Robots by Name
Ever Seen a Packbot Fly? Check this out!
Okay, so the video isn’t exactly “fresh” but the real news is that iRobot recently kicked off a video channel on YouTube called iRobot iTube which I just read about on the ieee Spectrum site.
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Robot Birds You Can Shoot Down Again and Again
WowWee’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.
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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 [...]
Robot Fighter Thoroughbred Set to fly this Fall
Northrop Grumman unveiled the first of two aircraft of an unmanned combat air system (UCAS) during a ceremony for Navy officials, state and local government representatives, suppliers and Northrop Grumman employees. The aircraft represents a milestone in the progress toward the development of an autonomous combat aircraft designed to be deployed from the deck of [...]
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Grass-Eating Robot Might be Your Next Lawn Pet
Lawnmower robots will be novelties until their owners don’t have to drop delimiters to create a boundary around the property to be maintained. Still, we have to go through this phase to get the early adopters on-board to subsidize the growth of the market. Check out this great write-up at RobotStockNews.
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Robotic Babysitters?
It’s hard to think about ethics in robots these days and it’s a touchy subject for me–especially in military contexts; however, Brandon Keim’s great article at Wired.com made me realize that it might make sense to start thinking about non-military roboethics sooner rather than later.
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Robot Gets Trained for Europa
In Authur C. Clark’s novel 2001 - A Space Odyssey a returning Astronaut receives an invitation and a warning when leaving Jupiter and its moons; “All these worlds are yours - except Europa. Attempt no landings there.” It looks like we’re preparing a robot to land on the icy moon.
26Dec2008 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
PR Bot Still Making People Smile
If the value of a robot is determined by the amount of emotional response it evokes, then Elektro is priceless. The robot built in 1937 has been stimulating the imagination of those who have seen him for over 70 years. Read about his life in this month’s New Scientist.
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Readybot! Where have you been all my life?
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the Readybot Challenge is a non-profit research group composed of senior engineers and designers from the networking, motion control, ergonomics, and software industries. Their mission: to build a robot that can clean a kitchen.
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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 [...]
7Aug2008 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued