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- A stand-alone hybrid computer system that performs physical and computational activities. Capable of performing many different tasks, it is a multiple-motion device with one or more arms and joints....
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- 'Partner' bots: The next killer robotics app? (And will Microsoft bite?)
- 'Partner' bots: The next killer robotics app? (And will Microsoft bite?)Whatever you do ...... don't let SNL or Mad TV hear about what you are planning to do. They'll have a field day with it! (E.g. view this 2001 HAL doctored clip.)Seriously, I think MS and the robotics industry should...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- 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.
- Videos 2007-10-29
- 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...
- Image galleries 2007-08-09
- Jumping robots for space exploration?
- According to a team of engineers at the University of Bath, "jumping is a good way to move over rough terrain, and is considerably easier to design than walking." PhysOrg.com reports that this is why they've designed two jumping robots inspired by animals. They think that their two new robots,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-08
- HortiBot, a weed-removing robot
- According to the Ludington Daily News, Michigan, Danish agricultural engineers have built a robot to help farmers with weeds. The Hortibot is about 3-foot-by-3-foot, is self-propelled, and uses global positioning system GPS. It can recognize 25 different kinds of weeds and eliminate them by using its weed-removing attachments. It's also...
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- A robot that travels through the body
- The reference to the 1966 movie "Fantastic Voyage" is maybe too obvious. But Israeli scientists have developed a 1-millimeter-diameter medical robot that will be able to crawl within our veins and arteries. It's too early to know when this medical robot is allowed to explore a real human being. But...
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- A truly globetrotter robot
- A British robotic submarine, Isis, has a very busy schedule these days. Last January, it was taking a 3-week Antarctic dive. In May, it was exploring a giant canyon just off the coast of Portugal. Its next mission will be the exploration of the Whittard Canyon, another deep submarine valley,...
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Review of Data Robotics' Drobo 'storage robot'
- Review of Data Robotics' Drobo 'storage robot'Missing?I would think a system like this would come with some serious backup provisions, that seems to be missing.Don't be so hard on yourself George"Last week I gave a fairly harsh review of the Drobo "storage robot" product based on some initial investigation I...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-30
- Review of Data Robotics' Drobo 'storage robot'
- Last week I gave a fairly harsh review of the Drobo "storage robot" product based on some initial investigation I did. I concluded that while it's possible to do some level of hard drive mixing, it really wasn't worth it since you didn't get meaningful capacity out of it. I...
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Architecture and robotic ecologies
- The University of Virginia UVA School of Architecture has started a new program about 'robotic ecologies' which wants to answer the question: Will robots take over architecture? As said the program leader, "This research is not just about architectural machines that move. It is about groups of architectural machines that...
- Blog posts 2007-05-28
- Is the Drobo 'storage robot' fact or myth?
- There's a new personal storage device that's been getting some rave reviews lately. The company is Data Robotics and they sell a device called the "Drobo" which is a USB 2.0 connected device that houses 4 hot-swappable SATA hard drives. Many online gadget reviewers, colleagues, and friends of mine were...
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- A robotic cable inspection system
- In a very short article, Popular Science reports that researchers at the University of Washington have built a robotic cable inspection system. This system should help utility companies to maintain their networks of subterranean cables. The robot, dubbed Cruiser, is about 4-feet-long and is designed like a snake. When it...
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Photos: Robots as toys, tools and teachers
- RoboBusiness 2007, a robotics conference held this week in Boston, presents bots for use by the military, children and researchers.
- Image galleries 2007-05-16
- Faster slamming robots
- Im not speaking here of noisy robots. SLAM is an acronym for simultaneous localization and mapping, and slamming robots are simply robots which at the same time build a map of their environment while keeping track of their own localization. Now, according to New Scientist, Purdue University engineers have designed...
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- A swimming robot -- inside your body
- The Boston Globe describes the efforts of a Japanese-born scientist to develop new technologies for use in surgery. His last project is to build a swimming robot designed to explore the human gastrointestinal tract GI tract from esophagus to colon. This 2-centimeter long robot will have a swimming tail to...
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Fish-like sensors for underwater robots
- Today, both submarine and surface ships use sonar for navigation. But sonar and other vision systems face various limitations. So why not imitating fish? For millions of years, fish have relied on "a row of specialized sensory organs along the sides of their bodies, called the lateral line" to avoid...
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- Robotic arm lends a hand after stroke
- In the U.S., stroke is a major cause of long-term disability which affects 700,000 people annually. Most of them are over 65 years old and some have difficulties grasping objects after their stroke. This is why Californian researchers have developed a robotic therapy which helps restore hand use after stroke....
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- A robot for your digital camera?
- According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and NASA Ames will release in March a $200 robot which will transform your digital cameras into powerful image-makers without your help. Attached to almost any model of digital cameras, the Gigapan robot platform will take continuous snapshots of a...
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Georgia Tech, Microsoft bring tabletop robots to CS program
- One day, in the not too distant future, students may be conducting experiments with robots for lab partners. To that end, Georgia Tech and other universities have teamed up with Microsofts Institute for Personal Robots in Education IPRE to provide tabletop robots, hoping to encourge and promote computer science programs...
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
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