Robotic

May 06, 2008

RoboCup 2008 in China cancelled?

http://carpenoctem.das-lab.net/2008/05/05/robocup-2008-in-ch...
The Government of Suzhou, China announced that they can't held Robocup 2008 in July due to the Olympic related issues! There is also an urgent announcement on the robocup website.

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December 17, 2007

Photos: The birthplace of Pleo

http://www.news.com/2300-1041_3-6222933-1.html?tag=ne.gall.p...
The robotic dinosaur on CNET News.com

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August 20, 2007

Taking a Dip into Robotics - Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

http://anitaborg.org/news/archive/robotics-dip/
Also see Richard Tapia Robotics competition. They use Player/Gazebo.

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August 02, 2007

First Armed Robots Deployed to Iraq

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/08/httpwwwnational.html
How long before they make one of these autonomous? The story is via Slashdot.

Posted to Research»Robotic by pooya at 07:40 PM | Comments (0)

July 06, 2007

National Geographic: Swarm Behavior Photo Gallery

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0707/feature5/gallery...
Nice photos and descriptions about swarm behavior. This the main article: Swarm Theory. Just so you know we are in Behavioral Robotics too.

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June 26, 2007

PleoWorld

http://www.pleoworld.com/
The Dino robot is finally on sale.

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June 11, 2007

Mr. Woo Robots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4LIThTB8Ww
A Chinese man and his array of walking robots. From "Paul Merton in China" documentary.

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May 17, 2007

Rodney Brooks on sizing up the coming robotics revolution

http://news.com.com/Sizing up the coming robotics revolution...
CNET interview with MIT professor and iRobot co-founder

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April 05, 2007

Obsessive Geniuses Strive to Create Almost Human Robots

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/03/almost...
Wired interviews Lee Gutkind the author of "Almost Human: Making Robots Think".

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January 15, 2007

[video] WowWee robots at CES'2007

http://news.com.com/1606-12994_3-6150150.html
Remote control dragon fly, four legged Roboquad and Elvis android.

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Pleo is still Alive!

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/alive.html
About Pleo the dino toy robot. From Wired Magazine.

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November 04, 2006

Samsung's killer robot!

http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2006/11/03/samsung_creat...
No, it does not play MP3 before shooting! Via Robots.net Robots that kill and Robots that don't.

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June 14, 2006

Trust me, I'm a robot | Economist.com

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7001829
Robot safety: As robots move into homes and offices, ensuring that they do not injure people will be vital.

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April 26, 2006

Photos: Bots on the catwalk | CNET News.com

http://news.com.com/Photos Bots on the catwalk/2300-1041_3-6...
Female robots start going into fashion business.

Posted to Research»Robotic by pooya at 08:58 AM | Comments (0)

March 29, 2006

Demand for War Robots Surges / Linux as a warware.

http://robots.net/article/1861.html
It's bad that open-source software can be used for censoring and for killing people.

Posted to Research»Robotic by pooya at 03:00 PM | Comments (0)

January 29, 2006

The Art Of Motion Control

http://www.taomc.com/
"The purpose of this site is to suggest that motion control is also an emerging medium for artistic expression."

Posted to Research»Robotic by pooya at 06:22 PM | Comments (0)

November 09, 2005

A Swarm of Chatterboxes

http://fas.sfu.ca/news/vaughan-chatterbox
SFU Faculty of Applied Science News on Autonomy Lab: "The critters are 12cm cubes with the brainpower of a Pentium 3 computer. They can see with infra-red “eyes” and they communicate with flashing lights and sound—hence the name Chatterbox."

Posted to Research»Robotic by pooya at 05:20 PM | Comments (0)

October 19, 2005

nature.com: Cyborg cells sense humidity

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051017/full/051017-3.html
Living bacteria have been incorporated into an electronic circuit to produce a sensitive humidity gauge. Link from robots.net.

Posted to Research»Robotic by pooya at 09:37 AM | Comments (0)

October 12, 2005

Linux Wins the Grand Challenge

http://robots.net/article/1673.html
A LinuxDevices article notes that most of the teams that qualified in the Grand Challenge were running Linux-based systems. From robots.net

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August 21, 2005

Robots.net: Microsoft's Robots Will Assimilate You

http://robots.net/article/1606.html
"They have decided that the best way to increase enrollment is to work with universities to incorporate robotics and computer games into the computer science curriculum as class projects where students can exercise their technical skills." The robotics and computer games would be developed using various Microsoft proprietary software tools instead of the currently preferred Open Source / Free software tools. Part of their plan is to develop robot platforms with hardware that runs Microsoft's .net language natively and offering them at much lower prices than conventional robotics hardware.

Posted to Research»Robotic by pooya at 11:23 AM | Comments (0)

August 08, 2005

Ishikawa Namiki Komuro Laboratory: High Speed Tracking

http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/papers/fusion_movies-e.html
I found it from an article in slashdot about the dynamic catching high-speed robotic hand. The hand uses an array of photodetectors to match its movement to and catch objects moving up to 300 kph. They can do really fast and low delay tracking in 3d space.

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August 03, 2005

Gizmodo Japan: CraftRobo Pro

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/japan/gizmodo-japan-craftrobo-pro...
An inkjet printer with a built in cutting head which can spit out pre-cut patterns that fold into 3d objects. Here is the manufacturer website.

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July 27, 2005

Akihabara News : Robocup2005 photos

http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_9864.html

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July 20, 2005

Robostix developed in collaboration with SFU

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/news/index.cgi/articles/2005-06-15-8.ht...

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July 13, 2005

RoboCup 2005 Osaka, Japan

http://www.robocup2005.org/