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CMU Robotic Kits to Help Identify Students with STEM Abilities

An innovative program that introduces robotic technology into non-technical middle school classes will be used by suburban Pittsburgh and rural West Virginia schools in a federally funded research project to identify and nurture students with an affinity for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

8 Oct 2013

Statistical Construct Helps Improve Robots’ Ability to Gauge Object Orientation

Object recognition is one of the most widely studied problems in computer vision. But a robot that manipulates objects in the world needs to do more than just recognize them; it also needs to understand their orientation. Is that mug right-side up or upside-down? And which direction is its handle facing?

7 Oct 2013

MIT Researchers Develop New Modular Cube Robots

In 2011, when an MIT senior named John Romanishin proposed a new design for modular robots to his robotics professor, Daniela Rus, she said, “That can’t be done.”

7 Oct 2013

Rice University Bioengineering Students Construct Long Reach Robotic Arm

The last few weeks have been a whirlwind for three Rice University bioengineering students who have spent much of the past two years constructing a robotic arm for a patient at Shriners Hospital for Children in Houston.

5 Oct 2013

Differences in Preferences Between Older and Younger People About Assistive Robot Look

A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that older and younger people have varying preferences about what they would want a personal robot to look like. And they change their minds based on what the robot is supposed to do.

3 Oct 2013

Autonomous Robots to Provide Robot Opera

First there was opera. Then there was rock opera. Now, two Temple faculty members are giving the world robot opera.

19 Sep 2013

‘We Robot 2014: Risks & Opportunities’ Returns to University of Miami

Robotics is becoming a transformative technology. We Robot 2014 builds on existing scholarship exploring the role of robotics to examine how the increasing sophistication of robots and their widespread deployment everywhere from the home, to hospitals, to public spaces, and even to the battlefield disrupts existing legal regimes or requires rethinking of various policy issues.

19 Sep 2013

SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT and ZenRobotics Collaborate for Global Delivery of Recycler Waste Sorting System

SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT, world leader exclusively dedicated to water and waste management services, and ZenRobotics Ltd. the world leader in robotic recycling will co-operate for the global deliveries of the ZenRobotics Recycler™ (ZRR) waste sorting system.

18 Sep 2013

Ultrafast Ecology of Robots Take Control on Global Markets

Recently, the global financial market experienced a series of computer glitches that abruptly brought operations to a halt. One reason for these "flash freezes" may be the sudden emergence of mobs of ultrafast robots, which trade on the global markets and operate at speeds beyond human capability, thus overwhelming the system.

12 Sep 2013

TI’s Sitara Processors Selected to Power LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Robotics Platform

Today, Texas Instruments (TI) announced that Sitara™ processors, along with TI connectivity and analog solutions, have been selected to power the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 robotics platform that is now available.

From Texas Instruments Incorporated 11 Sep 2013