‘Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday said the country would soon embark upon production of cutting edge technology weapons in sensors, robotics, propulsion systems, stealth and fighting wars through use of remote technology.
“We also plan to go in for precision guided munitions as well as unmanned vehicle technologies in the 11th and 12th plan period,” […]
‘A robotic NASA spacecraft designed to rendezvous with an orbiting satellite instead crashed into its target, according to a summary of the investigation released Monday.
Investigators blamed the collision on faulty navigational data that caused the DART spacecraft to believe that it was backing away from its target when it was actually bearing down on it.’
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‘Researchers have developed robotic “tentacles” that can grasp and grapple with a wide variety of objects in much the same way that an elephant’s trunk can pick up a peanut.
Most robots rely on mechanical gripping jaws that have difficulty grabbing large or irregularly shaped objects. The scientists say replacing these with tentacle-like manipulators could make […]
‘It may sound like science fiction, but the prospect that suicide bombers and hijackers could be made redundant by flying robots is a real one, according to experts.
The technology for remote-controlled light aircraft is now highly advanced, widely available - and, experts say, virtually unstoppable.’
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‘China has unveiled a robot for the home that can provide services including logging on to the Internet. Liangliang, an argentous robot about 80 cm high, can walk and navigate through obstacles at ease and carry out human instructions. A company affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed it.’
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‘There are currently many efforts around the world which aim to build autonomous robots able to deal with their environment under unexpected circumstances. One of these is a UK project named Reverb (short for “Reverse Engineering the Vertebrate Brain”), led by BAE Systems with the help of several universities. The goal of this project, which […]
‘The next government-sponsored competition for autonomous robot cars aims to get unmanned vehicles to do something that plenty of drivers cannot: follow traffic laws.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced this week that the third Grand Challenge will take place Nov. 3, 2007, in a mock urban area. Vehicles will navigate around traffic, pass through […]
‘We may all soon long for the days when a driver distracted by a cell phone or even a few pints was the most dangerous thing on the road. That’s because the US government plans to let an army of unmanned vehicles loose in a city next year.
Last year’s successful run of the $2m Grand […]
‘The much awaited first robotic car park in Dubai was officially opened in Deira yesterday.
Installed near the InterContinental Hotel, the 14-car capacity robotic car park is currently on a six-month trial and would be used by Dubai Municipality staffers working at its headquarters nearby.
Hussain Nasser Lootah, Acting Director-General of Dubai Municipality, who inaugurated the Dh2.5 […]
‘Robotic Production Technology (RPT) will introduce the latest addition to its family of standard router trimming systems, the RoboTrim™ RT-500, at NPE 2006: The International Plastics Showcase at McCormick Center in Chicago, from June 19 to 23, 2006. RPT is exhibiting with FANUC Robotics America.
The RPT RoboTrim RT-500 is a new pre-engineered router trimming and […]