A strategic partnership between BAE Systems and Oxford University is all set to release 'Wildcat', an autonomous car without driver. BAE researchers have been working on this project for nearly five years.
Yoshiyuki Sankai, President of Cyberdene and Professor of University of Tsukuba, has released a Hybrid Assistive Limb robot suit in Tsukuba.
Willow Garage, developer of hardware and open source software for personal robotic applications, announced that the PR2 community has expanded to 16 leading research labs worldwide. Scientists and engineers at four leading research institutions have purchased the PR2 robot platform from Willow Garage will now be able to explore the innovative capabilities for personal robots at a much faster pace.
Ryuma Niiyama along with his colleagues at the Robot Locomotion Group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is working on developing a robot named ‘Athlete,’ which can run as fast as human beings.
Aldebaran Robotics has partnered with several research organizations of France to develop Romeo Robot, an innovative adult-size humanoid. The robot will help aged and disabled people in doing their daily chores and is likely to be released in March 2011.
World Robotic Explorer, world’s largest robot house, was opened in Thamrin City Mall, Jakarta. Robotic technology is offered as an activity -based education in the robot house and the house can accommodate around 255 people.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has offered an award worth $1.5 million to Advancing Robotics Technology for Societal Impact (ARTSI) Alliance comprising nine Universities including Carnegie Mellon University and 19 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
NASA has offered $5,000 worth scholarship to RoboTribe, the robotics team of the Rahway High School. This grant will help the team to develop a robot for participating in the US First regional robotics contest, which is scheduled to be held next year.
A team of researchers under the leadership of Cynthia Breazeal, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusett Institute of Technology, have developed a robot that can interact with humans.
The robotics firm Cyberdyne has come up with a body suit to help the disabled to walk. An exoskeleton robot device called the Hybrid Assistive Limb), or HAL, a sci-fi related coincidence sharing its name with the computer in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey".
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