Personal Robotics
- HEXBUG Nano Swarms Toys“R”Us & RadioShack Stores Nationwide
- Robonica Launches Roboni-i, Marking the Rise of Robotic Gaming
- Household Robots Do Not Protect Users’ Security and Privacy, Researchers Say…
- Nissan EPORO Robot Car “Goes to School” on Collision-free Driving by…
- PCS Edventures! Announces Partnership With MINDS-i
- Bossa Nova Robotics Unveils its First Line of Personal Entertainment Robots
- Predictive Powers: A Robot That Reads Your Intention?
- Panasonic Demos Floor-Scrubbing Robots
Robonica Launches Roboni-i, Marking the Rise of Robotic Gaming
Fully programmable two-wheeled robot fusing advanced robotic technology with challenging gameplay and online interaction available on the Web and at select…
Service Robots
- Oceanographers Develop “Swarms” of Robotic Ocean Explorers
- WPI-Sponsored Robotics Team Wins $500,000 at NASA Moondust Excavation Challenge
- Smith Detection, AeroVironment and US Army Collaborate on Chemical Agent-Detecting…
- MobileRobots Rolls Out Low-Cost Seekur Jr UGV
- NASA Concludes Robotics Tests For the Moon in Arizona
- Kiva Systems Named to the Inc. 500
- PCS Edventures! Announces Lab Implementation in Mexico
- Heartland Robotics Closes $7 Million in Series A-1 Funding
Oceanographers Develop “Swarms” of Robotic Ocean Explorers
The National Science Foundation awards nearly $1 million to Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers to develop ‘drifters’, autonomous underwater…
Security & Defense
- Ultra Electronics Measurement Systems Inc. Achieves AS9100 Certification
- Boeing Receives Contract to Develop Miniature Weapon Technology
- Scientific Systems Company Wins $750,000 SBIR Contract to Develop Navigation Framework
- AAI’s Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System Flies 100,000th Mission
- ReconRobotics Introduces Throwable, Mobile Search and Rescue Device
- Northrop Grumman Opens New Facilities for Design and Manufacture of Unmanned Ground Vehicles
- Membership in Robotics Technology Consortium Doubles in the First Year
- Novint Awarded Military R&D Subcontract to Give Robots the Sense of Touch
Northrop Grumman’s Hunter Unmanned Aircraft System Fielded With Automatic Takeoff and Landing System
Second generation Hunter UAS, the MQ-5B, now equipped with an ATLS, successfully completes its first launch and recovery.
Industrial Robots
- Applied Robotics Introduces New Family of Heavy Duty Modular Tool Changers
- Robot Orders Down 30% Through September
- Braintech Inc. Closes $3 Million Financing With Silicon Valley Bank
- ST Robotics Introduces “Firefly”
- Universal Robotics and Motoman Partner to Set New Benchmark for 3D Vision Systems
- Motoman Partners With Agile Planet on Dual-Arm Robots
- FANUC Robotics Introduces M-1iA Intelligent, High-Speed Assembly Robot
- Food Robot Turns Heads in Tokyo
FANUC’s food-preparation automation arm gets notice at Tokyo food industry show.
Academics & Research
- This Smart Wheelchair Has Laser Vision
- Robotic Perception, on Purpose
- MU Research Leads to Improved Human, Object Detection Technology
- UCI Robot to Aid Brain Research
- Caltech Scientists Create Robot Surrogate for Blind Persons in Testing Visual Prostheses
- Like Humans, Monkeys Fall Into the ‘Uncanny Valley’
- Is My Robot Happy to See Me?
- Virginia Tech College of Engineering’s Improved Robotic Hand Captures Top Award
This Smart Wheelchair Has Laser Vision
Lehigh University researcher uses a National Science Foundation grant to develop a robotic wheelchair that navigates on its own, with no human guidance…
Design & Development
- Bourns Introduces New WEBENCH-Based Tools for Power Supply, LED Driver Design and Inductor Selection
- VTI Launches Gyro-Accelerometer Sensors
- Matrox Imaging Releases GigE Vision Camera for Harsh Environments
- MobileRobots New Build-a-Bot Robotic Base Makes Hospital, Lab & Factory Robots Easy
- Canesta Raises $16 Million
- TYZX Introduces the TYZX DeepSea G3 Embedded Vision System for Autonomous Robots
- Automotive System-on-a-Chip Enables Precision Ultrasonic Sensing
- Honda Develops New Personal Mobility Device
Honda Develops New Personal Mobility Device
ASIMO research results in world’s first drive system that enables movement in all directions. The device makes use of an incline sensor that detects…
