Under its Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) program, DARPA is trying to achieve advances in robotics that will enable better design and fabrication of robots, which will have enhanced mobility and manipulation in natural, undefined environments. Another goal is improve the capabilities of robots by better design tools, fabrication methods and control algorithms. More details […]
The world of Asimov’s i-Robot may be just around the corner thanks to DARPA’s new robotic challenge. Details of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s new $2 million challenge have been unveiled, revealing a highly ambitious project aimed at developing sophisticated, humanoid robots capable of doing tasks that, to date, only humans have been able to […]
The Robobusiness conference organized by Robotics Trends took place on Nov. 2 and 3, in Sheraton Hotel, downtown Boston. A lot of well known robotics firms were represented with their high level managers or presidents. Below you can find our notes from the sessions we attended, which highlight important points and give you a brief […]
According to sources, the movie will not be a remake but a prequel or a sequel. The 1982 movie is among the classics of science fiction. It looks like we have another 1-2 years before it hits the screens. Whether Harrison For will be in the movie is not clear yet. Read original story here.
Working on a six year research project funded by DARPA, and involving about a hundred researchers, IBM has just announced that they have reached an important milestone in making chips that are able to “adapt” their thinking. Just like human brain, the chip is able to make a great deal of parallel processing at the […]
Robot is called Mabel and made in University of Michigan Lab.
Here is a robot bird by German firm Festo. It looks very real isn’t it?
The robot hand developed at Japan’s Ishikawa Komuro Lab, is so fast and skillful that it can complete many different tasks without errors and at very high speeds. The hand was first developed in 2007. The principle the robotic hand was built on is called “Skillful manipulation based on high speed sensory motor fusion”. The […]