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
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
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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…