Andy Choi

Articles from Andy

Robot May Soon Enter Pike River Coal Mine to Film

A robot may be able to enter the Pike River mine this week, a mines rescue manager says. New Zealand Mines Rescue Manager Trevor Watts told the press yesterday that staff had completed a small sealing operation at the mine's portal on Friday.

22 Feb 2011

Mind-Reading Robotics Offer Hope for New Prosthetics

Researchers are ready to advance their tests of a novel brain-computer interface (BCI) from animals to human subjects, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency just granted them more than $6 million over the next three years to get those human clinical trials under way.

20 Feb 2011

Japan Plans to Send Robot into Space by 2013

Lonely astronauts on the International Space Station may soon be getting an android friend from Japan. Japan's space agency JAXA is considering putting a talking humanoid robot on the International Space Station to watch the mission while astronauts are asleep, monitor their health and stress levels and communicate to Earth through the microblogging site Twitter.

20 Feb 2011

Canada's First Robotic Laryngectomy Performed

In a ground-breaking new achievement, doctors have been able to perform a throat surgery in Canada without cutting the patient.

16 Feb 2011

Robotics Lab Added to Discovery Museum Science and Space Center

The Discovery Museum Science and Space Center is launching a $200,000 robotics lab that will become an integral part of the center's new digs along the banks of the Sacramento River.

16 Feb 2011

Military Robot Markets Set to Exceed $8 Billion in 2016

A new study by ABI Research has revealed that the market for military robot technology is not only maintaining its healthy growth streak, but will continue to develop into excess of $8 billion in 2016.

16 Feb 2011

A Whiteboard Cleaning Robot

Robots are gradually beginning to taking over all our boring and mundane chores. Already our metal assistants have been taught to flip pancakes and shoot arrows. People at Fujitsu recently released video footage of them teaching a robot how to erase a whiteboard.

16 Feb 2011