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Neato Robotics XV-11 Robot Vacuum Uses Laser Mapping To Navigate,…
OhGizmo! | December 18th 2009
By Evan Ackerman We’re continually bemoaning the fact that the selection of practical robotic vacuums is extremely limited here in the US (although not so much elsewhere). Besides iRobot’s Roomba, you’ve got… Well, you don’t have much. Tod read more
Might robots have feelings, and if so will they ever like us?
MachinesLikeUs | December 17th 2009
Last month, Gecko Systems announced that it had been running trials of its “fully autonomous personal companion home care robot,” also known as a “carebot,” designed to help elderly or disabled people to live independently. A woman with short read more
Tetra
Stochastic Geometry | December 17th 2009 by Mark Dennehy
Or, as I first said on watching this, “Holy *****….” I mean, myself and Ian Dowse built a micromouse robot once, way back in the mists of prehistoric time, but, well… It wasn’t exactly going to finish in 4.766 seconds, read more
ConceptRobots – Seriously Awesome Images Of Robots
Singularity Hub | December 17th 2009
Wow! I just stumbled upon a blog called Conceptrobots that has a fantastic collection of seriously awesome robot concept images to drool over. I’m not talking about crappy amateur images that anyone can make. These are high quality, creat read more
Robot Robovie-II helps the elderly buy their groceries
RobAid.com | December 16th 2009
When we started this website we wanted to focus on robots made to aid us in various circumstances. Assisting the elderly is certainly one of the more noble jobs they can be given, and that’s just what Robovie-II, the creation of the Advanced Teleco read more
PhD Research Studentship – Institute for Research in Applicable…
PhD Scholarship in UK | December 16th 2009 by whe
PhD Research Studentship – Institute for Research in Applicable Computing University of Bedfordshire (Ref: IRAC1209) Salary: £13,290 per annum Based: Luton Closing date: 23 December 2009 Interviews: January 2010 Fixed term: Initially read more
Neato cleaning robot, better than Roomba?
JDmag | December 16th 2009 by Ryan Alberts
Roomba might have dominated the top spot of becoming the best robotic vacuum in the market. But it seems like the title is about to be grabbed by the newly launched Neato by resolving several issues that the iRobot company never paid attention with t read more
NASA unveils latest results from lunar mission
MachinesLikeUs | December 15th 2009
NASA's current mission in orbit around the moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has been providing crucial insights about our nearest celestial neighbor since its launch in June. At a scientific meeting today, researchers unveiled the late read more
Slam dunk for future smart robots
MachinesLikeUs | December 15th 2009
“What does the world look like?” and “where am I?” are two questions robots must solve if they are to act autonomously in an unknown environment. Work by European researchers will help future robot generations provide smarter answers. read mo read more
Rights for robots?
MachinesLikeUs | December 14th 2009
Last month, Gecko Systems announced that it had been running trials of its “fully autonomous personal companion home care robot,” also known as a “carebot,” designed to help elderly or disabled people to live independently. A woman with short read more
The Doom of 2012 Robotics
Amber | December 14th 2009
The rise of robotics is on its way. This video will show that in the near future, the Rise of the Machine will rule. With current skills and capabality of the robotics on this video, you can conceptualize the 2012 revolution of robotics.More project read more
Robot Guilt?
