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Japan child robot mimicks infant learning
Suita, Japan (AFP) April 5, 2009A bald, child-like creature dangles its legs from a chair as its shoulders rise and fall with rythmic breathing and its black eyes follow movements across the room. It's not human - but it is paying attention. Below the soft silicon skin of one of Japan's most sophisticated robots, processors record and evaluate information. The 130-cm (four-foot, four-inch) humanoid is designed to lear ... more GeckoSystems Ready For Explosive Growth In Personal Robots 
Conyers GA (SPX) Apr 07, 2009GeckoSystems has announced that their multi-tasking personal robot product, the CareBot MSR, satisfies the requirements indicated by ABI Research to penetrate this growing marketplace. The report from ABI Research is predicting that by the year 2015, people will probably be willing to spend as much for a multi-tasking humanoid robot as they would for a new car. "Within six years, the ... more Altair Software Helps Students Reshape Their Robots And Their Lives 
Troy MI (SPX) Apr 07, 2009Fifteen students at a Seattle-area high school are using Altair Engineering's OptiStruct software to help build robots for the national FIRST Robotics competition; but, to their amazement, the real prizes they have won have been improved social skills, a passion for teamwork and a newfound love of engineering. The team from Jackson High School in Mill Creek, Wash., worked with their career ... more First-Time Entrant Captures Rube Goldberg National Title 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Apr 04, 2009A team from St. Olaf College, a private liberal arts school in Northfield, Minn., won the 22nd annual national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue University on Saturday (March 28). St. Olaf, with an enrollment of 3,000 students and no engineering program, was competing for the first time in the national contest. The team of science-minded students designed a machine around a "Mad Scie ... more Opportunity Brushing and Examining an Outcrop 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2009Opportunity remains positioned on an exposed rock outcrop, continuing an "in situ" (contact) science campaign with the robotic arm (IDD). On Sol 1832 (March 20, 2009), the first part of a rock abrasion tool (RAT) brushing activity was performed. Using a new work-around for the failed RAT Z-encoder, the RAT successfully performed a seek-scan to locate the rock surface. On the next sol ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2009Opportunity has positioned itself at an exposed rock outcrop and is in the middle of an "in situ" (contact) science campaign with the robotic arm (IDD). Because of the project team's desire to rest the right-front wheel actuator and to limit driving while an earlier drive sequence error is remedied, Opportunity took advantage of the nearby rock outcrop. This fits with the strategic science ... more British-built robotic fish to detect pollution 
London (AFP) March 19, 2009A shoal of robotic fish which can detect pollution in the water are set to released into the sea off Spain, British scientists said Thursday. The fish, which are some 1.5 metres long and resemble carp, will be fitted with detectors which can identify the sources of pollution, such as ship fuel or chemicals in the water. Five of the robots, worth some 20,000 pounds (21,000 euros, 29,000 ... more Fashion robot to hit Japan catwalk 
Tsukuba, Japan (AFP) March 16, 2009Japanese researchers on Monday showed off a robot that will soon strut her stuff down a Tokyo catwalk. The girlie-faced humanoid with slightly oversized eyes, a tiny nose and shoulder-length hair boasts 42 motion motors programmed to mimic the movements of flesh-and-blood fashion models. "Hello everybody, I am cybernetic human HRP-4C," said the futuristic fashionista, opening her media p ... more Alien Safari Part 5: Alien Vs Predator 
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2009Q: There's controversy about the manned exploration of space versus sending robots. What are your feelings about that as we plan exploration over the next several decades? Tori Hoehler: I think the question of manned exploration crystallizes around Mars. That's the one that lies within the realm of feasibility. If you look at what we understand about the potential for life on Mars, NASA ha ... more Third Meeting Of ISECG 
Yokohama, Japan (SPX) Mar 17, 2009Representatives of ten space agencies from around the world met under the banner of the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG)1. They adopted for further study three scenarios for conducting internationally coordinated robotic and human exploration activities on the Moon. This was one of several results arising from a meeting held on March 10-12, 2009, in Yokohama Japan. ... more |
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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 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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