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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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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 autonomous vehicles. Mr. [...]
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Autonomous Vehicle Roadmap – Presentation
New free research presentation available from SciVestor. You can download it here. This presentation is being presented at RoboBusiness 2008. It highlights progress and challenges in the technologies necessary to facilitate civilian autonomous vehicles. We discuss a plausible technology driven autonomous vehicle roadmap from 2010 – 2030. The presentation highlights several emerging technology vendors including [...]
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Observations Portend Robotic Inclusion in Society
In a fascinating study carried out by Javier Movellan from the University of California, San Diego, researchers observed toddlers accepting a humanoid robot as a peer. In previous similar studies, children quickly got bored with the robot. In this study children accepted the robot and in some cases even nurtured it. The robot was programmed [...]
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Trossen RoboDevelopment Speech Now Available Online
At this year’s RoboDevelopment conference, Matt Trossen of Trossen Robotics spoke about robot adoption and industry standards. Robotics and computers are merging, there is no doubt about it, but questions remain- Why is it taking so long? Where do the standards belong? What tools are in the marketplace which assist integration? What are the necessary [...]
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Grand Challenge Weekend – Subscribe Now to RC’s Daily News Digest
Robot Central analyst Ray Renteria is blogging live from the Urban Challenge site in California this week. You can subscribe to his news feed to get a daily digest of all of the Urban Challenge news from Robot Central. Click here and enter your email address to subscribe.
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Ugobe CTO John Sosoka: Inside Pleo at Maker Faire 2007
Robot Central recently had the opportunity to have a candid one-on-one talk, arranged by Jonas Lamis, Executive Director of SciVestor and contributor to Robot Central, with John Sosoka, CTO of Ugobe, makers of Pleo at Maker Faire 2007. I fully admit that I was sure I would be talking to John about just another fancy [...]
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Like an iRobot Looj but much, much smaller
While iRobot has been busy designing robots for cleaning your gutters, a team at Chonnam National University in Korea has been busy designing another robotic pipe cleaner. In this case, the pipes are human arteries. News of this robot was recently covered in The Telegraph: A microscopic robot small enough to travel through blood vessels [...]
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Girl Meets Robot
In the “what technologies will they mashup next” category, news comes to us from Japan via RobotWatch via Pink Tentacle that researchers at Yokohama National University Venture Business Laboratory have created a “green-screen” humanoid robot, upon which one can project your favorite humanoid avatar. Thus, while wearing a special head-mounted display, the user has the [...]
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Observations of Adoption Trends in Robotics
Selling products to businesses is a relatively quantifiable endeavor. A business customer calculates the cost of his investment and compares it to his projected increased revenue. If his revenue exceeds his cost then the purchase is deemed to have been worth the investment. The higher and sooner the return, the better the investment. Most of [...]
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