‘A robotic airplane called ScanEagle has done more than 1,000 hours of intelligence and reconnaissance work for the Marines in Iraq, its developers said.
It was developed and built by the St. Louis-based defense unit of Boeing Co. and the Washington-based Insitu Group.
Boeing officials said they could not comment on specific ScanEagle missions, but spoke generally […]
Engadget has an interview with Tom Burick, CEO of White Box Robotics which is well worth the read.
‘Before we get into White Box Robotics, tell me about the field. Robotics has come a long way in the past few years.
It really has. I’ve been working on the 9-series robot for the past five years. Quite […]
‘For decades, as his own industry struggled, seventh-generation dairy farmer Clark Hinsdale II watched visitors flock to the nearby Shelburne Museum to admire its vast American art collection.
Hinsdale also was envious as travelers converged on the Vermont Teddy Bear Co. to create cuddly, customized stuffed animals, and crowded the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream […]
‘Dr Eddie Moxey of the University of Surrey recently gave a speech at the IEE seminar on the Changing Face of Robotics. His speech concentrated on the use of robotics in space.
The talk reviewed the past, present and future of the two main strands of space robotics research and development On-Orbit Servicing (OOS) and Planetary […]
‘Two Bulgarian boys have topped the international robotics Olympiad sweeping the gold medal in South Korea with a prototype model of a Universe Scouts Robot.
Alexander and Michael of Sofia’s American college have spent this summer in Israel’s technical university where their robot project was born’
Read more at Bulgarian Boys Take on Top of Robotics Olympiad
Engadget’s weekly column by Ross Rubin this week focuses upon Robotics:
‘One of the greatest gaps in popular technology application exists in robotics. Depending upon your definition, robots have been used for decades in manufacturing, helping to automate assembly lines. In terms of intelligent robots, though, the adoption has been much lower; in fact, they’ve been […]
‘Canon Inc. will overhaul its domestic production system by introducing unmanned manufacturing lines, officials of the electrical machinery maker said Monday.
By March 31, 2008, the company plans to have 25 percent of the value of its domestic output, which totals some 1 trillion yen, carried out on unmanned lines.
The automation plan, which will involve reassigning […]
‘A self-regulated bi-pedal robot will be presented to the public later this year, developed by a team of scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
KAIST professor Oh Jun-ho, who led the humanoid research, yesterday said his team would unveil the two-legged robot, named KHR-3, in December.
“The robot can walk like a […]
‘A robot will soon go on duty in the city cleaning up indoor air pollution, which has become a major source of concern for many locals.
The shanghai Environment Protection Industry Association started a promotion for the robot yesterday, which officials say will purify poisonous fumes, such as formaldehyde.
It can also filter tiny particles from the […]
‘Robosapien took its curmudgeonly place this year in a toy menagerie that also includes cyber-critters ranging from the occasionally annoying talking Furby pet to the gleaming, expensive Sony Aibo robotic dog.
The humanoid robot stands out in part because there’s a human behind the marketing campaign: Mark Tilden, the British-born “robotics physicist” at Hong Kong-based Wow […]
‘A fledgling robotics team in the Hudsonville/Jenison area has enough students and mentors to make a go of it. It just lacks financial support.
The 14 students — drawn from Hudsonville, Unity Christian, Jenison and Freedom Baptist high schools — hope to find their place alongside other local robotics teams in designing and building robotic devices […]
‘Roböxotica is the first and inevitably leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics. Not only Mr. Turing would test this out. Scientists, researchers, computer geeks and artists from all over the world participate to build cocktail robots and discuss about technological innovation, futurology and science fiction.
19 November - 27 November 2004.
You tried to build a Cocktail […]
‘It can do just about everything a real dolphin can - dive, leap, roll and even hit speeds of up 20mph underwater. The robot dolphin even looks very like its natural namesake. But what is it for?…
The New Zealand inventor behind the robot dolphin is not expecting his creation to be used to thwart villainy […]
‘A group of local executives is drumming up support for millions of dollars in federal funding to create a manufacturing and supply chain research center in Austin.
The proposed research center, being spearheaded by the University of Texas’ IC2 Institute, would require about $20 million in annual funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce, supporters say.
The […]
‘Rosie, as she is known around the emergency department, has been tooling the halls of Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center in Dearborn, Mich., for six months.
The fifth-generation remote-presence vehicle developed by California-based InTouch Health is one of 10 such robots in operation in hospitals around the country.
Unlike the robotic maid Rosie in the futuristic TV […]