Engadget:
We're still waiting for this so-called QR code revolution to hit North America, but our contemporaries across the Pacific are already looking to develop the next big thing. Reportedly, a smattering of mega-corps (including th (Read More)
Robotics & Automation:
The title of the presentation is "Realization of Moon Exploration Using Advanced Robots by 2020."The specification on the right says, weight 55kg (12kg 3kWh battery included), power consumption 0.4kW, 7 hours of operation. Th (Read More)
Robotics & Automation:
---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** PhD Student Position Available *****Image via Wikipedia Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS) Ore (Read More)
Popular Science - SciTech:
Through Educate to Innovate, the White House hopes to return American science and technology learning to prominence Elmo and Big Bird may represent old school learning compared to video games, but both Sesame Street and video (Read More)
Gizmodo:
What's the 'S' stand for in Drobo S? Speed. Uh, more speed. And more storage. Specifically, a fifth drive bay for more redundancy, faster FireWire and a new eSATA port. As always, it's not cheap—$800 sans drives. [Drobo]
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Gizmodo:
The designers say the mustache on this Robot Wine Rack is optional, but let's be honest with ourselves, shall we? We all know one does not in good taste forgo the donning of a mustache when one is readily available. And one i (Read More)
Instructables: exploring, featured:
Tripod for camera, if you have a camera and want to take good pictures in which you can be in the picture, a good solution is to ask that someone take the picture or you can make a robot that you take the picture, in my case (Read More)
Engadget:
It started off innocently enough. Personal transporters, they told us, just robots to make life easier. Now look at them -- Toyota's Partner Robots are set for upgrades that include back-mounted solar chargers, spring-loaded (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Instead of replacing the St. Louis Zoo's deceased polar bears with live ones, zoo officials put robots up in their place. This a slightly-better-than-average yard display will surely be remembered as the humble beginning of t (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Meteorites, microscopes, or mixing things to go boom. Your science nerd loves it all. Here are a couple of gift ideas for that space explorer, mad scientist, or engineer in your life. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as mu (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Meteorites, microscopes, or mixing things to go boom. Your science nerd loves it all. Here are a couple of gift ideas for that space explorer, mad scientist, or engineer in your life. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as mu (Read More)
Engadget:
Shakespeare's plays have a long, long history of being modded to fit the times. We've seen Macbeths do the running man, and Cordelias dressed like Susie Sioux -- and we've also seen Forbidden Planet, so we know that Robby was (Read More)
Engadget:
You know what we love? Dancing robots and Christmas tunes. So combining the two and throwing the video up on YouTube would be akin to heaven, right? Well, as you'll see in the amazing video after the break: it doesn't get mu (Read More)
Engadget:
Shakespeare's plays have a long, long history of being modded to fit the times. We've seen Macbeths do the running man, and Cordelias dressed like Susie Sioux -- and we've also seen Forbidden Planet, so we know that Robby was (Read More)
Engadget:
We can't all be a Witwicky, owning a badass robot able to change from sportscar to hulking humanoid. Some of us have to aim a little lower; enter the XOR X02 Urban Transporter. It's an electric scooter that can fold into a li (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The Milipol exhibition in Paris is where all the pros play with the military-industrial complex's hottest toys. I used special commando skills (and a press badge) to infiltrate the premises and show you the world's freshest, (Read More)
Wired: Gadget Lab:
In Cory Doctorow’s latest novel, Makers, one of the main characters puts together an amazing little hack using a bunch of Boogie Woogie Elmo toys. These have been stripped of their fur and let loose on a tiny electric Smart C (Read More)
Robotics & Automation:
1.1 For the purpose of this Standard the following definitions apply.1.2 AUTOMATIC OPERATION (AUTO MODE) . The time when a robot is performing its programmed tasks through continuous program execution.1.3 AWARENESS SIGNAL . A (Read More)