 CU Team to Build a Self-Driving Car for City Streets October 06, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Last year, the goal was to build a vehicle that could drive itself, without human intervention, across 132 miles of desert with unpaved roads, ditches, berms, sandy ground, standing water, rocks and boulders, ... | |
Meet Nexi, MIT Media Lab's latest robot and Internet star April 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A new experimental robot from the MIT Media Lab can slant its eyebrows in anger, or raise them in surprise, and show a wide assortment of facial expressions to communicate with people in human-centric terms. Called Nexi, ... | |
 Latest in Robotics: Shuffle, Twists & Turns 90° November 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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The robot has come one shuffle step closer to becoming an aid to its human counterparts. The scientific explorers in robotics led by Dr. Koeda take a series of shuffle steps for mankind. | |
 Up Close with MIT's Huggable Robot May 17, 2007 | User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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The high-tech stuffed animal robot dubbed Huggable uses Microsoft software to connect with kids and medical patients. | |
 The Next Level in Robots: Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Create October 29, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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The next level of robot is currently in the research and development stage in Japan's National Institute of Information and Communication Technology. The next level of robot untethered by human omnipresence ... | |
 Guessing robots predict their environments, navigate better June 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Engineers at Purdue University are developing robots able to make "educated guesses" about what lies ahead as they traverse unfamiliar surroundings, reducing the amount of time it takes to successfully navigate ... | |
 Driverless transport in big cities August 08, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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While traffic problems in major cities have been familiar for a long time, the measures needed to deal with them have still to be put into effect. However, in its 6th Framework Programme, the EU is beating ... | |
iRobot Dips Toe into Pool-Cleaning Market April 11, 2007 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Pool boys, you're on notice. iRobot has, in conjunction with AquaJet LLC and Aquatron, Inc., introduced not one, but two pool-cleaning robotics. | |
 Carnegie Mellon building robot for lunar prospecting September 20, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Researchers in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science are building a robotic prospector for NASA that can creep over rocky slopes and then anchor itself as a stable ... | |
 Soccer robots compete for the title April 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Robot soccer is an ambitious high-tech competition for universities, research institutes and industry. Several major tournaments are planned for 2008, the biggest of which is the 'RoboCup German Open.' From ... | |
 Atlanta gets ready for RoboCup 2007 May 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Georgia Tech will be the site of this year's RoboCup competition, with approximately 2,000 students and faculty from 20 nations participating. | |
Carnegie Mellon humanoids to provide commentary at RoboCup 2006 June 12, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Carnegie Mellon University is sending two small bipedal robots to the RoboCup 2006 World Championship June 14–18 in Bremen, Germany, to provide color commentary for robot soccer matches -- a first for humanoid robots. | |
Send in the robots -- Robot teams handle hazardous jobs May 02, 2007 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Searching buildings for weapons of mass destruction and supply routes for improvised bombs are extremely dangerous but important jobs. That's why Scott DeLoach is working to create robots and robot teams to handle these and ... | |
S. Korean scientists want android to walk March 23, 2007 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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South Korean scientists are trying to develop a walking android without making its legs so thick that it would no longer look like a human. | |
Robot carries out operation by itself May 19, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 98 vote(s)
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For the first time, a robot surgeon in Italy has carried out a long-distance heart operation by itself. | |
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