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12/04/06 — Innovation First, Inc., a leader in educational and competition robotics products, today announced the introduction of two new products for 2008 - the new VEX RCR Mini robotics platform and VEX 802.11 Wi-Fi Control System. The VEX RCR Mini provides a low cost robotics solution for elementary, middle and high…
12/01/06 — Bandai, one of the world’s largest toy companies, and Evolution Robotics, the leading provider of breakthrough robotic technologies for consumer products, today announced the release of a new home telepresence robot powered by Evolution Robotics’ ViPR® visual pattern recognition technology. Bandai’s “NetTansor™” is a compact but powerful mobile robot designed…
11/27/06 — PASADENA, Calif.- Bandai, one of the world’s largest toy companies, and Evolution Robotics, the leading provider of breakthrough robotic technologies for consumer products, today announced the release of a new home telepresence robot powered by Evolution Robotics’ ViPR® visual pattern recognition technology. Bandai’s “NetTansor™” is a compact but powerful mobile…
11/05/06 — Revell Monogram LLC and Innovation First, Inc. announced today a global partnership for the design, marketing and distribution of the new Vex Robotics System, a product platform based on the award-winning original design developed in 2005. In this partnership, Innovation First will be responsible for technical design, engineering development and…
10/01/06 — Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are developing a robotic system that may offer wheelchair-dependent people independent, powered mobility and the ability, depending on patient status, to move to and from beds, chairs and toilets without assistance.* The lifting ability of the system, which is called…
10/01/06 — The LEGO Group today announced partnership with HiTechnic to allow the manufacture and sale of hardware accessories certified by the LEGO Group for the newly-released LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT robotics toolset. This debut partnership represents the evolution of the company’s commitment to community-driven innovation and open-source development surrounding the launch of…
08/16/06 — Gibbs and Associates, developer of GibbsCAM, software for programming CNC machine tools, announced today that they are a major sponsor of the BattleBots IQ program showcased at IMTS 2006 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois on September 6th - 13th, 2006. This sponsorship is part of Gibbs’ on-going commitment to…
08/13/06 — Robotics Trends and IDG World Expo today announced the launch of the RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition, an international technical design and development event for personal, service and mobile robotics industry (http://www.robodevelopment.com). The conference and exposition will be held December 13-14, 2006 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara California.…
04/30/06 — SkinIt Inc., a leading provider of on-demand and custom physical personalization of mobile electronic devices, announces today the availability of vinyl skins for iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ:IRBT) home robots through a new Web portal—http://www.irobotskins.com. iRobot customers can now personalize their iRobot Roomba(R) Vacuuming Robots and iRobot Scooba(TM) Floor Washing Robots with…
03/29/06 — BDI-Laguna, a total solution provider supplying consumer electronics and computer products to the nation’s most successful retailers, and Hitec Robotics, a division of Hitec RCD Inc., an International manufacturer of hobby electronics, today announced the availability of ROBONOVA-1, a Robo One “J” class humanoid robot, for its retailers nationwide. ROBONOVA-1…
03/10/06 — I would like you to try the following mind experiment. It is nothing on par with the mind experiments involving Einstein’s elevator or Schrödinger’s cat, but it does provide some insight into a debate within the robotics community, and a significant debate at that. To set the stage, picture yourself…
03/06/06 — The LEGO Group’s robotics team has announced the selection of 100 new participants for its MINDSTORMS® Developer Program (MDP), an exclusive group of enthusiasts charged with helping guide the product development process for LEGO® MINDSTORMS NXT, the next generation of LEGO robotics. 9,610 robotics enthusiasts, ages 18 to 75 years…
02/24/06 — Seoul, Korea based Robotis sells three separate products, all of which are centered on their first product class, the Dynamixel family of serially controlled servos. The Dynamixel servos differ from conventional digital servos in that they communicate to the host controllers via a RS485, CAN or TTL half duplex serial…
02/19/06 — WowWee Robotics, unleashed a revolutionary new line of robotic companions at the 2006 American International Toy Fair, the world’s largest annual youth product trade show held February 12-15 in New York. Prompted by the proven success of the Wowwee Robotics division including Robosapien™, Roboraptor™, Robopet™, Robosapien™V2, the company has reached…
01/31/06 — Evolution Robotics, the leading provider of next-generation robotics technologies and component solutions, announced today that Yujin Robotics has selected its NorthStar(TM) product as the primary localization method for their home robot prototype, Jupiter. Jupiter has been used for pilot testing in ordinary households since the beginning of October 2005 and…
Tiny picoPSU Power Supply Enables Design of Small, Smart Appliances and Gives Robots Freedom to Roam
01/31/06 — Mini-box.com, a division of Ituner Networks today announced the picoPSU, the world’s tiniest PC power supply. Measuring only 31x45x20mm, about the size of two AA batteries, the picoPSU is 10 to 20 times smaller than standard PC power supplies. The tiny picoPSU delivers the same power as standard power supplies,…
01/20/06 — Purdue University is leading a four-year project to enable humanoid robots to move more like people and adapt quickly to new situations so that they can complete a variety of tasks they weren’t specifically programmed to perform. “We are trying to give humanoid robots the ability to behave and move…
12/22/05 — Battery-powered toys, radios, and portable electronic devices make fun Christmas gifts – until the batteries run down. But advances in rechargeable thin-film lithium battery technology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory might one day provide a solution to the dead-battery dilemma. Traditional alkaline batteries can be short-lived in some devices, costly…
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