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Is Zeno the future of home entertainment?

Zeno, a humanoid robot with a $300 price tag, is set to be released in 2009. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos takes a look at a prototype and asks why this one may be different than others that have come before it.

Tags: News.com, Home Entertainment, Robots, Personal Technology, Emerging Technologies, zeno, robot, humanoid, david hanson, hanson robotics, robotics, massive, effects, michael kanellos, robodevelopment, TechRepublic Inc.

Videos 2007-10-29

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Ten key differences between Linux and Windows

Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Here are the key differences distilled into one list....

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jack Wallen. TechRepublic, Jack Wallen. ZDNet.co.uk, Windows, Microsoft, GNU Public License

News items 2008-09-04

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

News to know: RIP enterprise data center; Red Hat breach; Google

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Dion Hinchcliffe: Are we ready to declare the "time of death" for the enterprise data center? Joe McKendrick: Is SOA an elixir or real fix for 'medieval'...

Tags: Google Inc., Red Hat Inc., Palm Inc., Video, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Intel's research into robotics

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, the company's Justin Rattner and Joshua Smith talk about advancements in robotics. The research involves dexterous robots with new sensory abilities. In the demo, Rattner grabs an apple from the grasp of a robot hand that can sense objects purely by changes...

Tags: Robotics, Intel Corp., Robots, Emerging Technologies, Intel

Videos 2008-08-22

Photos: Advancing machine intelligence

Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner agrees with Ray Kurzweil's assessment that the "singularity," when machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence, is nigh. To provide some evidence that technology is moving in that direction, he showed a number of advancements in robotics, communication, and other areas in a keynote Thursday at...

Tags: Intelligence, Photograph, Intel Corp., Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-08-22

Microsoft mashes up multiple natural-user-interface inputs

Publicly and privately, Microsoft officials have been making much of the company's myriad multi-touch input projects (especially with Windows 7 and Windows Mobile 7). But Microsoft's view of what the user interface of the future will look like is more complex than that. Instead of allowing users...

Tags: Receptionist, User Interface, Microsoft Corp., Robots, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Emerging Technologies, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Care-O-Bot, your future robotic butler

Care-O-Bot, your future robotic butlerOther robo-butlers on the way...Thank you for a fantastic article on Care-o-bot...very good information. There are 3 other similar products being built in the Silicon Valley area: Willow Garage PR-2, Readybot, and Anybot. What an exciting time for robotics.Jim BrickmanService Robotics Blog

Tags: Robots, Care-O-Bot

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

'Sensing' more about what's coming in Windows 7

'Sensing' more about what's coming in Windows 7Windows sensors will bring a new management interfaceto set them up, and then they'll crash unexpectedly, and make things stop responding.There'll be a "grandfather" sensor which automatically reboot the machine, and does some protocol sniffing on your box, to make sure that Microsoft...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, sensor, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Apple's <i>Grand Central</i> threat to Microsoft

Apple's Grand Central threat to MicrosoftNecessary motivationIt could go something like this ...1. Software company APPLE realises it will get good press and follow-on sales by harnessing computing power in existing multi-core CPU's. If only they had better integration with the hardware ...2. GPU Hardware companies (ATI, NVIDIA) realise they...

Tags: BTW Windows, Apple Inc., multi-core, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

Wirelessly networking cows

U.S. researchers have developed a Walkman-like headset for cows. This device enables them to 'whisper wireless commands to cows to control their movements across a landscape -- and even remotely gather them into a corral.' In fact, it could help farmers to maintain cows behind virtual fences. According to the...

Tags: Animal, Network, Cow, GPS, Handhelds, Productivity, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-08

Robofish teams of underwater robots

Many of today's underwater robots need to periodically come up to the surface to communicate with their human supervisors. But researchers at the University of Washington UW have developed a new kind of underwater vehicle. The Robofish can work cooperatively with each other. 'The Robofish, which are roughly the size...

Tags: Team, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-07

A UMan robotic arm

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a mobile robotic arm which can manipulate objects by 'seeing' its environment through a digital camera. This robotic arm, dubbed UMan, or UMass Mobile Manipulator, can 'approach unfamiliar objects, such as scissors, garden shears and jointed wooden toys -- and learn...

Tags: Environment, UMan, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Ed Colligan talks a bit about Palm OS 2.0 and the future of Palm

I am not quite sure what to think of Palm and the Palm OS right now as it has been several years since OS 5.x was released and Palm hasn't seemed to really have a well defined path to the future. They do still have a large marketshare and many...

Tags: Operating System, Palm Inc., Ed Colligan, Centro, Palm OS, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Epson Reforms Its Sourcing Process for Product Competitiveness and Better Supplier Relations

Founded in 1942, Seiko Epson Corporation is a leader in imaging, robotics, precision machinery, and electronics. Seiko Epson wanted to standardize sourcing processes across the imaging products business line to reduce the cost of materials and consolidate sourcing channels and streamline procurement processes to reduce operational costs. The challenge was...

Tags: Sourcing, Oracle Corp., Seiko Epson Corp., Imaging, Epson, Supplier, Purchasing & Procurement, Document Management, Strategy, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management

Case studies 2008-06-01

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

Roving robots explore moon, desert

Whether it's exploring the moon's craters or the inhospitable Chilean desert, robots are aiding in the research work that humans wouldn't ordinarily be able to do. At a recent visit to Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi gets up close and personal with the...

Tags: Emerging Technologies, News, kara tsuboi, carnegie mellon university, lunar x prize, robots, jared kohler, moon, mars, solar, space

Videos 2008-05-28

A robotic brain-computer interface

California Institute of Technology Caltech engineers have developed a robotic device able to act as a brain-computer interface. This is the 'first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning electrodes in neural tissue.' According to the researchers, their approach 'could enhance the performance and...

Tags: Algorithm, Electrode, California Institute Of Technology, Positioning, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-21

Nanorobots to improve health care

Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...

Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Survivor Buddy, a friendly robot rescuer

The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida USF, 'plans to add a heart to robot rescuers.' As says USF, the goal is to develop 'a robot that will be a companion...

Tags: Details, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-17