1. 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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2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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.
6. 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
7. 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.
8. Evolution Robotics, Inc. Announces Formation of Evolution Robotics Retail, Inc.
Service Robotics | Jan 20, 2006Evolution Robotics Retail, Inc. to Focus on LaneHawk(TM)
9. 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.
10. ‘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.
11. 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.
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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.
15. 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