Robotics

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 American partners as well. The project will continue for 10 […] Read More

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, which, in turn will make less expensive, smaller, lighter, faster […] Read More

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. Read More

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 there. The conference invites researchers submit papers on a wide […] Read More

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 previously, is from the Graduate School of Information Science and […] Read More

C-Link Systems announced that they would be making 50 desktop education tracked robots available for schools free. They have a form to fill out for teachers, which provide a minimal criteria who like to participate. you can see the form here: http://www.c-linksystems.com/contest.html The robot to be provided is a Trak-Bot-C3 (TB-C3), which is one of two indoor elastomer tracked vehicle used to explore, concept test […] Read More

In an effort to advance our understanding of the human brain, the Obama administration is planning a decade – long major undertaking for studying the human brain, according to a news published at New York Times. It is expected to be the equivalent of the Human genome Project done in genetics field, which paved the way for many advances in the field later and has […] Read More

Royal Oak, MI February 21, 2013 – RTT USA Inc. announced today that it has entered into a strategic agreement with Canon U.S.A, Inc., to combine RTT DeltaGen®, high-end 3D visualization software with Canon’s new advanced Mixed Reality (M R) platform, contributing to reduced development times during the product design process by merging real and virtual worlds. This partnership will help OEMs bring their products faster […] Read More

TORONTO, ON – Internet-connected eyeglasses and similar technologies will soon be on the market, but their benefits and dangers are little understood. University of Toronto Engineering Professor Steve Mann hopes to change that at a groundbreaking conference at U of T in June 2013. Mann is a pioneering researcher in the fields of wearable computing and ‘augmediated reality’ (AR). He’s bringing together renowned experts in […] Read More

The soft robot designed by the researchers of Harvard University is able to move upright, crawl below objects and change its color; and now leaping is another recently improved ability of it. The precisely controlled mixture of methane and oxygen in the tubes shown in the picture creates a slight explosion and with that explosion jumping almost a foot (more than 30 times its own […] Read More