Robotics Trends

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    1. RoboNexus Press Registration Open

    Robotics Trends Feature | Sep 23, 2004

    Media registration is now open for RoboNexus, the international consumer, education and business development event for intelligent mobile robots and emerging robotic technology (October 21-23, 2004, Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA).

    2. Chiba University, Fuji Heavy Industry Create Hydraulic Robot Hand

    Service Robotics | Sep 22, 2004

    Copyright 2004 Asia Pulse Pte Limited

    3. West Robonet Boffins Reach for the Stars

    Service Robotics | Sep 22, 2004

    Copyright 2004 Bristol United Press

    4. Our Microtech Future

    Robotics Trends Feature | Sep 22, 2004

    Spirit Opportunity roverCopyright 2004 Gale Group, Inc.

    The convergence of microtechnology and biology will yield astonishing results, ranging from monitors for cell and organ health to new and personal understanding of the brain.

    By William Holmes

    5. Researchers Develop a Novel Gearing Mechanism for Robotic Use

    Service Robotics | Sep 22, 2004

    Researchers Develop a Novel Gearing Mechanism for Robotic Use

    6. Thailand Tevelops Antarctic Robot Diver

    Service Robotics | Sep 22, 2004

    Copyright 2004 Xinhua News Agency

    7. Sweet RoboHome

    Personal Robotics | Sep 22, 2004

    The fully automated home is no longer just science fiction.

    By Ian Grayson

    8. Say Hello to Jabberwacky, Our Best Human Computer

    Personal Robotics | Sep 22, 2004

    Copyright 2004 Newspaper Publishing PLC

    By Charles Authur

    9. Proving That Shape-Shifting Robots Can Get a Move On

    Robotics Trends Feature | Sep 19, 2004

    Nine Crystal robot modules developed in the Dartmouth Robotics Lab form a 2-D self-reconfigurable modular robot system composed of atoms. Each atom is a square that moves by expanding and contracting by a factor of two in each dimension.

    10. Robotics in Chain Pharmacy

    Service Robotics | Sep 19, 2004

    Copyright 2004 Gale Group, Inc.

    An interview with Michael E. Couglin, President and CEO of ScriptPro

    11. TIAX Developing Power Source for U.S. Military Exoskeleton

    Security & Defense Robotics | Sep 19, 2004

    Technology and innovation firm completes Phase II of DARPA-funded project; exoskeleton could enhance performance of soldiers.

    12. Fujitsu Units Develop Human-Assisting Robots

    Personal Robotics | Sep 19, 2004

    Copyright 2004 Kyodo News International, Tokyo News

    13. Japan’s TMSUK, TCM Jointly Develop Plant Survellance Robot

    Security & Defense Robotics | Sep 19, 2004

    Copyright 2004 Asia Pulse Pte Limited

    14. Retro Booster

    Design and Development | Sep 18, 2004

    Copyright 2004 Time Inc.

    Adventure! Romance! Giant robots! Sky Captain takes off by going back to the future.

    By Lisa Schwarzbaum

    15. ‘Sky’ Has Its Limits

    Design and Development | Sep 18, 2004

    Copyright 2004 The Times Mirror Company; Los Angeles Times

    A lovingly rendered visual treat struggles with indifferent direction and torpid plot.

    By Kenneth Turan

    16. Cyborg Short-Circuited

    Design and Development | Sep 14, 2004

    Copyright 2004 Nationwide News Pty Limited

    In a galaxy far, far away, it’s all over for Anthony Daniels, the actor behind iconic gold android C-3PO.

    By Paul Majendie

    17. Mr. Roboto

    Personal Robotics | Sep 14, 2004

    Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information US, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.

    Jeff Trinkle is beefing up a robot’s brain--creating software that allows robots to solve problems independently.

    By Elizabeth Johnson

    18. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

    Design and Development | Sep 14, 2004

    Copyright 2004 Reed Elsevier Inc.

    By Todd McCarthy

    19. Robot Hoofs it up the Football Table

    Robotics Trends Feature | Sep 14, 2004

    Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information US, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.

    By Duncan Graham-Rowe

    20. Robot Beetle Detects Killers Beneath the Soil

    Service Robotics | Sep 12, 2004

    Copyright 2004 Guardian Newspapers Limited

    By Jonathan Heddle

    21. Flexible Sensors Make Robot Skin

    Robotics Trends Feature | Sep 12, 2004

    Skin is very useful. In addition to neatly separating self from other, it provides all kinds of feedback.

    By Eric Smalley

    22. CMU Readies Robot Vechicle

    Security & Defense Robotics | Sep 12, 2004

    Copyright 2004 P.G. Publishing Co.

    23. Roving about the Red Planet

    Service Robotics | Sep 12, 2004

    Copyright 2004 U.S. News & World Report

    By Charles W. Petit

    24. Robot Made for Out-Of-This-World Harvest

    Service Robotics | Sep 09, 2004

    Copyright 2004 The Columbus Dispatch

    Ohio research center perfecting machine to pick ripe tomatoes in galaxy far away.

    By Mike Lafferty

    25. QinetiQ to Acquire Foster-Miller

    Security & Defense Robotics | Sep 09, 2004

    Foster-Miller, Inc. announced today that it has signed a purchase and sale agreement with QinetiQ, Britain’s largest technology research and design company.

    26. QinetiQ Buys Foster-Miller

    Security & Defense Robotics | Sep 09, 2004

    Copyright 2004 The Deal, L.L.C.

    The acquisition of the robot and armor maker for $163 million is the British company’s first deal in the U.S.

    By Kelly Holman and Jonathan Braude

    27. Roving about the Red Planet

    Service Robotics | Sep 08, 2004

    Copyright 2004 U.S. News & World Report

    By Charles W. Petit

    28. Spirit, Opportunity Still Roving Mars

    Robotics Trends Feature | Sep 07, 2004

    Copyright 2004 P.G. Publishing Co.

    By Dan Malerbo, Henry Buhl Jr.

    29. Hubble May Get Helping Robot Hand

    Service Robotics | Sep 07, 2004

    robotics surguryCopyright 2004 The Houston Chronicle Publishing Company

    Dexterous device considered for refit of ailing telescope.

    By By Mark Carreau