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School Students Build Robots in Stanford FabLab

It had a promising start: The first model car caught fire, just as it was designed to. But as the car lurched forward it veered wildly to the right, missing its target. Which meant the robotic controller to set loose the pendulum balls would have to be triggered manually. And when the second car spun out, a collective groan went up among the 12 high school students gathered around the workshop table.

5 Mar 2013

Robotics Innovation Challenge in Sweden 25th April - Commercial Success of New Robot Ideas

On April 25, entrepreneurs, robot developers and end-users meet at the event Robotics Innovation Challenge (RIC) in Eskilstuna, Sweden, to share thoughts and ideas on the challenges and opportunities for successful comme...

From STMicroelectronics 4 Mar 2013

Neato Introduces Smart Robot Vacuum Featuring Laser-Guided Navigation

What’s the number one complaint people have about vacuuming their floors? According to new research from Neato Robotics®, it’s maneuvering the vacuum around table and chair legs and underneath furniture – along with getting close enough to edges and corners.

4 Mar 2013

New Research Report on Global Robotics Market

The economics of the global robotics sector has slowed in the past several years due to transnational upsets in the global financial community but the industry remains a substantial and growing enterprise. There have been two clear signals that a fundamental change in the industry has begun.

2 Mar 2013

Japanese Robots Are an Embodiment of Monozukuri

As they set out for a Winter Term course in Japan, nearly two-dozen students looked forward to studying the Japanese concept of monozukuri. First, they had to figure out what it meant.

28 Feb 2013

Revolutionary Elderly Care Robot Developed by Salford PhD Student

A University of Salford researcher has come up with a novel way of dealing with stretched resources caused by us all living longer – an interactive care robot for elderly people.

27 Feb 2013

Mobile Robotics Solutions Integrator Enters Value Added Developer Agreement with DSI

CoroWare, Inc. announced today that it has signed a value added developer agreement with Dispersive Solutions, Inc. (DSI) through which CoroWare will deliver next generation cybersecurity solutions for enterprise applications and cloud service applications.

27 Feb 2013

Battles between Humanoid Robots Hosted on Syfy

A new television series featuring 12 giant robots who ‘fight to the death’ casts University of California, San Diego engineering physics alumna Saura Naderi (B.S., '07) as one of a dozen ‘robo-techs’ who partner with a human fighter (‘robo-jockey’) and a super-sized robot to compete for a $100,000 prize.

27 Feb 2013

Electronic Security Expo to Present Webinar on Security Robotics at ESX 2013

The Electronic Security Expo (ESX) announced today that it will produce new media and event opportunities to help connect makers and distributors of security robots and robotics platforms with security systems integrators, monitoring companies and security industry OEMs.

26 Feb 2013

Elliott Museum's Wheels of Change Exhibition Uses Boomerang’s Robotic Automated Parking System

Boomerang Systems, Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of automated robotic parking and self storage solutions, and the Elliott Museum, today announced the opening of the museum’s “Wheels of Change” exhibition.

26 Feb 2013