The work of David Mansolino, a graduate student in microtechnology, makes it possible for a small Korean robot with big eyes that change color to come to life through a virtual platform.
Scientists and technologists from around the globe are uniting to explore the future of biomimetic and biohybrid technologies this week (Monday 29 July – Friday 2 August 2013) with a focus on future life-like robots.
The Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF), the non-profit organization charged with supporting the development, distribution and adoption of open-source software for use in robotics research, education and product development, recently relied on SoftLayer Technologies to host the DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge (VRC).
Ronald Arkin, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, has done pioneering work on creating “ethical governors” for robots. But we’re a long way from a satisfactory simulation of morality. Technology companies would be wise to boost their investment in such research for the sake of both profits and liability.
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Wintergreen Research, Inc's new report "Educational and Entertainment Robot Market Strategy, Market Shares, and Market Forecasts, 2008-2014" to their offering.
Researchers from Indiana University's School of Informatics and Computing are on a team that has advanced in the $2 million U.S. Department of Defense's DARPA Robotics Challenge to develop robots that can execute complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environments.
BitFlow, the leading manufacturer of Made In America frame grabbers for machine and medical imaging, announced today that its Neon-CLB PCIe frame grabber is a key component of the 3D structured-light imaging system deployed in the Robomotive™ humanoid robot, jointly developed by Yaskawa Motoman, Beltech and Robotiq.
The Humanoid Robot Research Center at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Rainbow Co., a spin-off venture company of the university, unveiled a new model of HUBO that will be entered in an international robotics competition scheduled later this year.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today announced that a team from Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) is one of six Track A teams chosen to compete this December in trials for the DARPA Robotics Challenge.
If you tickle a robot, it may not laugh, but you may still consider it humanlike -- depending on its role in your life, reports an international group of researchers.
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