The University of Northern Iowa Physics Department will host the eighth annual MiniSumo Robotics Competition on Friday, April 26, 2013. Ship-in Robots are robots shipped to the University of Northern Iowa Physics Department, usually by club robotics members, and operated by UNI students who carefully follow the builders’ written instructions. UNI has a seven year […]
As a harbinger for the Paramount film “Star Trek – Into Darkness”, starting in May in Europe’s cinemas, a swarm of 30 mini-helicopters equipped with the LED lights drew the Star Trek logo into the skies over London. The choreography for the show was developed by Ars Electronica Futurelab from Linz (Austria). Quadrocopter maker Ascending […]
Granite State Regional FIRST Robotics Competition took place in Manchester NH, between 2/28 – 3/2. 45 teams from the states of NH, MA, VT, NY, RI, CT, ME, and 2 Canadian teams from Ontario and Quebec, approximately 1300 FIRST Robotics students, over 200 volunteers, and over 1500 spectators participated in the event. This year’s game […]
CHIMP, which is an abbreviation for CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform, is a human size robot being built by Carnegie Mellon University, Tartan Rescue Team. The robot is made to compete in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Robotics Challenge (DRC). DRC is a competition that will test competing robots’ human-like abilities, such as, […]
A major study for Artificial Intelligence and NeuroScience, called the Human Brain Project (HBP), which aims to replicate the human brain on supercomputer, has recently been approved in the EU. 87 universities and hundreds of scientists from leading research institutions across Europe will participate in the study, but the project has some important Japanese and North […]
The RoboEarth Cloud Engine (Rapyuta) is an open source platform for robotics applications, which helps processor intensive tasks to be carried out remotely. Researchers from five universities in Europe are contributing to the development of the platform. As the calculations are done remotely, this makes carrying out a variety of difficult tasks easier for robots, […]
One of the biggest robot competitions of Europe, ITURO – Istanbul Technical University Robot Olympics, will take place in Istanbul on April 11th through 13th. The University’s Automation and Controls Student group is organizing the event, in their campus. The competition first started in 2007 and has been growing in the number of competing teams […]
Roboy, of which we had made a post a while ago here, finally comes to life. The robot has been designed by University of Zurich and the project is sponsored by various international firms and organizations. See the pictures on yahoo.
One of the most noted conferences on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI – International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, will take place between July 22-25 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Congress is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. 2,100 or more attendees from over 85 countries are anticipated to be […]
Osaka University Japan – in order to design more efficient robots with higher speed and agility the anatomy of a cat is taken as a model in the project Pneupard. What makes the Pneupard distinct among other biomimetic robots is the use of pneumatic artificial muscles. The project team, which also studied pneumatic artificial muscles […]