Robots by Type
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 [...]
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Ingenious Device lets Robots See Over Walls
Imagine a little box just 4 inches tall squirting out a rigid mast 8 feet straight up! A configuration is available that will allow a larger unit that can lift 200lbs 20 feet. The unit is from GeoSystems Inc and is called a Situational Awareness Mast (SAM). Travis Deyle at Hizook brings several sources together [...]
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Watch out Bad Guys, Here Come the Bots
The assurance of mutual destruction was a profoundly effective peace keeper between the USA and the USSR. There is no equivalent threat today against the scattered terrorists deliberately embedded within innocent society across so many countries–a tactic that only works against their civilized enemies such as the USA. Our effort to create and deploy robotic [...]
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India Police Get Robot Help in Fighting Terror
The Indian police department got approval to purchase the robot in April of 2008 but “it was not before the Jaipur serial blasts [in May] that the police really started the process of buying it.” The purchase of the “US-made robot” (iRobot?) will clearly reduce the risk to the police who defuse discovered bombs.
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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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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.
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National Instruments shows Robot Partnerships
SciVestor took a tour of the Robotics Pavilion at National Instruments’ NI Week 2008. Anu Saha, NI marketing manager discusses academic and corporate partnerships that feature LabView and CompactRIO technologies.
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God’s Dice
Rodney Brooks had it right in his 1991 paper “Intelligence without Reason.” His approach to Artificial Intelligence is based an emergence of behaviors not explicitly programmed into a system. Instead, a hierarchy of discrete behaviors is organized in such a way that higher-level behaviors subsume the resources required by lower-priority behaviors when appropriate conditions are [...]
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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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