Yujin Robotics Selects Evolution Robotics to Guide Their Home Robot, Jupiter
Personal Robotics | Jan 31, 2006NorthStar Gives the Jupiter Robot the Ability to Know Where It’s at at All Times
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Tiny picoPSU Power Supply Enables Design of Small, Smart Appliances and Gives Robots Freedom to Roam
Personal Robotics | Jan 31, 2006World’s tiniest PC power supply offers new design possibilities for PCs, case mods and X86 devices
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iRobot Sponsors RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition
Industrial Automation | Jan 30, 2006Leading Robotics Company Returns as Sponsor for 3rd Annual Business Development Event for Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems Industry
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Carnegie Mellon’s Robot Hall of Fame Joins RoboBusiness 2006 Conference and Exposition
Industrial Automation | Jan 29, 2006Induction Ceremony Highlighted at International Business Development Event for the Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems Industry
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Innova Holdings Signs Letter of Agreement to Acquire CoroWare
Service Robotics | Jan 26, 2006Acquisition will extend Innova Holdings’ patents, resources, and capabilities through proprietary software, increased market share, and strategic relationships.
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Artificial Muscle Introduces World’s First Line of Standard Electroactive Polymer Linear Actuator
Robotics Trends Feature | Jan 25, 2006New Universal Muscle Actuator promises to revolutionize a wide array of consumer, industrial and medical products through application of “artificial muscle” technology
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West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation Captures Robotics Contract From U.S. Navy
Security & Defense Robotics | Jan 23, 2006The West Virginia High Technology Consortium (WVHTC) Foundation has captured a $9.6 million contract from the United States Navy to manufacture the BomBot, a robot designed to disable and dispose of improvised explosive devices.
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Evolution Robotics, Inc. Announces Formation of Evolution Robotics Retail, Inc.
Service Robotics | Jan 20, 2006Evolution Robotics Retail, Inc. to Focus on LaneHawk(TM)
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Swisslog Provides Planning Guidelines for Hospital Transport Robot Implementation
Robotics Trends Feature | Jan 20, 2006Document guides hospital planners through specification review process to determine bulk transport issues and facility considerations.
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‘Mighty Mouse’ Robot Frees Stuck Radiation Source
Security & Defense Robotics | Jan 20, 2006DOE’s Sandia, DoD’s White Sands achieve successful extraction of deadly material.
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UIC Surgeons First to Use Robot for Living-Donor Kidney-Pancreas Transplant
Service Robotics | Jan 20, 2006Surgeons at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago are the first in the world to use robotic surgery to successfully remove a kidney and pancreas from a living-donor as part of a successful transplantation.
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Engineers Create Mathematical Method to Design Better Robots, Structures
Academics and Research | Jan 20, 2006Mechanical and civil engineers have created a new mathematical method to design better structures, machines and versatile computer-controlled robots called “robot manipulators.” - By Emil Venere
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Purdue Researchers Work With Japanese Researchers to Create More Human-Like Robots
Personal Robotics | Jan 20, 2006In work funded by the National Science Foundation’s Information Technology Research program, Purdue Univesity and Japan’s AIST will collaborate on humanoid robots. - by Emil Venere
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UAV Market to Top $13 Billion by 2014
Security & Defense Robotics | Jan 20, 2006Forecast International, a market intelligence and analysis firm specializing in the areas of aerospace, defense, power systems and military electronics, notes that US firms have 50+ percent of the worldwise UAV market and could add an additional 5-10 percent over the next decade.
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Intel Pentium M Processors Power DARPA Race Winners
Design and Development | Jan 20, 2006DARPA Grand Challenge robotThree Intel-sponsored robotic vehicles, were the top finishers in the second DARPA Grand Challenge race. The Stanford University racing team took the $2 million prize with their autonomous Volkswagen Touareg named Stanley, utilizing sophisticated artificial-intelligence techniques to cover 132 miles of Nevada desert in just under 6 hours and 54 minutes, for an average of just over 19 miles per hour. - By Gary Rost Bradski, J. Bradley Chen and Richard Vireday
