Military / Medical / Vehicles

As the use of robots in battlefields grows continuously, the problem of managing an ever growing quantity of information becomes more and more critical. In order to use the resources efficiently, the goal is to enable a single soldier to manage more and more robots and robotic vehicles at the same time. Currently it looks like there are several options to achieve this goal. One […] Read More

According to a report that appeared on Australian SBS TV recently, today 1 in every 50 soldier in US army is a robot. At the same time, this proportion is increasing dramatically. Although being autonomous is a highly controversial subject and great majority of the robots are either non autonomous or semi autonomous, it is also a fact that the level of decision making without human guidance […] Read More

The new robot that is employed by EPA is really speeding up things at the lab for testing the toxicity of chemicals. While a person can do 10-20 testing a year, the robot is able to test 10000 chemical in a week, says Robert Kavlock, the Director of the National Center for Computation and Toxicology at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The goal of the project […] Read More

The new surveillance robot that has been made by iROBOT for DARPA was presented the other day. The robot called “110 Firstlook” can observe its surroundings continuously with “persistent stare” and it is able to maneuver around in very tight and difficult conditions. The robot weighs less than 5 lbs and 10 inches, can stay operational even after falling 15 feet on to a concrete […] Read More

Exoskeletons are getting more and more common in robotics. The primary purpose of these is to amplify the movement of human muscles. A robotic suit designed for legs by Japan’s Cyberdyne company is helping disabled people to walk, by anticipating the legs movements through monitoring the signals sent from the brain to the muscles. Currently the suit, which is called HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) is […] Read More

A new thought controlled robot arm that was designed and tested by University of Chicago is able to move more accurately as it also provides movement sensory feedback, in addition to the previous models which was only based on visual feedback. In the experiments, monkeys were tested using brain-machine interface, where they controlled a cursor without moving their real arm, using the robotic arm. In […] Read More

On highways of California, Google started testing robot cars, in order to map the streets. So far seven cars are on the road and the have completed 140,000 miles with rare human intervention. The car finds its way through a rotating camera at the top which continuously creates a 3D view of the car’s environment, as well as motion sensors and a front camera in […] Read More

Making it closer to the Iron Man movies, Raytheon company of US, have developed a second generation of exoskeleton, which they call XOS2. The robotic suit has been unveiled last week in company’s Salt Lake City research center. The company says that the second version is stronger, faste rand lighter, and it uses about 50% less power than the first version. The new design is […] Read More

A new type of surgery seems to be added to the growing field of robotic medical treatments. The spinal surgeon robot that performs spinal surgeries adds efficiency and precicion to a doctor’s ability. The robot does not do the operation itself however, it is a robotic arm that is under the full control of the doctors and a software that helps the doctsors map out […] Read More

The new unmanned aerial vehicle that has just been introduced to press came from Iran this time. The robotic plane has a flight radius of 1000 km. Reference: theregister.co.uk/2010/08/23/iran_robot_bomber/ Read More