STMicroelectronics and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa are getting together to establish a laboratory in Catania in Italy. The joint laboratory is to be used for the development of humanoid robotic research. It will feature innovations in BioRobotics, smart systems and micro-electronics.
A Japanese man took a robot piggy back ride on a heritage site fulfilling a dream. With the help of a robotic outfit clad friend the crippled man was able to scale the steep lanes of the Mont Saint Michel landmark in France. The robotic suit gives the wearer superhuman strength and allowed Seiji Uchida’s old dream of visiting the site come true.
HoomanSamani, an artificial intelligence researcher at the National University of Singapore, is working on a new dimension of robotic intelligence, called lovotics.
Dentsu London, a design shop, is working on a project called Suwappu, which might spell the future of human-robot interoperability. Suwappu is a prototype of an augmented-reality toy system comprising little figurines.
President Obama has announced a $70 million initiative to accelerate the development and use of robots in the United States that work beside, or co-operatively with people. The proposal has been called the National Robotics Initiative and is backed by a number of government run agencies including the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
CryoXtract has received huge financial aid towards the commercialization of its Automated Frozen Sample Aliquotter. The automated aliquotter is useful in applications such as biobanking, molecular medicine and biomarker discovery, where the sample is not required to go through repeated freeze-thaw cycles.
The World Robot Olympiad Arabia this year saw 1,500 students form 300 plus teams to participate in the three categories. The WRO 2011 was hosted in the capital city of Abu Dhabi.
Engineering Design Day at the University of Arizona in 2011 is set to display more than 50 design projects at the UA Student Union Memorial Center. The 9th edition of the Engineering Design Day is being sponsored by the University of Arizona College of Engineering.
Festo is famous for its biometric robots, and the SmartBird is its latest robot, which is a flying model resembling birds such as the herring gull.
A start-up company, Barobo associated with the University of California Davis, has been awarded a research grant for small business innovations and would use this to commercialize the iMobot, a modular robot, by the end of the year.
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