Popular Science - robots:
For people confined to wheelchairs, the proliferation of ramps has greatly enhanced their mobility. Unfortunately, opening doors remains an omnipresent, and frustrating, challenge. Oddly enough, opening doors also presents a (Read More)
VentureBeat:
South African firm Robonica hopes to conquer the hearts of gift givers this holiday season with hybrid entertainment that combines the interactivity of video games and the physical fun of toy robots.The company’s first produc (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Wow, this is great. The "Educate to Innovate" campaign will aim to improve U.S students' grounding in science, technology, engineering, and math education through $260 million in public-private partnerships, plus the first "N (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Wow, this is great. The "Educate to Innovate" campaign will aim to improve U.S students' grounding in science, technology, engineering, and math education through $260 million in public-private partnerships, plus the first "N (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
At the White House today, President Obama talked robots, hung out with the guys from MythBusters, and launched a campaign designed to create smarter, techier American kids."Reaffirming and strengthening America's role as the (Read More)
Robotics & Automation:
School of Computing, University of Dundee, ScotlandImage via WikipediaThe School of Computing at the University of Dundee seeks applicantsfor a research position on machine learning for assistive robotics.The goal of the proj (Read More)
Robotics & Automation:
In the field of innovative software technologies, the German ResearchCenter forArtificial Intelligence (DFKI) is the leading research institution inGermany, and in theinternational science community the DFKI ranImage via Wiki (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:
Post-doctoral Research position is available atthe Department of Mechanical Engineering,The University of Melbourne, Australia.Topics: Robotics, bipedal robotic gaitDeadline of application: 20 December 2009Official position w (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)
Engadget:
Data Robotics has been quietly raking in the dough (and trying to match up supply with demand) ever since it launched its 8-bay DroboPro back in April, and now the company is making yet another bold move: doubling its product (Read More)
Robotics & Automation:
Industry-based PhD Scholarship - Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Fault DetectionSony, Broadcast and Professional and the Robotic Intelligence Lab, University of Wales, NewportFull Time (Fixed Term) £20,000 stipend pa (Read More)
Robotics & Automation:
We would like to invite you to submit a paper to ICACC 2010(The 2nd IEEEInternational Conference on Advanced Computer Control --www.icacc.org)which has currently an open call for papers.Next year, this conference will be held (Read More)
Robotics & Automation:
The Department of Information Technology at University of South Florida Polytechnic invites applications for open rank faculty positions in robotics and other areas of information technology and engineering. Position stars Au (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
China enjoyed center stage this week thanks to President Obama's visit. Naturally, trade relations were on the agenda.For Internet companies sitting in the US, news reports that chronicled the President's every move in China (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:
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)
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)
ReadWriteWeb:
Our own Marshall Kirkpatrick's dreaded brain chip for controlling computers and mobile devices may be closer than even he suspected.Intel researchers in Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh! - told journalists today that brain implants ar (Read More)