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09/06/12 — Students in Western Australia's Pilbara region are using a popular toy to help equip them with skills to pursue careers in the mining industry. It's a program being welcomed by the industry which is facing an increasing skills shortage. The Principal of Newman Senior High Milanna Heberle says teachers are…
08/29/12 — Reality Robotics, a company set up by former WowWee employees - those of Robosapien fame - are planning to unleash a new robot pet for Android fans, and have turned to funding site Kickstarter to help them do it. Called Be The Robot - BERO for short - the 4-inch…
08/22/12 — Honda Motor Co. finally has its first home product packed with its prized robotics technology - a sensor-equipped lawn mower. Miimo goes on sale next year, only in Europe, where spacious lawns are often enclosed in gates, targeting 4,000 unit sales a year. The machine, which looks a bit like…
08/21/12 — National headlines have been full of hacker-related news. Unencrypted surveillance data being hacked from military UAVs, cyberworms disrupting Iranian nuclear arms projects, and Chinese hackers aggressively pursuing the intellectual property of U.S. companies. The actual “attackers” can range from customers who inadvertently disrupt code to national governments willing to risk…
08/16/12 — The Robot App Store has begun building a much-needed resource for the robot-curious public in it's Robopedia. The encyclopedia includes information aimed at consumers on the consumer robotics products for sale as well as the companies behind them. In addition, this area of the site now includes general information on…
08/15/12 — Telepresence robots have been a tough sell in the business world. With a number of products emerging about the time of the U.S. economic collapse, updating office space wasn’t worth the price point involved. And telepresence robots are still expensive, costing an average of $8,000. But California-based Double Robotics is…
08/01/12 — 3D Systems Corporation is bringing 3D printing to robotics with a new Cubify store “app” for making robots. The 3D printing company announced today the immediate availability of its new Cubify toy robots designed specifically for printing on Cube, the world's first home 3D printer. The Cubify 3D printer runs on…
07/18/12 — Kids in classrooms get to spend time on arts and crafts, and if they're really lucky they get to spend time working on electronics and robotics. But what if the two were combined, and the artistic side of a kid could be expressed by what they made their craft do,…
07/17/12 — It's amazing how a few straight forward household and garden chores can leave your back feeling a little sore. Weed picking, tidying, vacuuming or fishing stray socks from underneath the sofa, which can all affect the small of your back. Fortunately there are technology projects out there which could not…
07/03/12 — Ever wonder what the children would look like if an iPhone mated with the AIBO robot dog? It turns out that you won't have to wait long to find out. Bandai is about to release a cute little robot dog that uses the iPhone as its head and brain, while…
06/27/12 — Professor Maarja Kruusmaa working alongside Fits.me COO Diana Saarva has created a virtual fitting room which enables users to virtually try on clothes before buying them. All told, the robot is capable of replicating 2,000 body shapes. When a retailer signs up with Fits.me, they first send in their clothes. Each…
06/15/12 — LapTop.com--Communication using an iPhone is tricky since, when mounted, the device usually limits your view to a stationary frame with no context of the elements outside of the shot. That’s where the Galileo robotic stand can help. This Kickstarter success story is an iOS-controlled mount — a product conceived by…
06/14/12 — Major Japanese toy manufacturer Takara Tomy is developing a new breed of robotic dogs. Similar to the company’s i-SOBOT humanoid robot, the i-SODOG also features several joints fitted with custom designed servo motors and comes with a dedicated remote control. However, the i-SODOG can also be controlled via your smartphone.…
06/12/12 — ResponseJP—Last year, Tokyo-based robot venture ZMP introduced the RoboCar MEV mini car, single-person, 4-wheeled, autonomous, electric robotic vehicle. For 2012, ZMP has topped itself with robot car that this time really looks like a car. Watch out Google! The Robocar HV, based, according to Response JP, on the Toyota Prius,…
06/11/12 — Society must make two big leaps in order to enable truly self-driving cars. The first is technological. Engineers need to improve today’s cars (which can warn a driver that he’s drifting out of his lane) beyond current Google and Darpa prototypes (which maintain the lane on their own) to the…
06/07/12 — Times of India—Let’s face it – jogging is one of the best forms of exercise, but sometimes it can get incredibly boring. Jogging is certainly an activity that’s better with a partner, but not all of us have the luxury of a jogging buddy who can join us at a…
05/31/12 — It had always been the intention of the open source movement to create an independent body that could take open source robotics and grow it. Growing it meant to push it out beyond its place of nurturing and early maturity, which was Willow Garage. Now the intention has become reality…
05/25/12 — We already know that musically inclined robots will take up the Beatles mantle in the future, and that they are skilled at reproducing the classic James Bond theme. But just to further show how obsolete human musicians are, Vladimir Demin (MrDeminva on YouTube) built a robotic guitar that can replace…
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