Robotic technology lowers military risks June 07, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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With suicide bombing and improvised explosive devices escalating violence in Iraq, engineers are working to advance robotic technology to counter these deadly military problems. | |
 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, ... | |
 Enter 'Junior': Stanford team's next-generation robot joins DARPA Challenge February 28, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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When five autonomous vehicles, including the Stanford Racing Team's winning entry "Stanley," finished the 2005 Grand Challenge in the still Nevada desert, they passed a milestone of artificial intelligence. ... | |
 Robotics: Taking soldiers out of harm's way June 01, 2006 | User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Over the past three years, thousands of American soldiers in Iraq have been horribly injured or killed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The explosives, placed near or buried under roadways and often ... | |
 Designing bug perception into robots May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Insects have provided the inspiration for a team of European researchers seeking to improve the functionality of robots and robotic tools.
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 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. | |
 Robots Detect Behavioral Cues to Follow Humans August 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Robots can be ironic. Even though they might not have emotions of their own, they can still detect and respond to humans’ emotions. A recent study has shown that, by picking up on human emotional traits, as ... | |
Robotic whiskers can sense 3D environment October 08, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Many mammals use their whiskers to explore their environment and to construct a three-dimensional image of their world. Rodents, for example, use their whiskers to determine the size, shape and texture of objects, and seals ... | |
Robots duke it out in Germany for RoboCup June 13, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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In 2050, soccer and robot fans may soon be rooting for their favorite teams in a Cup game of human world soccer champion teams vs. a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots -- that's at least the ultimate vision of the RoboCup ... | |
 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 ... | |
 NASA's robotic sub readies for dive into Earth's deepest sinkhole February 28, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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An underwater robot, shaped like a flattened orange, maneuvered untethered and autonomously within a 115-meter-deep sinkhole during tests this month in Mexico, a prelude to its mission to probe the mysterious ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Robotic Boat Geared to Simplify Life for Scientists November 02, 2006 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Though it looks like a miniature yellow catamaran, a craft designed by professors and students at Rowan University is not your father’s toy boat. | |
 Make way Ronaldo, here come the robots July 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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After Euro 2008, now Austria is preparing to host RoboCup, where 500 robots take to the football field hoping to prove their mettle. | |
 Military use of robots increases August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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War casualties are typically kept behind tightly closed doors, but one company keeps the mangled pieces of its first casualty on display. This is no ordinary soldier, though—it is Packbot from iRobot Corporation. ... | |
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