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12/31/04 — Spider-Man can go back to his web; Spider-Bot has arrived. Researchers are developing a new breed of robot, one resembling an arachnid and far removed from the popular image of the metal, humanlike clunker or the six-wheeled rover. Spider-Bots are the latest innovation in small, mobile, high-tech gadgets designed for…
12/13/04 — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has selected a Providence-based research consortium for a $7.2-million effort to create lifelike limbs for Iraq war amputees—by melding live tissue with mechanical devices. The researchers hope to develop biohybrid limbs that would allow amputees to control prosthetic arms and legs with muscle and…
12/09/04 — Doctors at Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center can make the rounds without getting out of their chair or even leaving their house, thanks to a roaming robot called Rosie. Known technically as a remote-presence vehicle, Rosie’s “head” is a 17-inch computer screen that transmits a color image of a human…
12/09/04 — In the early morning hours of March 13, next to a bar called the Slash X Cafe, an odd assortment of 15 trucks and all-terrain vehicles rolled up to the starting line for a race across the Mojave Desert. There was a $1 million purse for the race between Barstow,…
11/10/04 — A number of companies in the Pittsburg area are robotics companies are looking to hire engineers and technicians for a variety of positions. Descroptions of the positions, along with contact information, can be found on the Robotics Foundry website at http://www.roboticsfoundry.org/jobs_jobs.asp. The Robotics Foundry is an independent, non-profit economic development…
11/09/04 — Pasadena, CA - July 20, 2004 - Evolution Robotics, a leading provider of next-generation robotics technologies and component solutions, today announced the availability of LaneHawk, a solution for retailers that prevents loss and increases profits by automatically ringing up under-cart items. Using Evolution Robotics’ advanced object recognition technology, LaneHawk provides…
11/08/04 — The next time humans return to space to explore the moon or Mars, they could be accompanied by Boudreaux and Thibodeaux. Technically identified as “Extra Vehicular Activity Robotic Assistants,” the two dog-like robots were named by robotics engineer Jeffrey Graham of S&K Technologies, a NASA contractor from Baton Rouge. Graham,…
11/08/04 — China’s moon probe is expected to deliver an exploring robot to the moon in 2012, according to China’s moon probe engineering center. The “lunar vehicle” robot will start its exploration with China ‘s first moon landing probe as the second part of China’s three- phase moon exploration program, Hu Hao,…
11/08/04 — After a journey of seven years and more than 2bn miles, a £1.7bn US-European mission is preparing for the unknown. Cassini, a Nasa spacecraft the size of a truck, carrying Huygens, a European robot not much bigger than a commercial washing machine, will complete one more preparatory loop around Titan,…
11/01/04 — A device that is implanted in the brain may be able to offer greater independence to people with quadriplegia. The implant, whose imaginative tradename hints at the possibilities it offers to someone trapped within his or her own body, is called the BrainGate neural interface system. Developed by Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology…
11/01/04 — Robby the Robot and C-3PO may still be years away from reality, but robot vacuum cleaners, medical robots, surveillance robots, underwater robots and demolition robots are here now. And rather than replacing the human workforce, robots are creating a booming job market for engineers, software developers and other technical professionals,…
10/18/04 — NORTHBORO, MA, AND FRAMINGHAM, MA, OCTOBER 17, 2004 - Robotics Trends and IDG World Expo today announced that RoboNexus comes to Santa Clara the week of October 17th, making Northern California and Silicon Valley the international center of the robotics world. The RoboNexus Conference and Exposition, the nation’s largest event…
10/03/04 — The Ohio State University Medical Center is the first system in the United States to open its back hallways to a fleet of laser-guided robots that move a wide variety of heavy materials throughout several hospitals in its main complex. “This is the first of a new generation of robotic…
10/01/04 — Robots can effectively perform in a number of vital production roles including, for example, the picking up and placing of individual products or groups of products from, say, a conveyor to packaging trays. There’s nothing particularly new or revolutionary about ‘Picking and Placing’ except that where fresh or ‘floppy’ products,…
09/22/04 — Researchers at Chiba University and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (TSE:7270) have developed a robot hand that can grab and lift an object weighing 15kg, higher than the typical 3kg lifting ability of similar devices. The hand is powered by hydraulics, just like heavy construction equipment, instead of electricity, as is…
09/22/04 — It sounds like something the West’s 2001 - Space Odyssey author Arthur C Clarke may have dreamt up. But yesterday British scientists, including experts in the West, were celebrating a world first that could revolutionise the future of astronomy. They have begun a project to operate a global network of…
09/22/04 — A new robotic gearing mechanism will allow a new, small, automated manipulator for surgical application to be developed.According to a study from Germany, “Applications in robot-aided surgery are currently based on modifications of manipulators used in industrial manufacturing processes.” “In this paper we describe novel rotatory kinematics for a manipulator,…
09/22/04 — Scientists at the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) have invented a underwater robot explorer for the Antarctic region, capable of diving to the depth of up to 50 meters, the Thai News Agency reported Monday. The announcement, made by NSTDA Director Dr. Itthi Ruthaporn on Sunday, comes as…
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