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Technology Research News
May 19, 2004
Kimberly Patch |
Evolution Trains Robot Teams Using evolution to teach robots complex behavior could eventually give them the ability to adapt to unfamiliar environments. There's a long way to go, but researchers are laying a foundation.   |
Salon.com
February 25, 2002
John Glassie |
Flesh, robots and God Are they becoming us or are we becoming them? One of the world's leading roboticists discusses the machines in our future -- their ability to think, feel, reproduce and achieve personhood... |
Technology Research News
February 23, 2005
Kimberly Patch |
Humanoid robots walk naturally There's a reason most movie robots have wheels in place of legs or are powered by an embedded human. Making machines walk on two legs is exceedingly difficult. |
Fast Company
April 2006 |
Oy, Robot! Are we doomed to some post-apocalyptic nightmare in which robots rule the planet? Roboticists Henrik Hautop Lund and Rodney Brooks square off. |
National Defense
July 2011
Eric Beidel |
Swarming Robot Teams to Map, Survey Buildings In the future, robots may be the true first responders. |
PC World
October 2, 2006
Eric Butterfield |
The Future of Robots Tomorrow's domestic help at your service. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2002
Jill Jusko |
The Robot Evolution MIT's Rodney A. Brooks is among researchers leading the charge to develop a smarter and more useful artificial creature. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2008
Erico Guizzo |
Three Engineers, Hundreds of Robots, One Warehouse Kiva Systems wants to revolutionize distribution centers by setting swarms of robots loose on the inventory |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
We're Doomed: Robots Can Now Learn To Adapt To Injuries A new study published today in Nature explains how robots can use a sort of "evolutionary algorithm" to learn new ways of operating after being injured, according to the MIT Technology Review. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2002
John Teresko |
Robots Evolution At GM and Xerox, new applications are redefining both the strategic value and appearance of robots... |
National Defense
July 2011
Grace V. Jean |
Ground Robots Coming of Age With Expanding Missions It's an exciting time for ground robots as they get more integrated into operations. |
National Defense
December 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Simulator to Help Developers Push Robotics Technology Forward A simulator intended to give robot makers a hand during a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contest is expected to remain an integral part of how developers design the machines in the future. |
National Defense
April 2012
Eric Beidel |
DARPA Seeks Funding For Soldier Surrogates Petman is a two-legged robot the size and shape of a human, minus the head. It can walk, crawl and even do push-ups. Machines like this may be able to fight in place of soldiers one day. |
Technology Research News
June 15, 2005
Eric Smalley |
Robot Runs Like Humans Researchers have developed mathematical principals for enabling human-like running in bipedal robots, including the ability to recover balance. They used the principals to develop control software that allows a two-legged robot to run. |
Technology Research News
September 12, 2005 |
Georgia Tech's Ronald Arkin The Director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory talks about trends and issues surrounding the integration of robots into society. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Erik Sofge |
The Uncertain Future For Social Robots Humans have feared a robotic uprising since the machines first appeared in science fiction. Today, experts caution against a more insidious threat: We might like living with them too much. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
The New Age of Service Robots: From Fighting Fires to Serving Beer R2-D2 and Rosie the robot maid may be coming soon to a home, or nursing home, near you. Thanks to advances in computing and navigation technology, robots -- including sophisticated robot toys and appliances -- are now being developed to serve people directly. |
U.S. CPSC
February 25, 2010 |
Commercial Ice Cube Machines Recalled by Scotsman Due to Fire Hazard The solenoid, an electrical component in the product, can fail and result in an electrical arc that can pose a fire hazard. |
National Defense
February 2015
Stew Magnuson |
DARPA Contest Seeking Humanoid Rescue Robot The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's latest robotic challenge calls for a human-shaped robot to carry out a series of search-and-rescue tasks. |
National Defense
January 2016
Sandra I. Erwin |
The Rise of the Machines? ... Not So Fast Robots working in tandem with troops are said to be the next big thing in defense technology. |
National Defense
March 2009
Stew Magnuson |
Reverse Engineering the Brain May Accelerate Robotics Research Machines that walk upright will assist civilians and the military alike, said Stefan Schaal, associate professor of computer science and neuroscience at the University of Southern California. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Erico Guizzo |
