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Ground Robots to Work in Dangerous Environments Compete at DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials

Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla., was the place to be late last month for an unusual two-day competition: the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials. But if you went expecting high-octane cars zooming around the track at blazing speed, you might have been disappointed.

15 Jan 2014

Lockheed Martin ATL Completes DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials

Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) recently completed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge trials at the Homestead-Miami Speedway.

From Lockheed Martin Corporation 24 Dec 2013

Sandia to Exhibit Real-World Robotics Successes at DARPA Challenge

Engineers from Sandia National Laboratories will demonstrate real-world robotics successes at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials 2013 Expo this week in Florida. The challenge is focused on human-scaled robots that assist in humanitarian aid and disaster response. Both the Robotics Challenge Trials and the Expo are open to the public, especially students, to encourage interest in science, technology, engineering and math.

20 Dec 2013

Endeavor to Make Robots Learn More Like Humans

In an effort to better understand the evolution of learning, Kai Olav Ellefsen is working to make robots learn more like humans. Specifically, he is studying how more modular brains allow robots to learn new tasks without forgetting what they learned from previous tasks.

16 Dec 2013

AMBER Lab Helps NASA Valkyrie Humanoid Robot to Move and Walk

The advanced humanoid robot, Valkyrie, unveiled by NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) moves and walks, thanks to Texas A&M University’s Dr. Aaron Ames.

13 Dec 2013

EPSRC Funds Three-Year Project on Human Interaction with Robots

Psychologists from the University of Bath are taking part in a major project looking at how cutting-edge robotics can enable people to participate in public spaces, as a place to meet and share ideas without being there in person.

12 Dec 2013

TV Debut "How to Build a Bionic Man" Documentary Wins British Film Award

The story of the bionic man with the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart has become an award-winning documentary that is making the rounds on television worldwide.

4 Dec 2013

RoboThespian Manufacturer, Engineered Arts, Receives igus manus UK Award

High-performance polymer bearings expert igus has presented a prestigious manus UK award to Engineered Arts.

From igus Inc. 27 Nov 2013

Baxter Robot Plans Its Own Movements

Cornell engineers are helping humans and robots work together to find the best way to do a job, an approach called “coactive learning.”

11 Nov 2013

New Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines Launched at Georgia Tech

The Georgia Institute of Technology has announced the launch of its Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM), the newest of Georgia Tech’s ten Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs). IRIM brings together robotics researchers from across campus—spanning colleges, departments and individual labs—to support and connect research initiatives, enhance educational programs and foster advances for the National Robotics Initiative (NRI), first announced by President Obama in 2011, and officially established in 2012.

5 Nov 2013