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LM Unveils Exoskeleton Technology
Orlando FL (SPX) Mar 09, 2009Lockheed Martin debuted an advanced robotic exoskeleton designed to augment Soldiers' strength and endurance and prevent their premature fatigue. The Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC) exoskeleton, introduced at the Association of the United States' Army Winter Symposium in Fort Lauderdale, FL, will meet future mobility and sustainment needs of Warfighters by providing strength and surviv ... more Tokyo school to host first robot teacher
Tokyo (UPI) Mar 5, 2009 Students at a Tokyo primary school will soon be learning from the first robot teacher, a Japanese science professor says. University of Tokyo Professor Hiroshi Kobayashi has created a robot capable of teaching human students while also expressing a limited range of emotions, including anger in case of unruly children, The Daily Telegraph said Thursday. The robot is named Saya and ... more Aurora Wins Contract For Multi-Robot Planetary Exploration
Cambridge MA (SPX) Mar 06, 2009Aurora Flight Sciences has announced that the company, MIT's Manned Vehicle Laboratory (MVL), and the MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory (HAL) recently won a NASA Small-Business Technology Transfer Research proposal to develop a software system that performs command and control of a diverse team of mobile robots, operating in a variety of control modes, to perform multi-agent planetary explora ... more Study Shows Robots Could Prepare Lunar Landing Pad
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Mar 02, 2009Small robots the size of riding mowers could prepare a safe landing site for NASA's Moon outpost, according to a NASA-sponsored study prepared by Astrobotic Technology Inc. with technical assistance from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. Astrobotic Technology and Carnegie Mellon researchers analyzed mission requirements and developed the design for an innovative new type of ... more Keeping Unmanned Security Vehicles On Track
Middletown RI (SPX) Feb 26, 2009Securing large areas like airport perimeters and container yards is an increasingly dangerous task, and companies like Frontline Robotics are working to make it safer for human security personnel by designing unmanned vehicles to patrol these spaces. For Frontline's GRUNT Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicles (AUGVs) to carry out their assigned tasks, it is critical that they know precisely ... more |
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New York (UPI) Feb 16, 2009 U.S. and Chinese scientists say they've created a two-armed nanorobot that can manipulate molecules within a device built from DNA. Researchers at New York University and China's Nanjing University said the programmable unit allows researchers to capture and maneuver patterns on a scale that is unprecedented. New York University Professor Nadrian Seeman, one of the study's ... more First Robotic Greens Mower For The Golf Industry
New Orleans LO (SPX) Feb 16, 2009Precise Path Robotics announces the creation of the RG3 robotic greens mower, the very first fully automated robotic golf course conditioning and maintenance mower, at the 2009 Golf Industry Show in New Orleans. The Precise Path RG3 combines robotic technology with an industry proven cutting unit to produce a consistent and accurate cut every time while enabling superintendents to realize ... more QinetiQ's New Talon Meets Bomb Detection Challenges
London, UK (SPX) Feb 13, 2009QinetiQ has extended its TALON family of robots, 2,500 of which have already been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, to ensure it continues to meet the ever-changing demands of detecting and clearing mines, unexploded ordnance and dangerous improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from a safe distance. Detection and clearance of mines is of particular importance in Afghanistan, where large ... more NGC's Land Navigation System Selected For FCS Development Contract
Woodland Hills CA (SPX) Feb 13, 2009Northrop Grumman has been competitively selected by General Dynamics Robotic Systems to supply the navigation system solution for the Phase II Global Positioning System (GPS) / Inertial Navigation System (INS), a major component of the Autonomous Navigation System (ANS) for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program. Under this $10.7 million contract, Northrop Grumman's navigation ... more Eickhoff Mining Machinery Gains CSIRO Automation
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Feb 11, 2009CSIRO has signed a licensing agreement with Eickhoff Australia Pty Ltd under which the company has access to the world's leading longwall mining automation technology. Eickhoff Australia is a key supplier of longwall shearers to the Australian mining industry. Underground longwall mining involves large machines that move from side to side as they cut into a coal face. Automation of some of ... more |
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Logan UT (SPX) Feb 03, 2009Autonomous Solutions announced that its Chaos small robot will be profiled in a series of exercises at Cobra Gold 2009 in Thailand. The Chaos unit that will be at Cobra Gold was built by ASI for the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), which has made it available for the exercise. The Chaos robot will be operated by Marines in a series of scenari ... more Iowa Staters Advance Developmental Robotics With Goal Of Teaching Robots To Learn
Ames IA (SPX) Feb 02, 2009Alexander Stoytchev and his three graduate students recently presented one of their robot's long and shiny arms to a visitor. Here, they said, swing it around. And so the visitor tentatively gave the robot's left arm a few twists and twirls. The metal arm was heavy, but still moved easily at its shoulder, elbow and wrist joints. Then the graduate students hit some keyboard commands and the ... more Game Provides Clue To Improving Remote Sensing
Durham NC (SPX) Jan 29, 2009A newly developed mathematical model that figures out the best strategy to win the popular board game CLUE could some day help robot mine sweepers navigate strange surroundings to find hidden explosives. At the simplest level, both activities are governed by the same principles, according to the Duke University scientists who developed the new algorithm. A player, or robot, must move through ... more Japanese security robot nets intruders
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 22, 2009Japanese companies on Thursday unveiled a security robot that can be operated remotely by cellphone and launch a net to capture an intruder. The prototype T-34, jointly developed by robot developer tmsuk Co. Ltd. and security company Alacom Co. Ltd., looks like a small wheeled vehicle and is loaded with sensors that detect anything untoward in an office building. It can move at a maximum ... more VRSI Receives Third Contract For F-35 JSF Manufacturing Research
Plymouth MI (SPX) Jan 23, 2009Variation Reduction Solutions has received a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract for robotic aerospace drilling development, bringing total SBIR grant monies received by VRSI to $10,000,000. The purpose of the project is to develop a vision-guided robotic drilling system that will automatically drill several thousand precision holes in the center fuselage of the F- ... more
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