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- (Photos: Robots make themselves at home)
- (Photos: Robots make themselves at home)RoombaI have 3 Roombas; 1 only works to charge batteries; one won't charge batteries but will clean; one is now for spare parts. If this is as good as home robotics gets, then I am all for leaving it in the past. Hopefully Irobot...
- Tags: Robots, Engineering, robot, photograph
- Discussion threads 2009-05-30
- (Photos: Taking apart the robot guitar)
- (Photos: Taking apart the robot guitar)Competition for TransperformanceThe automatically tuned guitar has already been done, but it looks like Gibson has significantly reduced the size and weight of the components. I'm curious if it allows non-standard tunings to be pre-programmed and called up at will.http://transperformance.com/RE: (Photos: Taking apart the robot...
- Tags: Robots, tuning, robot, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- (Photos: Bat plane to spy for U.S. Army)
- (Photos: Bat plane to spy for U.S. Army)Cool movie toy!!Looks like a gadget right out of a Batman movie. Am interested in how silent and power efficient this is going to be. You would think UAVs are a better choice.RE: (Photos: Bat plane to spy for U.S. Army)10 Million, ME!...
- Tags: Robots, robot, U.S. Army, Berkeley, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- Photos: Toyota's mobile, musical robots
- Toyota unveils the newest two members of its "partner robot" family: the wheeled Mobina and an unnamed violin-wielding robot. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Mobile, Robot, Photograph, Toyota Motor Corp., Robots, Business Structures, Emerging Technologies, Finance, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-12-06
- Photos: Robots at play and work
- 2007 International Robotics Exhibition shows off robots for the home, hospital, factory, and playroom. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Robot, Photograph, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-11-30
- Photos: When roaches meet robots
- Researchers set out to discover whether the icky brown bugs will accept artificial cockroaches into their shadowy community. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Robot, Photograph, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-11-16
- Photos: Robot race in 'DARPA' city
- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency raises the green flag on 11 driverless cars to drive a 10-plus mile course. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Robot, DARPA, Photograph, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-11-03
- Photos: Robots for all occasions
- Looking for a hiking partner, someone to entertain your kids, or a gambling buddy who doesn't cheat? Look no further than the RoboDevelopment confab. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Robot, Photograph, Robots, Business Structures, Emerging Technologies, Finance, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-26
- Photos: On the road to robot race
- After a two-year break since its last robot race, DARPA will kick off the semifinals of its Urban Grand Challenge later this month. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Robot, Photograph, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-04
- Photos: iRobot's new 'robust' Roomba
- New Roomba 500 series vacuuming robot gets corners and takes direction without sucking in rug fringe or loose wires.On Wednesday, iRobot plans to release a new generation of vacuuming robots to the public.CNET News.com got a chance to test out iRobot''s new Roomba 500 series ahead of time and got...
- Tags: Robots, photograph, iRobot Corp., iRobot Roomba, subsystem, robot, Roomba 500, modularity, dust, dirt, homeowner, firmware, staff writer, incarnation, C, CEO, battery, Web
- Image galleries 2007-08-21
- Photos: Unmanned vehicles take to air, land and sea
- Unmanned vehicles allow military, researchers to explore dangerous areas without putting people in harm's way.Sleek robotic aircraft may have been the scene-stealers at this year''s Association for Unmanned Vehicles International AUVSI show, but land vehicles are also playing an important role in military operations. This ruggedized PackBot, made by iRobot,...
- Tags: photograph, Unmanned Vehicle, helicopter, catapult, aircraft, iRobot Corp., BAE Systems Plc., Northrop Grumman Corp., researcher, MLB, zoom, Lockheed Martin Corp., U.S. Army, complement, camera, Mountain View, Iraq, robot, display, monitoring, government, image, Sony Corp., pho
- Image galleries 2007-08-09
- Photos: Tech camp for kids
- Thousands of kids are attending iD Tech Camps on college campuses around the country this summer. Jimmy McChristy, 17, shows off video animations he''s created with Adobe AfterEffects for a four-minute film takeoff on the movie The Matrix.McChristy, a Santa Fe, N.M., high school senior, is one of thousands of...
- Tags: Games, PRODUCTIVITY, Corporate communications, It', photograph, game, iD Tech Camps, iD Tech, computer, Jimmy McChristy, Stanford University, camp, video game, hog, dorm, 3D modeling, Pixar Animation Studios Inc., programming, backward, Stanford, robotics, Web design, Universi
- Image galleries 2007-08-09
- Photos: Robot subs vie for top honors
- Teams gather in San Diego to pit their robotic submarines against each other in tests of design, navigation and their ability to perform tasks.
- Tags: Robots, San Diego, robot, photograph, team
- Image galleries 2007-07-13
- Photos: Robots to the rescue
- Robots descend upon Texas A&M's Disaster City for a rescue exercise sponsored by Homeland Security and the Commerce Department.
- Tags: Robots, robot, rescue, U.S. Department of Commerce, homeland security, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-06-25
- Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
- Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including a blazingly fast Canon SLR, the Drobo "storage robot," a two-room wireless digital audio system and the 2007 Apple MacBook Pro.
- Tags: digital audio, Canon Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook, robot, storage, Apple Inc., photograph, wireless
- Image galleries 2007-06-23
- Photos: Kawada's robot as handyman
- The humanoid HRP-3 Promet Mk-II makes its debut in a Japanese lab facility, with power tool at its side.
- Tags: Robots, robot, photograph, tool
- Image galleries 2007-06-22
- Photos: Kawada's robot as handyman
- The humanoid HRP-3 Promet Mk-II makes its debut in a Japanese lab facility, with power tool at its side.
- Tags: Robots, robot, photograph, tool
- Image galleries 2007-06-22
- Photos: Stanford passes first DARPA test
- The Stanford University racing team shows off its robot car, Junior, to DARPA representatives on in the first test round to enter the DARPA Grand Challenge.
- Tags: Robots, photograph, DARPA, Stanford, Stanford University, robot, team
- Image galleries 2007-06-14
- Photos: The Army's vision for soldier tech
- The Future Combat Systems project lays out a fully networked force of robots, sensors and smarter vehicles. But getting there is slow going.
- Tags: Robots, sensor, robot, vision, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-05-28
- Photos: Paging Dr. Robot, your patient is waiting
- A California hospital tries out a rolling robot that lets faraway MDs interact with patients over the Internet.
- Tags: Robots, robot, patient, paging, Dr., hospital, California, photograph, Internet
- Image galleries 2007-05-18
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