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Robotics Trends, the industrie's new-found marking group (their website says, 'integrated media firm'), is sponsoring a "Robot TechZone" at CES 2006. For those living in a cave for the past long while, CES is the hottest electronics conference/expo in, well, pretty much anywhere. It's gre…
Well, I'm behind. Way behind. So, here's a some of the myriad of links that have come up in the past two weeks, that I just haven't had time to get up here. How about the Military's "pack animal" robot? Perhaps you can carry around your robot statue from an iPod box, while listeni…
Ok, so just a wrap-up on all the Scooba news: Scooba is iRobot's newest product - a floor cleaning robot, but this time it scrubs/mops your floors. The Scooba will cover 150 sq/ft (14 sq/m) of floorspace. The Scooba is programmed to cover each section of floor four times to get it extra clean. iRo…
picture - Engadget.com So, what ever happened to the Roomba programming API that was supposed to be released back in July? Well, I've got news for you. According to a reliable source (he said he'd get in trouble if I used his name) you can expect the API and serial interface information in the ne…
Yet another cool look at a new product. This time it's Wowee toy's RoboSapien V2. The second video clip is turned on its side, sorry. Cost: $249 Cool pictures are up on Flickr too.
Lookie! Lookie! We got the guy at the iRobot booth to give us a sneak peek at the latest from iRobot, the Scooba! Check out the video below the fold (click Read More). The going price for the Scooba will be $399.
Another main theme of the talks on day 1 was the business development and opportunities in robotics. The first speaker in this series was Neena Buck from Strategy Analytics who talked about commercial opportunities and constraints for mobile robotics. Buck started off by showing how the…
Check out these shots of the packaging and floor display for iRobot's new Scooba. I should have picures and video of the robot actually running tomorrow.
Today's second keynote address, by Matt Mason, of the CMU Robotics Institute, was quite amazing. He showed off several of CMU's robotics related projects. The robotics department at CMU is primarily research focused and has 65 faculty. Mason calls robotics, "where computing meets the real …
Pictured is Dr. Takanori Shibata with his robot seal named Pero. Japan is currently working on several different types of robots: humanoid robots, home robot, pet robot, welfare robot, but Dr. Shibata has chosen the latter, welfare robots, for his project. The seal robot used to prevent dementia a…
This morning's first keynote address was by Walter Weisel, the Chairman and CEO of Innova Holdings. He started off with a very impressive audio/visual "look back" at robotics. Weisel has been in the industry for over 30 years and worked with Joseph Engleberger, the "father of mode…
Well, finally managed to scrounge up an internet connection. This is a $500 dollar conference, people - we shouldn't have to pay the hotel next door to use their WiFi! I'm sitting in a panel right now relating to Developement Issues in Intelligent, Mobile Robotics. I've got quite a bit of news to…
In response to our earlier post about the Vex Robotics Programming kit, it seems that they may realy be available this time. Everyone's favorite electronics (cell phone?) store, Radio Shack, now lists the item as "In stock" for website and phone orders. The word I'm getting is that it isn…
This fits squarely into the, "umm ... why?" category of items. ThinkGeek is selling a collection of "static statues of really slick robot designs," with each one being, "around 500 microns in size." That's about 3x the width of your hair. And lest ye be concerned they …
The privately held LiftPort Group Inc. made one of it's milestones in its quest to build a space elevator. A robot has successfully climbed up a 1,000 ft long 'rope' to a teathered baloon. The rope was actually an ultra strong carbon nano-tube ribbon that will eventually be stretched from a platfor…
Note: Lest ye be confused, this is actually a few years old. FYI. I stumbled upon this via Del.icio.us. It's a beautifully rendered short film with this premise: "What if we could build a system to help police in developing nations?" The solution, presented in breathtaki…
