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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…
11/17/05 — And while she can’t actually shake your hand in greeting, the unnamed, computer-generated character and her troupe of animated friends can be judiciously designed for online learning — at least if one Florida State University researcher’s vision becomes a reality . Amy L. Baylor, an associate professor of instructional systems…
10/31/05 — HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2005--Sharper Image Corporation (NASDAQ:SHRP) and WowWee Robotics(TM) offer an exclusive line of today’s hottest robotic companions with the introduction of the 2005 Sharper Image Signature Series. Building on the success of the 2004 Signature Series Robosapien, this year The Sharper Image will offer a complete line…
07/27/05 — Robotics Trends and Questex Media Group, Inc. today announced the addition of the RoboNexus Sensors Cluster, a series of specialized exhibits and sessions dedicated to the application of sensor technologies to mobile robotics and intelligent systems, to the RoboNexus Conference and Exposition. The RoboNexus Conference and Exposition, the business development,…
07/21/05 — An article in the Asian Times Online reveals that South Korean robot manufacturers will be releasing a flurry of new products in the second half of 2005, many of which are ‘intelligent” robots (see Korea’s Intelligent Robot Industry at http://www.atimes.com//atimes/Korea/GG20Dg02.html). The article goes on to state that the intelligent robotics…
06/06/05 — Robotics Trends’ RoboNexus Conference and Exposition is a multifaceted educational forum and exposition designed to bring together in once place, across three days, all of the key participants driving the burgeoning personal, service and mobile robotics market. RoboNexus provides dedicated, one day “events-within-the-event” specifically tailored to serve the educational and…
04/27/05 — Overland Park, KS (April 27, 2005)—2004 was a good year to launch trade and consumer shows, as exemplified by the just-announced winners of EXPO’s 2005 Best New Show Awards. Winners range from Digital Life 2004, best in the Consumer Show category for its consumer technology and entertainment event that attracted…
12/31/04 — The Object Management Group’s (OMG’s) Robotics Working Group is inviting interested parties to an Information Day devoted to Computer Standards for Robotics on Monday, January 31, 2005 in Burlingame, CA. The event will focus on on the integration of robotics systems based on modular components. Keynoted by i-Robot and anchored…
12/09/04 — The Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) has developed a unique type of robotic system that adds new freedom of movement to the concept of a treadmill. A treadmill is a fixed platform that moves underfoot so a person can walk or run without actually going anywhere. The new robotic…
12/09/04 — Sanyo Electric Co.’s robot development units tmsuk Co. and tmsuk Sanyo Co. announced Wednesday that they have developed a jellyfish-like robot that can house-sit and can be used for room lighting. The robot, named Roborior, is 25.9 centimeters high and weighs 3.25 kilograms. It has wheels underneath its round body…
12/06/04 — NORTHBORO, MA AND FRAMINGHAM, MA – DECEMBER 1, 2004 – Robotics Trends and IDG World Expo today announced the 2nd annual RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition, the business development event for mobile robotics and intelligent systems (http://www.roboevent.com). The conference and exposition will be held at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge in Cambridge,…
11/15/04 — Personal robots have been a long time coming. After R2-D2 and C-3PO whirred and clicked their way into the limelight in the first “Star Wars” movie 27 years ago, the mass entertainment world blossomed with their mechanical descendants. “Droids” and “bots,” some humanoid, some not, became as familiar a part…
11/15/04 — Couch potatoes will soon be able to spend every night slumped in front of the TV as experts yesterday forecast a world where we never need to lift a finger. Intelligent homes where curtains can be drawn at the push of a button, ovens switched on by phone and the…
11/15/04 — The automated homeowner of the 21st century can switch on the lights, the heat and his favourite rock band before he heads home from the office. Kevin Courtney explains the delights of the switched on house. Way back in the early 1980s, around the time CDs were being touted as…
11/08/04 — NEC designer Junichi Osada calls his latest robotic wonder his baby, and he isn’t kidding. NEC’s young genius has obviously developed a close relationship with the small robot that goes far beyond mechanical boundaries. Osada has programmed PaPeRo with a startling range of human responses. Up close, the machine responds…
09/22/04 — Life in the 21st century was always supposed to be awash with technology. From robot housemaids scrubbing floors to wall-size televisions entertaining the kids, the home of the future was somewhere everyone wanted to live. Now, in the first decade of the new century, many of those early visions have…
09/22/04 — A computer program will attempt to pull off the ultimate con trick tomorrow: fooling an adult into believing it is human - and in doing so claim the greatest prize in artificial intelligence. The program in question - called Jabberwacky - started life in 1982 on a Sinclair home computer.…
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