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- Robot
- 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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- 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.
- Image galleries 2007-07-13
- 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.
- Image galleries 2007-06-14
- Photos: Tea time with robots
- Humanoid machines team up to pour and serve tea--not terribly fast, but you don't have to leave a tip.
- Image galleries 2007-03-02
- 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
- Segway's Kamen sponors FIRST Lego League Championship
- Legos might seem on the surface to be just bunch of tiny brightly-colored plastic blocks that get stuck in the vacuum cleaner, but kids in Colorado are putting them to good use by doing research in nanotechnology and robot-building, reports Your Hub.com Eighteen students at West Middle School are...
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- Photos: Bots hit the court
- Robots built by 40 teams of high school students duke it out on the basketball court.
- Image galleries 2006-03-17
- Photos: Robot racers tune up for DARPA Challenge
- Teams from around the country are getting ready for the 2005 Darpa Grand Challenge for robotic cars.
- Image galleries 2005-09-14
- Photos: Robot racers tune up for DARPA Challenge
- Teams from around the country are getting ready for the 2005 Darpa Grand Challenge for robotic cars.
- Image galleries 2005-09-14
- Photo: Robot in scrubs
- A new robot successfully assisted a N.Y. surgical team by handing and retrieving instruments during a procedure.
- Image galleries 2005-06-28
- Photo: Robot in scrubs
- A new robot successfully assisted a N.Y. surgical team by handing and retrieving instruments during a procedure.
- Image galleries 2005-06-28
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- Google Wave too complicated? I don't think so
- "Solution" looking for a problem?That's how it looks to me.RE: Google Wave too complicated? I don't think soToo Complicated? It will make everything easier. All of my communication in one spot!people have said the same thingabout a number of the major technological advances in the last hundred years.And they...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-08
- Robotic ferret to detect hidden drugs and weapons
- The monumental task of inspecting containers that come in to and out of seaports and airports may get a bit easier with a new type of robot being developed to detect drugs, weapons, explosives and illegal immigrants concealed in cargo containers. [caption id="attachment_1589" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Credit: Hammer411...
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Smart People: Tom Low, Director, Medical Robotics, SRI International
- A robot in every operating room? Tom Low leads a team of researchers and engineers working on the next generation of medical robots to be used in laparoscopic surgery. Pioneered in the 1980s by SRI, the procedures involve doctors making very small incisions and then using long, skinny, robotically controlled...
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Agriculture ripe for change with robot farmhands
- Farmers across the developed world did away with the backbreaking part of the work during the 19th century with the introduction of equipment like tractors and combines. Now, evolving technology is poised to make industrial agriculture greener and more efficient with the use of robots. [caption id=""...
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- News to know: Windows 7; Twitter; Satyam; Apple
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: How hard will it be to move to the Windows 7 Release Candidate? ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
- A robot that follows a human commander and responds to gestures
- This week marks another incremental step forward in the field of robotics, specifically around gestural control. Brown University reports that their researchers have demonstrated how a robot can follow nonverbal commands from a person in a variety of environments â€" indoors as well as outside â€" all without adjusting for...
- Blog posts 2009-03-14
- A robot that "evolves" and adapts
- [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Credit: Robert Gordon University "][/caption] British artificial intelligence engineers have created a robot that mimics the evolutionary process in just the span of a few hours. They programmed a robot’s “brain†to automatically grow in size and complexity as its physical makeup is...
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- How a High School Robotics Team Achieved Success Thanks to Perpetuum Software
- One of the very cool aspects of the Kit of Parts, which all teams have to use, is the Operator Interface OI and the Robot Controller RC, which are connected via two-way wireless modems. The RC sends a data 26 byte packet 40 times a second back to the OI....
- White papers 2009-01-01
- News to know: Microsoft; Linux failure; Mac clones; Chip shortfalls
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Does the Windows 7 team have too much Apple envy? Readers weigh in Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Argentinian Mac clone makes an appearance ...
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- A fully customizable home robot
- Imagine a completely customizable robot with selectable software options. Buy one component, and it will take care of your lawn. Buy another one and it will clean your toilets. With a third one, it will pick up UPS or FedEx deliveries on your porch. If you are taking some vacation,...
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
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