Universities
FSR Conference: Call For Papers
The 7th Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR) will be held at MIT this year between July 14 – 16. The conference is soliciting papers to be submitted on a number of topics. Notably absent is the topic of ethics. I was a little surprised considering the nature of field and service robots–working closely [...]
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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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iRobot Continues Strong Growth Trend
If iRobot is a bellwether for the future of personal robotics, then the market is not just hype. iRobot’s second quarter revenue increased 43% over the same time last year with profits totaling $16.5M, or about 24% of Q2′s $67.2M revenue. “In the second quarter we achieved our 16th consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth [...]
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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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Three Questions for Matt Mason – CMU
SciVestor sat down with Matt Mason, Director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He discusses how the Institute might change the world, why Moore’s Law is important to roboticists, and why business should keep an eye on CMU.
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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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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 [...]
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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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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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$2.5M Grant to Advance Humanoid Robot Design Awarded
Eight universities have been granted a collective $2.5 million Partnerships for International Research and Education grant from the National Science Foundation. Five U.S. universities and three Korean universities make up the partnership. The grant is designed to be consumed over five years. The universities that make up the partnership are: Bryn Mawr Drexel University University [...]
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