US aerospace and defence firm Northrop Grumman has unveiled brand new unmanned IED-handling and disposal technology, designed to allow roadside bombs to be safely dealt with from a remote position.
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New HEXBUG Warriors Battling Robots have been added to the HEXBUG family. These small, collectible, micro robots employ the physics of vibration, just like the famed patented HEXBUG Nano, through which competitors will be challenged in new customizable Battle Arenas and Stadiums.
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In the last few years, Navy scientists, along with research institutions around the world, have been engineering resilient robots for minesweeping and other risky underwater missions. The ultimate goal is to design compl...
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By Andy Choi
A robot paid a visit to the Post Office thanks to a bomb scare. A suspicious package left at the North Platte post office was reported to the Nebraska State Patrol. They in turn examined the 2 feet high and...
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Handroid is a scary looking robotic hand that looks like it came right off your biology lab skeleton. The robot hand was developed by a Japanese robotic firm called ITK and is a fully articulated robotic hand that claims the same dexterity as a human hand. It is also very light at a mere 740 grams.
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iRobot Corp has been given an order by the U.S.Navy worth $ 21 million for the delivery of more than 100 Man Transportable Robotic System (MTRS) MK 1 MOD 1 robots and spares kits. This is the fourth order which is part of a $230 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, bringing total orders under this contract to $36 million.
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By Andy Choi
A top official of the Department of Defence said that despite the army using robots in combat for over a decade it had to develop a sound set of operational rules and doctrine for their use in the future.
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Robots perform the robotic mission impossible in this wonderful feat from European researchers. Three different kinds of robots must work together to reach their objective, a book on a high shelf. The exact location of the book is not known to the robots and they must work as a swarm to accomplish the mission.
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By Andy Choi
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 ...
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By Andy Choi
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.
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