NewsIsFree Search:Search results for "" at newsisfree.com (powered by SIETSCentralized Software controls unattended military vehicles.- (Found June 24, 2008 ) QinetiQ North America McLean, VA 22102Jun 24, 2008SURC(TM) allows operators to simultaneously task, monitor, and tele-operate multiple, heterogeneous, unmanned vehicles from one control station, while Symphony(TM) SDK for third-party developers uses open standards to accelerate new capability integration onto unmanned vehicles. Both enable development, integration, and control of capabilities that conform to Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems (JAUS) as well as other component architectures.http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,290930486,9746,o/ $89k for a Robotic, Drive-by-Wire Ford SUV- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Jesse G Hurdus writes, "thought I'd send some interesting news your&xD; way. Team VictorTango's base vehicle platform for the Urban Challenge&xD; (which placed third, just behind Stanford), is now&xD; being&xD; sold as&xD; a&xD; product by TORC Technologies.&xD; Of course, this is just the fully Drive-By-Wire Ford Hybrid Escape&xD; (minus sensors and A.I.), but its very cool none-the-less!" Team&xD; VictorTango was Virginia Tech's entry in the Urban Grand Challenge. You&xD; can find.http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,289194654,1574,o/ iRobot Wins RFP to Create Liquid Shape-Shifting Robot- (Found June 24, 2008 ) iRobot announced&xD; that it has won DARPA's RFP for a&xD; shape-shifting chemical robot. Nicknamed ChemBot, the robot should&xD; be "soft, flexible, mobile objects that can identify and maneuver&xD; through openings smaller than their static structural dimensions;&xD; reconstitute size, shape, and functionality after traversal; carry&xD; meaningful payloads; and perform tasks." The iRobot team will include&xD; experts from Harvard and MIT, specializing in "chemistry, materials&xD;...http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,289429038,1574,o/ Animatronics Technology of 1933- (Found June 24, 2008 ) "Back in MY day...." (creeky voice) we built robots with plywood and &xD; steam engines. Back then, a PIC was used to break ice, and &xD; an oscillator was someone without direction.&xD; This look back at an &xD; old Popular Science magazine article by the &xD; Modern Mechanix blog&xD; shows the innards of a giant sloth created for the 1933 Chicago World's&xD; Fair.&xD; He moves his head, breathes and roars using a prehistoric array of&xD; bellcranks, bellows,&xD; and even a...http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,289667475,1574,o/ A Turing Test for Consciousness- (Found June 24, 2008 ) "Consciousness is part of the natural world. It depends, we believe,&xD; only on mathematics and logic and on the imperfectly known laws of&xD; physics, chemistry, and biology; it does not arise from some magical or&xD; otherworldly quality. That's good news, because it means there's no&xD; reason why consciousness can't be reproduced in a machine - in theory,&xD; anyway." Christof&xD; Koch and Giulio&xD; Tononi go on to say, in the IEEE Spectrum article Can Machines Be&xD; Conscious,..http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,289996851,1574,o/ Robots: A Robot Fly at Harvard and at the MoMA- (Found June 24, 2008 ) &xD; In the second episode of Robots,&xD; the podcast for news and views on robotics, we interview Rob Wood, founder and&xD; director of the Harvard&xD; Microrobotics Lab. He gives us an insight into work on his robotic&xD; fly, which has been &xD; buzzing&xD; around the web for the past year.&xD; Outside the web Wood's fly has touched down in the MoMA as part of an exhibition on Design and the Elastic Mind.&xD; In the second part of this episode Paola Antonelli, the curator of the&xD;.http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,290144201,1574,o/ Gantry Robots feature space saving design.- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Denso Sales California, Inc. Long Beach, CA 90810Jun 17, 2008Combining ceiling-mounted SCARA robot with long-stroke Cartesian robot, 4-axis XR-Series can operate in many applications without need for conveyor. Units have reach of 200-300 mm and X-axis stroke of 850-1,660 mm with cycle time of 0.53 sec, repeatability of 0.015 mm, and payload capacity of 3 kg. in Industrial News Room: Roboticshttp://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,290294612,9746,o/ Random Robot Roundup- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Scott Broock writes, "This is a fun video about Robot&xD; Village in NY that you guys might be interested in". Sebastian&xD; Tyl is the first to report the little robot tribute included in the new&xD; Mozilla Firefox v3 browser. If you&xD; have it, type "about:robots" in the&xD; address bar and see what you get. If you haven't upgraded yet, take a&xD; look at the screen&xD; grab. Meanwhile, The Swirling&xD; Brain has swirled out a whole lot of&xD; robot links: a Science&xD; Daily...http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,290713530,1574,o/ If I Only Had Brain- (Found June 24, 2008 ) A NetworkWorld&xD; article looks at artificial intelligence (AI) and ponders what&xD; happened to it. In 1965 Herber Simon said AI was 20 years away. In 1967&xD; Marvin Minsky said it was one generation away. So where it is Self&xD; aware, learning, thinking, feeling machines have turned out to be a lot&xD; harder to build than anyone thought (in part because understanding&xD; natural intelligence has taken a lot longer than anyone thought).&xD; Instead AI has become a marketing&xD;...http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,290945859,1574,o/ Random Robot Roundup- (Found June 24, 2008 ) For those who were wondering about RobotGrrl, she's going to Stanford&xD; for the EPGY AI program. Our RoboGrrl story was picked&xD; up by several other blogs and, between Styrobot sales, donations, and a&xD; $1500 scholarship from Stanford, she was able to pay for the tuition.&xD; There's a good interview&xD; with RobotGrrl over at RoboJenny's blog. She has a few Styrobots&xD; left, so you still have a chance to buy one. Roland Piquepaille let&xD; us know about two new robot stories...http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,288987261,1574,o/ |