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).
Boston Power Inc., an award-winning provider of lithium-ion battery technology has declared that NASA has selected its Swing battery system for “Project M,” the space agency’s upcoming lunar landing mission to land a humanoid robot on the moon in 1000 days.
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