

A robotic competition is an event where robots have to accomplish a given task. Usually they have to beat other robots in order to become the best one.Most competitions are for schools but as time goes by, several professional competitions are arising....

- Robot control

Robot control

-See also:* Control theory* Mobile robot navigation* Robot kinematics* Simultaneous localization and mapping* Robot locomotion* Motion planning* Robot learning* Vision Based Robot Control...

- Robot Detective
- Robot end effector

Robot end effector

In robotics, an end effector is the device at the end of a robotic arm, designed to interact with the environment. The exact nature of this device depends on the application of the robot....

- Robot fetishism

Robot fetishism

Robot fetishism is a fetishistic attraction to humanoid robots; also to people acting like robots or people dressed in robot costumes. A less common fantasy involves transformation into a robot...

- Robot Football

Robot Football

Robot Football is an academic sport organised by the Federation of International Robot-soccer Association. It aims to create a team of robots capable of beating a human side at football by 2050.Robot football began in 1995 in Korea...

- Robot Hall of Fame

Robot Hall of Fame

The Robot Hall of Fame was established in 2003 by the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. It is designed to honor both achievements in robotics technology and robots from science fiction that have served as creative inspiration in robotics...

- Robot Interaction Language

Robot Interaction Language

The Robot Interaction Language is the first spoken language created specifically for talking to robots. ROILA is being developed by the Department of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology. The major goals of ROILA are that it should be easily learnable by the user, and optimized...

- Robot jockey

Robot jockey

A robot jockey is commonly used on camels in camel racing as a replacement for human jockeys. Developed since 2004, the robotic jockeys are slowly phasing out the use of human jockeys, which in the case of camel racing in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, often employs small...

- Robot Jox

Robot Jox

Robot Jox is a 1990 science fiction film directed by Stuart Gordon, and starring Gary Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson, and Paul Koslo.-Plot:Fifty years after a nuclear holocaust, open war is forbidden by the surviving nations, which have merged into two opposing super-nations: the American-influenced...

- Robot kinematics

Robot kinematics

Robot kinematics is the study of the motion of robots. In a kinematic analysis the position, velocity and acceleration of all the links are calculated without considering the forces that cause this motion. The relationship between motion, and the associated forces and torques is studied in robot...

- Robot kit

Robot kit

A robot kit is a special construction kit for building robots, especially autonomous mobile robots.Toy robot kits are also supplied by several companies...

- Robot learning

Robot learning

Robot learning is a subset of machine learning and robotics.Usually "robot learning" refers to learning to perform tasks such as obstacle avoidance, control and various other motion-related tasks. While machine learning is frequently used by computer vision algorithms employed in the context of...

- Robot locomotion

Robot locomotion

Robot locomotion is the collective name for the various methods that robots use to transport themselves from place to place. Although wheeled robots are typically quite energy efficient and simple to control, other forms of locomotion may be more appropriate for a number of reasons...

- Robot Magazine

Robot Magazine

Robot Magazine is an American bi-monthly robotics publication produced by the Maplegate Media Group. The first issue appeared in November 2003...

- Robot Monster

Robot Monster

Robot Monster is a 1953 American science fiction film made in 3-D by Phil Tucker. It is frequently considered one of the worst films ever made.- Plot :...

- Robot operating system

Robot operating system

A robot operating system is an operating system made especially for the functioning of a robot.-Open-source:* ROS * -Proprietary:* Advanced Robotics Control Operating System *...

- Robot software

Robot software

Robot software is the coded commands that tell a mechanical device what tasks to perform and control its actions. Robot software is used to perform tasks and automate tasks to be performed. Programming robots is a non-trivial task...

- Robot Stories

Robot Stories

Robot Stories is a 2003 independent film written and directed by Greg Pak.-Plot:The film consists of four stories in which human characters struggle to connect in a world of robot babies and android office workers...

- Robot Torg

Robot Torg

Torg was a robot character in the 1964 Christmas movie, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. In the movie, Torg attacks Santa's workshop, and is finally turned into a Christmas toy. It appeared to have been crudely constructed from cardboard, silver paint, glue-on controls, and ducting work for arms...

- Robot Wars grand finalists

Robot Wars grand finalists

The following is a list of notable contestants that have reached the grand final in Robot Wars.-Series 1:*Robot The Bruce*Cunning Plan*Bodyhammer*Roadblock*T.R.A.C.I.E*Recyclopse-See also:*Robot Wars*Robot combat - includes types of robots...

- Robot welding

Robot welding

Robot welding is the use of mechanized programmable tools , which completely automate a welding process by both performing the weld and handling the part. Processes such as gas metal arc welding, while often automated, are not necessarily equivalent to robot welding, since a human operator...

- Robotboy

Robotboy

Robotboy is a British animated television series which is produced by French production company Alphanim with TV Channels France 3 and Cartoon Network as well as Luxanimation...

- Robotboy (character)

Robotboy (character)

Robotboy is the titular character in the animated television series Robotboy.-Modes:The Robotboy character is a battle robot with three modes of operation: Deactivated, Activated, and Superactivated. Deactivation mode is Robotboy's standby stage, where he becomes compact enough to fit into a backpack...

- RobotCub Consortium

RobotCub Consortium

RobotCub was a 5 years long project funded by the European Commission through Unit E5 "Cognition" of the IST. The project started in 2004 and terminated in January 2010...

- Roboteer

Roboteer

The word roboteer refers to those with interests or careers in robotics. It dates back to the 1930s and is also used in 'Future Shock' .The term roboteer was used by Barbara Krasnov for a story on Deb Huglin, owner of the Robotorium, Inc., in New York City in the early 1980s. Huglin was a...

- RobotFest

RobotFest

RobotFest is an event where Creativity and Technology Come Together. It features robots and robotic-themed demonstrations, held annually at the National Electronics Museum in Linthicum, Maryland since 2000....

- Robotic arm

Robotic arm

A mechanical arm is a robotic, usually programmable, with similar functions to a human arm. The links of such a manipulator are connected by joints allowing either rotational motion or translational displacement. The links of the manipulator can be considered to form a kinematic chain...

- Robotic book scanner

Robotic book scanner

A robotic book scanner is a machine which is used to scan books, integrating automated components that allow the device to exceed the speed of traditional manual imaging devices such as camera stands...

- Robotic laws

Robotic laws

Robotic laws are real or conceptual sets of restrictions on the behavior of robots.In fiction, perhaps the most prominent expression of this concept is the Three Laws of Robotics described by Isaac Asimov in many of his short stories and novels. A nonfictional, speculative form can be found in...

- Robotic mapping

Robotic mapping

Robotic mapping is related to cartography. The goal for an autonomous robot to be able to construct a map or floor plan and to localize itself in it...

- Robotic massage chair
- Robotic pet

Robotic pet

A robotic pet is an artificially intelligent machine made in the image of an animal commonly kept as a pet. So far, these animals include dogs, cats, rabbits, and birds. Some people even treat these robots as actual pets. Robotic pets may also include things not normally considered pets, like...

- Robotic sensing

Robotic sensing

Robotic sensing is a branch of robotics science intended to give robots sensing capabilities, so that robots are more human-like. Robotic sensing mainly gives robots the ability to see, touch, hear and move and uses algorithms that require environmental feedback.-Method:The visual sensing system...

- Robotic surgery

Robotic surgery

Robotic surgery, computer-assisted surgery, and robotically-assisted surgery are terms for technological developments that use robotic systems to aid in surgical procedures....

- Robotic vacuum cleaner
- Robotic voice effects

Robotic voice effects

"Robot voices" became a recurring element in popular music starting in the second half of the twentieth century. Several methods of producing variations on this effect have arisen.-Vocoder:...

- Roboticist

Roboticist

A roboticist designs, builds, programs, and experiments with robots. Since robotics is a highly interdisciplinary field, roboticists often have backgrounds in a number of disciplines including computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer engineering...

- Robotics

Robotics

Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots...

- Robotics Certification Standards Alliance

Robotics Certification Standards Alliance

The Robotics Certification Standards Alliance is a global company that has been actively providing robotics curriculums, training, online testing systems and certification since 1998....

- Robotics conventions

Robotics conventions

There are many conventions used in the robotics research field. This article summarises these conventions.-Line representations:Lines are very important in robotics because:...

- Robotics Design

Robotics Design

Robotics Design Inc. is a company that designs and builds modular robots, founded and incorporated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1997. The company produces mobile robots, robotic manipulators and manual arms as well as custom solutions using modular robotic technology...

- Robotics middleware

Robotics middleware

-General concepts:Robotics middleware is middleware to be used in complex robot control software systems. It is the glue software that every system developer wants to use to connect software components together...

- Robotics suite

Robotics suite

A robotics suite is a visual environment for robot control and simulation. They are typically an end-to-end platform for robotics development and include tools for visual programming and creating and debugging robot applications...

- Robotics Team 159

Robotics Team 159

Robotics Team 159 is a FRC Team based at Poudre High School in Fort Collins, Colorado in the United States. Alpine Robotics was founded in 1998, and since then has won the Chairman's Award at four regional tournaments....

- Robotis Bioloid

Robotis Bioloid

The Robotis Bioloid is a hobbyist and educational robot kit produced by the Korean robot manufacturer Robotis. The Bioloid platform consists of components and small, modular servomechanisms called Dynamixels, which can be used in a daisy-chained fashion to construct robots of various...

- Robotoid

Robotoid

A robotoid is an "artificial lifeform" that is created through processes that are totally different from cloning or synthetics.Perhaps the first mention of "robotoid" was in the Lost in Space episode War of the Robots which originally aired on February 9, 1966 and credits Robby the Robot as a...

