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Desert wins the race of robot cars

Desert wins the race of robot carsShows that man is still needed in the computer ageIf they think 7 miles is successful out of 150, then they need a serious math course then to work out those odds.....Also, you still need people to win battles and to be in combat.If...

Tags: Robots, Monitors & displays, Robotic vehicle, robot

Discussion threads 2004-03-14

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Jabra Stone

Not many Bluetooth headsets combine style and performance, and when they do, they stand out. Examples include the Aliph Jawbone Prime, the BlueAnt Q1, and the Plantronics Discovery 975. Jabra, a company that has been in the Bluetooth business a long time, attempts to come up with yet another headset...

Tags: headset, Jabra, Stone

Product reviews 2009-11-17

Eclipse AVN726E DVD/GPS receiver

The AVN726e, Eclipse's newest double-DIN DVD/navigation receiver, was making a name for itself even before it was released to the public, when it was named Best of Innovations at CES 2009 in the In-Vehicle Navigation/Telematics/ITS product category. We were too busy being wowed by its sibling the Eclipse AVN4430 to...

Tags: Memory, Flash memory, GPS receiver, Bluetooth wireless transmitter, DVD, Street Name, AVN726e, Eclipse, GPS

Product reviews 2009-06-11

Archibald's Adventures (Mobile)

Test your skills and wit in more than 160 uncanny levels! Archibald offers gameplay with both action and puzzle elements with gradually rising complexity. The player starts as a boy on skateboard, but soon he will roll in robotic vehicle capable of riding on walls and ceilings, he will fly...

Tags: Mobile, Ceiling, Wall, Archibald, Construction, Transportation

Software downloads 2009-01-24

Can a robot be in a good or in a bad mood?

According to the Taranaki Daily News in New Zealand, the answer is yes. Engineers at Victoria University in Wellington have developed a robot which adapts its behavior according to its emotions. Marvin -- short for 'Mobile Autonomous Robotic Vehicle for Indoor Navigation' -- can express happiness, anger or frustration. As...

Tags: Victoria University, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille, New Zealand, Emotion, Marvin, Carnegie

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Archibald's Adventures 1.01 (Windows)

Help Archie to overcome all of the pitfalls of the Dr. Klumpfus mansion in this funny action puzzle game. Test your skills and wit in more than 100 uncanny levels. Archibald offers gameplay mixed of action and puzzle elements with gradually rising complexity. The player starts as a boy on...

Tags: Action, Archibald, Microsoft Windows, Construction, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?

According to Canadian engineers at Queen's University, there are now more than 8,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Of course, if they stop to work correctly, these satellites will not be able to be repaired from the ground and will become space junk. So these researchers have developed a...

Tags: Robot, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-04

NASA robots on Moses Lake dunes

According to the Tri-City Herald, WA, NASA engineers in space suits have tested new robotic vehicles for two weeks on the dunes of Moses Lake, WA. These robots could be used on future NASA missions on the Moon and on Mars. According to the newspaper, five robotic vehicles were tested:...

Tags: NASA, WA, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-12

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

Robotic car preps for DARPA Challenge

Paul Perrone, CEO of Perrone Robotics, introduces Tommy Jr., a driverless car powered by Solaris and Java, created for the DARPA Urban Challenge. The vehicle made an appearance on stage at the JavaOne conference last week in San Francisco. Tommy Jr. will navigate using laser "eyes" mounted on the body...

Tags: Car, DARPA, Sun Solaris, GPS, UNIX, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, JavaOne, robot, Solaris, Servers

Videos 2008-05-15

Laser scanning robot 3D-R1 used to map mines

A UK-based company, 3D Laser Mapping, has developed robots equipped with lasers to automatically scan mines. Its latest mission was to create a 3D map of the San Jose silver mine in Mexico. The remote survey vehicle RSV 3D-R1 weighs about 135 kilograms and is 0.6 meter high. It...

Tags: 3D, Laser, 3D-R1, 3DLM, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-10

(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

A robotic taxi named robuCAB

According to ICT Results, a EU-funded project named Embounded 'has achieved the twin, and apparently contradictory goals, of making embedded systems both smarter and tougher.' One example is the robuCAB, a '4 seats automated people mover' developed by a French company and built from a 4 wheel-drive electric chassis with...

Tags: Adobe PDF, Embedded System, robuCAB, Robosoft, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-12

Microsoft Office System Customer Solution Case Study

Based in Petersboro, Utah, Autonomous Solutions has 70 employees who specialize in robotic vehicle automation for clients in the agricultural, cleaning, construction, military, and mining industries. A fast-moving, rapidly growing company, Autonomous Solutions needed a flexible collaboration tool to help its employees efficiently manage complex, multi-million dollar projects. To create...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Collaboration, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites

Case studies 2008-02-01

Pharos Drive GPS 250

Sometimes less is more, and that seems to be the approach Pharos is taking with its Pharos Drive GPS 250. The entry-level in-car GPS offers simplicity and ease of use with a minimalist design and interface, and all the basic navigation features are there, with the bonus of text-to-speech functionality....

Tags: Keyboards, touch screen, points of interest database, Pharos, Pharos Drive GPS 250, GPS

Product reviews 2008-01-18

Mapping a submarine volcano with a robot

Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WHOI have recently used their robotic underwater vehicle called ABE short for Autonomous Benthic Explorer to 'paint' stunning images of a submarine volcano submerged about a mile deep in the Pacific Ocean, and located about 290 nautical miles northeast of New Zealand. As...

Tags: Robot, Sonar, ABE, Caldera, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-21

Mio DigiWalker C230

Back in May, we reviewed the Mio C220 portable navigation system, which we loved for its ease of use and affordable price, but ultimately we had to diss it because of an awful screen. Well, we're happy to say that its successor, the Mio DigiWalker C230, offers the same intuitiveness...

Tags: Keyboards, GPS, Handhelds, Mio, Mio C230, Mio DigiWalker C230

Product reviews 2007-09-27

A robotic Meridian to fly over the poles

The Meridian unmanned aerial vehicle UAV is a single-engine research aircraft with fixed landing gear designed by engineers at the University of Kansas. According to Technology Review, it will be used to see what happens beneath the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Two units are currently built for a cost...

Tags: Technology Review, Mean, Adobe PDF, Kilogram, Aircraft, Radar, Meridian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-16

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

Morphing-wing robotic birds to spy on us

Dutch engineering students have developed RoboSwift, a bio-inspired morphing-wing micro aerial vehicle which flies like a swift. Like the real bird, this robotic one "will have unprecedented wing characteristics; the wing geometry as well as the wing surface area can be adjusted continuously." But unlike the real bird, RoboSwift, which...

Tags: Defense &, Security, Engineering &, Innovation, Robotics

Blog posts 2007-07-24