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Inexpensive, Autonomous Robotic Scouts for Firefighters

Engineers in the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the University of California, San Diego, have developed new image processing techniques for rapid exploration and characterization of structural fires by small Segway-like robotic vehicles.

6 Jun 2013

FIRST Global Robotics Competition Receives $123,000 Contribution from NRG Energy

NRG Energy Inc. has donated $123,000 so far this year through sponsorships and employee auction proceeds as part of a year-long program to benefit FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology).

30 May 2013

Fire Ant Inspires Subterranean Search and Rescue Robots

Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much-despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States.

23 May 2013

Robotics Competition for Computer Scientists at iAAMCS Event

Carnegie Mellon University has joined Clemson University and five other university partners to launch the Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Science (iAAMCS), a U.S. resource for increasing African-American participation in computing.

22 May 2013

Robotics Company, GeckoSystems, Forecasts Profitable 4th Quarter

GeckoSystems Intlernational Corporation is pleased to announce that due to the licensing agreement recently reached, the company forecasts a net profit for the 4th quarter of their fiscal year ending June 30. For over fifteen years GeckoSystems has dedicated itself to development of "Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service™"

From GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. 22 May 2013

SBA Honors Aurora for SPHERES Program Utilized in Zero Robotics Competition

Aurora Flight Sciences was honored by the Small Business Administration with its Tibbetts Award which recognizes technological innovation made possible through the federal government’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.

22 May 2013

KIT Researchers and Disney Research Demonstrate Natural Human-to-Robot Handoff Motion

A humanoid robot can receive an object handed to it by a person with something approaching natural, human-like motion thanks to a new method developed by scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh in a project partially funded by the International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies (interACT) at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

21 May 2013

Study Results Help Develop Robots Capable of Working in Confined Spaces

21 May 2013

Opportunity to Interact with Robots at NYU-Poly Research Expo

As a newly minted class of engineers walk the stage at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University Commencement next week, New Yorkers will have an opportunity to walk into the future, as Downtown Brooklyn's MetroTech Plaza transforms for the university's first annual Research Expo.

17 May 2013

GeckoSystems Reports Final Negotiations for Licensing of Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service

GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. has announced that final negotiations for licensing of their "Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service(tm)" are ongoing. This first joint venture and licensing agreement has been long sought by the management of GeckoSystems as irrefutable proof of the benefit and "value proposition" of their many years of R&D, testing, and marketing.

From GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. 17 May 2013