Military
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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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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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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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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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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MoD Grand Challenge: Go Find the Bad Guys
In 2004 and 2005 came the DARPA Grand Challenges–competitions in which vehicles were expected to traverse hundreds of desert miles completely autonomously. In 2007, DARPA brought the robots into a suburban setting for the Urban Challenge. Last August, we discussed ELROB, the European Land Robot competition in which robotic vehicles were challenged with traversing an [...]
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The Wiimote Slices and Dices–Literally
If a soldier has to worry about which joystick controls steering and which controls speed he’s going to spend less time thinking about the bomb he’s trying to disarm. David Bruemmer and Douglas Few, both engineers from the US Department of Energy’s Idaho National Lab in Idaho Falls, have modified an iRobot Packbot to be [...]
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