A humanoid robot can receive an object handed to it by a person with something approaching natural, human-like motion thanks to a new method developed by scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh in a project partially funded by the International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies (interACT) at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
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Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much-despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States.
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As a newly minted class of engineers walk the stage at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University Commencement next week, New Yorkers will have an opportunity to walk into the future, as Downtown Brooklyn's MetroTech Plaza transforms for the university's first annual Research Expo.
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GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. has announced that final negotiations for licensing of their "Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service(tm)" are ongoing. This first joint venture and licensing agreement has been long sought by the management of GeckoSystems as irrefutable proof of the benefit and "value proposition" of their many years of R&D, testing, and marketing.
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VEX Robotics, Inc., announced today its support of, and presence at, the Maker Faire Bay Area on May 18-19, where the company will have a booth (#459) to make its consumer debut of VEX IQ – a robotics platform designed to transform STEM learning for young students and teachers.
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As sophomores, engineering students Vadim Linevich and Andrew Powell both became involved in the NASA-funded Student Space Exploration and Environmental Systems Laboratory (SSEESL) in Temple’s College of Engineering. The lab offers students a chance to work on diverse projects involving robotics, quad-copters, sub-orbital payload design and high altitude ballooning.
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A crew of Charles Darwin University engineering students will face off against more than 20 university teams from across Australia and New Zealand in the search for gold as part of a robotics competition.
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A Wayne State University researcher understands that the three most important things about real estate also apply to small ground robotic vehicles: location, location, location.
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From the inventors of Bop It!™ and Perplexus, two of the most popular children’s toys on the market, comes tim-E (pronounced “Timmy”), a next generation alarm clock and bedside companion for iPhone and iPod.
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In the latest work presented at ICRA 2013 by Ludovic Daler in a paper titled “A Perching Mechanism for Flying Robots Using a Fibre-Based Adhesive”, the AirBurr V11 is shown attaching on walls using a deployable perching mechanism with gecko adhesives.
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