The GPS devices are widely used today in our cars to help us find our way. The next generation of help is on the way, and it is a far more complex assistant than a GPS. Designed and developed by Volkswagen of America and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SENSEable City Lab and Personal Robots […]
A new feature that has been introduced in certain recent Ford models, which enables the car to park itself. It does so first by scanning both sides of the road and determines the available spots. Then by using its ultrasonic sensors, it continuously measures the distance, at the same time moving the car back and […]
2009 International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition which took place between October 20th to 25th in Seoul Korea, showcased new technologies in defense technology. REX was also on display, which was built by Israel Aerospace Industries, a small robotic platform designed to accompany gorund troops on field operations. The robot can carry up to 200 kilograms, […]
One of the biggest challenges in building autonomous cars is the safety issue which need to be resolved completely before a single autonomous car hits the road. Events such as DARPA grand challenge are designed to improve the capabilities of such vehicles. A recent story in cnet.com talks about designing safe autonomous cars, which have […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Boston Dynamics, developer of advanced dynamic robots such as BigDog and PETMAN, has been awarded a contract by Sandia National Laboratories to develop the next generation of the Precision Urban Hopper, meaning Sandia‘s hopping robots may soon be in combat. When fully operational, the four-wheeled hopper robots will navigate autonomously by wheel and […]
The artificial leg developed by an Iceland based company called OSSUR, can learn the users walking gait and then adjust itself accordingly. Not only that, but the leg is also able to give the user enough strength so that the natural walking motion is not interrupted as in ordinary artificial legs. The future of this […]
European based Cybercars2 project aims to develop autonomous vehicle capabilities one step further, by adding communication systems between individual vehicles, which may enable a much more efficient transportation system. By exchanging data, vehicles will be able to coordinate their movements. The project team first created software that would simulate all the possible scenarios that vehicles […]
Journal of the American College of Surgeons study cites safer and easier operation with less scarring. CHICAGO (August 19, 2009. Using a novel robot-assisted endoscopic technique, a team of surgeons at Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul, Korea, has successfully treated 200 consecutive patients with thyroid cancer. The minimally invasive operation, which has several […]
TYZX Stereo Vision Provides Depth Perception to Help Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) Avoid Obstacles and Manipulate Sensitive Objects MENLO PARK, August 10, 2009: TYZX, the 3D vision technology company, today announced that iRobot Corporation has chosen the TYZX DeepSea G2 Embedded Vision System (EVS) for several military robotics research projects requiring real-time vision and depth-perception. […]
Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a micro robot that can accessa wide range of areas in human body by crawling. The robot moves by its micro legs, and has dimensions of 1mm diameter and 14mm length. It is powered by mini actuators, or by using magnetic force from outside of the […]