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A project from MIT Media Lab reinvents the traditional incandescent bulb and desk lamp, evolving them into a new category of robotic, digital information devices.
Dec 8th, 2012
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Imagine a human-like robot with skin and clothes embedded with sensors that could help machine accurately perceive the environment and better assist human owners. Such 'smart' robots are at the heart of a new $1.35 million National Science Foundation project.
Dec 7th, 2012
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Revolve Robotics has introduced Kubi, an easy-to-use robotic platform designed to vastly improve the use of Facetime, Skype, and other video calling or telepresence applications on tablet computers such as the iPad.
Dec 7th, 2012
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Japan-based Brave Robotics has designed a 1/12-scale RC car that can transform into a humanoid robot. It can shuffle around, grab footage with its Wi-Fi camera, and even fire little missiles from its arms.
Dec 7th, 2012
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CyPhy Works, an innovative new robotics company, has unveiled two revolutionary small Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs): EASE and PARC.
Dec 6th, 2012
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The first Pacific Crossing (PacX ) Wave Glider, Papa Mau, completes its 9,000 nautical mile (16,668 kilometers) scientific journey across the Pacific Ocean to set a new world record for the longest distance traveled by an autonomous vehicle.
Dec 6th, 2012
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How do driverless vehicles navigate through intersections? Faster and safer than if humans were in charge, according to researchers from the Virginia Tech Transportation Research.
Dec 5th, 2012
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Researchers at University West in Sweden have created an automation system where machines and robots make their own decisions and adapt to external circumstances. They continue to work even when something goes wrong. You can reprogram them every day and easily vary equipment and manufactured products.
Dec 5th, 2012
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The U.S. Defense Department has issued a new directive on the use of autonomous and semi-autonomous weapon systems, an attempt to regulate a technology that officials say could be years from becoming reality.
Dec 4th, 2012
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Using deceptive behavioral patterns of squirrels and birds, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed robots that are able to deceive each other.
Dec 3rd, 2012
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The device doesn't look like much: a caterpillar-sized assembly of metal rings and strips resembling something you might find buried in a home-workshop drawer. But the technology behind it, and the long-range possibilities it represents, are quite remarkable.
Nov 30th, 2012
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Whirligig beetles are named for their whirling movement on top of water, moving rapidly in and taking off into flight. While many may have found the movements curious, scientists have puzzled over the apparatus behind their energy efficiency - until now, thanks to a study.
Nov 30th, 2012
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A future where robots are as common as cars - and cheaper - is on the way. This is according to Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro, named one of the top 100 geniuses alive in the world today, who has devoted himself to creating robots so humanlike it's hard to tell the difference.
Nov 29th, 2012
Read moreThe EcoBotIII feeds off and is powered by sewage from Saltford sewage treatment works, near Bristol, and can move and operate its onboard mechanisms unaided.
Nov 29th, 2012
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Dentsu announced that the humanoid communication robot being developed under the KIBO ROBOT PROJECT is expected to be completed in February 2013. In the summer of the same year, it will be sent to the Japanese Experiment Module 'Kibo' in the International Space Station.
Nov 29th, 2012
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The fifth China Arctic research expedition trip has witnessed the first field test of robotic fish in Polar Regions ever in the history of China.
Nov 29th, 2012
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The world's first implantable robotic arm controlled by thoughts is being developed by Chalmers researcher Max Ortiz Catalan. The first operations on patients will take place this winter.
Nov 28th, 2012
Read moreGalileo Group, Inc., announced today that it has completed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight operations and hyperspectral data collections for a series of missions supporting a NASA sponsored project to map sea grass beds and coral reefs in the Florida keys.
Nov 28th, 2012
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