Teaching Your Car How To Drive
Drivers go to school to learn to anticipate emerging situations and respond appropriately. Why shouldn’t cars do the same?
That’s the question Florentin Wörgötter and his colleagues at the EU-funded research programme DRIVSCO asked themselves three years ago.
Their answer was that, with state-of-the-art…
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Tagged: Autonomy, Artificial intelligence, Drivsco, Automobile
“ABE” Autonomous Submersible Lost at Sea
A pioneering deep-sea exploration robot—one of the first successful submersible vehicles that was both unmanned and untethered to surface ships—was lost at sea Friday, March 5, on a research expedition off the coast of Chile. The 15-year-old Autonomous Benthic Explorer, affectionately nicknamed ABE, was launched late Thursday night…
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Tagged: Robot, Robotics, Abe, Autonomous benthic explorer, Deep-sea exploration, About woods hole oceanographic institution
Unmanned Helicopter Would Investigate Nuclear Disasters
Students at Virginia Tech’s Unmanned Systems Laboratory are perfecting an autonomous helicopter they hope will never be used for its intended purpose. Roughly six feet long and weighing 200 pounds, the re-engineered aircraft is designed to fly into American cities blasted by a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb.
The helicopter’s main mission would be to assist military investigators in the unthinkable: Enter an American city after a…
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Tagged: Autonomous, Unmanned aerial vehicles, Imaging technology, U.s. defense threat reduction agency, Camera system, Flight control software, Mechanical engineering
Robot Provides 3-D Images of Dangerous Locations
Soldiers and first responders may soon have a better way to evaluate the interior of dangerous structures, thanks to a joint project between Missouri University of Science and Technology and the University of Missouri-Columbia.
As part of the project, which began in 2008, students at Missouri S&T have built a remote-controlled robot that…
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Tagged: Robot, Mobile robot, Lidar, Robotics, Norbert maerz, University of missouri-columbia, Ye duan, Missouri university of science and technology
Artificial Foot Recycles Energy for Easier Walking
An artificial foot that recycles energy otherwise wasted in between steps could make it easier for amputees to walk, its developers say.
“For amputees, what they experience when they’re trying to walk normally is what I would experience if I were carrying an extra 30 pounds,” said Art Kuo, professor in the University of Michigan departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
Compared with conventional prosthetic feet, the new prototype device significantly cuts the energy spent per step.
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Tagged: Prosthetic, Recycles energy, Artificial foot
Researchers Develop the First Fully Autonomous Underwater Manipulation System
The first fully autonomous underwater manipulation in an unstructured environment was demonstrated at the Snug Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii on January 20, 2010. An underwater robot, SAUVIM (Semi-Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Intervention Missions), performed autonomous navigation and manipulation. This demonstration presented a technological breakthrough in the field as autonomous manipulation had been a bottleneck issue for underwater intervention missions. Witnesses of this live…
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Tagged: Uuv, Unmanned underwater vehicle, Sauvim, Mase, University of hawaii, Office of naval research
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.
Stewart…
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Tagged: Robot, Robotics, Virtual learning, Teeside university, Second life
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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Tagged: Robot, Robotics, Oregon state university, Biomimetics, Bioinspiration
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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Tagged: Unmanned aerial vehicles, Unmanned aerual systems, University at buffalo
