MoD announces winner of robot challenge
News The Ministry of Defence has announced the winner of its Grand Challenge competition to produce a vehicle capable of identifying threats encountered by UK troops on current operations. Team Stellar beat off six other hopefuls, whittled down from 23...
[August 22, 2008, 8:59]
Robot meets robot in 'Darpa city' race
News It was part of Darpa's $3.5m (£1.6m) robot race, the Urban Grand Challenge. Stanford university's robot, Junior, was the first to cross the finishing line in the Urban Grand Challenge, a six-hour test of autonomous vehicles with three separate...
[November 6, 2007, 10:51]
Robot race draws crowd
News Intel and a group of start-ups are also looking at hammering out standards for robot construction. Although the term "robot" for most people conjures up images of Dr Smith's droll sidekick from "Lost in Space," they are becoming a major focus for...
[October 31, 2003, 8:25]
Build a killer robot, win cash prizes
News With that in mind, Carlberg built two walking robots, PHM and Buzzcut, for the 1997 Robot Wars. Like many competitors, Carlberg was inspired when he saw a similar event, Robot Wars, on television. It's the real interface between the human and the...
[August 18, 1999, 10:41]
Robots could be nurses of the future
News It believes that robotics is set to become an extremely important part of the manufacturing industry in the future, and hopes that the project -- titled "Robot Challenge in the 21st Century" -- will help to make Japan a world leader in the sector.
[August 29, 2001, 14:03]
Robotic cars to race from LA to Vegas
News Cabe, leader of Team Loghiq, is one of a number of engineers, researchers and robot aficionados who have signed up for the Darpa Grand Challenge, a contest designed to generate ideas that ideally will lead to the development of self-driving combat...
[July 28, 2003, 13:11]
Sega creates new breed of robotic dog
News The quaintly named Poo-Chi robot from Sega will scrap it out with Sony's AIBO robot dog for the affections of robot animal lovers worldwide. It responds to external stimuli such as sound and light but its "moods" are represented by shapes appearing...
[January 19, 2000, 15:01]
Intelligent machines threaten humankind
News A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. While the focus is currently on cloning and genetic engineering, few people have seriously considered being annihilated by a robot race.
[January 23, 2001, 13:12]
Giving robots the gift of sight
News Sony's SDR-4X is a 23-inch-tall walking robot equipped with 38 joints and stereo cameras imbedded in a shiny silver head. The HelpMate, an R2-D2-shaped robot sold by medical products firm Pyxis, carries blood samples, medicine and meals through the...
[December 31, 2002, 9:21]
Robots: It's Intel inside
News Under a Bayesian navigation system, a robot would match data it gathers from a mounted camera to a map embedded in its memory and chart a course accordingly. Two robotic start-ups, Acroname and iRobot, are using some of Intel's technology in their...
[March 20, 2003, 13:15]
Intel unveils its tech treasures
News Junior, the Stanford University robot car designed for the Darpa street-racing challenge, is studded with scanners, aerials, radar and laser devices. The world's fastest quad core, running at 5.56GHz, thanks to that big black pipe connected to.the...
[September 21, 2007, 11:24]
Amazon issues code-breaking challenge
News Copies of such crypto-classics as Cryptonomicon, Between Silk and Cyanide, Applied Cryptography and the Code Book are on offer and there's even a programmable robot kit! Code-crackers the world over have been issued a challenge by online bookstore...
[October 19, 1999, 10:07]
Anti-spam tricks block the blind
News Many companies have recently begun requiring users to pass a verification test in order to access their services -- typically by typing into a Web form a few characters that appear on the form in a guise that prevents a computer or software robot...
[July 2, 2003, 13:28]
Sentience: The next moral dilemma
News It is still a man made being and not made in the image of God.and while that may not be important on one level -- I think the secular world and the secular legal system regard it as being very unimportant -- I feel that the robot would still be a...
[January 24, 2001, 16:30]
ALICE talks her way to victory in AI challenge
News Developed since 1995 by Dr Richard Wallace of the ALICE AI Foundation, ALICE is a conversational robot; during the competition, judges typed questions at the candidate software in an attempt to have a conversation as if with humans.
[October 16, 2001, 14:38]
Google gets glitzy to close CES
News He came onstage wearing a Google-coloured wire helmet, a possible allusion to his robot role in the movie "Bicentennial Man," and proceeded to riff and free associate in response to technical terms Page presented.
[January 9, 2006, 8:15]
Can a chip help computers see in 3D?
News For instance, a vacuuming robot trying to discern a table leg through pattern recognition could avoid getting caught up in examining the wallpaper in the background. But Tyzx faces a solid challenge translating the idea into a workable product.
[July 3, 2002, 8:07]
'Smart' tech toys for kids of all ages
News Over the last year, Lego has been incorporating robot technology with its plastic pieces. Lego's Dalton said she has heard of Lego owners who have built prototypes of medical devices, robots that can water your plants while you're away and even a...
[July 20, 2000, 13:24]
Photos: Microsoft's new parallel programming toolkit review
Reviews This is the view from the 3DX robot looking towards the table. When the robotics team was set up, they realised that lots of robotics projects had multiple processes and the work performed by the parallel team would be ideal (one example given was...
[November 11, 2008, 9:11]
Google sponsors robotic race to the moon
News The idea behind the challenge is to urge private industry to develop new robotic and virtual-presence technology to reduce the cost of space exploration. The challenge is the largest ever for the X Prize Foundation and the first major prize event...
[September 14, 2007, 15:12]
