Today is Friday, January 27th, 2012
Welcome to Robot Central. Really. Thank you for being here. I’m sorry about the mess–stale posts and overuse of the RC logo. I’m in the middle of reinventing the site in a way that I hope will be a little less formal and a lot easier for younger people to read. I’m also going [...]
Using data from the International Federation of Robotics and the International Labour Organization, the guys at ieee Spectrum Online put together a few visualizations that show what most suspect: Japan’s got more industrial robots than anybody–10 times the world average and more than 3 times that of the US.
Ray Renteria | 1 comment | ContinuedWowWee’s been accelerating its pace of product releases since the release of ith the Rovio with a new projector technology, a new upcoming RoboSapien called “JoeBot” (which has some mixed reviews), and my favorite, a robot bird you can shoot down again and again with an accompanying laser gun.
Ray Renteria | 0 comments | ContinuedThe biggest challenge nanotechnology is the mass-production of nano stuff. One-offs can be made but mass production is required to produce enough to make the technology practical or cheap. In a recent breakthrough, Peter Bøggild and his colleagues from the Technical University of Denmark have created a gripper that could be used in nanoassembly. Previously, [...]
Ray Renteria | 0 comments | ContinuedThe South Korean company Roboware has a monumental hit on their hands with their robot E3–for Emotional, Entertaining, and Eductional. The combination of a good technology architecture and a sound business model is what will make this robot a winner among personal and field consumer robots. In an interview on Engineering TV, Roboware CEO Mike [...]
Ray Renteria | 0 comments | ContinuedImagine a little box just 4 inches tall squirting out a rigid mast 8 feet straight up! A configuration is available that will allow a larger unit that can lift 200lbs 20 feet. The unit is from GeoSystems Inc and is called a Situational Awareness Mast (SAM). Travis Deyle at Hizook brings several sources together [...]
Ray Renteria | 1 comment | ContinuedThe assurance of mutual destruction was a profoundly effective peace keeper between the USA and the USSR. There is no equivalent threat today against the scattered terrorists deliberately embedded within innocent society across so many countries–a tactic that only works against their civilized enemies such as the USA. Our effort to create and deploy robotic [...]
Ray Renteria | 2 comments | ContinuedIt seems that a robotic stock trader isn’t as good as a knowledgeable human trader. James Daw writes about how his robot’s portfolio lost 40% of its value while investors in the stocks tracked by the S&P/TSX composite of the Toronto Stock Exchange “only” lost 33%. Check out his article here.
Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued