1. Honda Interface Lets Human Direct Asimo Robot By Thought Alone
Academics and Research | Mar 31, 2009New brain-machine interface allows greater control than its previous attempt, though whether it’s better than other methods is unclear.
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2. Bluefin Robotics Lands U.K. Distribution Deal With Global Marine
Service Robotics | Mar 31, 2009Autonomous underwater vehicle maker Bluefin Robotics Corp. has announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement for distribution of its products within the U.K. with Global Marine Systems Co. Ltd. Global Marine will sell,…
3. EU Commissions Swarm of Robot Fish to Sniff Out Pollution in Ports
Robotics Trends Feature | Mar 31, 2009The systems the EU is buying for a pollution control project are one of the rare robotic systems shaped like animals for practical reasons, not just for looks.
4. Base10 Selects RTI’s Real-Time Middleware for Unmanned Ground Vehicle Project
Design and Development | Mar 30, 2009Real-Time Innovations’ publish-subscribe middleware, based on the Object Management Group’s Data Distribution Service for Real-time Systems (DDS) standard, is being employed in German armed forces RoboScout unmanned ground vehicle currently under development by Base10.
5. ‘Marco Polo’ Game Develops Robot Control, Search Techniques
Design and Development | Mar 18, 2009Scientists have used a popular kids’ swimming pool game to guide their development of a system for controlling moving robots that can autonomously detect and capture other moving targets. Engineers from Duke University and…
6. WPI To Launch Graduate Robotics Engineering Program
Academics and Research | Mar 18, 2009WPI, which started the first robotics engineering undergraduate program in the U.S. in 2006, is enrolling students for a master’s degree program in robotics engineering, which will start in the fall.
7. Virginia Tech Team Wins International Competition With Robots Designed to Save Lives of Construction
Academics and Research | Mar 18, 2009Members of Virginia Tech’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory take home the grand prize at the 2008 International Capstone Design Fair for HyDRAS-Ascent and CIRCA construction robots. Both electrically powered HyDRA and compress air powered CIRCA robots were designed to serve as a practical, autonomous inspection tool for use in construction.
8. Robot Heroics: Recovering the Dead, Catching Fugitives
Robotics Trends Feature | Mar 17, 2009In a couple of the comparatively rare non-combat instances of remote-controlled heroics, robots hit the waves and the tunnels to recover victims of disaster and capture border-runners.
9. Orders Drop for U.S. Robot Makers; World Outlook Remains Strong
Robotics Trends Feature | Mar 17, 2009Despite declining orders from the automotive industry, and a sharp drop in orders at the end of 2008, U.S. robotics products manufacturers should do well this year if they can expand beyond automakers and into consumer robotics, non-automated heavy industry, and service robotics, studies predict.
10. Army Buys 27 ROVs for Underwater Inspections
Security & Defense Robotics | Mar 04, 2009SeaBotix Inc. has landed a $1.9 million contract by the U.S. Army’s Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) for the purchase of 27 of the company’s LBV150SE-5 deep-water remote-operated vehicles
11. Group Hopes Training Work Force Will Expand Local Robotics Industry
Academics and Research | Mar 04, 2009Consortium of schools, companies extends robotics training to community colleges, hoping to build sophisticated workforce needed for high-technology businesses.