1. Carnegie Mellon, General Motors Will Compete in 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge
Robotics Trends Feature | Aug 31, 2006Driverless Vehicles Will Navigate Simulated City Traffic and Obstacles
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2. Lockheed Martin Develops Supervised Autonomy For Unmanned Ground Vechicles
Robotics Trends Feature | Aug 31, 2006Lockheed Martin introduced its new Squad Mission Support System (SMSS), leveraging robotic technologies for future robotic weapons systems.
3. Gibbs and Associates Major Sponsor of BattleBots IQ at IMTS 2006
Personal Robotics | Aug 16, 2006Gibbs and Associates, developer of GibbsCAM, software for programming CNC machine tools, announced today that they are a major sponsor of the BattleBots IQ program showcased at IMTS 2006 at McCormick Place in Chicago,…
4. BAE Systems Successfully Tests Skylynx II Unmanned Aircraft System
Security & Defense Robotics | Aug 14, 2006BAE Systems successfully completed tests on its Skylynx IITM unmanned aircraft system at Yuma Proving Grounds on Aug. 9. During test flights it met key requirements including acoustic performance, endurance, and payload capability for…
5. NI Introduces LabVIEW Toolkit for LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT Robotics
Design and Development | Aug 14, 2006New LabVIEW Toolkit Encourages Development of Third-Party Software and Hardware for Next-Generation Robotics Systems
6. Inventors Skaar and Delcastillo Publish ‘Revisualizing Robotics:
Robotics Trends Feature | Aug 14, 2006We see robots all the time in the movies; why don’t we see more of them in the real world? This is the question that co-Inventors of the Automatically Guided Wheelchair, Professor Steve Skaar and his colleague Guillermo Del Castillo set out to answer in thei just released book “Revisualizing Robotics: New DNA for Surviving a World of Cheap Labor”
7. Robotics Trends and IDG World Expo Announce RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition
Personal Robotics | Aug 13, 2006International Technical Design and Development Event for the Personal, Service and Mobile Robotics Industry To Be Held in the Heart of Silicon Valley
8. In Our Own Way
Service Robotics | Aug 02, 2006Compared to other countries around the world, the United States is a robotics laggard. Yeah, right.
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9. The Technology Collaborative Issues RFP for Tech Commercialization; Plans $1.66M in Grants
Robotics Trends Feature | Aug 01, 2006Proposals now being accepted for developments in digital & analog electronics, robotic technologies & applications, cyber security
10. Undersea Vehicles to Study Formation of Gold and Other Precious Metals On the Pacific Ocean Floor
Service Robotics | Aug 01, 2006An international team of scientists will explore the seafloor near Papua New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean later this month with remotely operated and autonomous underwater vehicles, investigating active and inactive hydrothermal vents and the formation of mineral deposits containing copper, gold and other commercially valuable minerals.