Archive for the ‘Robotics News’ Category
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
In earlier days, this was the nation's watercress king. Then Huntsville became the Rocket City. On Monday, Gov. Bob Riley announced that the Huntsville-Decatur metropolitan area will soon be "the robotics capital of the world."
Allowing for hyperbole, Riley appears to be on target. A 53-acre site on U.S. 31 across ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Visitors look at REEM-B, the new humanoid robot unveiled by Pal Technology Robotics, at its launch in Reem Island in Abu Dhabi, June 11, 2008. The 1.47-meter tall robot, which is able to walk dynamically, grasp objects, navigate within buildings, accept voice commands and recognize faces, is one of the ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
University of Massachusetts Lowell professor Holly Yanco will split her share of the money with seven other research teams, including one fromMIT and one from Yale University.
According to the university’s Web site, Yanco founded the school’s Robotics Lab seven years ago. Her Microsoft-backed project will use tabletop multitouch displays to ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Members of the Winchester Robotics Team, now in its third year at the high school, have developed the first fully autonomous robot in BotsIQ history.
BotsIQ, an organization which promotes education in technology and engineering by hosting robotic competitions, planned to add an autonomous event this year to the regular bill ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Another robotics "battle" in Hawaii... it so cool... :D. Here the news from kgmb9.com:
Dozens of teams are getting ready for a battle of the brains at the Stan Sheriff Center. They spent the day practicing for the regional robotics competition.
The event includes 700 students from 37 high schools throughout Hawaii ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Become participant of robotics contest or robotics competition is fun. You will get many experience, meet many people who interest in robotics technology. Sometimes, you will get some money.. :D
Today, i read a news from freep.com about FIRST Robotics Competition result in detroit city. I was happy that many students ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Because it won last year’s national championship, Cimarron-Memorial High School’s robotics team gets a guaranteed berth in this year’s competition.
But that doesn’t mean the 25-member team isn’t ready to rumble at next week’s regional contest at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Established in 1989 by NASA and a coalition of public ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
MANASSAS, VA.- Employees from Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) recently mentored more than 1,000 students from Prince William County and surrounding area schools during the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Robotics Competition and Tech Challenge events.
The FIRST program is designed to inspire young people to pursue ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In a short article, New Scientist reports that researchers at Virginia Tech University have developed a tripedal experimental robot. With its three legs, this robot, named STriDER -- short for 'Self-excited Tripedal Dynamic Experimental Robot' -- is actually more stable than 2- or 4-legged robots. As said another researcher, 'It's ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
TOKYO -- At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust.
Hooked up to a database of words clustered by association, the robot _ dubbed Kansei, or "sensibility" _ responds to the ...
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