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JEOPARD Project Begins Validation of Parallel Real-time Java VM
03/17/10 06:22 PM, 0 Comments
One of the results of the JEOPARD project, a unified parallel real-time Java VM for high performance, real-time and safety critical platforms is currently under test by industrial project partners. Among these partners are EADS Germany, Skysoft Portugal and Radio Labs Italy, who put the Java VM through their paces with actual applications.

Skysoft evaluates the development on multicore systems with SYSGO’s partitioning operating system PikeOS. The testing application consists of Java partitions in an aviation control system, that are executed parallel.

JamaicaVM, the proven JavaVM for hard and soft real-time applications, serves as the foundation…
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Tagged: Java, Jeopard, Real-time java, 7th framework program, Open group, Aicas gmbh, Parallel real-time java vm

Enabling Technologies and Design & Development Tools
03/17/10 10:27 AM, 0 Comments
Mark Your Calendars - December 8, 2010

Enabling Technologies

Although robotics technology in the various types of commercial, consumer and military robotics systems can differ radically from each other, their areas of commonality greatly outnumber their differences.  That is, enabling technologies suitable for one particular class of products are appropriate and applicable for other types of intelligent, mobile robotics products as well. Sessions in the Enabling Technologies for Robotics Development Virtual Conference will cover the latest advances in the ‘core’ technology that are common to most classes of mobile robots and intelligent systems.

Representative…
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Teaching Your Car How To Drive
03/16/10 05:49 PM, 0 Comments
What if your car could learn how you handle different driving situations, then alert you if you fail to slow for a curve or start driving erratically? A European research project has already built a working prototype of a car so smart that it goes to driving school every day.



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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Filed in: Academics and ResearchFeatureRobotics Features
Tagged: Autonomy, Artificial intelligence, Drivsco, Automobile

Contineo Robotics Launched to Commercialize Advanced Robotics Technologies
03/16/10 03:06 PM, 0 Comments
Newly formed company focused on applying advanced dexterous manipulation and control system technologies to mobile robotics platforms



A new technology venture has been formed to enhance the ability of military and homeland security robots to perform tasks that otherwise would place personnel in harm’s way. The former principal investigator for the $70 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 Program, along with colleagues from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and Orthocare Innovations, have formed Contineo Robotics.

Contineo (Latin for “grasp") is focused on applying advanced dexterous manipulation and control system technologies,…
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Filed in: Security & Defense RoboticsVendor SpotlightVendor Spotlight
Tagged: Darpa, Contineo robotics, Mobile manipulation, Dexterous manipulation, Defense advanced research projects agency

Astrobotic Technology Announces Expanded Opportunities to Send Payloads to the Moon
03/15/10 11:13 AM, 0 Comments
Lift capability of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket allows Astrobotic Technology to increase amount of payload available to space agency technologists, academic researchers and marketers from 12 pounds to 240 pounds during maiden expedition in 2012 to win the Google Lunar X Prize.



“We will carry 240 pounds to the lunar surface for space agency technologists, academic researchers and marketers,” said David Gump, president of Astrobotic.  The company previously had offered only 12 pounds of payload to third parties.

The company posted a technical description of the service on its Web site, along with a “Request for…
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Tagged: David gump, Astrobotic technology, Google lunar x prize, Celestis, Lunar x prize

Astrium and EADS Defense & Security to Study Integration of UAVs Into Civil Airspace
03/13/10 02:57 PM, 0 Comments
Astrium Services will demonstrate the value of using satellite communications to enable UAVs to operate safely in civil airspace, while EADS Defence & Security will investigate the use of a Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) UAV to prove the operational feasibility of the integration.



The European Defence Agency (EDA) has selected an Astrium and EADS Defence & Security (DS) consortium to lead a six-month study to demonstrate that by using satellite communications it is feasible to integrate UAVs into civil airspace. DS has more than 30 years of expertise in UAVs, and Astrium, Europe’s largest space company, will…
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Tagged: uav, uas, civilian airspace, eads, eads defense & security, eda, european defence agency, civil airspace

AeroVironment Receives $37.9 Million Raven UAS Order
03/11/10 01:30 PM, 0 Comments
Orders for Raven systems, a 4.2-pound, backpackable, hand-launched visual sensor platform, represent initial portion of Raven funding from United States Department of Defense Fiscal 2010 Budget.



AeroVironment, Inc. (AV) (NASDAQ:AVAV) announced that it received firm fixed-price orders valued at $20,731,992 for digital Raven unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and digital retrofit kits, and $17,141,648 for Raven system spare parts, repairs and training services for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. The Raven system and retrofit order represents a portion of the $121 million appropriated for RQ-11 Raven system procurement in the 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, which was…
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Tagged: Uas, Unmanned aerial system, Department of defense appropriations act, Raven, Aerovironment

FANUC Robotics Expands Certified Robot Training Program With M-1iA Robot
03/11/10 11:51 AM
Schools now have the choice of FANUC’s LR Mate 200iC or M-1iA robots for use with the company’s CERT’s industrial robotics training lab.



FANUC Robotics America, Inc. has added its M-1iA robot to the Certified Education Robot Training (CERT) program line-up.  Launched in 2008, the CERT program certifies instructors at educational institutions to train their students to program FANUC robots through on-line and hands-on training courses.

The CERT program’s educational mobile lab includes an industrial robot, integrated vision system, programmable logic controller, and ROBOGUIDE simulation software.  Schools may now select either an LR Mate 200iC or…
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Tagged: Fanuc, M-1ia robot, Cert, Certified education robot training

New Markets & Applications for Industrial Robotics
03/11/10 10:47 AM, 0 Comments
Mark Your Calendars -September 15, 2010

Beyond the Factory Floor: New Markets for Industrial Robotics

Fomerly, the technology of the time limited the industrial robotics segment to immobile, single task robots that had little interaction with humans or the world
around them as they performed their tasks in a manufacturing or factory floor automation role.  Advancements in robotic and control technology now make it possible for industrial robots to expand into a wide range of non-manufacturing markets.  These same advancements also allow industrial robots to expand their use beyond their traditional market sectors –…
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Robosoft Introduces Kompaï
03/09/10 05:01 PM, 0 Comments
First generation humanoid robot, capable of understanding simple verbal commands and featuring a touch screen for additional communication, is intended for developers who would like to implement their own robotics applications for assistance.



On the 8th of March 2010 at the 2010 Intercompany Long Term Care Insurance Conference, the French company Robosoft presented Kompaï; a robot designed to assist dependent persons at home. This robot can speak, understand what is said to it, find its way around the house and, with just a word, access all internet services.

“One of our top priorities is the domestic…
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Tagged: Robot, Humanoid, Robosoft, Intercompany long term care insurance conference.i, Kompaï