There's good news for Steven Spielberg fans as he has agreed to direct the upcoming epic from DreamWorks and Disney called Robopocalypse. The movie is set to hit the big screen in 2013.
A robot sang while human dancers backed it on stage entertaining audiences at the Digital Content Expo in Tokyo. The HRP-4C is a robot made to resemble an average young adult Japanese woman. It was developed by Kwada and AIST. It struts, sings and dances and proved itself in a choreographed pop routine.
Aldebaran Robotics, a France-based company dealing with humanoid robotics, has officially announced an “Educational Partnership Program,” at a press meeting held with the Japanese press reporters.
Researchers at the Istanbul's Sabanci University have developed SURALP, Turkey’s first humanoid robot.
Researchers Dr. Peter Kormushev, Dr. Sylvain Calinon, Dr. Ryo Saegusa and Professor Giorgio Metta at the Italian Institute of Technology, have created a learning algorithm called Augmented Reward Chained Regression (ARCHER), enabling iCub a 53-DOF humanoid robot to learn archery.
Scott Higginbotham of NASA conducted live discussions from the Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) which will include Robonaut 2, or R2, the first humanoid in space.
Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested the mobility of Curiosity the rover which will be positioned on Mars by NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission in August 2012.
Russian scientists are due to carry out tests of an unmanned lander which will be employed in their 2011 mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars.
NASA has declared that their Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, and Shannon Walker will have a conversation with around 500 middle school children and teachers via phone on September 9, between 11:45 a.m. and 12:05 p.m. EDT at the Pinellas County Science Center in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Caterpillar’s previous funding for Carnegie Mellon University’s driverless vehicle enabled it to win a contest ‘2007 Urban Challenge’ organized by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).