Erector
Formal Study and Military Anecdotes Observe Human-Robot Attachment
When I discovered Joel Garreau’s article Bots on the Ground, I couldn’t believe what I was reading. He described a scenario where a new kind of military robot was being demonstrated to an Army colonel. The robot was long and segmented with many legs and designed to step on and trigger land mines. It was [...]
3Oct2007 | Ray Renteria | 2 comments | Continued
Two Telepresence Robots Merging into The Mainstream
It looks like Meccano woke up.
At the Digital Life show in New York last week, the Spykee demo guys were seen and heard discussing the value of being able to conduct business in New York while “on your computer in Paris.” Clearly, most eight-year-old boys aren’t going to find this next-generation concept of telecommuting as [...]
iRobot Unveils Telepresence Robot
Today at Digital Life, iRobot unveiled its new “Virtual Visiting Robot” named ConnectR (pronounced “connector”). iRobot is positioning this robot squarely in the telepresence market making value statements very similar to those we wrote about several weeks ago. Unlike the marketeers at Erector (via Meccano), iRobot is not targeting children ages eight and [...]
27Sep2007 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
Braintech’s Latest Vision Software to Support Microsoft Robotics Studio
In a move consistent with the coalescing of robotics market players, Braintech has released a version of its vision software VOLTS-IQ ™ SDK that is designed to work with Microsoft Robotics Studio.
According to their site,
Braintech specializes in the expert design and integration of artificial intelligence for Vision Guided Robotic (VGR) software and solutions. [Their] applications [...]
Missing the Point with a Potentially Game-Changing Robot “Toy”
There was this Greek guy from Alexandria named Heron who lived in the first century A.D.. He invented a toy called an aeolipile, which means “wind ball” in Greek. It was a metallic ball with two curved tubes coming out at opposite ends of it. The idea was that you would fill [...]
6Sep2007 | Ray Renteria | 5 comments | Continued