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Press release by: Rhoeby Dynamics LLC October 2015, Santa Cruz, CA. The new Rhoeby Dynamics R2D LiDAR is the smallest, lightest, lowest-cost 2D LiDAR device on the market today. It’s proven capable of performing mapping, navigation and dynamic obstacle avoidance in the indoor setting, and comes complete with its open-source ROS driver for rapid integration into any robotics platform. […] Read More
Open source robots will be able to perform many different functions as phones, by downloading apps. See below: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/companies-making-human-robots-think-143545843.html Read More
In University of Reading of England, a free, 4-week online robotics course is offered for beginners to robotics. Begin Robotics is targeted, primarily, at 14 – 18 year olds who are interested in robots and/or the possibility of studying robotics at University. It doesn’t assume any prior knowledge and is open to anyone, around the world however, so will no doubt attract a much broader […] Read More
Clearpath Robotics welcomes the PR2 robot and community to its growing family (Menlo Park, CA and Kitchener, ON, Canada – January 15, 2014) Willow Garage, the developer of PR2, announces the immediate transfer of support and services responsibilities to Clearpath Robotics, a leader in mobile robotics for research and development. Willow Garage’s development of PR2 along with the Robot Operating System (ROS) has produced the […] Read More
Many of us remember IBM Watson, when it beat the human champions on the popular TV Show Jeopardy, three years ago. Since then, Watson has undergone constant improvements and has started to be used in practical real life areas, such as Medicine and Law. This is primarily due to its ability to process language, just as humans do. Now IBM is dedicating $1 billion in […] Read More
Press Release from Robotiq: December 18h, 2013 – Robotiq – a company making robotic tools for agile automation in manufacturing industries – is proud to announce that its 3-Finger Adaptive Robot Gripper will play a major role at the DARPA ROBOTICS CHALLENGE TRIALS on December 20-21 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in Florida. Indeed, 4 of the 17 teams that will take part in […] Read More
I would like to call this “the most advanced robotics competition we will witness”. It is called DRC (DARPA Robotics Challenge) organized by DARPA, the initiator of internet, the organization which helped advance the use of autonomous cars, and many more cool technologies. It is an ambitious competition that only the most advanced robotics teams around the world is participating, to demonstrate a robot that […] Read More
Researchers from the University of Lincoln and Newcastle University in the UK designed a new vision technology for self-moving robots by scrutinizing locusts and their visual ability. This is a 4 year research project which began in 2011. The project is funded by the Seventh Framework Program of the European Union. Professor Shigang Yue from the School of Computer Science at the University of Lincoln […] Read More
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, driving a vehicle on site, traveling on rubble, removing debris […] Read More