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Left-handers Get Their Own Input Devices
News Logitech, one of the leading makers of computer mice and other types of input devices, spun off 3Dconnexion three years ago to capitalise on technology developed to control robot arms on a NASA space shuttle.
[March 26, 2004, 7:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The good space stuff comes from robot exploration: manned stuff is good for politics, which is what fuelled the Apollo mission. Had to get there before the Ruskies, who'd committed the unpardonable sin of being first into space.
[January 16, 2004, 16:15]
Robot Race Draws Crowd
News 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 research labs and product managers. Intel and a group of start-ups are also looking at hammering out...
[October 31, 2003, 8:25]
Talking Computer Promises PC Revolution
News Steve Grand, a British artificial intelligence researcher developing a robot with learning capabilities, says that language could hold the key to home computing in the future. The project has been named HAL, after the self-aware computer in Stanley...
[March 1, 2001, 13:17]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Myself, I reckon Beagle got Spirit through the top of the carapace with the hydraulic spike, and is even now pushing it over to Viking, the House Robot. A correspondent on the sci.space.history newsgroups notes that things started to go wrong when...
[January 23, 2004, 12:55]
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. Those who have bought the systems include MD Robotics, the company that makes the...
[July 3, 2002, 8:07]
New IMac: Cool Or Clunky?
News Bill Brown, an IT specialist in California, said "the picture of it with the speakers next to it reminds me of the robot in the movie 'Short Circuit,' a popular kid-vid. Still, he was impressed with the product because it takes up less desk space...
[January 8, 2002, 8:52]
Artificial Intelligence: Working Backwards From HAL
News This was followed in 1979 by the Stanford Cart, a computer controlled autonomous robot designed by Hans Moravec of Stanford university that was capable of successfully navigating around a room filled with furniture without bumping into any.
[March 27, 2006, 15:40]
2007: The Year's Photo Highlights
News This robot, created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been built to duplicate human head, neck, arm and hand movement, and to interact with humans on an emotional level. Quite which humans would use a banana like a telephone we're...
[December 31, 2007, 14:33]
Orbital Robot Runs Linux
News The robot is a six-inch sphere inspired by the sparring droid that Luke Skywalker fights in the movie "Star Wars", but NASA engineers say its functionality is closer to the "tricorder" tool used in Star Trek: it senses the pressure and temperature...
[July 24, 2001, 17:12]
Toddler-sized Robot Dances At Debut
News A Sony representative said the company may release the robot commercially in about a year. At the end of Idei's speech, the robot executed with fair fluidly what resembled an aerobics routine, and answered some questions.
[October 14, 2003, 15:00]
Start-up Offers Mass-market Robot Tech
News But once outfitted with such sensors, a robot with VSLAM can change its course and continue to its destination. Evolution Robotics said its technology that lets a robot determine its position relative to its environment is based on wheel sensors...
[January 9, 2003, 14:37]
Towards A Semantic Web
News One of the major obstacles to this has been the fact that most information on the Web is designed for human consumption, and even if it was derived from a database with well defined meanings (in at least some terms) for its columns, that the...
[January 31, 2005, 15:05]
Is The World Ready For The Self-aware Robot?
News With] robots on the other hand, and that's a big part of this whole autonomous robot research, you have machines that share our world and enter our space, understand our signs, understand things like pointing and gesturing, understand natural...
[April 12, 2005, 19:25]
NASA Plans Cosmic Internet
News The idea of sending a robot-controlled airplane over the Red Planet was first raised several months ago, by partners including NASA's Ames Research Center. Next year's $2.48 billion budget request for the space station includes $200 million as an...
[February 2, 1999, 16:58]
LinuxWorld: Linux Gets Bluetoothed
News The company is showing its embedded Linux software communicating with a Windows CE handheld using Bluetooth to control a robot arm. Manufacturers say that this will also help to drive Linux within the wireless space because these companies are keen...
[February 2, 2001, 7:59]
News Schmooze: WorldCom Or WorldCon?
News Maybe it's the Robbie the Robot 1950s design, or the fact that the concept dates from the 1960s, or the presence of a spinning screen in the middle of the sphere. It looks pretty nifty at first glance -- a crystal-ball shaped display that projects...
[June 28, 2002, 14:31]
Oh, Reggie Bosanquet, Why Did You Go Away?
Blog It describes the effect robots or avatars have on us when they fall between the unthreateningly unhuman and the acceptably similar.make a robot look like Robbie, and it's an engaging, intriguing object.
[October 25, 2006, 18:04]
Gates: We're Short Of Tech Talent
News Among the three dozen projects are Teddy, an experimental consumer robot, and PlayAnywhere, a demo that turns any flat surface, such as a table or a whiteboard, into a display or input device. But with memory and disk space continuing to drop in...
[July 19, 2005, 14:55]
2000 Roundup: Weird And Wonderful
News Also in July, and probably the strangest story of the entire year, was the news that a carnivorous robot had been invented. If they were planning violence, local "businesses" wanting to put off weed startup iToke could have got the latest import...
[December 30, 2000, 6:14]
