Coyote—A Tale of Unexpected Consequences Elizabeth Rhett Woods Synopsis Part I Coyote—A Tale of Unexpected Consequences is the story of an intelligent robot coyote who longs to be free, and her relations with her creators. Zoë Neville, a published poet, and amateur photographer, is invited to submit a short film, on any subject she chooses, […]
ROBOT NAME: iCUB CATEGORY: Humanoid MADE BY: European Commission through its Cognitive Systems and Robotics Unit. INTRODUCTION: RobotCub is an open source humanoid robot project funded by European Commission through its Cognitive Systems and Robotics Unit. The project started in september 2004 with a total duration of 60 months. There are ten research centers in […]
BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 8, 2009: iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ: IRBT) today announced that it has received a $6.1 million order from the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI). This is the twelfth order under an existing $200 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The current total contract value now stands […]
NAME: Jaemi HUBO CATEGORY: HUMANOID MADE BY: The project is a joint effort of researchers at Drexel University, the University of Pennsylvania, Colby College, Bryn Mawr College and Virginia Tech in the US, and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea University and Seoul National University in Korea. DESCRIPTION: National Science Foundation press […]
IBM has received a grant for a research project known as SYNAPSE, which stands for “Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics”, from DARPA. The goal of the project accordig to DARPA is to create intelligent machines, which will have the capability of analysing vast amount of data in a very short duration, and improve […]
The RoboCup is an international initiative to foster and promote education, development and research in robotics and Artificial Intelligence. The idea of RoboCup is to define an ambitious long-term goal in order to stimulate the development of Science and Technology. The vision of RoboCup is “By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous […]
Six computer programs will compete for the $100,000 and a gold medal Loebner prize in order to pass the Turing Test. The test was devised half a century ago by the great mathematician Alan Turing. The procedure of test is simply to be able to recognize a computer program from a human speaker, without knowing […]