- Robotomy

Robotomy

Robotomy is a Cartoon Network American animated television series created by Michael Buckley and Joe Deasy, directed by Christy Karacas , voice directed by Michael Sinterniklaas, and produced by World Leaders Entertainment. The series was developed after a long series of unaccepted ideas, and...

- Robots (film)

Robots (film)

Robots is a 2005 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios for 20th Century Fox, and was released theatrically on March 11, 2005. The story was created by Chris Wedge and William Joyce, a children's book author/illustrator. The two were trying to create a film version of...

- Robots in literature

Robots in literature

Artificial humans and autonomous artificial servants have a long history in human culture, though the term Robot and its modern literary conception as a mobile machine equipped with an advanced artificial intelligence are more fairly recent...

- Robotshop

Robotshop

RobotShop Distribution Inc. specializes in distributing domestic robots and other robotic products and services...

- RoboTurb

RoboTurb

RoboTurb is a welding robot used to repair turbine blades developed at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. It is a redundant robot with a flexible rail....

- Roboty

Roboty

ROBOTY is a differential wheeled robot with self balancing, motion, speech and Object recognition capabilities. ROBOTY is also the first autonomous robot in Yemen, all of which will be primarily controlled by voice commands. The final goal of this research project is to build a robot capable of...

- Roderic Grupen

Roderic Grupen

Rod Grupen is a professor of Computer science and director of the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Professor Grupen's research integrates signal processing, control, dynamical systems, learning, and development as a means of constructing intelligent...

- Rodney Brooks

Rodney Brooks

Rodney Allen Brooks is the former Panasonic professor of robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1986 he has authored a series of highly influential papers which have inaugurated a fundamental shift in artificial intelligence research...

- Rog-2000

Rog-2000

Rog-2000 is a fictional robot that was the first professional creation of comic book artist-writer John Byrne. Rog-2000 serves as the mascot of Byrne Robotics.-Publication history:...

- Roger W. Brockett

Roger W. Brockett

Roger Ware Brockett is an American control theorist and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, who founded the Harvard Robotics Laboratory in 1983.-Biography:...

- Roller (BEAM)

Roller (BEAM)

In BEAM robotics, a Roller is a robot that has a mode of locomotion by rolling all or part of the robot.-Genera:* Symets : Driven mode of locomotion via a single motor...

- Ronald C. Arkin

Ronald C. Arkin

Ronald Craig Arkin is an American roboticist and roboethicist, and a Regents' Professor in the School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is known for the motor schema technique in robot navigation and for his book Behavior-Based...

- RoSta

Rosta

Rosta or Rustah was the name of a district in Isfahan area in Iran attested in historical sources. The Persian explorer Ibn Rustah was a native of Rosta....

- Rota Vector

Rota Vector

Rota vector is a gear set used in the robotics and machine tool industry for a large gear reduction in a confined space with little or no backlash or backfeed interference....

- Rottweiler (film)

Rottweiler (film)

Rottweiler is a science fiction horror film directed by Brian Yuzna and starring from Paulina Gálvez, Paul Naschy and Ivana Baquero.- Plot :In 2018 a prisoner named Dante and his inmate escape from a punishment camp in southern Spain...

- Rough fuzzy hybridization

Rough fuzzy hybridization

Rough fuzzy hybridization is a method of hybrid intelligent system or soft computing, where Fuzzy set theory is used for linguistic representation of patterns, leading to a fuzzy granulation of the feature space. Rough set theory is used to obtain dependency rules which model informative regions in...

- Rover (The Prisoner)

Rover (The Prisoner)

Rover is a fictional entity from the 1967 British television program The Prisoner, and was an integral part of the way 'prisoners' were kept within The Village. It was depicted as a floating white ball that could coerce, and, if necessary, disable inhabitants of The Village, primarily Number Six...

- Rowa Automatisierungssysteme

Rowa Automatisierungssysteme

Rowa Automatisierungssysteme GmbH is market leader for automated stock handling in pharmacies and hospitals with its storage and dispensing systems....

- RS Media

RS Media

The RS Media is another product in WowWee's line of biomorphic robots, based on a walking system designed by Mark Tilden. The RS Media uses basically the same body as the Robosapien V2, but a different brain based on a Linux kernel. As the name implies, the RS Media's focus is on multimedia...

- Rule-based system

Rule-based system

In computer science, rule-based systems are used as a way to store and manipulate knowledge to interpret information in a useful way. They are often used in artificial intelligence applications and research.-Applications:...

- Runaway (1984 film)

Runaway (1984 film)

Runaway is a 1984 science fiction action film starring Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons and Cynthia Rhodes. This film also features Kirstie Alley in one of her early appearances. The film was written and directed by Michael Crichton. The original music score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith, and was the...

- RunBot

RunBot

RunBot is a miniature bipedal robot with the ability to dynamically alter its gait in response to changes in terrain. The software for the system represents a unique and successful attempt at modeling the architecture of the human brain. A modular manifestation allows a change in a small number of...

- Ruzena Bajcsy

Ruzena Bajcsy

Ružena Bajcsy is an American computer scientist who specializes in robotics. She is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley,, where she is also Director Emerita of CITRIS .She was previously Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at...

S

S-bot mobile robot

S-bot mobile robot

The s-bot is a small differential wheeled mobile robot developed at the LIS at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland between 2001 and 2004. Targeted to swarm robotics, a field of artificial intelligence, it was developed within the Swarm-bots project, a Future and Emerging Technologies project...

- S. Shankar Sastry
- Saburo Yatsude

Saburo Yatsude

is a collective pen name used by Toei Company television producers when contributing to their various anime and tokusatsu series, whereas Izumi Todo is solely Toei Animation...

- Safety engineering

Safety engineering

Safety engineering is an applied science strongly related to systems engineering / industrial engineering and the subset System Safety Engineering...

- Samsung SGR-A1

Samsung SGR-A1

The Samsung SGR-A1 is a South Korean military robot sentry designed to replace human counterparts in the demilitarized zone at the South and North Korea border. It is a stationary system made by Samsung defense subsidiary Samsung Techwin.-History:...

- Samuel Anders

Samuel Anders

Samuel T. Anders is a fictional character from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series, played by Michael Trucco...

- Sandstorm (vehicle)

Sandstorm (vehicle)

Sandstorm is an autonomous vehicle. Created by Carnegie Mellon University's Red Team, it is a heavily modified 1986 M998 HMMWV. It competed in the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2004 and 2005.Sandstorm qualified in first position in the 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge...

- Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is a 1964 science fiction film that regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made. It is regularly featured in the "bottom 100" list on the Internet Movie Database, and was also featured in an episode of the 1986 syndicated series, the Canned Film...

- Santa Claus machine

Santa Claus machine

A Santa Claus Machine, named after the folkloric Santa Claus, is a hypothetical machine that is capable of creating any required object or structure out of any given material. It is most often referenced by futurists and science fiction writers when discussing hypothetical projects of enormous...

- Sarcoman

Sarcoman

The Sarcoman is an entertainment robot remotely controlled by a human operator . The System was used by Ford for all exhibitions and auto shows during the 1995 Season. It can also be computer-controlled for automated shows. It is made by Sarcos.-External links:***...

- Sarcos

Sarcos

Sarcos is an American engineering and robotics firm based in the University of Utah Research Park in Salt Lake City, Utah. It specializes in robotics, microelectromechanical systems, medical devices, artificial limbs, and powered exoskeletons...

- Saturn 3

Saturn 3

Saturn 3 is a 1980 science fiction film starring Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel. Direction is credited to Stanley Donen. The project was conceived by John Barry. Barry was due to direct until a dispute with Douglas led to his replacement...

- Saul Tigh

Saul Tigh

Saul Tigh is a fictional character on Battlestar Galactica played by Michael Hogan. The character was named Paul Tigh in early scripts, and was renamed due to legal issues, according to producer Ronald D. Moore. He is one of the main characters of the show.-Overview and personality:Saul Tigh is a...

- SAVIOUR (robot)

SAVIOUR (robot)

SAVIOUR is a rescue robot system from Pakistan. SAVIOUR is an acronym for "Semi Autonomous Vehicle for Inpection, Observation and Ultimate Rescue"...

- Sawfish harvester

Sawfish harvester

The Sawfish harvester is a submersible robot produced by the Triton Logging Inc.. It is designed for cutting down submerged trees and popping them to the surface, with large pincers and a chainsaw. Such trees are generally submerged when dams are built near existing forests, and their wood...

- SCARA

SCARA

The SCARA acronym stands for Selective Compliant Assembly Robot Arm or Selective Compliant Articulated Robot Arm.In 1981, Sankyo Seiki, Pentel and NEC presented a completely new concept for assembly robots. The robot was developed under the guidance of Hiroshi Makino, a professor at the University...

- Science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

- Science fiction film

Science fiction film

Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception, and time travel, often along with futuristic...

- Scratch

Scratch

Scratch may refer to:* A mark or indentation on a surface: Abrasion It may also refer to:- Recordings :* Scratch , by Kaela Kimura* Scratch , the soundtrack to the 2001 documentary Scratch...

- Scratch and Grounder
- Screamers (1995 film)
- Scud: The Disposable Assassin

Scud: The Disposable Assassin

Scud: The Disposable Assassin is a humorous, hyperkinetic science fiction comic by Rob Schrab about a world in which one can buy robot assassins out of vending machines, the most popular of which are intelligent robots that kill a specified target and then self-destruct.The protagonist of the...

