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Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo Tom also adds an automated program or robot called Marvin to analyse the model, which realises there is a problem with the syntax used in the model and automatically adjusts it. Since Google launched its Wave... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Salesforce.com rides the Google wave with CRM app
Photo After checking the company's network status and finding there are no reported issues, the chat robot asks the customer for more details about the problem they are experiencing. The robot then picks... [30 Oct 2009]
Photos: Medical tech of the future, from robo-pills to cyber-surgeons
Photo You can see the small fans that propel the robot on the left. Perhaps the most interesting robot on display at the Hunterian is the assembling reconfigurable endoluminal surgical system (Ares), another... [15 Sep 2009]
Photos: The robot fish that swim like the real thing
Photo MIT created its first robot fish around 15 years ago - a four-foot long creature called Robotuna, which sported six motors. Shown here is engineer Youcef-Toumi with two prototypes of the robot fish,... [26 Aug 2009]
How to Defend Against New Botnets
White Paper More importantly, these compromised "robot" computer networks do not seem to be going away anytime soon. According to Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence, botnets were responsible for 90% of spam in 2008. [14 Aug 2009]
Photos: Giant robot leads Tokyo's Olympic dreams
Photo Cheerleading the bid is this robot - a towering 18-metre-tall creature designed to draw attention to the city's Olympic aspirations. The Gundam robot is already proving popular and has attracted more... [07 Aug 2009]
Photos: Underwater robots compete to make the biggest splash
Photo Meet Nessie, Edinburgh Heriot-Watt University's autonomous underwater robot. The Nessie team monitor the performance of their robot from the side of the pool. One of the competition's judges, Ben Evans... [20 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.07.09
Round-Up This is how the robot invasion really starts - not with hulking Arnie-esque Terminators, guns a-blazing, but with an officious little electric toothbrush refusing you your favourite snacks. Glastonbury - home to ley... [03 Jul 2009]
Android to show up on Acer netbooks this year
News Acer has announced a version of its Aspire One netbook that will run the Android operating system. The manufacturer made the announcement on Tuesday at the Computex show in Taiwan, promising a release for the Android-based netbook in the... [02 Jun 2009]
Tech-world wonders, cyber art and Windows 7...
Photo In Japan, the Honda Research Institute and precision-equipment manufacturer Shimadzu unveiled a robot that can be controlled by thought alone. After the user thinks about his hand, the command from the user's brain is... [11 May 2009]
ActivMedia Produces Mobile Robots Using VersaLogic SBC
White Paper ActivMedia Robotics embeds VersaLogic's VBSC-6 EBX single board computer into a number of their mobile robot designs. For example, the robots can determine how to move an object that is too heavy for any one individual... [30 Apr 2009]
Photos: There's no business like RoboBusiness
Photo In the robot pictured here, infrared sensors (on the green rectangle at the top right) swivel back and forth and communicate with a host computer to plot out a real-time route. Gears Educational Systems builds a Surface... [20 Apr 2009]
iPhone 3.0, Windows 7, robots and the office of the future
Photo With a range of around half a mile, the robot is designed to act as an advance party to scout out a building or area before troops go in. Shown here is Testudo, a remote-controlled roving robot developed... [07 Apr 2009]
Photos: The robot controlled by thought alone
Photo The user thinks of one of a limited number of gestures it wants from the robot, which has been fitted with a Brain Machine Interface. After the user thinks about his hand, the command from the user's brain is wirelessly... [03 Apr 2009]
Robot scientist makes gene discovery - without humans
News A "robot scientist" that researchers believe to be the first machine to independently come up with new scientific findings has been created. Adam is a still a prototype, but King's team - which is funded by the... [03 Apr 2009]
