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- A fully customizable home robot
- Imagine a completely customizable robot with selectable software options. Buy one component, and it will take care of your lawn. Buy another one and it will clean your toilets. With a third one, it will pick up UPS or FedEx deliveries on your porch. If you are taking some vacation,...
- Tags: Lawn, AgBot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Robot helicopters flying low among obstacles
- According to New Scientist, engineers at Carnegie Mellon University CMU have modified an unmanned commercial civilian helicopter to fly fast and low while avoiding obstacles such as buildings, trees or power lines. The unmanned aerial vehicle UAV from Yamaha has been adapted to integrate a sensing system able to see...
- Tags: Obstacle, Helicopter, Powerline, Scanners, Robots, Hardware, Peripherals, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille, Carnegie-Mellon University, Collision, Safe Navigation, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- News to know: Rigged PDFs; Obama's CTO; Android bug; Windows 7
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100? CNET News: Memo to Intel: Netbooks morphing into notebooks Ryan Naraine: Rigged PDFs...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, CTO, Adobe PDF, E-waste, Microsoft Windows, Robots, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Flying robots based on birds and insects
- A team of engineers at the University of Maryland specializing in flight and navigation, is turning to biology for inspiration to protect troops as the military's role in international dealings has increased. According to the team leader, the key to ensuring troops' protection lies in the study of birds and...
- Tags: Team, Troop, Robots, Team Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Roland Piquepaille, University Of Maryland, Biology, Humbert
- Blog posts 2008-11-09
- The world's heaviest robot
- This distinction goes to a future autonomous version of the 700-tons Caterpillar mining truck. In a recent article, Discovery News reports that Caterpillar engineers and computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University have teamed up to develop this autonomous truck. Japan-based Komatsu already has already delivered autonomous mining trucks to its...
- Tags: Caterpillar Inc., Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille, Truck, GPS, Benefits, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Honda's robotics foray continues: Unveils 'walking assist device'
- A bit off topic, but pretty neat nonetheless: Honda has rolled out its second experimental walking device. The contraption is for folks that can walk, but have trouble supporting their weight. Given all those Baby Boomers will be hitting retirement age in droves Honda may find a market. ...
- Tags: Robotics, Honda Motor Co., Contraption, Robots, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- StatsRobot (zip)
- Affiliate marketing software, easy hands free network statistic software robot. Never again manually fetch your stats affiliate marketing software. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Software, Affiliate Marketing Software, Robots, Marketing Research, Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Management
- Software downloads 2008-11-03
- New Australian land warfare robots
- Even if I'm not completely sure, I think this is the first time in the world that a Minister of Defense unveiled himself new robots. It happened yesterday in Australia when Warren Snowdon showed a new robot called SPIKER designed to counter improvised explosive devices IEDs. For your curiosity, SPIKER...
- Tags: Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille, SPIKER, SPIKER System
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- Liveblogging Microsoft PDC keynote day three: Robotics and research
- Our cabal of bloggers from across a variety of pubs and sites is back again live blogging the Professional Developers Conference PDC day three keynote. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Robotics, Microsoft Corp., Robots, Blogging, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Can a robot be in a good or in a bad mood?
- According to the Taranaki Daily News in New Zealand, the answer is yes. Engineers at Victoria University in Wellington have developed a robot which adapts its behavior according to its emotions. Marvin -- short for 'Mobile Autonomous Robotic Vehicle for Indoor Navigation' -- can express happiness, anger or frustration. As...
- Tags: Victoria University, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille, New Zealand, Emotion, Marvin, Carnegie
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Jambot, a musician robot that improvises
- An Australian PhD researcher from Queensland University of Technology QUT has created a jamming robot which can improvise musical rhythms and melodies to the music it listens to. If Jambot, as it is named, is a musical robot, it's not made of metal. Here is how the researcher describes Jambot....
- Tags: Researcher, Music, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille, Algorithm, Jambot, QUT, Detection Algorithm, Engineering, Productivity
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Mushroom Age (exe)
- Our heroine, Vera, is desperately searching for her fiance, Tom, who has disappeared a few days before their wedding. She stops by the TimeLab where Tom works to see if they don't have him working on some super top secret project. When she doesn't believe the staff, she searches the...
- Tags: Character, SpinTop Games, Robots, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2008-10-21
- Flower robots for your home
- Flower robots are not new and some have already been developed in the U.S. Now, South Korean researchers have created a robotic plant which acts like real ones. This robot has humidifying, oxygen-producing, aroma-emitting, and kinetic functions. It is about 1.30 meter tall and 40 centimeters in diameter. The robotic...
- Tags: Researcher, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille, Function, Stem
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- A robot to destroy breast cancer cells
- Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing a robot able to detect and destroy breast cancer cells in a single session. After a tumor is located on an MRI, the robot will perform a biopsy of the breast while the patient is inside the scanner. 'If the biopsy displays...
- Tags: Breast Cancer, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Rod, Cell, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Robots, Linux, E-mail, Digital Media, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Photos: Killer robots at Ceatec
- Meet Murata Girl, Genibo the dog, a robot receptist, and other electronic helpers featured at this year's Japanese electronics show. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-10-01
- Pterodactyl-inspired flying robots
- According to Sankar Chatterjee, a professor of paleontology at the Texas Tech University in Lubbock TTU, a 225-million-year-old pterodactyl might soon be reborn as a flying robot. The Tapejara wellnhoferi, which lived in Brazil, was a big flying lizard with an unusual 'accessory,' an 8-inch-high fleshy crest stuck straight up...
- Tags: Professor, Texas Tech University, Aircraft, Tapejara, Pterosaur, Aerospace & Defense, Robots, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Google to go back in time?
- Warning, this post is speculative, but I think all signs point to what I am about to describe. Google may be about to launch a search tool that uses the same algorithms used way back in 2001. Why would they do this? I think it's probably the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Entry, Search, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Underwater robot moves like an helicopter
- MIT researchers have started to test a new underwater robot that can hover in place like a helicopter. The two-meter-long Odyssey IV will be able to move autonomously up to depths of 6,000 meters at a speed of 2.5 meters per second. But unlike other underwater robots, it will be...
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-28
- Microsoft Tinker - Best Ultimate Extra so far (although the bar is set pretty low)
- Microsoft has released three new Ultimate Extras exclusively for Windows Ultimate users. One of the extras, Microsoft Tinker a game in which you control a little robot around an obstacle course, is surprisingly a lot of fun. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Extra, Microsoft Corp., Games, 64-Bit, Robots, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Emerging Technologies, Networking, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
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