by main roboticist via LiveScience
9 months 4 weeks ago
"Star Wars" battlefields may seem imminent given the U.S. military's enthusiasm for testing laser weapons on planes, ships and vehicles. But a Pentagon workshop found that lasers, cyberwarfare, 3D...
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by main roboticist via The Wall Street Journal
10 months 15 hours ago
Despite the enduring influence of these tenets, there’s nonetheless a push underway to give robots what’s been termed “lethal autonomy” – that is, the ability to kill without direct human involvement...
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by main roboticist via Azorobotics.com
10 months 16 hours ago
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has started moving on the Martian surface from its landing ground, with its drive combined forward, reverse and turn segments. The rover has now moved 6 m from its landing...
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by main roboticist via Voxy.co.nz
10 months 18 hours ago
Award-winning Christchurch start-up company Invert Robotics has begun earning revenue from its wall-climbing robot. The world-class cutting tech company has inspected Westland Dairy’s tall milk...
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by main roboticist via Marine Corps Times
10 months 20 hours ago
The U.S. Marine Corps has finished an experiment that mixed robotic trucks within manned convoys and could eventually pave the way for expanded use of this type of technology. Oshkosh Defense...
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by main roboticist via Everything-Robotic
10 months 20 hours ago
Max Nisen of Business Insider wrote recently of a list of seven stock picks discovered in a Credit Suisse report on long term trends. One of those trends was increasing global automation (...
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by main roboticist via ScienceAlert
10 months 1 day ago
Engineers should stop working on killer robots and kick the habit of military funding, a leading Australian applied ethicist has said.
In a paper published in IEEE Technology and Society Magazine,...
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by main roboticist via News@Northeastern
10 months 2 days ago
Prior to joining the Northeastern faculty as an assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Science, Marsette Vona worked for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part...
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by main roboticist via Robotics Trends
10 months 2 days ago
The tech company enriches its motion management technology with MicroStrain's sensors for UAV control
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by main roboticist via Everything-Robotic
10 months 2 days ago
Sometimes a company is founded because it stumbles upon a niche that it can fill better than any other company. Such a company is RE2 (Robotics Engineering Excellence). Founded by Jorgen Pedersen as...
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by main roboticist via KETK NBC
10 months 3 days ago
NASA has selected a new mission, set to launch in 2016, that will take the first look into the deep interior of Mars to see why the Red Planet evolved so differently from Earth as one of our solar...
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by main roboticist via BBC
10 months 3 days ago
Space agency NASA blasted the rock to find out more about what it was made from. The Curiosity Rover has already sent pictures back from Mars and is now using a laser to further analyse the...
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by main roboticist via Business Insider
10 months 4 days ago
While one outcome of the introduction of this new technology could be the loss of jobs in the economy, that would be due to inept economic policy. What the article is describing is productivity...
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by main roboticist via The New York Times
10 months 4 days ago
While the many robots in auto factories typically perform only one function, in the new Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif., a robot might do up to four: welding, riveting, bonding and installing a...
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by main roboticist via Nano Patents and Innovations
10 months 5 days ago
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate's (S&T) new low-cost device for dismantling dangerous pipe bombs may look like a tinkerer's project, but that's no...
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by main roboticist via Robotics Tomorrow
10 months 6 days ago
Unmanned Aircraft Launchers Market to Reach $1.3 Billion by 2018 According to a New Report on Launchers for Unmanned Aerial Systems and Targets
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by main roboticist via Robotics Tomorrow
10 months 6 days ago
A historic educational partnership recently formed between MTSU, the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps will explore how to add low-cost hardware and software to existing small robots so that Raven...
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by main roboticist via Source Newspapers
10 months 6 days ago
The German-based firm, which located its North American headquarters in Shelby Township last November, officially celebrated with 20 live robotic demonstrations at its 80,500-square-foot building.
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by main roboticist via Robotics Tomorrow
10 months 6 days ago
Siemens PLM Software introduces RobotExpert software, a new, intuitive, easy-to-deploy robotic simulation and programming solution for small and medium size manufacturers that helps minimize downtime...
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by main roboticist via BDN Maine
10 months 6 days ago
Tucked away in the former U.S. Navy base Wednesday morning, a Portland Police Department bomb robot reared back on its wheels, turned its “head,” and rolled toward the door of the former refitting...
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by main roboticist via EarthThreats
10 months 1 week ago
DARPA enlists makers of “BigDog” to construct machines that can think for themselves
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by main roboticist via Wired
10 months 1 week ago
Of course, there are other advancements as well: new model drones fly longer and wield better cameras. But those are routine improvements, like your smartphone rolling out upgrades to its operating...
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by main roboticist via Science Business
10 months 1 week ago
Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio unveiled a research consortium to speed development of an operating system for robots meeting the needs of industrial users. The ROS-Industrial Consortium...
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by main roboticist via Robocosmist
10 months 1 week ago
There is still tremendous excitement about the FAA’s recent moves that seem to indicate real progress in the last year. Privacy concerns are being taken seriously, hopefully early enough to nip the...
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by main roboticist via WashingtonTechnology
10 months 1 week ago
Boston Dynamics Inc. has won a $10.9 million contract to develop and build a set of identical robot systems for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Robotics Challenge Program.
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by main roboticist via Business Insider
10 months 1 week ago
Credit Suisse is out with a detailed analysis of the near and long term implications of the ongoing switchover.
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by main roboticist via Business Insider
10 months 1 week ago
The most interesting part of the report points out that China appears to be nearing an inflection point that we've already seen in Japan and Korea called the 'Lewis Turning Point'.
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by main roboticist via Nano Patents and Innovations
10 months 1 week ago
The first color image taken from orbit showing NASA's rover Curiosity on Mars includes details of the layered bedrock on the floor of Gale Crater that the rover is beginning to investigate.
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by main roboticist via theINDYchannel
10 months 1 week ago
'Elvis' Uses Sensors To Screen For Unusual Physiological Responses To Questioning
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by main roboticist via BBC
10 months 1 week ago
Nasa has used its high-resolution imaging satellite at the Red Planet to look down on the Curiosity rover and acquire a new picture of the recently landed six-wheeled robot. The vehicle appears as a...
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