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05/19/11 — After three years of intense work, members of a European research effort called EYESHOTS have made progress in controlling the interaction between vision and movement, and as a result have designed an advanced three-dimensional visual system synchronized with robotic arms which could allow robots to observe and be aware of…
04/29/11 — Artificial Intelligence offers many possibilities for developing data processing systems that are more precise and robust. That is one of the main conclusions drawn from an international encounter of experts in this scientific area, recently held at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). In the course of the meeting, speakers…
03/28/11 — An intelligent, reconfigurable modular robot invented by a UC Davis alumnus and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering is headed for commercial development with the help of a grant from the National Science Foundation. Graham Ryland and Professor Harry Cheng hope their “iMobot” will be a useful research…
03/04/11 — The hand, wrist, and fingers are controlled through thousands of nerve channels. Current prosthetic arms have neural interfaces to only six or eight channels, enabling only simple movements without feeling or feedback to the brain. Mario Romero-Ortega, a bioengineer at the University of Texas Arlington, has received a $2.2…
02/24/11 — You may have heard of virtual keyboards controlled by thought, brain-powered wheelchairs, and neuro-prosthetic limbs. Once the mind is trained to send the right kind of signals, operating the interface can be downright tiring for the mind—a fact that prevents the technology from being of much use to people…
02/22/11 — Join Robotics Trends on March 10, 2011 at the NextGen Education and Robotics Virtual Summit and hear from industry visionaries working to accelerate learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) among K-12 and college-level students. Featured keynote speakers are: Paul Copioli, president, VEX Robotics: VEX Robotics and STEM…
02/15/11 — An artificially intelligent control system called “sysbrain” has been developed by Professor Sandor Veres and his team of engineers at the University of Southampton that will enable engineers to program satellites and spacecraft to think for themselves. Using natural language programming (NLP), the software agents can read special English…
02/10/11 — Until now there has not been any way of checking whether current computer systems are more intelligent than those in use 20 years ago. But that could change thanks to a study performed by a pair of researchers from Spain and Australia. “We have developed an 'anytime' intelligence test; in…
01/26/11 — Watching a tadpole turn into a frog is not too far off from what University of Vermont roboticist Josh Bongard has discovered, as he reports in the January 10 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In a first-of-its-kind experiment, Bongard created both simulated and…
12/21/10 — CoroWare, Inc. has a new feature upgrade for the CoroWare Explorer line of mobile robots that company says will greatly improve the duration and flexibility of mobile robotics projects, especially for educators and researchers working on outdoor field projects. Mobile robotics researchers working on cognitive science and outdoor navigation…
12/14/10 — Robotics Trends today announced that VEX Robotics, Inc. has signed on as Platinum Keynote Sponsor of the Robotics Trends: NextGen Education & Research Robotics Virtual Summit, taking place on March 10th, 2011. Attendees of the NextGen Education & Research Robotics Virtual Summit will include teachers, principals, department heads, college professors…
11/23/10 — Midwest Research Institute (MRI), an independent research organization located in Kansas City, Mo., has been authorized to proceed with the Phase IIa of the Individual Protection Ensemble Mannequin System (IPEMS). Funded by the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense and the Joint Project Manager for Nuclear, Biological,…
11/04/10 — Only Andreas Knoblach’s legs hang out from under the cover of the ‘cockpit.’ They are dangling five meters above the ground while the enormous robotic arm slowly swivels the virtual-reality ‘capsule’ and its occupant and moves along a track in front of a large screen. Mountains, valleys and meadows…
11/02/10 — The human hand is an amazing machine that can pick up, move, and place objects easily, but for a robot, this “gripping” mechanism is a vexing challenge. Opting for simple elegance, researchers from Cornell, the University of Chicago, and iRobot Corp. have created a versatile gripper using everyday ground…
10/20/10 — Lightning-fast connections between robotic limbs and the human brain may be within reach for injured soldiers and other amputees with the establishment of a multimillion-dollar research center led by Southern Methodist University engineers. Funded by a Department of Defense initiative dedicated to audacious challenges and intense time schedules, the…
10/19/10 — German scientists have unveiled the latest in self-driving car technology—an autonomous vehicle named “MadeInGermany” (MIG) that passengers can even call for a lift. Computer scientist Raul Rojas and his team at Berlin’s Free University (FU) have developed the experimental car which they hope will revolutionize the future of driving.…
10/13/10 — The dying swan is sometimes moving smoothly and gently, sometimes in a dramatic and fiery manner, as Tchaikovsky´s majestic music from the ballet Swan Lake is playing. Yet this is no ordinary ballet dancer, but a robot in the form of a swan, created at Mälardalen University and choreographed…
09/30/10 — TU/e researcher Linda van den Bedem developed a compact surgical robot that uses “force feedback” to enable a surgeon to feel what he or she is doing. Van den Bedem intends to market Sofie, an acronym for the Surgeon’s Operating Force-feedback Interface Eindhoven. Robotic surgery makes it possible to…
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