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03/03/08 — Several years in the making and a huge investment by the Brussels region, the project of the Robotics and Multibody Research Group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels Free University) is a fully-functioning robot with the ability to read your emotions and respond in kind. Called Probo, the 60-centimetre tall “huggable…
02/25/08 — The College of Computing at Georgia Tech announced the nation’s first interdisciplinary doctoral degree in robotics, to be offered at Georgia Tech. The program, which starts fall semester of 2008, was developed through Georgia Tech’s new Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (RIM@Georgia Tech), a collaborative research center that combines…
02/20/08 — A new initiative, bringing together nine research groups from seven countries, including teams of robotics and brain researchers from Europe, Israel, and the U.S., has recently been set up with the aim of imitating nature. Based on principles of active sensing that are widely adopted in the animal kingdom, the…
02/20/08 — Feb. 8, 2008 MEDIA ADVISORY : M08-025 WASHINGTON - Researchers will test a NASA-funded robotic probe under ice here on Earth to demonstrate whether the probe’s systems can operate in a similar environment on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Testing will take place Feb. 12-15 in Lake Mendota on the campus of…
02/20/08 — For years, scientists have been trying to teach computers how to see like humans, and recent research has seemed to show computers making progress in recognizing visual objects. A new MIT study, however, cautions that this apparent success may be misleading because the tests being used are inadvertently stacked in…
02/18/08 — Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University’s Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, has been awarded the IEEE’s James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award “for leadership and pioneering contributions to speech recognition, natural language understanding, and machine intelligence.” The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)…
01/21/08 — Carnegie Mellon University and six other research universities have joined forces with eight historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in a collaborative project to promote robotics and computer science education for African-American students. The Advancing Robotics Technology for Societal Impact (ARTSI) Alliance grew out of a previous collaboration between Andrew…
01/14/08 — Energid Technologies has licensed its Actin(TM) toolkit to the Kumaraguru College of Technology (KCT) in Coimbatore, India. Actin is world-class software for controlling and simulating complex robotic mechanisms with up to 100 or more independent moving parts. It will be used at KCT by both faculty researchers and students. The…
12/28/07 — Robotics engineers at Rice University are teaming with doctors from Memorial Hermann|TIRR to develop a PC-based system for physical rehabilitation. “It can take months of physical therapy for stroke patients to regain the use of their limbs,” said system architect Marcia O’Malley, director of Rice’s Mechatronics and Haptic Interfaces Laboratory…
12/06/07 — An Army veteran who lost part of his leg in Iraq walked with more spring in his step Monday as he unveiled the world’s first robotic ankle—an important advance for lower-limb amputees that was developed by a team at MIT. Garth Stewart, 24, who lost his left leg below the…
11/21/07 — Neuroscientists have significantly advanced brain-machine interface (BMI) technology to the point where severely handicapped people who cannot contract even one leg or arm muscle now can independently compose and send e-mails and operate a TV in their homes. They are using only their thoughts to execute these actions. Thanks to…
11/21/07 — Combine a mechanical arm with a miniature rocket motor: The result is a prosthetic device that is the closest thing yet to a bionic arm. A prototype of this radical design has been successfully developed and tested by a team of mechanical engineers at Vanderbilt University as part of a…
Carnegie Mellon System Allows Any Digital Camera To Produce Interactive, Multibillion-Pixel Panorama
11/14/07 — Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center, have built a low-cost robotic device that enables any digital camera to produce breathtaking gigapixel (billions of pixels) panoramas, called GigaPans. The technology gives people a new way to make and share images of their environment.…
11/08/07 — A robotic exoskeleton controlled by the wearer’s own nervous system could help users regain limb function, which is encouraging news for people with partial nervous system impairment, say University of Michigan researchers. The ankle exoskeleton developed at U-M was worn by healthy subjects to measure how the device affected ankle…
11/01/07 — Kiva Systems has announced the expansion of the company’s professional services activities with the addition of two industry veterans to work with the growing number of companies adopting Kiva’s Mobile Fulfillment technology. Mark Mastandrea, vice president of customer experience, joins Kiva to lead the system design and customer support functions,…
11/01/07 — Engineering students from the Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) at Virginia Tech have developed a bipedal humanoid robot using the National Instruments (Nasdaq:NATI) LabVIEW graphical system design platform. The Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence (DARwIn) was originally developed to study human locomotion for the research and development of prosthetic limbs.…
11/01/07 — Babies driving robots. It sounds like the theme of a cartoon series but it is actually the focus of important and innovative research being conducted at the University of Delaware that could have significant repercussions for the cognitive development of infants with special needs. Two University of Deleware researchers –…
10/19/07 — Robotics Trends and IDG World Expo announced that Microsoft has joined the RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition as the event’s Founding Sponsor. Microsoft will deliver a keynote session outlining its perspective of the robotics market and will host a ½ day technical seminar for commercial and academic robotic developers. The RoboDevelopment…
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