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Bharath University Develops India’s First Humanoid Robot

Students of Bharath University have developed India’s first humanoid robot and won the 'Best performance for Innovation Award' at the 'Spring Innovations’ contest.

19 Feb 2011

A Whiteboard Cleaning Robot

Robots are gradually beginning to taking over all our boring and mundane chores. Already our metal assistants have been taught to flip pancakes and shoot arrows. People at Fujitsu recently released video footage of them teaching a robot how to erase a whiteboard.

From Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. 16 Feb 2011

European Researchers to Develop RoboEarth Project

A team of 35 researchers from the Europe Union are working on RoboEarth, a project enabling robots to share knowledge for effectively accomplishing a task.

16 Feb 2011

Waltham's Gann Academy Students Win Inspire Award in FIRST Robotics Contest

‘Robotics And Brain Bots ’ (RABBI), robotics team formed by the students from Waltham's Gann Academy won the ‘Inspire Award’ at the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Tech Challenge Championship held in New York.

16 Feb 2011

University of Maine Professor to Develop Robotic Prosthetic Hand

Ashish Deshpande, Mechanical Engineering Professor at the University of Maine, has been offered a grant worth $512,000 by the National Science Foundation for developing an advanced robotic prosthetic hand.

16 Feb 2011

Talons Robotics Team Wins Inspire Award in FTC Regional Qualifier

‘The Talons’, robotics team formed by the students of South River High School junior varsity, received the Inspire Award at the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) regional qualifier organized at Penn State's York campus.

16 Feb 2011

Osaka University Researchers Develop Baby Robot

Hisashi Ishihara, Yuichiro Yoshikawa and Professor Minoru Asada of Osaka University have built a baby robot termed as Affetto.

16 Feb 2011

Harvey Industries Funds Robo Masters in FIRST Robotics Contest

Harvey Industries has announced that it will offer funding for the ‘Robo Masters’, robotics team formed by students of Golightly Career and Technical Center and Detroit Public Schools, to participate in the FIRST robotics contest.

16 Feb 2011

GeckoSystems to Demonstrate CareBot Robot at Annual Conference

GeckoSystems, supplier of mobile robotics solutions, has declared that its innovative technologies and robots pertaining to the CareBot robot will be showcased at ‘Mobile Robots in Motion’, the third-annual stakeholder conference of GeckoSystems.

From GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. 16 Feb 2011