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Custom-Designed Virtual Thrill Ride Experienced in 3-D Robotic Simulator

Dips, dives, loops and barrel rolls await guests as Raytheon's Sum of all Thrills™ celebrates its fourth anniversary in INNOVENTIONS at Epcot® at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

11 Nov 2013

Baxter Robot Plans Its Own Movements

Cornell engineers are helping humans and robots work together to find the best way to do a job, an approach called “coactive learning.”

11 Nov 2013

Robot Taught to Coactively Learn and Work in a Supermarket

Cornell University engineers have taught a robot to work in a mock-supermarket checkout line, modifying a Baxter robot from Rethink Robotics in Boston to "coactively learn" from humans and make adjustments while an action is in progress.

5 Nov 2013

New Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines Launched at Georgia Tech

The Georgia Institute of Technology has announced the launch of its Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM), the newest of Georgia Tech’s ten Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs). IRIM brings together robotics researchers from across campus—spanning colleges, departments and individual labs—to support and connect research initiatives, enhance educational programs and foster advances for the National Robotics Initiative (NRI), first announced by President Obama in 2011, and officially established in 2012.

5 Nov 2013

CSIRO’s Museum Robot Brings Together Body of Australia’s Famous Racehorse

For many years Australia's most famous horse has been in pieces. Phar Lap's heart — currently preserved in a jar of formaldehyde - is at the National Museum of Australia (NMA) in Canberra, his hide is in the Melbourne Museum, and his skeleton is at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

4 Nov 2013

Research to Study Benefits of Robots for Assisting People with Disabilities as They Age

Imagine the obstacles a blind person who relies on sound will face if he loses his hearing as he ages. Or the difficulty a long-term wheelchair user will confront as she develops arthritis in her shoulders with age.

31 Oct 2013

New Electrical and Computer Engineering High Performance Cluster Can Direct Rescue Robots

Four University of Wyoming professors have developed an Electrical and Computer Engineering High Performance Cluster (ECE-HPC) -- on which they have created computing applications ranging from directing rescue robots through burning buildings to allowing physical therapists to monitor their patients’ recovery in real time and from remote locations.

30 Oct 2013

Students Present University of Cincinnati’s Achievements and Activities in Robotics

Dan Humpert, University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) mechanical engineering professor, director of both the UC Center for Robotics Research and the Collaboratory for Medical Innovation and Implementation (CMII);

28 Oct 2013

NIH Grant to Develop Innovative Assistive Robots

Robots enhance mobility for visually and physically impaired, improve treatment for atrial fibrillation

25 Oct 2013

Carnegie Mellon Research Projects Receive Over $7 Million Through National Robotics Initiative

Robotic rotorcraft for inspecting bridges and other infrastructure, tools for minimally invasive surgery that guide surgeons by creating 3D maps of internal organs and assistive robots for blind travelers are among seven new Carnegie Mellon University research projects sponsored through the National Robotics Initiative.

25 Oct 2013