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The guys over at Trossen have announced a new landing page for their education Robotics. They've enhanced their product pages to be a bit more friendly for the educator (and GeekDad) on exactly what each product brings to the classroom.... ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 10 hours ago
MESQUITE Students from 19 area middle and high schools put the finishing touches on their robots Saturday at Town East Mall. ... Source: www.spike.com --- 8 days ago
The Repliee R-1 robot was engineered at the University of Osaka and is guaranteed to creep you the hell out. ... Source: www.ecademy.com --- 14 hours ago
I would like to briefly introduce ASIMO to those who dont know it yet. As a quick background information, ASIMO is a humanoid robot created by Honda Motor Company. It is 130 centimeters tall and 54 kilograms. The robot resembles a small astronaut wearing a backpack and can walk or run on two feet at speeds up to 6 km/h. ASIMO was created at Honda's Research and Development Technical Research Center in Japan. The name ASIMO is an acronym for "Advanced Step in Innovative MObility". ASIMO is taught different activities from walking, running and humour. And amazingly it performs all those activities well. The most recent one is conducting an orchestra. The reason I enjoy this and highlight it here is that it is amazing to see technology and art merged like this. If a robot can conduct a symphony orchestra, imagine the possibilities for our business! ... Source: blog.makezine.com --- 8 days ago
From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I'll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here ; see you there! Austin's high-schoolers will be bringing some world-quality Robotics to Maker Faire Austin: Here's a video of one of their creations in action: I'll see you (and the robots) 10/18! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Maker Faire | Digg this! ... Source: www.prnewswire.com --- 36 days ago
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Honolulu Advertiser Oct 1 2008 6:17AM GMT ... Source: idolator.com --- 4 days ago
A leather-clad Common, Pharrell (or probably just some dude) in a robot head, and a lot of "abstract" black and white computer graphix: the video for "Universal Mind Control"—which leaked way back in May —is either "stark" or "cost-effective." All I know is those glowing red robot eyes are going to haunt my dreams tonight, much as Pharrell's vocoder hook is going to haunt me for the rest of the day. [ Nah Right ] ... Source: www.newsfactor.com --- 39 days ago
The cofounder and chief technical officer of iRobot, the company that brought robotic vacuums to the homes of millions of consumers, is leaving to start another venture. Rodney Brooks launched Bedford, Mass.-based iRobot in 1991 with Colin Angle and Helen Grenier, his former students. The roboticist plans to spend time with his new startup, Heartland Robotics, a Cambridge, Mass.-based industrial Robotics company. Heartland is not considered a competitor, according to iRobot. Brooks, in a phone interview with us, said he can't provide great detail about the new company just yet, but Heartland will focus on robots in manufacturing. Asked if the proposed robots would be developed to replace assembly-line workers, Brooks said, "PCs did not replace the office worker, and this is not about that at all." Brooks has also taken a leave of absence from his teaching role at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to concentrate on Heartland and recruit employees. "I'm on leave effective Monday, so I can put my heart and soul into this," he said. "We need some time to get stuff together." Since Brooks was not able to talk about his departure until now, he is still ironing out his future role with iRobot's management team. Brooks will remain on the board of directors and work with the company to form a new technical advisory committee. "We decided that that's my task at iRobot," he said. A new CTO is expected to be named next year. No Rookie To R ...
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The Robotics pioneer is leaving his posts at MIT and iRobot to start Heartland Robotics, with the goal of using robots to improve worker productivity. ... Source: www.wickedlocal.com --- 6 days ago
A New England Robotics In Education Conference will be held Oct. 25 at the Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School. The event, “Robotics Inside Out,” is being jointly sponsored by the high school’s TJ 2 Robotics Team and The National Robotics Education Foundation. Open to educators in grades K-12 and interested parents, the event will focus on bringing Robotics efforts to additional children in the New England area. This program will feature methodologies for installing curriculum enhancements, reducing the costs of purchasing supplies, implementing programs for after-school Robotics activities designed to benefit New England children. Participants will also gain hands-on experience with “Lego Mindstorms NXT.” The morning keynote address will be from Dan Ward, a community college Robotics education professor. He has developed and fostered funding avenues through state training programs in five other states in addition to his native Indiana. Other speakers will include, high school teachers, experienced fundraisers, students, parents, college and university faculty, and surprise industry experts. There will be ongoing demonstrations by students using several different Robotics programs and concepts. They will also create tie-dye T-shirts, and conduct tours of the high school’s Robotics room. The full day program includes a continental breakfast, lunch, demonstrations from other Robotics suppliers, including life size robots, and ... Source: www.ecnasiamag.com --- 6 days ago
Energid Technologies Corporation has announced an upgrade to its popular software for controlling and simulating robots. Based on software developed for NASA, the Actin 2.0 will enable robotic designs .... ...
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Memorial High School mathematics teacher Michelle Madison attended a workshop this summer and returned ready to start a new organization for students interested in math and science. ... Source: www.news.com.au --- 2 days ago
PERSEVERANCE has paid off for a Sydney entrepreneur who started out 21 years ago armed with a tool box and vision. ... Source: www.annistonstar.com --- 13 hours ago
Saturday, two local students — Joseph Rissler of Saks High and Carson Sprayberry of White Plains High — placed 13th out of 24 teams in a regional Robotics competition at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. ... Source: www.france24.com --- 1 day ago
British press makes robot boo-boo ... Source: www.cepro.com --- 9 days ago
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Rodney Brooks, co-founder and CTO of iRobot, is leaving his iRobot post to found his own Robotics company, Heartland Robotics. Heartland Robotics , based in Cambridge, Mass., will focus on the manufacture of industrial worker robots. "I want to effect a powerful evolution in the world's labor markets, and my current focus is to develop low-cost robots that will empower American workers," Brooks said in a statement released on his personal Web site. Rodney Brooks new work talks about "I want to effect a powerful evolution in the world's labor markets, and my current focus is to develop low-cost robots that will empower American workers" which is the same as Heartland Robotics. The new work is focused on the Obrero robot. The Obrero robot page Obrero is a humanoid robot especialized in sensitive manipulation: manipulation that is as much about perception as action and is intrinsically responsive to the properties of the object being manipulated; manipulation that does not rely on vision as the main sensor but as a complement. This work is being done by Eduardo Torres-Jara and supervised by Prof. Rodney A. Brooks. FURTHER READING There are currently over 1 million industrial robots in the world Rodney Brooks at wikipedia Rodney Brooks at MIT Used industrial robot arms in the $9000-15000 range ...
The creepiest — or most exciting — thing you will see on YouTube today is this new video of the Repliee R-1, an android that just went for its first spin at the 2008 CEATEC Exhibition in Japan. Based on an actual five-year-old girl, this robot can speak, wave, walk, pick things up, and even sense when other objects touch its skin. And I'm having trouble not referring to it as "she," which should tell you how eerie the resemblance is between the Repliee R-1 and a physical human girl. The Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University, led by Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, has been working on lifelike robots, called "actroids," for several years; their first prototype went public in November 2003. The childlike Repliee R-1 has 50 sensors inside its body, and its silicon skin was formed from a mold of a human girl. I wonder what that girl thinks of her actroid twin: The Repliee R-1's words are barely intelligible, but I thought I caught it saying "itai" — Japanese for "hurt." So much for avoiding the disturbing moral implications of super-realistic androids. It's also a shame that the editors of this video couldn't spell "sensors" properly — I don't think putting this robot in a room with 50 señors is necessarily a good idea. Repliee Robot Makes Me Scream and Cry Like a Little Girl [Gizmodo] Intelligent Robotics Laboratory [Osaka University] Image from DVICE . ...