- Search algorithm

Search algorithm

In computer science, a search algorithm is an algorithm for finding an item with specified properties among a collection of items. The items may be stored individually as records in a database; or may be elements of a search space defined by a mathematical formula or procedure, such as the roots...

- Sebastian Thrun

Sebastian Thrun

Sebastian Thrun is a Research Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory . He led the development of the robotic vehicle Stanley which won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, and which is exhibited in the Smithsonian...

- Seed AI

Seed AI

Seed AI is a hypothesized type of strong artificial intelligence capable of recursive self-improvement. Having improved itself it would become better at improving itself, potentially leading to an exponential increase in intelligence...

- SEIF SLAM

SEIF SLAM

In robotics, the SEIF SLAM is the use of the sparse extended information filter to solve the simultaneous localization and mapping by maintaining a posterior over the robot pose and the map. Similar to GraphSLAM, the SEIF SLAM solves the SLAM problem fully, but is an online algorithm ....

- Seiko Epson

Seiko Epson

, commonly known as Epson, is a Japanese technology company and one of the world's largest manufacturers of computer printers, information and imaging related equipment...

- Self-balancing unicycle
- Self-management (computer science)

Self-management (computer science)

Self-Management is the process by which computer systems shall manage their own operation without human intervention. Self-Management technologies are expected to pervade the next generation of network management systems....

- Self-reconfiguring modular robot
- Self-replicating machine

Self-replicating machine

A self-replicating machine is an artificial construct that is theoretically capable of autonomously manufacturing a copy of itself using raw materials taken from its environment, thus exhibiting self-replication in a way analogous to that found in nature. The concept of self-replicating machines...

- Semi Human Instinctive Artificial Intelligence

Semi Human Instinctive Artificial Intelligence

Semi Human Instinctive Artificial Intelligence is a new Artificial Intelligence methodology, first designed to be used in RoboCup competitions. Nowadays it has been used to resolve many different problems.- Overview :...

- Sense Plan Act

Sense Plan Act

Sense-Plan-Act was the predominate robot control methodology through 1985.# Sense - gather information using the sensors# Plan - create a world model using all the information, and plan the next move# Act...

- Sensitive skin

Sensitive skin

Sensitive skin, also known as sensate skin, is an electronic sensing skin placed on the surface of a machine such as a robotic arm. The goal of the skin is to sense important environmental parameters—such as proximity to objects, heat, moisture, and direct touch sensations...

- Sensor

Sensor

A sensor is a device that measures a physical quantity and converts it into a signal which can be read by an observer or by an instrument. For example, a mercury-in-glass thermometer converts the measured temperature into expansion and contraction of a liquid which can be read on a calibrated...

- Sensor fusion

Sensor fusion

Sensor fusion is the combining of sensory data or data derived from sensory data from disparate sources such that the resulting information is in some sense better than would be possible when these sources were used individually...

- Senster

Senster

The Sensterwas a work of robotic art created by Edward Ihnatowicz. It was commissioned by Philips to be exhibited in the Evoluon, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands and was on display from 1970 to 1974, when it was dismantled....

- Sentic computing

Sentic computing

Sentic computing is a multi-disciplinary approach to opinion mining and sentiment analysis at the crossroads between affective computing and common sense computing, which exploits both computer and social sciences to better recognize, interpret and process opinions and sentiments over the Web.In...

- Serial manipulator

Serial manipulator

Serial manipulators are by far the most common industrial robots. Often they have an anthropomorphic mechanical arm structure, i.e. a serial chain of rigid links, connected by joints, forming a "shoulder", an "elbow", and a "wrist"....

- Serpentor

Serpentor

Serpentor is a fictional character from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, a line of military-themed toys created by Hasbro. The character was introduced in 1986 as a toy with an air chariot and included in the animated series that same year.-Toys:...

- Service robot

Service robot

Service robots assist human beings, typically by performing a job that is dirty, dull, distant, dangerous or repetitive, including household chores. They typically are autonomous and/or operated by a build in control system, with manual override options....

- SERVO Magazine

SERVO Magazine

SERVO Magazine is a monthly robotics publication produced by T&L Publications. The first issue appeared in November 2003. SERVO Magazine was a primary sponsor behind the Tetsujin competition, a contest where teams were challenged to design robotic exoskeletons capable of lifting...

- Servo motor

Servo motor

thumb|right|200px|Industrial servomotorThe grey/green cylinder is the [[Brush |brush-type]] [[DC motor]]. The black section at the bottom contains the [[Epicyclic gearing|planetary]] [[Reduction drive|reduction gear]], and the black object on top of the motor is the optical [[rotary encoder]] for...

- Servomechanism

Servomechanism

thumb|right|200px|Industrial servomotorThe grey/green cylinder is the [[Brush |brush-type]] [[DC motor]]. The black section at the bottom contains the [[Epicyclic gearing|planetary]] [[Reduction drive|reduction gear]], and the black object on top of the motor is the optical [[rotary encoder]] for...

- Seth A. Hutchinson

Seth A. Hutchinson

Seth A. Hutchinson is an American Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is best known for his book Principles of Robot Motion - Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations, co-authored with Howie Choset, Kevin M. Lynch, George Kantor,...

- Seth J. Teller

Seth J. Teller

Seth Jared Teller is an American computer scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Teller is a renowned researcher in computer vision, sensor networks, and robotics.Teller received his Ph.D...

- Shadow Hand

Shadow Hand

The Shadow Dexterous Hand is a humaniform robot hand system developed by The Shadow Robot Company in London. The hand is comparable to a human hand in size and shape, and reproduces all of its degrees of freedom...

- Shakey the robot

Shakey the Robot

Shakey the Robot was the first general-purpose mobile robot to be able to reason about its own actions. While other robots would have to be instructed on each individual step of completing a larger task, Shakey could analyze the command and break it down into basic chunks by itself...

- Shakey the Robot

Shakey the Robot

Shakey the Robot was the first general-purpose mobile robot to be able to reason about its own actions. While other robots would have to be instructed on each individual step of completing a larger task, Shakey could analyze the command and break it down into basic chunks by itself...

- Shigeo Hirose

Shigeo Hirose

BEng, MEng, PhD is an award winning pioneer of robotics technology and a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.Born in Tokyo and attending Hibiya High School, he graduated from Yokohama National University in 1971 and received a Ph.D from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1976 where he...

- Short Circuit

Short Circuit

Short Circuit is a 1986 comedy science fiction film starring Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg and directed by John Badham. Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, and G. W...

- Short Circuit 2

Short Circuit 2

Short Circuit 2 is a 1988 comedy science fiction film, the sequel to 1986's film Short Circuit. It was directed by Kenneth Johnson, and starred Fisher Stevens as Ben Jahrvi , Michael McKean as Fred Ritter, Cynthia Gibb as Sandy Banatoni, and Tim Blaney as the voice of Johnny 5 Short Circuit 2 is a...

- Shyster (expert system)

Shyster (expert system)

SHYSTER is a legal expert system developed at the Australian National University in Canberra. It was written as the doctoral dissertation of James Popple under the supervision of Robin Stanton, Roger Clarke, Peter Drahos, and Malcolm Newey...

- Silent Running

Silent Running

Silent Running is a 1972 environmentally themed science fiction film starring Bruce Dern and directed by Douglas Trumbull, who had previously worked as a special effects supervisor on such science fiction films as 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Andromeda Strain.-Plot summary:Silent Running depicts a...

- Silicate (AI)

Silicate (AI)

Silicates were a fictional race of androids created by humanity to be servants in the 1995-1996 television series Space: Above and Beyond.-History:...

- Silver Swan (automaton)

Silver Swan (automaton)

The Silver Swan is an automaton dating from the 18th Century and is housed in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Teesdale, County Durham, England....

- Simbad robot simulator

Simbad robot simulator

Simbad robot simulator is an open source cross-platform software simulator used to develop robotics and artificial intelligence applications. The Simbad project started in 2005, initially developed by Dr. Louis Hugues and is widely used for educational purposes. Simbad is distributed under the GNU...

- Simon Penny

Simon Penny

Simon Graeme Penny is an Australian artist, theorist, curator and teacher in the field of Interactive Media Art.-Early life:...

- Simultaneous localization and mapping

Simultaneous localization and mapping

Simultaneous localization and mapping is a technique used by robots and autonomous vehicles to build up a map within an unknown environment , or to update a map within a known environment , while at the same time keeping track of their current location.- Operational definition :Maps are used...

- Singleton (global governance)

Singleton (global governance)

In futurology, a singleton is a hypothetical world order in which there is a single decision-making agency at the highest level, capable of exerting effective control over its domain, and permanently preventing both internal and external threats to its supremacy...

- Sinistron
- Siri Personal Assistant

Siri Personal Assistant

Siri is an intelligent software assistant and knowledge navigator functioning as a personal assistant application for iOS. The application uses a natural language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of web services...

- Sitter (BEAM)

Sitter (BEAM)

In BEAM robotics, a sitter is a type of robot that does not move. Such robots have no self-contained means of transportation and are non-mobile. Instead of moving, sitters are usually designed to power lights in some sort of pattern...

- Situated

Situated

In artificial intelligence and cognitive science, the term situated refers to an agent which is embedded in an environment. The term situated is commonly used to refer to robots, but some researchers argue that software agents can also be situated if:...

- Situated robotics

Situated robotics

In artificial intelligence and cognitive science, the term situated refers to an agent which is embedded in an environment. In this used, the term is used to refer to robots, but some researchers argue that software agents can also be situated if:...

- Six degrees of freedom

Six degrees of freedom

Six degrees of freedom refers to motion of a rigid body in three-dimensional space, namely the ability to move forward/backward, up/down, left/right combined with rotation about three perpendicular axes...

- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a 2004 American pulp adventure science-fiction film written and directed by Kerry Conran in his directorial debut. The film is set in an alternative 1939 and follows the adventures of Polly Perkins , a newspaper reporter, and Harry Joseph "Joe" Sullivan ,...

- Slider (BEAM)

Slider (BEAM)

In BEAM robotics, a Slider is a robot that has a mode of locomotion by moving body parts smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it.-Genera:* Snakes : Driven mode of locomotion in a horizontal wave motion....

- Small Wonder (TV series)
- SMART Agent

SMART Agent

SMART Agents are a new form of software agent that interface with other agents forming an artificial intelligence system.The acronym "SMART" stands for "System for Managing Agents in Real Time"....

- Smart objects

Smart objects

A Smart Object is an object that can describe its own possible interactions. The opposite approach to Smart Objects are 'plain' objects that do not provide this information...

- Smash Martians

Smash Martians

The Smash Martians were the stars of a series of 1970's and early 1980's TV advertising campaigns for Smash instant mashed potato in the UK. They were a family of Martian robots who would watch humans laboriously preparing mashed potato the traditional way on TV...

- SMErobot
- Snake-arm robot

Snake-arm robot

A snake-arm robot is a slender hyper-redundant manipulator. The high number of degrees of freedom allows the arm to “snake” along a path or around an obstacle – hence the name “snake-arm”.- Definition :...

- Snakebot

Snakebot

A snakebot is a biomorphic hyper-redundant robot that resembles a snake.Snake robots come in all shapes and sizes, from the three meters long, fire fighting snakebot developed by SINTEF, to a medical snakebot developed at Carnegie Mellon University that is thin enough to maneuver around organs...

- SNePS

SNePS

SNePS is a knowledge representation, reasoning, and acting system developed and maintained by Stuart C. Shapiro and colleagues at the State University of New York at Buffalo....

- Soccer robot

Soccer robot

A football robot is a specialized autonomous robot and mobile robot that is used to play variants of soccer.The main organised competitions are RoboCup or FIRA tournaments played each year.The RoboCup contest currently has a number of soccer leagues:...

- Social robot

Social robot

A social robot is an autonomous robot that interacts and communicates with humans or other autonomous physical agents by following social behaviors and rules attached to its role. This definition suggests that a social robot must have a physical embodiment . Recently some robots have been developed...

- Sociorobotics

Sociorobotics

Sociorobotics is a field of research studying the implications, complexities and subsequent design of artificial social, spatial, cultural and haptic behaviours, protocols and interactions of robots with each other and with humans in equal measure...

- Soft computing

Soft computing

Soft computing is a term applied to a field within computer science which is characterized by the use of inexact solutions to computationally-hard tasks such as the solution of NP-complete problems, for which an exact solution cannot be derived in polynomial time.-Introduction:Soft Computing became...

- Software agent

Software agent

In computer science, a software agent is a piece of software that acts for a user or other program in a relationship of agency, which derives from the Latin agere : an agreement to act on one's behalf...

- Software engineering

Software engineering

Software Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software...

- Sparkplug (Transformers)
- Speech processing

Speech processing

Speech processing is the study of speech signals and the processing methods of these signals.The signals are usually processed in a digital representation, so speech processing can be regarded as a special case of digital signal processing, applied to speech signal.It is also closely tied to...

- Sphere world

Sphere world

A sphere world is a mathematical concept used in robotic motion planning. Essentially, if the environment is represented as a sphere, and the robot and obstacles within the environment are represented as spheres, then it is possible to construct navigation functions which create paths from a start...

- Spherical robot

Spherical robot

A spherical robot is a robot with two rotary joints and one prismatic joint;in other words, two rotary axes and one linear axis.Spherical robots have an arm which forms a spherical coordinate system....

- Spider-Slayer

Spider-Slayer

The Spider-Slayers are a series of fictional robots in the Marvel Comics universe that were specifically designed to hunt down, capture, and/or kill Spider-Man.-Fictional character biography:...

- Spirit rover

Spirit rover

Spirit, MER-A , is a robotic rover on Mars, active from 2004 to 2010. It was one of two rovers of NASA's ongoing Mars Exploration Rover Mission. It landed successfully on Mars at 04:35 Ground UTC on January 4, 2004, three weeks before its twin, Opportunity , landed on the other side of the planet...

- Spreading activation

Spreading activation

Spreading activation is a method for searching associative networks, neural networks, or semantic networks. The search process is initiated by labeling a set of source nodes with weights or "activation" and then iteratively propagating or "spreading" that activation out to other nodes linked to...

- Squirmer (BEAM)

Squirmer (BEAM)

In BEAM robotics, a squirmer is a stationary robot that performs an interesting action .-Genera:* Magbots: Utilize magnetic fields for their mode of animation....

- ST Robotics

ST Robotics

ST Robotics is a twin company based in Cambridge, England, and Princeton, New Jersey, USA. The company designs and manufactures low-cost bench-top industrial robot arms and purpose built Cartesian robots...

- Stage (software)

Stage (software)

Stage is a Free Software multiple-robot simulator. It is widely used in the robotics research community. It is part of the Player/Stage Project. Stage is maintained by Richard Vaughan and Toby Collett....

- Star Trek Generations
- Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: First Contact is the eighth feature film in the Star Trek science fiction franchise, released in November 1996, by Paramount Pictures. First Contact is the first film in the franchise to feature no cast members from the original Star Trek television series of the 1960s...

- Star Trek: Insurrection

Star Trek: Insurrection

Star Trek: Insurrection is a 1998 American science fiction film directed by Jonathan Frakes, written by Michael Piller , and with music composed by Jerry Goldsmith. It is the ninth film in the Star Trek franchise, and the third to feature the cast from the television series Star Trek: The Next...

- Star Trek: Nemesis

Star Trek: Nemesis

Star Trek Nemesis is a 2002 science fiction film directed by Stuart Baird, written by John Logan , and with music composed by Jerry Goldsmith. It is the tenth feature film in the Star Trek franchise, and the fourth and final film to star the cast from the television series Star Trek: The Next...

- Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. Roddenberry, Rick Berman, and Michael Piller served as executive producers at different times throughout the production...

- Star Wars

Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...

- Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is a 1999 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the fourth film to be released in the Star Wars saga, as the first of a three-part prequel to the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as the first film in the saga in terms...

- Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones is a 2002 American epic space opera film directed by George Lucas and written by Lucas and Jonathan Hales. It is the fifth film to be released in the Star Wars saga and the second in terms of the series' internal chronology...

- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is a 2005 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the sixth and final film released in the Star Wars saga and the third in terms of the series' internal chronology....

- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, originally released as Star Wars, is a 1977 American epic space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: two subsequent films complete the original trilogy, while a prequel trilogy completes the...

- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner. The screenplay, based on a story by George Lucas, was written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan...

- Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi is a 1983 American epic space opera film directed by Richard Marquand and written by George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan. It is the third film released in the Star Wars saga, and the sixth in terms of the series' internal chronology...

- Star world

Star world

This article is about the robotic concept. For the TV channel, see STAR World.Star worlds are mathematical concepts used in robot navigation. Essentially, a star world is any n-dimensional shape that can be mapped to a sphere world of the same dimension...

- Stardust in Your Eyes

Stardust in Your Eyes

Stardust in Your Eyes is a 1953 short subject filmed in 3-D. It stars night-club comic Slick Slavin and was originally shot as a short to accompany the 3-D feature Robot Monster...

- State space planning

State space planning

-Definition:The simplest classical planning algorithms are state space search algorithms. Theseare search algorithms in which the search space is a subset of the state space: Each...

- Stäubli

Stäubli

Stäubli is an international mechatronics company, primarily known for its textile machinery, connectors and robotics products.-History:...

- Stefano Nolfi

Stefano Nolfi

Stefano Nolfi is a director of research of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and head of the Laboratory of Autonomous Robots and Artificial Life. He is one of the founders of Evolutionary robotics...

- Stepper motor

Stepper motor

A stepper motor is a brushless, electric motor that can divide a full rotation into a large number of steps. The motor's position can be controlled precisely without any feedback mechanism , as long as the motor is carefully sized to the application...

- Stereo cameras

Stereo cameras

The stereo cameras approach is a method of distilling a noisy video signal into a coherent data set that a computer can begin to process into actionable symbolic objects, or abstractions. Stereo cameras is one of many approaches used in the broader fields of computer vision and machine...

- Steve Grand

Steve Grand

Steve Grand OBE is an English computer scientist and an internationally recognised roboticist. He was the creator and lead programmer of the Creatures artificial life simulation, which he discussed in his first book Creation: Life and how to make it, a finalist for the 2001 Aventis Prize for...

- Steve Mann

Steve Mann

Steven Mann , is a tenured professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.-Education:...

- Steven M. LaValle

Steven M. LaValle

Steven M. LaValle is an American roboticist and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is best known for his work on RRT's and his book Planning Algorithms, one of the most highly cited texts in the field.-External links:*...

- Stewart platform

Stewart platform

A Stewart platform is a type of parallel robot that incorporates six prismatic actuators, commonly hydraulic jacks. These actuators are mounted in pairs to the mechanism's base, crossing over to three mounting points on a top plate. Devices placed on the top plate can be moved in the six degrees...

- Stochastic diffusion search

Stochastic Diffusion Search

Stochastic diffusion search was first described in 1989 as a population-based, pattern-matching algorithm [Bishop, 1989]. It belongs to a family of swarm intelligence and naturally inspired search and optimisation algorithms which includes ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization and...

