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07/05/11 — Just as the recent code release of Microsoft Kinect software gave robotics developers a shortcut to creating autonomous robotics applications, Tokyo's Showa University has taken a shortcut to creating a dental-training robot with realistic features and reflexes, by adapting a so-called "love doll" robot. Dental training robots are not…
06/23/11 — LG Electronics’ HOM-BOT Smart Vacuum Cleaning Robot was recognized as a finalist at the 7th Annual Invention and Entrepreneurship Award in Robotics and Automation (IERA). A co-sponsored activity between the International Federation of Robotics and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, the purpose of the IERA award is to…
06/20/11 — A new challenge for high school students, the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites, SPHERES, is being offered via NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in cooperation with MIT. The 2011 Zero Robotics challenge is a continuation and expansion of a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)…
06/03/11 — In a challenge aimed at stimulating interest in robotics and related scientific disciplines as well as exploring the skills and technologies that will be required for future mining operations on the moon, some 36 student teams gathered at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida from May 26-28. During…
06/01/11 — Someday you may have a personal robot to help around the house. It will move smoothly from room to room, avoiding obstacles, people and pets. It will pack your suitcases, clear the table and do the dishes. It might even be programmed to assign chores to the kids or…
05/26/11 — Most of us are familiar with open source software. That is, free code, which, depending on the specific type of license, legally enables developers to create alterations. Willow Garage has already gone the open source route with its Robotic Operating System (Read RT’s analysis of the move). Now the company…
05/25/11 — iRobot recently earned a number four ranking in the Boston Globe’s annual list of top-rated Massachusetts companies. Three other companies, Clean Harbors, Analog Devices, and IPG Photonics, earned a higher place on the technologically heavy list. This year, companies that made the Globe 100 list were “being honored for…
05/20/11 — RoboDynamics introducted Luna, a mainstream consumer personal robot, dubbed “the iPad of robots” by technology journalists. The Luna system will also encompass a native app store, standard PC architecture, an open Linux-based operating system, touchscreen display, WiFi, and multiple tactically located standard USB based expansion ports allowing for expansion. RoboDynamics…
05/04/11 — The Florida Advanced Technological Education Center (FLATE), a National Science Foundation Regional Center of Excellence in advanced technological education, is offering several robotics camps for middle school students this summer, and is expanding its program to offer a first time ever industrial robot camp for high school students as well.…
04/28/11 — LEGO Education, a division of the company that makes the popular Mindstorms line of robots, announced it will send 13 LEGO Education models to the International Space Station (ISS) on board the Space Shuttle Endeavor on April 29. The models will be used in eight educational activities that will be…
04/21/11 — South Korean telecom operator KT has rolled out a robot playmate for children in a move seen as cashing in on the potentially lucrative robotics industry. Kibot, which has a monkey face and a display panel on its body, can read books, sing songs, play online games, and wheel…
04/20/11 — A new iPad game release called Robot Tycoon lets players build and manage a virtual robot factory. Available for $4.99 at Apple’s App Store, the game gives players total control of their imaginary companies. In the process, they encounter challenges on every aspect of the business and must carefully…
04/18/11 — Participants of the 2011 VEX Robotics World Championship were joined this weekend by Kari Byron, host of the Discovery Channel’s hit show MYTHBUSTERS and the Science Channel’s HEAD RUSH, as winning alliances from the Middle School, High School and College competitions triumphed from United States, Canada, China and New Zealand, after outmaneuvering some of…
04/13/11 — Students taking part in a program called Project Lead The Way (PLTW) will usher in a new era – robotics in the classroom – when they compete in the 2011 VEX World Championships taking place Thursday, April 14, through Saturday, April 16, at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at World…
04/13/11 — Celebrating National Robotics Week, nearly 10,000 middle school, high school, and university participants from 16 countries will compete in the 2011 VEX Robotics World Championship, to be held with free admission to the general public at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at the Walt Disney World® Resort near Orlando,…
04/07/11 — Eighty students from community colleges in 28 states and Puerto Rico have been selected to travel to a NASA center to develop robotic rovers. The National Community College Aerospace Scholars program encourages students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The students will visit either…
03/25/11 — STEM Education—that is, educating for the fields of science, technology, engineering and math—is a challenge faced by the United States. Funding in U.S. schools tends to lean toward athletics and away from math and science. It’s quite ironic that so much funding is utilized for fields in which there are…
03/16/11 — National Robotics Week occurs annually on the second week of April to recognize robotics technology as a pillar of 21st century American innovation. The week’s aim is to highlight the growing importance of robotics in a wide variety of application areas and to emphasize its ability to inspire students while…
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