Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
Additional Resources
- iRobot's Brooks starts worker bot company
- Even as iRobot won a wide-open contract with the Army, the company's part-time CTO, Rodney Brooks, left the company to start a new robotics firm, Cambridge-based Heartland Robotics. The new company is focused on industrial robotics, which logic would dictate would put...
- Tags: iRobot Corp., Robotics, Bot, Worker, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Polar robots to explore the Arctic
- It's now almost certain that the world's ice shelves are melting. And while satellites provide lots of data about their evolution, ground-based weather stations could be even more useful. But if scientists can no longer stay on fragile and volatile ice sheets, what can they do? They can use specially...
- Tags: Professor, Georgia Tech, SnoMotes, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- If you don't like it, fork it
- One of the big concerns arising from the pending Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo, and of proprietary open source in general, is the fear that a project's owner will abuse its power, even kill a worthwhile project. Well, fork that. (Picture from a YoLinux tutorial on the fork...
- Tags: Project, Fork, Eclipse, Foundation, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Will you be having sex with a robot in five years' time?
- I will resist suggesting I am starting off the New Year with a bang when I reveal that a new and very important and/or disturbing depending on whether you have laced your cornflakes with a David Copperfield mushroom or two thesis has now been published as a book. ...
- Tags: Chris Matyszczyk, Emerging Technologies, Robot, Robots, Technology
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- Military robots from 2007 to 2032
- A new report from the U.S. Department of Defense DoD looks at the future of military's unmanned systems over the next 25 years. This 188-page report covers air-, land- and sea-based unmanned technology from 2007 to 2032. The long document notes that drone aircraft and ground-based robots have already proved...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, Robot, U.S. Department Of Defense, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-24
- News to know: Leopard data loss; Microsoft's offline sync; Mandriva CEO; Google and GPL
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: This Leopard bug beats anything Vista has to offer. Tom Karpick: Massive data loss bug in Leopard. Mary Jo Foley: More details emerge on Microsoft's online-offline sync platform. Ryan Stewart: The WPF component market is hot. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., GPL, Web, David Berlind, Larry Dignan, Data Loss, Mandriva, Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- Singularity Summit 2007: It's about the money
- AIs will compete with human for jobs, and more often get the job, according to Barney Pell, CEO of natural language search startup Powerset who was speaking at the Singularity Summit 2007. Unlike previous generations of AIs, which has more specialized functions covering a constrained domain, these...
- Tags: Consensus, Advanced General Intelligence, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Autonomous insect cyborg sentinels
- In a very brief article, AZoNano reports that nanotechnology is turning insects into flying cyborgs. Researchers from Cornell University have implanted 'microfluidic devices in insects before they hatch into fully grown flying creatures.' Of course, when they grow, these insects still carry the sensors. And if this works, they'll be...
- Tags: Science &, Nature, Robotics, Nanotechnology, Engineering &, Innovation, Defense &, Security
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- I've got two free Sun SPOT Java Development Kits (value $550) for the ZDNet readers who....
- I've got two free Sun SPOT Java Development Kits (value $550) for the ZDNet readers who....Sounds interesting.I wish I could say I deserve to test the product, but I'm a student who's only taken a year of the Java programming language. Otherwise, I'd love to try this product out.Either...
- Tags: Java, Programming languages, JDK, Sun SPOT, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-04
- On visiting the bookstore
- On visiting the bookstoreAlways a means to an endComputing in sci fi is usually incidental - to abuse the star trek communcator some more, it was just a tool used to enable crew communications; i.e. it was never about the thing.So is computing boring to sci fi? I hope so...
- Tags: Robots, computing, science fiction, robot
- Discussion threads 2006-12-21
- I, Robot wants his equal rights
- In what seems like a story lifted out of a science fiction novel, the British government has released a speculative paper warning that robots may one day demand their emancipation from humans, reports the Associated Press Robots may think for themselves and want to be treated as full-fledged citizens...
- Tags: Government technology, paper, robot
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- Rep. secures $4m in high-tech funding - for his own foundation
- Four million dollars in federal funds are headed to West Virginia to boost high-tech law enforcement, the Charleston Daily Mail reports. Rep. Allan Mollohand (D-WV) got $3.9 million in funds inserted into a federal spending bill. They money is allocated for the West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation, a...
- Tags: Mollohan, Estep, WiMAX, Foundation
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- Robots 'feel' objects with their whiskers
- European researchers have developed new sensors modeled on mouse whiskers and equipped robots with these sensors. According to IST Results, such robots can 'feel' objects and their textures. They also discovered that their robots have manifested what is called an 'emergent behavior,' meaning they developed some kinds of instinct without...
- Tags: robot
- Blog posts 2005-11-16
- Ray Kurzweil accelerates change at weekend confab
- This past weekend Stanford University hosted the Accelerating Change 2005 conference, bringing together visionaries, academics, and forward-thinking executives to share thoughts on Artificial intelligence AI—in the broadest sense of the word—and Intelligence amplification IA, which, according to the conference Website, "empowers human beings and their social, political, and economic environments."...
- Tags: Kurzweil
- Blog posts 2005-09-19
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
Enterprise Applications
-
Check out some of the easiest and most powerful ways to boost productivity
while saving money on your application infrastructure. See ZDNet's
comprehensive
Enterprise Application
resource center, now!
- New Online Dashboard
-
-
Read about top issues IT decision-makers face every day, plus get cost effective solutions to real life IT problems.
Oracle Topline
-
White Papers and Webcasts
The Business Essentials Guide provides you useful tools and templates to help grow your business and save you time with automated shipping solutions.
When you transition from your existing Red Hat environment to SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell, you can recognize dramatic cost savings, perhaps as much 50%
