Twelfth International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition took place between July 31st through August 2nd, in Point Loma, CA.The event included record number of participants this year, 30 teams from major universities and educational institutions from U.S., Canada, Japan, Korea and India. Two high school teams also participated. The qualification for the competition was based on designing an unmanned vehicle, capable of navigating realistic underwater surroundings, […] Read More

One of the largest robotics competition, Robocup, took place in Graz, Austria, on June 2009 and lasted 5 days. This years event was organized by Graz University of technology. 408 teams, approximately 2000 robots and 2300 humans participated in the event. The main areas of competition were soccer, dancing and domestic chores. The current platform for soccer was the NAO robot form Aldebaran robotics. Here […] Read More

In the latest ICRA (International Conference on Robotics and Automation) event, which took place in Kobe-Japan, many new robots were shown, which had exciting new features. One which can climb to any pole or walk on a surface called Rise V3 was made by Boston Dynamics, which is also the maker of the recent internet celebrity BigDog robot…Another one, which was made by the Technical […] Read More

Robobusiness 2009 will take place in Boston, Massachusetts on April 15th and 16th. The developing trends in consumer, industrial, entertainment etc…are being explored. The conference’s main vision is to bring together individuals in the field of robotics and the areas that the developing robotics technologies can be applied to. Gradually, as the capabilities of robots increase, the possibilities of different and more complicated tasks starts […] Read More

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 humanoid robots that can win against the human soccer world […] Read More

Life-changing program inspires young people to become individual economic stimulus packagesOver $9 million in scholarship funds available Manchester, NH, January 3, 2009; FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) launched its eighteenth FIRST Robotics Competition season today with a Kickoff of a new robotics game called “Lunacy” at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, NH, hometown and headquarters of FIRST. ‘Forty years ago, […] Read More

Organized by the Singularity institute for Artificial Intelligence, this year’s singularity summit will take place in San Jose, CA next week. Among the speakers are Intel’s Chief Technology officer, Manager of cognitive computing at IBM. The main focus of the event is to debate implications in the future when the Artificial Intelligence has the reasoning ability close, equal to or even greater than humans. The […] Read More

The second BioRob conference, which is a joint effort of the two IEEE Societies of Robotics and Automation (RAS) and Engineering, Medicine and Biology (EMBS).The conference will take place in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, between October 19th through October 22nd. The topics that will be covered include Surgical Robotics, Wearable Lower Limb Exoskeletons, Solutions for an aging society. For more, please visit the link below. Reference: […] Read More

Japanese and European scientists gathered in Japan to discuss the latest developments in robotics. Organized by European Science Foundation and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, provided a platform to young researchers to discuss their ideas on cognitive sciences and robotics. The main topics discussed were autonomous movement, biped walking principles based on zero moment principle, robot learning, a new concept called object action […] Read More

Microsoft plans a series of virtual robotics challenges based on its robotics development software called Microsoft Robotics Studio.The challenges will include a self driving car, search and rescue mission and a mars rover. Named Robochamps, the challenges are expected to be launched in April 09. Read more here Reference: www.millionsadvertisingshomepage.com Read More