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- Smart People: Tom Low, Director, Medical Robotics, SRI International
- Smart People: Tom Low, Director, Medical Robotics, SRI InternationalGreat video..I've been following this science since 2001 and it is good to see how it's "fleshing" out, so to speak. Actually no pun intended.
- Tags: Robots, Medical Robotics, Tom Low, Smart People, SRI International, robotics, Tom
- Discussion threads 2009-06-09
- 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...
- Tags: Robotics, SRI International, Tom Low, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Photos: DIY bringing robotics to the masses
- At this weekend's Maker Faire, do-it-yourself robots will be one of the biggest attractions. The hobby has grown into the mainstream. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Robotics, Photograph, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-05-29
- '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...
- Tags: Robots, robot, killer robotics app, bot, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- 'Partner' bots: The next killer robotics app? (And will Microsoft bite?)
- Microsoft's Mr. Robotics, Tandy Trower, has moved into more of an "ambassadorial"/strategic planning role, as of late. But that hasn't stopped him from thinking about what could become the "killer app" in the robotics space. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Robotics, Microsoft Corp., Bot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Data Robotics' DroboPro storage solution--photos
- On April 7, 2009, Data Robotics introduced the DroboPro. The device supports up to 16TB of storage and features Data Robotics' proprietary BeyondRAID technology. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Robotics, Photograph, Storage, Robots, Hardware, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-04-07
- 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....
- Tags: Robotics, Perpetuum Software, Operator Interface, Robot Controller, Robots, Team Management, Emerging Technologies, Management
- White papers 2009-01-01
- High School Robotics Team Wins the Judges Award at FIRST Robotics Competition
- The FIRST Robotics Competition, FRC, is an international robotics competition for high-school-aged students. They had a grand Vision of what they wanted to accomplish with the Custom Dashboard. However, the visualization of data for real time systems is a challenging field for software development. The company deployed Perpetuum Software Instrumentation...
- Tags: Robotics, Perpetuum Software, Robots, Emerging Technologies
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Honda's robotics foray continues: Unveils 'walking assist device'
- Honda's robotics foray continues: Unveils 'walking assist device'Their kidding right?It looks rediculous, AND uncomfortable!I'll stick with my knee brace and cane,Thanks anyway!I think they are on the right track.Who thinks that being stuck in a wheel chair or a bed for that matter is healthy. The problem that puts you...
- Tags: Robots, Honda Motor Co., robotics
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Honda's robotics foray continues: Unveils 'walking assist device'
- A bit off topic, but pretty neat nonetheless: Honda has rolled out its second experimental walking device. The contraption is for folks that can walk, but have trouble supporting their weight. Given all those Baby Boomers will be hitting retirement age in droves Honda may find a market. ...
- Tags: Robotics, Honda Motor Co., Contraption, Robots, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Liveblogging Microsoft PDC keynote day three: Robotics and research
- Our cabal of bloggers from across a variety of pubs and sites is back again live blogging the Professional Developers Conference PDC day three keynote. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Robotics, Microsoft Corp., Robots, Blogging, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Can robots become our 'phriends'?
- A friendly collaboration between humans and robots is not always easy. Either robots work efficiently and far from humans in controlled environments, or they're equipped with lots of sensors to work along humans and not harm them. Now, a EU-funded project, Phriends -- short for 'Physical Human-Robot Interaction: DepENDability and...
- Tags: Robotics, Phriends, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- 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
- Middleware for Robotics: A Survey
- The field of robotics relies heavily on various technologies such as mechatronics, computing systems, and wireless communication. Given the fast growing technological progress in these fields, robots can offer a wide range of applications. However real world integration and application development for such a distributed system composed of many robotic...
- Tags: Robotics, Survey, Robots, Middleware, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-09-01
- 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
- Collaborative Technology Prepares New Zealand Medical Robotics Innovator for Global Growth
- Smart Orthotics Limited is a New Zealand based technology company that has designed and developed a world-first 'Smart' disability aid that enables disabled users to walk by using patented robotic technologies. In order to complete the development of its robotic exoskeleton mobility aid and prepare for release to market, Smart...
- Tags: Robotics, New Zealand, Microsoft Corp., Product Development, Team Management, Robots, Collaboration, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites
- Case studies 2008-07-10
- Tech camp for kids
- Some kids prefer video games and computer programming to sports and nature, and the ID Tech Camps were created with that set in mind. CNET's Kara Tsuboi drops in on a summer session at Stanford University to watch these future tech masterminds hard at work on their summer vacations.
- Tags: Tech, Programming, Development Tools, Games, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Personal Technology, News, kara tsuboi, id tech camp, stanford, computer graphics, web, design, video, summer, camp, digital, final cut pro, robotics, science
- Videos 2008-07-09
- RoboGames: a fight 'til the death
- It's the Robot Fighting League's largest contest and CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi has a look at the action. Teams from Australia, Brazil, and elsewhere around the world battle for robot glory.
- Tags: Emerging Technologies, News, kara tsuboi, robogames, fort mason, robots, death match, robotics
- Videos 2008-06-16
- Deliver Next-Generation SOA Apps With Microsoft Robotics Development Studio
- The software development world has evolved quite a bit over the last 20 odd years. The author went from object-oriented development to component-oriented development and now to service-oriented development. Each step along the way, the current programming methodology has borrowed useful ideas from its predecessor and tried to improve upon...
- Tags: Robotics, Development, Jupitermedia Corp., Microsoft Corp., Object-oriented, Software Development World, Software Development, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Development Tools, Robots, Software/Web Development, Emerging Technologies
- White papers 2008-06-05
- Coloring for Shared Object-Oriented Libraries
- Coloring is an implementation technique for multiple inheritance which is as efficient as single inheritance but only works in a global compilation or global linking framework. This short paper proposes a variation on coloring that makes it compatible with shared libraries. The proposal is usable for method invocation, attribute access,...
- Tags: Robotics, Computer Science, Object-oriented, Robots, Productivity, Emerging Technologies
- White papers 2008-06-02
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