Robot Programming Used to Measure Effectiveness of Virtual Learning
Discovering whether virtual environments play an effective role in the way that humans learn is the focus of a research project based at a UK university in partnership with two academies in Japan.
Four senior academics in the UK and Japan are looking into how virtual environments such as Second Life can contribute to high quality teaching and learning.
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Virginia Tech Team to Build Battlefield Robots for 2010 Competition
The roving, walking robotic soldiers of the “Terminator” films are becoming less sci-fi, and more certain future every day. Now, a team of robotics researchers from the Virginia Tech College of Engineering will build a team of fully autonomous cooperative battle-ready robots as part of a 2010 international war games challenge that could spur real-life battle bots.
The 2010 Multi-Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC)
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Cockroaches Offer Inspiration for Running Robots
By By David Stauth
The sight of a cockroach scurrying for cover may be nauseating, but the insect is also a biological and engineering marvel, and is providing researchers at Oregon State University with what they call “bioinspiration” in a quest to build the world’s first legged robot that is capable of running effortlessly over rough terrain.
If the engineers succeed, they may owe their success to what’s…
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UB Professor Studies the Flight of Hummingbirds To Develop Self-Propelled Surveillance Devices
The secret to the flight of the hummingbird and other tiny birds and insects lies in the looping, swirling flow of air, called a vortex, that their flapping wings create.
These aerodynamically unconventional flows are the inspiration behind new research by a University at Buffalo scientist who hopes to understand the nature of the three-dimensional vortex formation process so that it can be optimized.
The UB research is motivated…
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Virginia Tech Team to Build Battlefield Robots for 2010 Competition
The roving, walking robotic soldiers of the “Terminator” films are becoming less sci-fi and more certain future every day. Now, a team of robotics researchers from the Virginia Tech College of Engineering will build a team of fully autonomous cooperative battle-ready…
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iRobot Launches New Initiative to ‘SPARK’ STEM Education in the Classroom
iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ: IRBT) announced that it has launched a new education initiative called SPARK (Starter Programs for the Advancement of Robotics Knowledge). At http://spark.irobot.com, educators, parents and students can find robot-related resources to help build STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) curricula and use the wonder…
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Researchers Demonstrate a Better Way for Computers to ‘See’
The neural processing involved in visually recognizing even the simplest object in a natural environment is profound---and profoundly difficult to mimic. Neuroscientists have made broad advances in understanding the visual system, but much of the inner workings of biologically-based systems remain a mystery. Using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)—the same technology video game designers…
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SPARKy Device Helps Amputees Return to Normal Lives
Arizona State University researchers have developed a prosthetic device that literally puts the spring back into an amputee’s step. They have developed and refined SPARKy (for spring ankle with regenerative kinetics) into a smart, active and energy-storing below-the-knee (transbitial) prosthesis.
SPARKy is the first prosthetic device to apply regenerative kinetics to its design, which resulted in a lightweight (4-pound) device that allows the wearer to walk on grass, cement and rocks, as well as ascend…
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Cornell Search-and-Rescue Robots to Compete Internationally
By Anne Ju
Scouring an earthquake site or other disaster area is treacherous for humans and often leads to more lives lost. In the quest to develop technologies to protect humans in such search-and-rescue operations, as well as other applications, a new team of Cornell researchers is creating a fleet of intelligent robots that will compete internationally.
In early November, Cornell was named…
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This Smart Wheelchair Has Laser Vision
Disability, John Spletzer believes, should no longer pose any obstacle to mobility.
A blind person may not be able to see or a paraplegic to walk, but each can access the technology available to the rest of the world.
And that technology has the potential to serve as a person’s feet, hands and eyes and thus restore his ability to interact with his environment.…
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