Geeks Are Sexy Technology news | December 14th 2009
The robot courses across the battlefield, swiveling on sleek steel legs, turning its bullet-shaped head toward its prey. Its eyes flash red, then blue: signal received. Before the ensuing sound boom and the inevitable end of hundreds of lives, it pau read more
Robotic Arm Opens Doors for Wheelchairs (Video)
Singularity Hub | December 14th 2009
DORA could help people in wheelchairs easily open doors. If good help is hard to find, consider building it instead. Opening doors isn’t any easy task for robots, they have to adjust to each new kind of latch. Yet one researcher from the Univer read more
The Twitter OAuth PHP Class Gets Even Better
Just another web developers blog | December 14th 2009 by Konstantin
Or perhaps simpler?.. Together with the Twitter API itself, the TwitterOAuth PHP class (the one by Abraham Williams) is being updated too! According to GitHub the latest changeset was commited on December 3rd so yeah, I tried to take a look at what&# read more
Life is Moving Ahead
Abhishek Deshpande | December 13th 2009 by Abhi
Trying my best to attain my goals, home in pune is no more my dream, it came to reality. Finally. yes finally deal is done. Almost all legal formalities are about to finish by this weekend. Soon will be having all religious activities there. may be a read more
Artificial Intelligence & Humanity: Introducing Asimo
Alex's Mind | December 13th 2009 by Alex Davis
Artificial Intelligence is a topic that has interested me for some time now. I stumbled across a project recently that is being worked on by Honda called Asimo.Props to Honda for researching this the field of robotics and artificial intelligence. I read more
Creepy, Disembodied Singing Android Heads
Videolicious.tv Daily Video Blog | December 11th 2009 by David Erickson
The animatronic heads from artist Nathaniel Mellor are part of a $75,000 art piece on sale at Art Basel Miami Beach 2009. The artificial faces are controlled by servos which in turn are controlled by a computer. Found at YouTube from A3Network. Simi read more
This cooler bot fetches refreshments
Makezine.com | December 11th 2009
Here's another remote-control robot built around a cooler, but for a completely different purpose. This Cooler Bot, accredited to the Creators at Hyde Park Middle School (!), was built using parts from the Vex Robotics and Pitsco Design System par read more
Roach Acts As Brain for Robot (Video)
Singularity Hub | December 11th 2009
A giant hissing cockroach guides the RoachBot by moving on top of a trackball. I’m not a big fan of cockroaches, and that goes double for the giant hissing kind. So I find Garnet Hertz’s RoachBot to be both interesting and revolting. Hert read more
Robotic surgery on beating heart soon possible
MachinesLikeUs | December 11th 2009
If you've been waiting for the day to arrive when computers actually start performing surgery, that moment might soon be upon us. A French team has developed a computerized 3D model that allows surgeons to use robotics to operate on a beating heart, read more
Free Engineers PDF File Handbook, Semiconductors, Electrical, Win…
electrical engineering ebooks | December 11th 2009 by mharikrishnan
Semiconductors and the Information RevolutionMagic Crystals that made IT Happen. It is a story to match any artistic or engineering achievement of man and this is the first time it has been presented in a style suited to the non-specialist. It is wri read more
Rear wheel problems continues to hamper Mars Spirit rover
MachinesLikeUs | December 10th 2009
Results of diagnostic tests on Spirit's right-rear wheel on Sol 2109 (Dec. 8, 2009) continue to indicate a troubled wheel, which may leave the rover with only four operable wheels. read more read more
Tokyo Robot Dance Competition
Impact Lab | December 10th 2009
Here’s a competitor in the 6th Robo-One Gate dance competition, held in Tokyo in November 2009. I wonder if the rules require the robots to look like scary cyborg schoolgirls? via Boing Boing read more
Pingo – a social-networking robotic penguin gadget
GadgetLite | December 10th 2009 by GadgetLite
Christmas SPECIAL: Win a Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console bundle with loads of extra gadgets, its worth more than 600 pounds! Pingo – a social-networking robotic penguin gadget Its tiny, it befriends you and appears to me as slightly creep read more
Robot Can Speak English and Surf, Believe it?
Techno Blog | December 9th 2009 by Sumaryanto
Tokyo - A several of robot performance in the event of permissibility International Robot Exbition (Irex 2009) in Tokyo. One of the robots that come shine is Nao.This robot is special enough. Besides having the ability to see, talk, Nao also reacts t read more
Robo-Air Jet System makes small objects “levitate”
RobAid.com | December 9th 2009
You might have tried to balance a ping-pong ball floating above your mouth or you might have seen a demo in a classroom or science museum where a jet of compressed air keeps a ball floating above the ground, seemingly defying gravity. A pair of grad read more
KAIST Developing Star Wars Walker! (Video)
Singularity Hub | December 9th 2009
Cue up The Imperial March, warn the rebels on Hoth, and slice open a Tan tan, Korean researchers have developed a robot that resembles those walking death machines from Star Wars. It’s called the HUBO FX-1. The Korea Advanced Institute of Scien read more
IR-tracked bot controls realtime light show
Makezine.com | December 9th 2009
Chris Rojas cooked up some dazzling interactive eye candy using IR-bot tracking + video projection - I just finished installing some hardware for SparkFun's robot tracking system. It's sort of a mixed reality system combining home made robots and h read more
Robots With Artificial Personalities That Can Evolve
Robot Armageddon | December 8th 2009 by David Witteveen
How will robotic personalities evolve in the future? Robots that have the ability to think and make their own choices is a fear that has evolved thanks to science fiction books and movies, but how exactly can a robot make those decisions? Within a read more
Festo CyberKite
Makezine.com | December 8th 2009
Windmil of the future? The latest advancement in kite fighting? Kitesurfing robots? The Festo CyberKite deftly controls the graceful movements of a rather large kite with relative ease. [via BotJunkie] Read more | Permalink | Commen read more
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