Kress-Gazit, a professor of mechanical and aerospace at the Cornell University has developed algorithms and software called Linear Temporal Logic Mission Planning (LTLMoP) which has induced English understanding skills in the Humanoid robot Mae.
The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers was awarded to Dr. Joshua C. Bongard, Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont.
Three projects conducted by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have received funding from the National Science Foundation’s Division of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI).
There is a possibility that to commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of the founder of computer science Alan Turing, a robot may carry the Olympic Flame for the 2012 Olympic Games. LlyodsTSB has asked for nominations for the 800 torch bearer slots it has.
A professor of Computer Science at the OU College of Engineering claims that robots can one day be made to care for fellow robots and human beings as well. Professor Dean Hougen works on his research at the OU Robotic Intelligence and Machine Learning Lab at OU.
At Massey University, New Zealand engineers are working on a robotic leg that can kick with great accuracy into goals. The accuracy of the robotic leg will be challenged by ‘All Black’ ace Andrew Mehrtens during the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
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.
Robonaut 2 the humanoid robot that NASA sent up with the last shuttle Discovery has been unboxed. Robonaut 2, also known as R2 was delivered five months ago to the International Space Station and has been powered up for the first time on this mission.
MABEL the bipedal robot from the University of Michigan may not have a head but it still holds the record for being the fastest robot which can move at 6.8 miles per hour. MABEL was created in 2008 by a then doctoral student at the Robotics Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University called Jonathan Hurst.
Willow Garage, developer of hardware and open source software for personal robotics, has come up with a new PR2 robot for research applications. This model, the PR2 SE, has one arm and will cost you user $285,000. The robot development kit which has an updated sensor suit and a single can be upgraded with a second arm at a later date.
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