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.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
23 Aug 2011
A US government owned firm has come up with a scout robot that could be used by rescue teams to save miners. The scout robot has been developed using the Microsoft Xbox 360 game controller by Sandia National Laboratories.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
22 Aug 2011
Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) has entered a partnership with the U.S. Army in study, development and exploration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) technology.
Boeing has demonstrated its swarm technology with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in tests that it conducted over eastern Oregon.
Composites Horizons (CHI), a provider of composite tooling and composite products for space components, aircraft manufacturing and medical equipment, has announced that General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has selected the company for producing an exhaust duct for the Predator C Avenger Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS).
At the AUVSI's Unmanned Systems North America 2011 conference, the director of innovation at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Dr. Larry Schuette, said that ONR had to overcome a significant number of hurdles, including littoral and autonomy operations in its unmanned systems.
IBM has been working on a computer chip that can mimic the human brain. The team of scientists from IBM, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the top four US Universities has been working on a microchip that emulates the processes of the human brain. The experimental computer chip has been named SyNAPSE.
The Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System may be the closest that we humans have come to the legendary Skynet of Terminator. In the movie Skynet is a complex computer that becomes aware of its own existence and sends out robotic armies to kill humans and take over the world.
The latest report from Visiongain about the defence sector titled ‘The Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) market 2011-2021: Military Robots for EOD & Counter-IED’ provides a comprehensive overview on the UGV markets worldwide and also provides useful guidelines on how to exploit business opportunities.
A research team having a lead IBM team and professors from the University of California have developed experimental computer chips that are capable of mimicking the abilities of human brain such as action, cognition and perception.
QinetiQ North America declared that the Dragon Runner 10 (DR10), micro unmanned ground vehicle (MUGV) was available for deploying in military robotic missions.
ABB Robotics has designed an affordable robotic educational package for schools, universities and colleges for exposing students to the practical concepts in robotics.
Integrity Security Services, a business unit of Green Hills Software, has unveiled a new autonomous vehicle (AV) Open Platform for the management of autonomous vehicles and universal control segments used in the special computing and embedded market.
The Robotic Refuelling Mission (RRM) will soon be transported to a permanent location by the International Space Station (ISS) on the ExPress Logistics Carrier-4. NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have come together to design the RRM, which represents the technologies, tools and methods that are needed for robotically servicing satellites.
Lockheed Martin has launched a tough version of the Stalker Unmanned Air System known as the Stalker eXtreme Endurance (XE) UAS. The Stalker XE system provides an endurance time of over eight hours, which is four times that of the previous stalker version.