While the pioneering iRobot Roomba has managed to keep the shag carpet and hardwood floors of thousands of homes clean and lint-free, iRobot’s Scooba robotic floor washer has attempted to achieve the same level of domestic success. Michael Kanellos over at CNET News.com recently posted an in-depth review of his experiences with the Scooba, a write-up that [...]
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NC State Unveils DARPA Urban Challenge Entry
Not content to field yet another hulking behemoth in the upcoming 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge autonomous vehicle event, North Carolina State University has teamed with Lotus Engineering to build a modified Lotus Elise sportscar for their entry. Check out this related DARPA Lotus Elise post for more information on the speedy driverless-vehicle to be, in [...]
Asahi’s Beverage Bot
While perusing the web for interesting robotics news and tidbits, I came across a short (and admittedly outdated) article over at NewScientist regarding Japanese beverage maker Asahi. According to the article, Asahi recently gave away 1000 small robots that not only can keep 6 aluminum beverage cans cold, but can also open the containers and pour out [...]
Samsung Unveils Armed Sentry Bot
In yet another sign that we’re stepping closer to a future dominated by gun-wielding robots, Samsung has announced that it has partnered with a Korean University to produce an armed sentry guard robot that will be placed along the DMZ between North and South Korea. According to a pair of posts over at the [...]
A Spotlight on the Shadow Hand
It may sound like a moniker best suited for a pack of villains seeking to do battle with the Justice League or the Avengers, but the Shadow Hand — created by the UK-based Shadow Robot Company (SRC) — is quite an impressive robotic creation. According to the SRC website, the Shadow Hand has: “…integrated sensing and [...]
BBC Profile: Professor Shigeo Hirose
The Japanese have been pioneers in robotic design, with a culture that seens to have embraced robotics to a greater degree than anywhere else. To illustrate that point, a photo gallery has been recently posted on the BBC technology news channel that shows some of the fascinating robots that Professor Shigeo Hirose of the Tokyo [...]
The Return of Vex
When Radio Shack discontinued the VEX Robotics System earlier this year, it looked like the days of this inventive robotics system were numbered. Innovation First — which partnered with Radio Shack to develop the system — then rescued the product by purchasing the VEX Robotics brand name and trademark registration rights from Radio Shack [...]
Initiative to Drive Robotics Awareness in UK
A group of scientists in the United Kingdom has launched an initiative designed to raise general interest in and awareness of robotics. Dubbed Walking with Robots, this educational outreach program runs from January 2006 to December 2008 and — according to the program grant description page — intends to “…produce a prominent UK-wide campaign for [...]
CEATEC Japan 2006: Murata Boy
Although similar in many respects to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that appears on a regular basis here in North America, the CEATEC (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies) event in Japan tends to feature a bit more in the way of advanced technology demonstrations at the expense of fewer stereo components, car audio bits and consumer gadgets. One of [...]
Marching to a Robotic Drummer…
A recent story over at CNN.com (penned by Matthew Abshire) relates how a Georgia Tech instructor has managed to create a drumming robotic musician. Music Technology Professor Gil Weinberg and his team at Georgia Tech developed a robot — dubbed “Haile” — that can listen and analyze acoustic rythyms, then respond to that input in [...]
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