by main roboticist via Virginia Tech News
7 months 3 weeks ago
Asserting that the Darpa Challenge “is the craziest, boldest, most expensive, most challenging, yet possibly the most important robotics project in the history of mankind,” Dennis Hong, associate...
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by main roboticist via IEEE Spectrum
7 months 3 weeks ago
Seven teams are participating in Track A of the DARPA Challenge. Here is a few: Carnegie Mellon is working on the CHIMP (CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform) robot, Drexel University will focus on...
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by main roboticist via Engadget
7 months 3 weeks ago
Inventors, educators, media people, and college students gathered at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh for the 2012 inductions to the Robot Hall of Fame, an event sponsored by Carnegie Mellon...
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by main roboticist via DigInfoTV
7 months 3 weeks ago
Panasonic has revealed its invention - a prototype dry head spa robot that can be attached to a desk or bath. It uses the same robot hand technology that was implimented in their previous hair...
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by main roboticist via RoboticsBusinessReview
7 months 3 weeks ago
Noting that robot-related legislation and regulation in China must be addressed, researcher Yueh-Hsuan Weng asserts: “In the 40 year history of industrial robots, just 1.4 million robots have been...
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by main roboticist via engadget
7 months 3 weeks ago
When assembled, Romibo can drive around, blink with its eyes, speak, and move its antennae. Inside of it there is WiFi, bluetooth, light sensors, an IR Proximity sensor, accelerometers and a large...
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by main roboticist via Gizmag
7 months 3 weeks ago
Modeled after a real person, Alissa looks very realistic. Her inventors, the Russian robotics company Neurobotics, is working with Russia 2045 - they claim that androids will be an everyday aspect by...
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by main roboticist via Gizmag
7 months 3 weeks ago
The robot that took the Louis Vuitton Humanoid Cup for "Best Humanoid" this year, the NimbRo-OP is a great learning platform. Though expensive - €20,000 (US$26,000), it will save the time and costs...
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by main roboticist via ScienceDaily
7 months 3 weeks ago
For researchers in the biological sciences, training future robots has been made simpler due to a new program called "PaR-PaR" (this stands for Programming a Robot). The program allows robots to be...
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by main roboticist via Wired
7 months 4 weeks ago
The Arduino Due has just been released, replacing the 8-bit, 16MHz brain of the popular Uno microcontroller prototyping platform with a 32-bit, 84MHz processor, while augmenting inputs and...
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by main roboticist via seattlepi
7 months 4 weeks ago
Powered by batteries, the robotic eel fluctuates through coastal waters and checks for mines. A robotic jellyfish observes the sea bottom, powered by the atoms around it. The fins of a robot bluegill...
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by main roboticist via Kickstarter
7 months 4 weeks ago
The ACQUATICO robot has already been tested for 6 years in explorations and industrial conditions. It allows you to explore the ocean through your smartphone, while also allowing third parties to...
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by main roboticist via IEEE Spectrum
7 months 4 weeks ago
Swarms of heterogeneous robots combine efforts to make each other more effective and able to carry out various tasks. At IROS 2012, researchers presented an AR Drone to help a swarm of self-...
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by main roboticist via Mail Online
7 months 4 weeks ago
Take a look at robot prototypes that might live among us, helping us with our work or spending leisure time with us. Developed in Bristol and Essex, these robots are being invented to rescue us (such...
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by main roboticist via MakerBot
7 months 4 weeks ago
Three whole myths have been busted by these stunning sculptures of a horse's head and the bust of Alexander the Great. Firstly, they prove that MakerBot Desktop 3D Printers can make things of various...
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by main roboticist via Robots Dreams
7 months 4 weeks ago
Dr. Guero from Japan has revealed his Primer-V4 robot that walks tightropes, waving its arms to keep balance. The tightrope used for this feat is a four mm diameter cable one meter above the floor...
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by main roboticist via SiliconRepublic
7 months 4 weeks ago
A robot that prompts people to exercise daily and stick to a healthy diet was at the center of the Dublin Web Summit. Combining discoveries from various fields, the inventor of the robot Dr. Kidd...
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by main roboticist via ScienceDaily
8 months 7 hours ago
The researchers in the eSMCs project (Extending Sensorimotor Contingencies to Cognition) note that actions play a major role not only when perceiving, but also in progress of more complex cognitive...
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by main roboticist via Popsci
8 months 23 hours ago
A hard day's work prompted Ascensio Zubeldia to contrive a bed that is able to make itself on its own every morning. Sensors in the bed feel when the sleeper wakes up and gets out of bed. In three...
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by main roboticist via Forbes
8 months 1 day ago
The ComBots Cup competition, a favorite of robot lovers and even children, is being held for its seventh year and at the time being is the only heavyweight robot fighting competition in North America...
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by main roboticist via Slate
8 months 1 day ago
Here are additional robot videos of this week. Looks like Iuro with its bright blue eyes has made a lasting impression on everyone, along with the robot that makes your sleep a custome-made work of...
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by main roboticist via IEEE Spectrum
8 months 1 day ago
Take a look at this week's robot videos. There's a robot dancing Gangnam style, the new humanoid TeenSize open platform robot from the University of Bonn, Naro Tartaruga the robotics turtle, an...
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by main roboticist via FastCompany
8 months 1 day ago
This week introduced Iuro with shock-absorbing wheels at IROS and Autom the robot that was shown at the Dublin Web Summit. Autom monitors your diet and helps you lead a healthy way of life. The...
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by main roboticist via Wired
8 months 1 day ago
Curiosity has been stationed on Mars at an area called Rocknest, where it sampled Martian soil and practiced the employment of its scoop and analysis instruments (it was to make three scoops total)....
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by main roboticist via Gizmag
8 months 1 day ago
Since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, the Japanese government has focused on robotics to help cope with future accidents. Developed by Cyberdyne (University of Tsukuba) the Hybrid...
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