The University of Tokyo’s Ishikawa Oku Laboratory has unveiled BFS-Auto, a robot that can digitally scan books at a rate of 250 pages per minute.

The Robotic Book Scanner 3.0 manufactured by Qidenues Technologies Gmbh, Austria is high quality book digitalization system which scans large volumes of book in a short period.

BFS-Auto can achieve high-speed and high-definition book digitization at over 250 pages/min using the original media format. This performance is realized by three key points: high-speed ...

Like a bored child who can’t be bothered to read, this robot flips from page to page. This odd contraption is actually a new way to scan and digitize the world’s books — at a speed of 250 ...

The automated flipping machine can provide high-speed and labor-saving style of book digitization. The key point is to design the mechanism not to cause obstruction for the scanner while maintaining ...

Researchers are now designing robots that can navigate through libraries at night, scanning spines and shelves to report back on missing or out-of-place books.

Super scanner and Cornell join Microsoft's project to digitize tomes for the Windows Live Book Search project. Photo: Robotic scanner In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts ...

The Mindstorms rig uses a robotic arm to tap the spacebar on the keyboard of a MacBook. That triggers its iSight camera to take a picture of an upright Kindle, with the book's text displayed on ...

Super scanner and Cornell join Microsoft's project to digitize tomes for the Windows Live Book Search project.Photo: Robotic scanner ...