robotics
RSS roboticsRobotics-Based Location Sensing Using Wireless Ethernet
White Paper The design of the system begins with the observation that deter-mining position from complex, noisy and non-linear signals is a well-studied problem in the field of robotics. A key subproblem in the construction of location-aware systems is the... [10 Jul 2008]
Robotics Manufacturer Automates Collaboration With Digital Note-Taking Program
White Paper Autonomous Solutions (ASI) is the world leader in large vehicle robotics building innovative solutions for clients in industries ranging from agriculture to the military. To effectively manage these multi-million dollar projects, ASI needed a... [01 Jul 2008]
Bluetooth Based Proximity Sensing for Reactive Mobile Robots
White Paper Along with facilitating ad hoc communications, other features of Bluetooth may be exploited for use in the mobile robotics domain. The Bluetooth radio system is an ideal communications tool for lightweight autonomous mobile robots but little... [16 May 2008]
Photos: Robots, lasers, action
Photo Above, Charlie Kemp, director of the Healthcare Robotics Center at Georgia Tech and Emory, accepts a towel from El-E. You know the future has arrived when scientists bring together two staples of science fiction: lasers and robots. [10 Apr 2008]
Killer robots terror warning
News Forget the cuddly C3P0 and R2D2 - the robots of the future may well share the murderous instincts of the Daleks, according to a robotics expert. Terrorist robots and autonomous military machines wielding automatic weapons could soon be a reality... [28 Feb 2008]
Siemens Case Study: Seiko Epson Corporation
White Paper Founded more than 60 years ago as a watchmaker, using the key technologies cultivated in watch development as a base, Seiko Epson has become a global corporation at the forefront of technological revolutions in the color imaging field, robotics... [14 Jan 2008]
Photos of the month - September 2007
Photo This is Alice, a driverless van that is being fine-tuned by Team Caltech, a group of robotics researchers based at the California Institute of Technology. The iPod Touch features touchscreen controls, much like the iPhone, and the previous version... [27 Sep 2007]
Photos: Robot racer hits the street
Photo Team Caltech, a robotics group at the California Institute of Technology, is one of 35 teams competing in DARPA's Urban Grand Challenge, a race of driverless vehicles on mock city streets, scheduled for 3 November. [27 Sep 2007]
Carnegie Mellon University: Perl Brings Everything Together - Quickly
White Paper At Carnegie Mellon University, Perl figures in robotics applications development more times than ONE can count. Perl's rapid prototyping, flexibility, system interaction, object-oriented mechanism, and networking capabilities make Perl right for... [13 Sep 2007]
Carnegie Mellon University: Perl Brings Everything Together - Quickly
White Paper At Carnegie Mellon University, Perl figures in robotics applications development more times than ONE can count. Perl's rapid prototyping, flexibility, system interaction, object-oriented mechanism, and networking capabilities make Perl right for... [13 Sep 2007]
Fast-Growing Robotics Engineering Center Armed With Versatile, Expandable Disk- and Tape-Based Storage Solutions
White Paper The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University conducts basic and applied research in robotics technologies to boost the productivity and competitiveness of businesses throughout the United States. [11 Sep 2007]
Systems Integrator Builds Affordable, Flexible Mobile Robot
White Paper CoroWare provides solutions and systems integration and offers a number of specialty areas, including robotics. The company chose Microsoft Windows XP Embedded over Linux to build the prototype, cutting development time by 60 percent or more over... [30 Aug 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Robots with guns
Comment Even before I was born the 'Three Laws of Robotics' had been voiced by Isaac Asimov through his short stories and debated by philosophers. Written at a quiet café on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK and dispatched to silicon.com via a corporate WLAN [07 Aug 2007]
A Compact Software Framework for Distributed Real-Time Computing
White Paper This paper describes the concepts of the framework, the integration of RTnet, and the authors' experiences with their robotics application. The amount of software in automatic control and mechatronic systems has been continuously growing in the... [06 Jul 2007]
robuBOX: Seamless Building of Microsoft Robotics Studio-Based, Industrial-Grade Service Robots
White Paper The paper describes all the flexibility of this concept, at both hardware and software levels, and demonstrates why the robuBOX plus Microsoft Robotics Studio is the state-of-the-art solution for all designers and integrators of service robots. [02 Jul 2007]
