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Formidable Consumer Robot Platform Gets Ready to Take the Stage
The 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 Kim [...]
Welcome to Robot Central
The future of human evolution isn’t necessarily biological. There are happenings in the field of robotics that incrementally evolve us in seemingly trivial ways. To most, these events pass by as new toys or new features in our cars. We at Robot Central observe these same events as milestones on a timeline that build on [...]
1Jan2009 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
SciVestor Video - Autonomous Vehicle Roadmap 2010-2020
SciVestor Executive Director Jonas Lamis narrates the Autonomous Vehicle Roadmap that was presented at RoboBusiness 2008. This presentation is based in part on Robot Central’s observations, research, and opinions of emergent technologies from the DARPA Grand Challenge series of competitions. It highlights progress and challenges in the technologies necessary to facilitate civilian [...]
16May2008 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
MIT’s Technology Awakens Mobile Devices–Robots Next?
The SynTactic Analysis using Reversible Transformations (”START”) system is a super information-finding technology that was developed by Boris Katz and his associates of the InfoLab Group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. It’s a system that’s been running since 1993–long before Google came along.
The system has two syntactic modules: One for [...]
Colin Angle on the Business(es) of Robotics
Blogging from RoboBusiness in Pittsburgh this week. Much to my disappointment, the Convention Center does not have wireless access, so blog postings are coming out when possible.
Colin Angle, Co Founder and CEO of iRobot spent 45 minutes romping through robotics market business concepts. He presented 21 (I only captured 20 for some reason) [...]
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