- Stochastic Roadmap Simulation

Stochastic Roadmap Simulation

Stochastic roadmap simulation is inspired by Probabilistic roadmap methods developed for robot motion planning.The main idea of these methods is to capture the connectivity of a geometrically complex high-dimensional space by constructing a graph of local paths connecting points randomly sampled...

- Stochastic semantic analysis

Stochastic semantic analysis

Stochastic semantic analysis is an approach used in computer science as a semantic component of natural language understanding.Stochastic models generally use the definition of segments of words as basic semantic units for the semantic models, and in some cases involve a two layered...

- Strong AI

Strong AI

Strong AI is artificial intelligence that matches or exceeds human intelligence — the intelligence of a machine that can successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can. It is a primary goal of artificial intelligence research and an important topic for science fiction writers and...

- Subsumption architecture

Subsumption architecture

Subsumption architecture is a reactive robot architecture heavily associated with behavior-based robotics. The term was introduced by Rodney Brooks and colleagues in 1986...

- Super Robot

Super Robot

is a term used in manga and anime to describe a giant robot or mecha, with an arsenal of fantastic super-powered weapons, extreme resistance to damage unless the plot calls for it, sometimes transformable or combined from two or more robots and/or vehicles usually piloted by young, daring heroes,...

- Superman Classic

Superman Classic

-Plot:Clark Kent and Lois Lane exit the Daily Planet building with Lois asking Clark why he always runs to the bathroom whenever a big story breaks. He explains to her that his bladder goes out of control whenever he gets nervous. Suddenly, a giant robot appears from out of nowhere and attacks...

- Support vector machine

Support vector machine

A support vector machine is a concept in statistics and computer science for a set of related supervised learning methods that analyze data and recognize patterns, used for classification and regression analysis...

- Surena (robot)

Surena (robot)

Surena is an Iranian humanoid robot, named after the Parthian General Surena.According to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , Iran's manufacture of Surena makes it one of five countries in the world with the technology to make humanoid robots.-Surena I:This robot was introduced...

- Sussman Anomaly

Sussman Anomaly

The Sussman Anomaly is a problem in artificial intelligence, first described by Gerald Sussman, that illustrates a weakness of noninterleaved planning algorithms, which were prominent in the early 1970s. In the problem, three blocks rest on a table. The agent must stack the blocks such that A is...

- Sven Koenig (computer scientist)

Sven Koenig (computer scientist)

Sven Koenig is a full professor in computer science at the University of Southern California. He received an M.S. degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 and a Ph.D...

- Swarm intelligence

Swarm intelligence

Swarm intelligence is the collective behaviour of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial. The concept is employed in work on artificial intelligence...

- Swarm robotics

Swarm robotics

Swarm robotics is a new approach to the coordination of multirobot systems which consist of large numbers of mostly simple physical robots. It is supposed that a desired collective behavior emerges from the interactions between the robots and interactions of robots with the environment...

- Swedish Robotics Society

Swedish Robotics Society

-Founders:The founders of the Swedish Robotics Society are:*Lee Sandberg with a background of cognitive science, AI, and 3D game engines.*Leif Wikström built several robots.The last robot built....

- Swimmer (BEAM)

Swimmer (BEAM)

In BEAM robotics, a swimmer is a robot that functions on or in a liquid environment. These are sometimes referred to as aquabots or aquavores...

- SwisTrack

Swistrack

SwisTrack is a tool for tracking robots, humans, animals and objects using a camera or a recorded video as input source. It uses Intel's OpenCV library for fast image processing and contains interfaces for USB, FireWire and GigE cameras, as well as AVI files....

- Symbol level

Symbol level

In knowledge-based systems, agents choose actions based on the principle of rationality to move closer to a desired goal. The agent is able to make decisions based on knowledge it has about the world . But for the agent to actually change its state, it must use whatever means it has available...

- Symbot
- Symbrion

Symbrion

Symbrion is a project funded by European Commissions to develop a framework in which a homogeneous swarm of miniature interdependent robots can co-assemble into a larger robotic organism to gain problem-solving momentum...

- Synchro

Synchro

A synchro is a type of rotary electrical transformer that is used for measuring the angle of a rotating machine such as an antenna platform. In its general physical construction, it is much like an electric motor...

- Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations

Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations

Purdue University's Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations, or , is currently being used by Homeland Security and the US Defense Department to simulate crises on the US mainland...

- Synthetics (Odyssey 5)

Synthetics (Odyssey 5)

-Sentients:The Sentients are an inorganic artificial form of life that feed on information and exist almost entirely in the Internet. They are unable to interact with the physical universe and must produce human appearing avatars known as Synthetics...

- Synthoid

Synthoid

A synthoid is a fictional type of artificial lifeform. The term originated on the television cartoon series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, produced by Sunbow in the mid-1980s. It has since been used in other media as well.-As used in G.I. Joe:...

T

T-1000

T-1000

The T-1000 is a fictional nanomorph mimetic poly-alloy assassin and the main antagonist in Terminator 2: Judgment Day controlled by the series main antagonist Skynet. The T-1000 is portrayed primarily by Robert Patrick; however, being a shape-shifter, the T-1000 is played by other actors in some...

- T-52 Enryu

T-52 Enryu

The , sometimes referred to as "HyperRescueRobot", is a five-ton, 3 meter tall , hydraulically-operated robot, built to cut a path through debris for rescue workers, in the wake of an earthquake or other catastrophe. It can perform heavy lifting of up to one ton, and its arms have the full range of...

- T-Bob

T-Bob

T-Bob is a robot from the 1985 animated television series M.A.S.K.According to the storyline, T-Bob was developed and built by Scott Trakker, son of M.A.S.K. commander Matt Trakker...

- T-Force (film)

T-Force (film)

T-Force is a 1994 sci-fi film set in the near future about a group of law enforcement cyborgs, called "cybernauts" which, after being threatened with the shutdown, rebel against their superiors and the authorities....

- T-X

T-X

The T-X, also known as the Terminatrix, is a fictional character who appears in the 2003 film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which is part of the Terminator franchise. The T-X is a cyborg assassin with a human female appearance; the character was portrayed by Kristanna Loken...

- Tachikoma

Tachikoma

A is a fictional artificial intelligence, walker/roller in the Ghost in the Shell universe; appearing in the manga, created by Masamune Shirow, and the Stand Alone Complex sub-universe. Nine of them are assigned to Section 9's use originally. They are spider like multi-legged combat vehicles,...

- Tactel

Tactel

Tactel can mean:*Tactel - a single sensing point on a tactile sensor array. A tactel is equivalent to a pixel, in that an array of tactels represents an image of the surface being touched....

- Tadao Nagahama

Tadao Nagahama

Tadao Nagahama was a director of both puppet shows and animation.He is best known as the director of Toei's Romantic Trilogy, which added human drama to the Super Robot Genre....

- Takeo Kanade

Takeo Kanade

is a Japanese computer scientist and one of the world's foremost researchers in computer vision. He is currently U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor at Carnegie Mellon University...

- Talisman UUV

Talisman UUV

The Talisman UUV is a fully autonomous unmanned mini-sub designed and made by BAE Systems. It has the capability to perform shoreline reconnaissance when the risks may be deemed too high, or conditions unsuitable, for human operators....

- Tape library

Tape library

In computer storage, a tape library, sometimes called a tape silo, tape robot or tape jukebox, is a storage device which contains one or more tape drives, a number of slots to hold tape cartridges, a barcode reader to identify tape cartridges and an automated method for loading tapes...

- Teaching dimension
- Technology

Technology

Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

- Telecommunications
- Teleoperation

Teleoperation

Teleoperation indicates operation of a machine at a distance. It is similar in meaning to the phrase "remote control" but is usually encountered in research, academic and technical environments...

- Telepresence

Telepresence

Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance of being present, or to have an effect, via telerobotics, at a place other than their true location....

- Telerobotics

Telerobotics

Telerobotics is the area of robotics concerned with the control of robots from a distance, chiefly using wireless connections , "tethered" connections, or the Internet...

- Teletank

Teletank

Teletanks were a series of wireless remotely controlled unmanned robotic tanks produced in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and early 1940s. They saw their first combat use in the Winter war, at the start of World War II. A teletank is controlled by radio from a control tank at a distance of...

- Tentacle

Tentacle

A tentacle or bothrium is one of usually two or more elongated flexible organs present in animals, especially invertebrates. The term may also refer to the hairs of the leaves of some insectivorous plants. Usually, tentacles are used for feeding, feeling and grasping. Anatomically, they work like...

- Terminator Salvation

Terminator Salvation

Terminator Salvation is a 2009 American science fiction action film directed by McG and starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington. The fourth installment in the Terminator series, the film is set in 2018 and focuses on the war between Skynet and humanity, with the human Resistance fighting...

- Terror of Mechagodzilla

Terror of Mechagodzilla

Terror of Mechagodzilla, released in Japan as , is a 1975 science fiction kaiju film. The film was titled The Terror of Godzilla in its original American theatrical release. The 15th film in Toho's Godzilla series, it was directed by Ishirō Honda with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano...

- Test pilota Pirxa

Test pilota Pirxa

Inquest of Pilot Pirx is a joint Polish//Estonian/Ukrainian 1979 film directed by Marek Piestrak based on the story The Inquest by Stanisław Lem from his short story collection More Tales of Pirx the Pilot. It was adapted for film by Vladimir Valutsky. It is a joint production by Dovzhenko Film...

- Tetrix Robotics Kit

Tetrix Robotics Kit

TETRIX Robotics is a robotic kit by Pitsco, Inc., intended for educational purposes and the FIRST Tech Challenge.-Building system:The main structural TETRIX pieces are aluminum channel with a trademarked hole pattern that enables connections at multiples of 45°. The pieces are attached using bolts...

