Personal Robotics
- Pleo Robot Dinosaur Will Frisk Again
- Predictive Powers: A Robot That Reads Your Intention?
- Panasonic Demos Floor-Scrubbing Robots
- RIC Introduces Pediatric Lokomat Therapy to Enhance Ability to Walk in Neurologically…
- Gecko Projects Elder-Care Robot Market Growth to $83B in 2014
- Ugobe, Maker of Celebrated Pleo, Goes Broke
- PARO Robots U.S. Inc. Brings Hi-Tech Friends to Life
- iRobot Open For Business at Burlington Mall
Pleo Robot Dinosaur Will Frisk Again
Contract manufacturer buys Pleo, swears to bring it back, after its designer declares bankruptcy.
Service Robots
- The Droid Works Receives Grant to Develop UAV Indoor Navigational Technology
- MobileRobots Inc. Announces First Service Robot Technician Training for Technical…
- FANUC Introduces Intelligent Assembly Robot
- Schilling Sells Two Heavy ROVs to OceanWorks
- Energid Technologies to Control Innovative Drilling Robots for Seabed Rig
- Precise Path Robotics Named “Innovation of the Year”
- Bluefin Robotics and ING Engineering Inc Announce AUV Partnership for Canadian Market…
- Talon, PackBot May Find Work at (or Under) the Border
Korea Puts $750M in Robotics, Aims to Lead Market by 2018
The government of South Korea is promising to invest as much as 1 trillion Won ($750 million U.S.) into research, development, marketing and partnership…
Security & Defense
- QinetiQ Lands $56.4M Contract to Sell Talon to Navy
- Robotics Consortium Awards First of $175M in DoD Contracts
- Israel Introduces Snake Robot for Surveillance, Destruction
- Talon Talks Back
- Battery Project Extends Life of Bomb Disposal Robots
- A Drone for Defense and Safety
- ReconRobotics Awarded $1.35 Million Contract By The U.S. Army
- AAI Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Complete a Successful Simultaneous Flight Demonstration
Robotics Consortium Awards First of $175M in DoD Contracts
The first seven contracts focus on research an development in communications, manipulation, perception and combat-specific tasks.
Industrial Robots
- FANUC Robotics Introduces M-1iA Intelligent, High-Speed Assembly Robot
- Food Robot Turns Heads in Tokyo
- Seegrid’s GT3 Industrial Mobile Robot Reduces Travel Time and Labor Costs at Customer Manufacturing
- Motoman Releases Expert-System Software for Robot Repairs
- Motoman Announces Compact, Versatile 7-axis Welding Arms
- Swedish Factory Fined After Robot Grabs Worker’s Head
- Robotics Powered Business Process Innovation – A Conversation With Kiva Systems CEO Mick Mountz
- Roomba co-Inventors Shift Focus to Cleaning Up Commercial Growing
Food Robot Turns Heads in Tokyo
FANUC’s food-preparation automation arm gets notice at Tokyo food industry show.
Academics & Research
- Real-Time Control of Wheelchairs With Brain Waves
- Biology Knows Best – Human-like Vision Lets Robots Navigate Naturally
- Co-operating Underwater Robots Rapidly Identify and Communicate Potential Threats in Murky Waters
- Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle “Nereus” Reaches Deepest Part of the Ocean
- Low Cost, Dexterous Robotic Hand Operated by Compressed Air
- LIDAR May Offer Peerless Precision for Remote Measures
- JAMA Article Shows Targeted Muscle Reinnervation Patients Have Greater Control of Prosthetic Arms
- Seaglider Monitors Waters from Arctic During Record-breaking Journey Under Ice
Biology Knows Best – Human-like Vision Lets Robots Navigate Naturally
A robotic vision system that mimics key visual functions of the human brain promises to let robots maneuver quickly and safely through cluttered environments,…
Design & Development
- Prodigy PCI Programmable Motion Cards with Ethernet Connectivity
- National Instruments and MobileRobots Inc. Collaborate on Robot Foundation Technologies
- CoroWare Introduces the Explorer
- STMicroeletronics Debuts Tiny Gyroscopes for Gaming, Navigation, Other Handheld Units
- RoweBots Ships RTOS Support for TI Stellaris Processors
- Ascent Solar Modules to Be Designed into the Development of Hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- Laser-Ranging System Provides Precision to the Nanometer
- World’s Smallest Voice-Activated Robots
World’s Smallest Voice-Activated Robots
Wang Jhing-fa, center, a professor of electronic engineering at National Cheng Kung University, shows off what the university says is the world’s smallest…