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11/03/08 — Odyssey IV, developed by MIT Sea Grant College Program’s Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Laboratory, offers novel hovering capabilities, making it a a boon for oil explorers, archaeologists and more. By David Chandler, MIT News Office MIT researchers have designed a new robotic underwater vehicle that can hover in place like a…
11/02/08 — Disney Parks & Resorts Division partners with leading universities for cutting edge computer science and technology research. CMU and ETH Zurich students work outside of academia to focus on real-world problems. Disney announced a major research and development initiative to engage top technology universities to conduct research and development for…
10/17/08 — Olin partners with Aurora Flight Sciences on the development of multi-vehicle coordination algorithms for teams of actual Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) and Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs). Aurora Flight Sciences announced today the beginning of a collaboration with the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts. The collaboration, under…
10/17/08 — NASA’s Scarab rover, developed by Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute, is designed to traverse the lunar surface taking core samples for use in NASA’s Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar Volatile Extraction (RESOLVE) experiment. The robot, which weighs approximately 880 pounds, can operate on just 100 watts of power.…
10/07/08 — A Texas Tech University curator and an aeronautical engineer from the University of Florida have developed a 30-inch robotic spy plane modeled after a 225 million-year-old pterodactyl. The drone, featuring a strange design of a rudder at the nose of the craft instead of the tail, would gather data from…
09/12/08 — While pursuing the goal of having autonomous helicopters perform extreme aerial aerobatics under computer control, Stanford University scientists discovered that writing command and control code from scratch was unsuitable for all but the most basic aerial routines. Their solution… have the helicopters ‘learn’ directly from experts. By Dan Stober Professor…
08/28/08 — MobileRobots Inc to Host Pre-Conference Technical Workshop, “Developing and Deploying Mobile Service Robot Applications” Robotics Trends, a division of EH Publishing, Inc., today announced that MobileRobots Inc has joined RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition 2008, the International Technical Design and Development Event for the Personal, Service and Mobile Robotics Industry, as…
08/22/08 — Apparently, the answer is yes. In this first-of-its-kind study, researchers from the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at RWTH Aachen University used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study human interaction and perspective taking during human/machine interactions. The study found that at the neural cortical level during human/machine game play,…
08/01/08 — A one-year $430,000 award, funded through the U.S. Army at White Sands Missile Range, has been awarded to Georgia Tech Research Institute for the development of a test and evaluation roadmap for unmanned and autonomous systems. The roadmap will address all five major unmanned and autonomous systems domains, including airborne…
07/28/08 — Tufts University has received federal funding to develop chemical robots that will be able to squeeze into spaces as tiny as 1 centimeter, then morph into something 10 times larger, and ultimately biodegrade. The “chembots” could access urban environments, tunnels, caves and debris fields, and carry out other risky operations…
07/25/08 — Robotics Trends, a division of EH Publishing, Inc., today announced that Microsoft has joined the 2nd annual RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition as the event’s Founding Sponsor. RoboDevelopment, the international technical design and development event for personal, service and mobile robotics industry (http://www.robodevelopment.com), will be held November 18-19, 2008 at the…
06/05/08 — The Personal Robotics Group at MIT Media Lab, headed by Director Cynthia Breazeal, known for the famous Kismet expressive robot, has a new star. Nexi MDS (mobile, dexterous, social), is a complete mobile robot with a fully expressive face that can engage directly with humans. By David Chandler, MIT News…
06/02/08 — Duke engineers used a novel 3-D ultrasound technology to guide the actions of a rudimentary tabletop robot. The day may be getting a little closer when robots will perform surgery on patients in dangerous situations or in remote locations, such as on the battlefield or in space, with minimal human…
05/20/08 — Robotics Trends has announced a Call for Presentations for the second annual RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition which wil run November 18-19, 2008 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA. Robotics Trends’ RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition is a multifaceted educational forum and trade show that addresses the technical issues…
04/21/08 — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is joining forces with the Association pour la Recherche et le Developpement des Methodes et Processus Industriels (ARMINES) of France to enhance the state of the art in the field of road automation. The collaboration will address sensors, vehicle controls, robotics and pathway generation. This collaboration…
04/01/08 — The University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science has received the largest single award in the School’s 156-year history to help create the fundamental networks and technologies that will put unmanned machines on the front lines of battle. The award is the MAST CTA, the Micro Autonomous Systems…
03/18/08 — Today’s video games and online virtual worlds give users the freedom to create characters in the digital domain that look and seem more human than ever before. But despite having your hair, your height, and your hazel eyes, your avatar is still little more than just a pretty face. A…
03/17/08 — Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville have developed a wide-angle camera that will be able to provide security forces with the ability to monitor large areas through high-resolution images taken from a satellite or an airborne craft, according to researcher David Pollock. It was Pollock who first discovered…
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