- Tetsujin 28-go

Tetsujin 28-go

is a 1956 manga written and illustrated by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, who also created Giant Robo. The series centred on the adventures of a young boy named Shotaro Kaneda, who controlled a giant robot named Tetsujin 28, built by his late father....

- The Adventures of the Elektronic
- The Amazing Screw-On Head

The Amazing Screw-On Head

The Amazing Screw-On Head is the title of a one-shot comic book written and drawn by Mike Mignola and published by Dark Horse Comics in 2002, starring the character of the same name....

- The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
- The Black Hole

The Black Hole

The Black Hole is a 1979 American science fiction film directed by Gary Nelson for Walt Disney Productions. The film stars Maximilian Schell, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Anthony Perkins, and Ernest Borgnine, while the voices of the main robot characters are provided by Roddy...

- The Bots Master

The Bots Master

The Bots Master was a 1993 cartoon series, produced by Jean Chalopin through his company "Creativite et Developpement" in France . In total 40 episodes were made, each one having a special 3D segment and titles. The series was co-produced by Avi Arad and Associates...

- The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 1951 American science fiction film directed by Robert Wise and written by Edmund H. North based on the short story "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates. The film stars Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Sam Jaffe, and Hugh Marlowe...

- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)
- The Devilish Blue Buffalo

The Devilish Blue Buffalo

The Devilish Blue Buffalo is a character in the television show Android Kikaider . The Blue Buffalo is one of Kikaida's fiercest opponents, and one of the most memorable villains, other than Hakaider. It is an android character.- History :The Blue Buffalo made its first appearance in Episode 4 of...

- The Fighting Calculators

The Fighting Calculators

The Fighting Calculators are FIRST Robotics Competition team 2175. The team is based at the Math and Science Academy in Woodbury, Minnesota. The team was founded in the 2007 FRC Season and has been competing since.- About The Team :...

- The Future Eve

The Future Eve

The Future Eve is a Symbolist science fiction novel by the French author Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam...

- The Humanoid Project

The Humanoid Project

The Humanoid Project, a project based in Sweden, has accomplished its initial objective of producing a full-size humanoid robot. Although the project generated a variety of software created for a variety of purposes, the most notable contributions have been in the area of robot learning,...

- The Invisible Boy

The Invisible Boy

The Invisible Boy is a science fiction film, directed by Herman Hoffman, and starring Richard Eyer and Philip Abbott. It is the second film appearance of Robby the Robot, a famous science fiction character, who first appeared in Forbidden Planet , which is set in the 23rd century. Released by...

- The Iron Giant

The Iron Giant

The Iron Giant is a 1999 animated film produced by Warner Bros. Animation, based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Brad Bird directed the film, which stars a voice cast of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick, Jr., Vin Diesel, Eli Marienthal, Christopher McDonald and John Mahoney...

- The Iron Man (novel)
- The Iron Woman

The Iron Woman

The Iron Woman is the 1993 sequel to the popular Ted Hughes novel The Iron Man."The Iron Woman has come to take revenge on mankind for its thoughtless polluting of the seas, lakes and rivers" - introduction to the novel....

- The Leaf (AI) Project

The Leaf (AI) Project

The Leaf Project is a group robot development program whose objective is to develop a robot platform that supports experiments with artificial intelligence, vision, navigation, etc.Leaf was created by Bruce Weimer, Alex Brown and Robin Hewitt...

- The Mechanical Man

The Mechanical Man

The Mechanical Man is a 1921 Italian science fiction film directed by André Deed. The original film was about 80 minutes in length. However, only about 26 minutes of footage remains...

- The Mechanical Monsters

The Mechanical Monsters

The Mechanical Monsters is the second of the seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character Superman. Produced by Fleischer Studios, the story features Superman battling a mad scientist with a small army of robots at his command...

- The Mysterians

The Mysterians

The Mysterians, released in Japan as , is a tokusatsu science fiction film produced and released by Toho Studios in 1957. It was directed by the "Golden Duo" of Ishirō Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya . It is notable for being the first tokusatsu filmed in TohoScope and the first Toho film to use...

- The Puttermans

The Puttermans

The Puttermans starred in a series of advertisements created by New York-based advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather for Duracell in the mid-1990s....

- The Questor Tapes

The Questor Tapes

The Questor Tapes is a 1974 television movie about an android with incomplete memory tapes who is searching for his creator and his purpose. Conceived by and executive produced by Gene Roddenberry, the script is credited to Roddenberry and fellow Star Trek alumnus Gene L. Coon.A novelization,...

- The Questor Tapes (TV series)

The Questor Tapes (TV series)

The Questor Tapes is an American TV series in the planning stage. It is based on the television movie, The Questor Tapes, which was created in 1973 by Gene Roddenberry, who had hopes that the movie would serve as a pilot for a television series that "had the potential to be bigger than Star...

- The Sandman (short story)
- The Steam House

The Steam House

The Steam House is a Jules Verne novel recounting the travels of a group of British colonists in the Raj in a wheeled house pulled by a steam-powered mechanical elephant...

- The Steam Man of the Prairies

The Steam Man of the Prairies

The Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Ellis was the first U.S. science fiction dime novel and archetype of the Frank Reade series. It is one of the earliest examples of the so-called "Edisonade" genre...

- The Stepford Wives (1975 film)

The Stepford Wives (1975 film)

The Stepford Wives is a 1975 science fiction–thriller film based on the 1972 Ira Levin novel of the same name. It was directed by Bryan Forbes with a screenplay by William Goldman, and stars Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman and Tina Louise...

- The Stepford Wives (2004 film)

The Stepford Wives (2004 film)

The Stepford Wives is a 2004 American science fiction film. The film is a remake of the 1975 film of the same name; both films are based on the Ira Levin novel The Stepford Wives...

- The Terminators (film)

The Terminators (film)

Not to be confused with The Terminator, despite the developers' best efforts.The Terminators is a science fiction film by The Asylum. Though the film's title is deliberately similar to the 1984 film The Terminator, the events in the film's storyline are more similar to 1973's Westworld and the 2004...

- The Three Laws of Robotics in popular culture
- The Trons

The Trons

The Trons are a New Zealand self-playing robot band created by musician Greg Locke. The band consists of four robots, created from scratch using a variety of spare parts and electronic equipment, and are based in Hamilton .-History:During the 1990s, while a member of the New Zealand musical duo The...

- Thea von Harbou

Thea von Harbou

Thea Gabriele von Harbou was a German actress, author and film director of Prussian aristocratic origin. She was born in Tauperlitz in the Kingdom of Bavaria.-Early work:...

- Theo Jansen

Theo Jansen

Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist and kinetic sculptor. He builds large works which resemble skeletons of animals, that are able to walk using wind power on the beaches of the Netherlands...

- Thermotrope

Thermotrope

In BEAM robotics, a thermotrope is a robot that reacts to heat sources. Literally, "heat turning," this term is generally applied to heat-seeking robots. More accurately, thermotropes can either seek or flee sources of heat.----...

- Thinking machines (Dune)

Thinking machines (Dune)

Thinking machines is a collective term for artificial intelligence in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. The Butlerian Jihad a human crusade against thinking machines is an epic turning point in the back-story of the Dune universe...

- Thomas B. Sheridan

Thomas B. Sheridan

Thomas B. Sheridan is American professor of mechanical engineering and Applied Psychology Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a pioneer of robotics and remote control technology.- Biography :...

- Three Laws of Robotics

Three Laws of Robotics

The Three Laws of Robotics are a set of rules devised by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov and later added to. The rules are introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround", although they were foreshadowed in a few earlier stories...

- Tik-Tok (Oz)
- Tilden's Laws of Robotics
- TiLR

TiLR

TiLR is the world's first enterprise-grade telepresence robot developed by RoboDynamics Corporation. The Telepresence internet-connected Low cost Robot enables a user to instantly transport to a remote location whereby the robot would embody the user in the remote location...

- Timeline of artificial intelligence

Timeline of artificial intelligence

-To 1900:-1900–1950:-1950s:-1960s:-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000 and Beyond:...

- Tin Woodman

Tin Woodman

The Tin Woodman, sometimes referred to as the Tin Man or the Tin Woodsman , is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum...

- Tobor

Tobor

Tobor is a fictional robotic character, featured in the 1949-1954 American science-fiction TV-series Captain Video and His Video Rangers as well as being the main character of the 1954 movie Tobor the Great...

- TOK715
- Tom Servo

Tom Servo

Tom Servo is a fictional character from the American science fiction comedy television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 . Tom is one of two wise-cracking, robotic main characters of the show, built by Joel Robinson to act as a companion and help stave off space madness as Joel was forced to watch...

- Tomorrow Woman

Tomorrow Woman

Tomorrow Woman is a fictional character, an artificial lifeform and superhero from DC Comics. She debuted in JLA #5 , and was created by Grant Morrison and Howard Porter.-The Justice League:...

- Tomotaka Takahashi

Tomotaka Takahashi

, roboticist and founder of Kyoto University's ROBO-GARAGE since 1999, creates humanoid robots known for their smooth, fluid motions and sleek appearance...

- Tonto (Metabarons)

Tonto (Metabarons)

Tonto is the fictional robot servant of the Castaka family since the time of Aghnar, and the narrator of their tale in the Metabarons comic book...

- Tony Sale
- TOPIO

TOPIO

TOPIO is a bipedal humanoid robot designed to play table tennis against a human being. It has been developed since 2005 by TOSY, a robotics firm in Vietnam. It was publicly demonstrated at the Tokyo International Robot Exhibition on November 28, 2007...

