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Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Video: How to manage tech complexity ¦ Photos: Beijing Olympics 2008 - tech keeping the games on track ¦ Video: Tackling security threats ...
[08 May 2008]
Photo What the unit sees is what its operator will see, although the unit will automatically travel through a set series of waypoints, leaving the operator free to assess what they see through the robot's eyes.
[06 May 2008]
Photo Scientists in the US have developed a robot (pictured above) - named El-E - that uses lasers to help it pick up items from both floors and shelves, and could be a lifeline for people with mobility difficulties.
[29 Apr 2008]
Photo But rather than 50-tonne behemoths dealing death with a massive light cannon, the El-E robot is instead using lasers to think like a human. The robot and its ability to pick up items from both floors and shelves could be a lifeline for people who...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper In this paper, a network distributed monitoring system for human assistance robot system was developed to improve the interaction among the users and local service robotic system and enable a remote user to get a better understanding of what is...
[03 Mar 2008]
News The expert at the University of Sheffield - who was formerly a judge on cult BBC TV show Robot Wars - warned the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) of the beginning of an international robot arms race.
[28 Feb 2008]
Comment It's just a screen attached to a motherboard so really does look like some kind of robot. Welcome to day three - the day of the clammy handshake. You can practically hear the panic: It'll all be over in but a handful of hours!
[14 Feb 2008]
Round-Up Podcast Funeral '2.0', email-free 'stress down' Friday, wearing slippers to work and a Rubik's cube-solving robot are all featured on the silicon.com Weekly Round-Up podcast this week. Andy McCue hosts and is joined in the studio by Julian Goldsmith, Tim...
[01 Feb 2008]
whitepaper NHD's solution brings together RFID scanners from Texas Instruments, a sorting robot from Robot Technologies and a wireless, handheld computer with barcode scanner from Symbol Technologies. Northern Herd Development Co-operative Ltd (NHD) provides...
[23 Jan 2008]
whitepaper They upgrading from 2D CAD to solid modeling and validation using FEM and simulation tools within Solid Edge software and robot simulation software. PARI is India's largest automation company headquartered in Pune, India, with more than 600...
[14 Jan 2008]
whitepaper Founded in 1983, Adept Technology provides robot and robot control mechanisms for small-parts assembly, material handling, and precision process applications at many of the world's largest telecommunications, consumer electronics, semiconductor...
[10 Jan 2008]
Round-Up Podcast A letter from Downing Street, high-tech Santa, w00t, mucky mobile telly and robot dentistry are all discussed in The Weekly Round-Up podcast. Andy McCue hosts and is joined in the studio by Julian Goldsmith, Gemma Simpson and Steve Ranger.
[14 Dec 2007]
News Google's big mobile move of the year was named after a robot that's been made to look human. The big mobile story for 2007 has to be Apple's entry into the market with the long awaited and much hyped iPhone - which launched in the US in June and...
[13 Dec 2007]
News Robot chatters are just one type of social-engineering attack that uses trickery rather than a software flaw to access victim's valuable information. A program that can mimic online flirtation and then extract personal information from its...
[10 Dec 2007]
Photo This is a robot developed by Robosoft, which can navigate by itself and be used for a variety of purposes, such as helping elderly people with daily tasks like cleaning. This photo shows a system developed by the Microsoft Research team in...
[06 Dec 2007]
Photo The overall challenge was won by Carnegie Mellon University's offering Boss, which narrowly beat Stanford University's robot, called Junior. This is MIT's robot, Talos. This story looks at how Belgian scientists have been experimenting to see if or...
[29 Nov 2007]
Photo Roach and robot huddled together in perfect harmony. Hmm, no snacks here. But that's OK - this roach is looking for company, not food. And as it turns out, cockroaches may be more inclined to follow the crowd than to follow other entomological...
[20 Nov 2007]
whitepaper The company deployed IBM System i5 520 and i5/OS V5R3 operating system, with built-in DB2 Universal Database, plus Robot Automated Operations Solution from Help/Systems, Inc. Barnstead International manufactures laboratory and dental products for a...
[16 Nov 2007]
Photo This competition is now closed. The winning entry, from silicon.com reader Sean Black, was "These over bred pedigree dogs are looking more and more ridiculous. Photo credit: iRobot
[16 Nov 2007]
Photo Tony Tether director of Darpa said he was "holding his breath" to see robot meet robot on the course for the first time in history. It was part of Darpa's $3.5m robot race, the Urban Grand Challenge. Stanford's robot, Junior, was the first to cross...
[14 Nov 2007]
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