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AI Keeps Commerce Machine Humming
These guys are a lot more personable than industrial assembly-line robots. Combine their personality with their association with capitalism and you’ve got a robotic worker class that’s taken another step into the human routine. Read about them here.
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Velodyne LIDAR HDL-64E demo
Bruce Hall, President of Velodyne LIDAR demonstrates the HDL-64E. The 64E is a ground breaking laser vision system that crushed the competition at the 2007 DARPA urban challenge. Today, Velodyne sells the 64E (list price $75,000) to organizations wishing to integrate 1″ accuracy GIS data at highway speeds.
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Skilligent Takes Siam UAV to the Skies
When scientists at NASA send a command to a robot on Mars, it can take between 8 and 42 minutes before the operator knows that the command was performed successfully. Even here on earth, commands sent to local robots may still take up to a second to to be performed. It doesn’t sound like a [...]
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Stereoscopic Computer Vision Just got a Leg Up
When Stanford University won the DARPA Grand Challenge in ’05 the team made clear their philosophy that autonomous navigation should be treated as a software problem. While other teams spent their resources on building custom hardware, Dr. Sebastian Thrun simply sent his Stanford team’s Volkswagen Touareg off to get converted to drive-by-wire using proven and [...]
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iRobot Sells Former Competitor’s Product
What has become a milestone in the evolutionary timeline of robotic market development, iRobot sued its former competitor Robotic FX to death last year. At the center of the battle was the Robotic FX version of a robot called The Negotiator which allegedly violated U.S. Patents 6,263,989 and 6,431,296 that relate to robot platform and [...]
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Touch Bionics a 2008 da Vinci Award winner
Touch Bionics, developer of the world’s first commercially available bionic hand, announced that the i-LIMB Hand has won a 2008 da Vinci Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The da Vinci Awards recognize the most innovative developments and research in adaptive and assistive technology. The National Multiple Sclerosis Society understands well the difficulties people [...]
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iRobot Launches New Robot to Address Growing Public Safety Market
iRobot Negotiator Provides a Cost-Effective, Basic Reconnaissance Robot to Public Safety Organizations Bedford, Mass., August 6, 2008 – iRobot Corp. (Nasdaq: IRBT) today announced the introduction of the iRobot Negotiator, a low-cost tactical robot designed to meet the basic reconnaissance needs of public safety professionals. After the success of the company’s iRobot PackBot 510, iRobot [...]
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iRobot Continues Strong Growth Trend
If iRobot is a bellwether for the future of personal robotics, then the market is not just hype. iRobot’s second quarter revenue increased 43% over the same time last year with profits totaling $16.5M, or about 24% of Q2′s $67.2M revenue. “In the second quarter we achieved our 16th consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth [...]
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Three Questions for Chetan Kapoor – Agile Planet
Chetan Kapoor is a roboticist at The University of Texas and CEO of Agile Planet. We spoke about how his firm’s control software might change the world in the years ahead, what is driving robotics growth, and why business should take note.
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Three Questions for Colin Angle – iRobot
SciVestor spoke with Colin Angle, co-founder and CEO of iRobot Corporation. We asked him about how iRobot will change the world, the importance of Moore’s Law, and why the business community should be interested. We also got his take on the state of the emerging robotics industry.
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