- Topo (robot)

Topo (robot)

Topo is a robot designed in the 1980s by Androbot Inc., for the consumer and education markets. It was programmable via Apple II and there was also a user made program for the Windows 9x operating systems. The programming language allows the robot to perform a set of geometric movements, to move...

- Tory Foster

Tory Foster

Tory Foster is a fictional character from the 2004 TV series Battlestar Galactica, portrayed by Rekha Sharma.-Character biography:Tory, like the other members of the Final Five, was originally from a planet called Earth...

- Tōshō Daimos
- TOSY

TOSY

TOSY Robotics is the first Vietnamese robots manufacturing company best known for the development of TOPIO - a robot that can play ping-pong with humans...

- Toyman

Toyman

The Toyman is the name of three comic book supervillains and one adolescent superhero in the DC Comics universe. They mostly appear in Superman stories. The first Toyman appeared in Action Comics #64 . His real name is Winslow Schott.The Toyman uses toy-based or toy-themed devices and gimmicks in...

- Toyota Partner Robot

Toyota Partner Robot

The Toyota Partner Robots are a series of humanoid robots developed by Toyota. They debuted playing music on drums and trumpets at the 2005 World EXPO in Aichi, Japan.There are 5 robots in all, most of which have different movement systems...

- Toys (film)
- TR Araña

TR Araña

The TR Araña meaning route tracing spider is a robot which is claimed to remotely analyse the composition of the ground. The robot is popularly known as Arturito, a Spanish word–play on R2-D2, and is also known as the Geo-Radar. The device was created by Chilean inventor Manuel Salinas and was...

- Trace Beaulieu

Trace Beaulieu

Trace Beaulieu is an American puppeteer, writer, and actor. He is best known for his roles on Mystery Science Theater 3000 .-Mystery Science Theater 3000:...

- Transformers

Transformers

A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling.Transformer may also refer to:* ASUS Eee Pad Transformer, an Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet computer manufacturer by Asus...

- Transformers (film)
- Transformers Hall of Fame

Transformers Hall of Fame

The official Transformers Hall of Fame was created by Hasbro to honor those most influential creators and developers of the Transformers toy and entertainment franchise, along with some of the more popular Transformers characters...

- Transformers: Dark of the Moon
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 American science fiction-action film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the sequel to the 2007 film Transformers and the second installment in the live-action Transformers series...

- Transmorphers

Transmorphers

Transmorphers is a science fiction alien invasion film released direct-to-DVD on June 26, 2007. It was written and directed by Leigh Scott and produced by David Michael Latt and The Asylum. Transmorphers was developed as a mockbuster, intending to capitalize on Michael Bay's Transformers...

- Transmorphers: Fall of Man

Transmorphers: Fall of Man

Transmorphers: Fall of Man is a 2009 direct-to-DVD science fiction film produced by the American film studio The Asylum. It is a prequel to the 2007 film Transmorphers....

- TREVENTUS

TREVENTUS

Treventus is a company based in Vienna, Austria that was awarded the European ICT prize 2007 in Hannover, Germany for inventing an automatic book scanner, called ScanRobot. This innovative scanner is able to scan entire books automatically, handling the books carefully.-Performance:The ScanRobot...

- Trevor Blackwell

Trevor Blackwell

Trevor Blackwell is a computer programmer, engineer and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley.Blackwell is a developer of humanoid robots. He is also the inventor of the Eunicycle, essentially a one-wheeled Segway. Dr. Blackwell is the founder and CEO of Anybots and a partner at Y Combinator.- Life...

- Turing test

Turing test

The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour. In Turing's original illustrative example, a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with a human and a machine designed to generate performance indistinguishable from that of a human being. All...

- Turtle (robot)

Turtle (robot)

Turtles are a class of educational robots designed originally in the late 1940s and used in computer science and mechanical engineering training. These devices are traditionally built low to the ground with a roughly hemispheric shell and a power train capable of a very small turning radius...

- Twiki

Twiki

Twiki is a fictional character on the television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Twiki is a robot sometimes referred throughout the series as an "ambuquad"...

- Type-2 fuzzy sets and systems

Type-2 fuzzy sets and systems

Type-2 fuzzy sets and systems generalize fuzzy sets and systems so that more uncertainty can be handled. From the very beginning of fuzzy sets, criticism was made about the fact that the membership function of a type-1 fuzzy set has no uncertainty associated with it, something that seems to...

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Ubiquitous robot

Ubiquitous robot

Ubiquitous robot is a term used in an analogous way to Ubiquitous computing. Software useful for "integrating robotic technologies with technologies from the fields of ubiquitous and pervasive computing, sensor networks, and ambient intelligence" under GPL and LGPL licenses.Emergence of mobile...

- Udo Frese

Udo Frese

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Udo Frese is assistant professor at theUniversity of Bremen and leads the group for real time computervision. He is furthermore affiliated with the German Center forArtificial Intelligence in Bremen.He received his Ph.D...

- UJI Online Robot

UJI Online Robot

The UJI Online Robot is a robot library tool that was created at University Jaume I, Spain in 2004. It consistsof a robot with three cameras that enable a user to remotely control pickup and placement operations of objects located on a board...

- Ultra Trencher 1

Ultra Trencher 1

Ultra Trencher 1 is the world's largest submersible robot, used for burying undersea pipelines in a trench in the sea floor. It has a mass of 60 tons and measures 7.8 meters long, 7.8 meters wide, and 5.6 meters tall. It costs roughly £10 million...

- Ultron

Ultron

Ultron is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Avengers #54 , and was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema...

- Ulysses (robot)

Ulysses (robot)

Ulysses is a bomb-detecting robot at the Greek Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport named after the Greek mythological character Odysseus....

- Uncanny valley

Uncanny Valley

The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics and 3D computer animation, which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers...

- Underactuation

Underactuation

Underactuation is a technical term used in robotics and control theory to describe mechanical devices that have a lower number of actuators than degrees of freedom....

- Unicycle cart
- Unified theory of cognition

Unified theory of cognition

Unified Theories of Cognition is a 1990 book by Allen Newell. Newell argues for the need of a set of general assumptions for cognitive models that account for all of cognition: a unified theory of cognition ....

- Unimate

Unimate

Unimate was the first industrial robot,which worked on a General Motors assembly line at the Inland Fisher Guide Plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey, in 1961.It was created by George Devol in the 1950s using his original patents...

- Unimation
- Universal Robotics

Universal Robotics

Universal Robotics, Inc. is a software engineering company headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 2008, the company develops software solutions that automate tasks never before possible....

- Unmanned aerial vehicle

Unmanned aerial vehicle

An unmanned aerial vehicle , also known as a unmanned aircraft system , remotely piloted aircraft or unmanned aircraft, is a machine which functions either by the remote control of a navigator or pilot or autonomously, that is, as a self-directing entity...

- Unmanned aerial vehicles
- Uran (character)
- Urology robotics

Urology robotics

Urology Robotics, or URobotics, is a new interdisciplinary field for the application of robots in urology and for the development of such systems and novel technologies in this clinical discipline...

- User illusion
- UWA Telerobot

UWA Telerobot

-Development:The UWA telerobot is a historic landmark for the Internet and The University of Western Australia . It was the first teleoperable industrial robot made available for general use on the Internet in 1994...

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Vanessa Kensington

Vanessa Kensington

Vanessa Kensington is a fictional character in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and, briefly, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. She was played by actress and model, Elizabeth Hurley.-Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery:...

- Vecna Technologies

Vecna Technologies

Vecna is a leading provider of health care IT and robotics solutions. Vecna's health care IT products include QC PathFinder electronic infection surveillance software, patient self-service kiosks and web portal, and QC Bot medication delivery robot. Vecna Robotics is the developer of innovative...

- Vector Field Histogram

Vector Field Histogram

In robotics, Vector Field Histogram is a real time motion planning algorithm proposed by Johann Borenstein and Yoram Koren in 1991. The VFH utilizes a statistical representation of the robot's environment through the so called histogram grid, and therefore place great emphasis on dealing with...

- Vectorman

Vectorman

Vectorman is a series of run and gun platform games developed by BlueSky Software and published by Sega for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. It was released on October 24, 1995 in North America and on November 30, 1995 in Europe...

- Velocity obstacle

Velocity obstacle

In robotics and motion planning, a velocity obstacle, commonly abbreviated VO, is the set of all velocities of a robot that will result in a collision with another robot at some moment in time, assuming that the other robot maintains its current velocity...

- Vex Robotics Design System
- Victor Scheinman

Victor Scheinman

Victor Scheinman is a pioneer in the field of robotics. He is a graduate of the now-defunct New Lincoln High School in New York. In the late 1950s, and while in high school, Scheinman engineered a speech-to-text machine as a science fair project...

- Vijay Kumar (roboticist)

Vijay Kumar (roboticist)

Vijay Kumar is an Indian roboticist and professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Kumar is known for his research in the control and coordination of multi-robot formations.-Education:* B...

- VIPeR

VIPeR

VIPeR is a military robot developed by the Israeli company Elbit Systems and intended for use in warfare. It was unveiled in March, 2007.- Testing :...

- Virtual fixture

Virtual fixture

A virtual fixture is an overlay of abstract sensory information on a workspace in order to improve the telepresence of a remotely manipulated task.- Concept :The concept of virtual fixtures was first introduced in as an overlay of...

- Virtual Intelligence

Virtual Intelligence

The emergence of virtual world technologies has provided new applications of artificial intelligence technologies within these immersive environments...

