Producer of engineering tools and services for robotics, machine-vision and simulation applications, has announced a major upgrade to its Actin C++ software development kit (SDK). The SDK consists of Windows and Linux libraries, along with simulation tools.
As a follow-up to its earlier announcement of a agreement with University of Washington to commercialize the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Seaglider technology, iRobot has agreed to acquire Nekton Research, a developer of unmanned underwater vehicles. With the second announcement, iRobot makes clear its strategic push into maritime systems.
RoboDynamics has announced the addition of Natural Partners Inc to the growing list of companies evaluating the TiLR Robotic Telepresence platform. With the robot TiLR, users can instantly transport themselves to a remote location thereby eliminating travel and downtime.
RoboDynamics is an innovative robotics company that develops enterprise Robotic Telepresence platforms such as TiLR. By using TiLR, the X Prize Foundation is shifting the paradigm of face to face communications whereby a person can now transport himself instantly to their offices without actually being at their office. This new mode of collaboration will dramatically reduce downtime, increase productivity, and eliminate travel.
Ultra compact board is platform of choice for robotics developers, as Pico-ITX-based robots strut their stuff at the Taipei International Robot Show
Surveyor brings depth perception to the masses, including educators, researchers and developers, by providing developers of robots and robotic technology with a dual-camera and dual-processor vision system for the low price of $550.
FANUC becomes the first manufacture of industrial robotic solution to receive equipment acceptance from the United States Department of Agriculture for meat and poultry processing.
CMU Robotics Institute partners with Caterpillar and leverages perception, planning and autonomous software architectures created for the DARPA Grand Challenge to develop driverless haul trucks.
While pursuing the goal of having autonomous helicopters perform extreme aerial aerobatics under computer control, Stanford University scientists discovered that writing command and control code from scratch was unsuitable for all but the most basic aerial routines. Their solution… have the helicopters ‘learn’ directly from experts.
A top UK robotics expert has predicted that the UK will use robots in a bid to crack down on the crime plaguing the country´s streets in the next 75 years.
Robotic arm prototype, a deliverable as part of DARPA’s Front-end Robotics Enabling Near-term Demonstration (FREND) program, would enable satellite repair and repositioning.
Southern Michigan attracts new Ground Robotics Research Center and looks to leverage automotive expertise as the area expands into military ground robotics and intelligent transportation.
Who could believe wireless power, miro-robots, personal robots and brainwave control of computer avatars are in our future? Just Justin Rattner, Intel’s Chief Technology Officer.
New iRobot Roomba Pet Series perfect for pet owners; Roomba Professional Series handles larger areas and office spaces.
Massachusetts based unmanned ground vehicle maker (UGV) adds hybrid power functionality their LandShark UGV expanding range and operational duration.
Troops now have fast, transformer-like ability to modify the Dragon Runner SUGV to fit a variety of critical missions.
Award winning Virtual Temporal Bone Project at the Ohio Supercomputer Center Provider employs SensAble Technologies’ PHANTOM haptic device technology to enhance the system’s realism.
University of Washington researchers have constructed a school of underwater ‘Robofish’ that are programmed to either all swim in one direction or all swim in different directions, basic tasks that can provide the building blocks for coordinated group movement.
By John Desmond
The US workforce currently has a two million person gap in workers qualified for technical positions, putting the country at a competitive advantage. What’s to be done? In this Q&A session with Robotics Trends’ contributing editor John Desmond, Dr. George Blanks, Director of K-12 Engineering Outreach for the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University, believes that robotics in the form of the Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology (BEST) program, is a step in the right direction.
Sentry, an Autonomous underwater vehicle built by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution uses sonar and a towed camera to map two prospective sites for a seafloor laboratory.