- Visibility graph

Visibility graph

In computational geometry and robot motion planning, a visibility graph is a graph of intervisible locations, typically for a set of points and obstacles in the Euclidean plane. Each node in the graph represents a point location, and each edge represents a visible connection between them...

- Vision Guided Robotic Systems

Vision Guided Robotic Systems

- Introduction :A Vision Guided Robot System comprises three core systems including robotic system, vision system, and component bulk handling system ....

- Visual odometry

Visual odometry

In robotics and computer vision, visual odometry is the process of determining the position and orientation of a robot by analyzing the associated camera images...

- Visual Servoing

Visual Servoing

Visual servoing, also known as Vision-Based Robot Control and abbreviated VS, is a technique which uses feedback information extracted from a vision sensor to control the motion of a robot. One of the earliest papers that talks about visual servoing was from the SRI International Labs. A first...

- Vocoder

Vocoder

A vocoder is an analysis/synthesis system, mostly used for speech. In the encoder, the input is passed through a multiband filter, each band is passed through an envelope follower, and the control signals from the envelope followers are communicated to the decoder...

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Wakamaru

Wakamaru

Wakamaru is a Japanese domestic robot made by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, primarily intended to provide companionship to elderly and disabled people. The robot is yellow, 1m tall, and weighs 30 kilograms. It has two arms and its flat, circular base has a diameter of 45 cm...

- Wake-up robot problem

Wake-up robot problem

In robotics, the wake-up robot problem refers to a situation where an autonomous robot is carried to an arbitrary location and put to operation, and the robot must localize itself without any prior knowledge....

- Waldo (short story)
- Walker (BEAM)

Walker (BEAM)

In BEAM robotics, a walker is a walking machine that has a driven mode of locomotion by intermittent ground-contacting legs. They usually possess 1 to 12 motors. "Muscle wired" walkers ultilizes Nitinol for its actuators.BEAM walking robots are creating using something called NV nets...

- Walking

Walking

Walking is one of the main gaits of locomotion among legged animals, and is typically slower than running and other gaits. Walking is defined by an 'inverted pendulum' gait in which the body vaults over the stiff limb or limbs with each step...

- Walking city

Walking city

The Walking City was an idea proposed by British architect Ron Herron in 1964. In an article in avant-garde architecture journal Archigram, Ron Herron proposed building massive mobile robotic structures, with their own intelligence, that could freely roam the world, moving to wherever their...

- Walking robot
- Walking truck

Walking truck

The walking truck was an experimental quadruped robot made by General Electric in 1968. It was designed by Ralph Mosher to help infantry carry equipment over rough terrain....

- WALL-E

WALL-E

WALL-E, promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E, is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future...

- Walter the Wobot

Walter the Wobot

Walter is a fictional character from the Judge Dredd comic strip in British comic 2000 AD.-Fictional character biography:Walter was Judge Dredd's house robot. He is usually used in stories to provide comic relief, and he has a speech impediment which causes him to pronounce his R's as W's...

- Wearable augmented task-list interchange device

Wearable augmented task-list interchange device

Wearable Augmented task-List Interchange Device system was designed by computing researchers of the wearable computing group at the University of Oregon as a simulator to test wearable communities projects...

- Web intelligence

Web intelligence

Web intelligence is the area of study and research of the application of artificial intelligence and information technology on the web in order to create the next generation of products, services and frameworks based on the internet....

- Welltec

Welltec

Welltec is an international provider of robotic well solutions for the oil and gas industry. The company's flagship is the “Well Tractor”, a remote-controlled device that is able to convey other intervention tools and perform operations on wireline. The Well Tractor enables operators to run...

- Wetware (brain)

Wetware (brain)

The term wetware is used to describe the embodiment of the concepts of the physical construct known as the central nervous system and the mental construct known as the human mind...

- Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?
- Wheatley (Portal)

Wheatley (Portal)

Wheatley is a fictional artificial character in the 2011 video game Portal 2. He is voiced by British comedian Stephen Merchant and created in part by Portal 2s designer Erik Wolpaw. To date, he only appears in Portal 2....

- Wheel

Wheel

A wheel is a device that allows heavy objects to be moved easily through rotating on an axle through its center, facilitating movement or transportation while supporting a load, or performing labor in machines. Common examples found in transport applications. A wheel, together with an axle,...

- Wheelbarrow (EOD)

Wheelbarrow (EOD)

The Wheelbarrow is a remotely controlled robot designed by Lieutenant-Colonel 'Peter' Millerin 1972 for use by British Army bomb disposal teams operating in Northern Ireland , mainland Britain and Iraq. The Wheelbarrow has undergone several upgrades, the latest being the Wheelbarrow Revolution...

- Whegs

Whegs

Whegs are a series of robots developed at the Biologically Inspired Robotics Laboratory at Case Western Reserve University. Whegs use a strategy of locomotion that combines the simplicity of the wheel with the obstacle-clearing advantages of the foot....

- White Box Robotics

White Box Robotics

White Box Robotics was founded in 2000 by Thomas Burick. In 2005, White Box was acquired by Frontline Robotics of Ottawa, Canada and in working together the company designed, developed, manufactured and launched the 914 PC-BOT the first of the 9-series robots, a general service robot designed for...

- William Grey Walter

William Grey Walter

W. Grey Walter was a neurophysiologist and robotician.-Overview:Walter was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1910. His ancestry was German/British on his father's side, and American/British on his mother's side. He was brought to England in 1915, and educated at Westminster School and afterwards...

- Willow Garage

Willow Garage

Willow Garage is a robotics research lab and technology incubator devoted to developing hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications. It was started in late 2006 by Scott Hassan, an early Google employee who helped develop Google's technology. Steve Cousins is the president...

- Wired intelligence

Wired intelligence

The term wired intelligence refers to a robot that has no programmed microprocessor. Instead, the robot has a particular connection of wires and analog electronics between its sensors and motors that gives it seemingly intelligent actions...

- Wolfram Burgard

Wolfram Burgard

Wolfram Burgard is a German roboticist. He is a full professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg where he heads the Laboratory for Autonomous Intelligent Systems...

- World Robot Olympiad

World Robot Olympiad

The World Robot Olympiad is a global robotics competition for young people using. The World Robot Olympiad competition utilizes Lego Mindstorms manufactured by LEGO Education. First held in 2004 in Singapore, it now attracts 1000 participants from 32 countries....

- WSFN (programming language)

WSFN (programming language)

WSFN was a programming language for controlling robots created by Li-Chen Wang and published by Dr. Dobb's Journal in September 1977...

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Yann LeCun

Yann LeCun

Yann LeCun is a computer science researcherwith contributions in machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience. He is well known for his work on optical character recognition and computer vision using convolutional neural networks...

- YARP

YARP

YARP is an open-source software package, written in C++ for interconnecting sensors, processors, and actuators in robots....

- Yaw (rotation)
- Yeti (Doctor Who)

Yeti (Doctor Who)

The Yeti of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, although resembling the cryptozoological creatures also called the Yeti, are in actuality alien robots. Their external appearance, that of a huge hairy biped, disguises a small spherical mechanism that provides its motive power...

- Yggdrasil (Digimon)

Yggdrasil (Digimon)

is the name of a fictional character in several iterations of the Digimon franchise, named after the world tree from Norse mythology. It primarily factors into the backstory written for the Digimon virtual pets and card game, which is a background storyline that is less prominent and often...

- Yoky Matsuoka

Yoky Matsuoka

Yoky Matsuoka is an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington , director of that university's Neurobotics Laboratory, director of the and a 2007 MacArthur Fellow...

- Yoshiyuki Tomino

Yoshiyuki Tomino

is a Japanese mecha anime creator, director, screenwriter and novelist. He was born in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, and studied at Nihon University's College of Art...

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Zero (Tenchi Muyo!)

Zero (Tenchi Muyo!)

is a fictional character in the Tenchi Muyo! anime series.Zero is a creation of Dr. Clay, and possesses the ability to mimic another being, including that individual's memories. Using this talent, she abducts and temporarily replaces Ryoko....

- Zero Moment Point

Zero Moment Point

Zero Moment Point is a concept related with dynamics and control of legged locomotion, e.g., for humanoid robots. It specifies the point with respect to which dynamic reaction force at the contact of the foot with the ground does not produce any moment in the horizontal direction, i.e. the point...

- Zeuthen Strategy

Zeuthen Strategy

The Zeuthen strategy is a negotiation strategy used by some artificial agents. Its purpose is to measure the willingness to risk conflict. An agent will be more willing to risk conflict if the difference in utility between its current proposal and the conflict deal is low.When used by both agents...

- Zhang Libin

Zhang Libin

ZHANG Libin , is a well-known roboticist in China and the current President of the Zhejiang University of Technology.-Biography:...

- ZMP INC.

ZMP INC.

The company was established in January 2001, based on the results of the research encouraged the Kitano Symbiotic System Project, under the jurisdiction of Japan‘s MEXT...

- Zoë (robot)

Zoë (robot)

Zoë is a solar-powered autonomous robot with sensors able to detect microorganisms and map the distribution of life in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, duplicating tasks that could be used in future exploration of Mars. -Sources:* *...

- Zord

Zord

In the universe of the television series Power Rangers, Zords are colossal mechanical or bio-mechanical robotic vehicles. When monsters grow to incredible sizes, usually the only way the Power Rangers can fight them is by summoning and piloting these robots...

- Zords in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Zords in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

The Zords used in the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are themed after prehistoric, mythical, and modern animals. They are created by Ninjor, a wise warrior who also created the Power Coins and the Alien Rangers' Battleborgs...

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