Robots With Their Heads in the Clouds A Google researcher argues that cloud computing could make robots smaller, cheaper, and smarter |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Growing Robots From the Ground Up Patient, long-term investors are encouraged to stay abreast of trends in the robotics field because as people become more comfortable with robots, the field will grow up fast. |
National Defense
May 2008
Stew Magnuson |
Navy to Field a Family of Next-Generation Bomb Disposal Robots The Navy will field a family of bomb disposal robots to replace the ad hoc commercial systems being used in Iraq and Afghanistan today. |
Popular Mechanics
January 20, 2010
Erik Sofge |
The Truth About Robots and the Uncanny Valley: Analysis Despite its fame, or because of it, the uncanny valley is one of the most misunderstood and untested theories in robotics |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2011
Lora G. Weiss |
Autonomous Robots in the Fog of War Networks of autonomous robots will someday transform warfare, but significant hurdles remain. |
Home Toys
June 2002
Galaasen & Hengl |
Robotic Technology Has Arrived With the increased use of microchips in equipment such as appliances, heating and cooling systems, entertainment systems, fire and burglar alarms and the general trend towards home automation, advanced personal robotics naturally follows. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2008
Erik Sofge |
New Military Robots to Face Off in Two Summer Contests Singapore and the United Kingdom are staging robotics competitions this August to develop their own autonomous war machines. |
Wired
June 2003
Luc Steels |
Roam Free: How Space Perception Seperates Man From Machine Combining sensory perception and spatial reasoning remains elusive, which explains why robots lack a true sense of space. |
Technology Research News
December 31, 2003
Smalley & Patch |
Bots, humans play together Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are betting that putting humans and robots on the same soccer team will encourage the kind of cooperation that leads to understanding. |
National Defense
November 2010
Eric Beidel |
Will Robots Be Asked to Fool the Enemy? In the course of investigating trust between robots and humans, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology developed algorithms that tell a robot when and how to deceive. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2008
John Teresko |
A Robot that Can Smile or Frown MIT debuts Nexi, a robot with facial expressions. |
National Defense
July 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Robots Unite to Defeat Electronic Jamming Scientists are working on technologies that will allow multiple robots to collaborate and form virtual antenna arrays to overcome dead zones and dropped connections and to amplify the systems' range while consuming less power. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2011
Susan Hassler |
9/11 and the Rise of Robots A technology spurred by tragedy takes hold |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2005
John Teresko |
Robot Integration Growing numbers of machines are being introduced with robots as a factory-integrated option. |
Wired
March 24, 2008
Lucas Graves |
15th Anniversary: Why the Future Still Needs Us a While Longer Genetics, nanotech, and robotics are no longer as scary as they once were. |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2006
Kevin T. Higgins |
Articulated Slaves Ever since a Czech playwright coined the term 85 years ago, robots have offered intriguing automation possibilities. Now they're asserting themselves in food plants, with articulated-arm units for palletizing leading the way. |
AskMen.com
September 15, 2014
James Fell |
Here's Why You Should Head To The Weight Machines Immediately Next Time You're At The Gym Do both. Machines versus free weights is a silly argument. It's like arguing whether you should eat vegetables versus fruits. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2007 |
Fab at Home, Open-Source 3D Printer, Lets Users Make Anything Hod Lipson, a Cornell University computer and engineering faculty member, says "we need a machine that can fabricate anything, not just complex geometry, but also wires and motors and sensors and actuators." |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2002
John Teresko |
Robots Revolution The arrival of robots at General Motors Corp. in 1961 brought the promise of flexible automation. Today's advances in research offer robots the chance to reach their full industrial potential. |
Salon.com
June 21, 2001
Dan Dinello |
We, robots! From Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" to Steven Spielberg's "A.I.," the line between man and machine has never been clear... |
Fast Company
Daniel Terdiman |
At The DARPA Challenge, May The Best Robot Win The DARPA Robotics Challenge is in the final round of the three-year competition to crown the human/robot team best able to respond to a man-made or natural disaster were under way. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2009
Courtney E. Howard |
iRobis Infuses Robots with Cognition The digital battlefield of the future could be closer than we anticipated, as scientists continue to make headway in the design and development of autonomous robots. |
PC Magazine
December 28, 2004
Sebastian Rupley |
My Very Own Robot Want to rig your own robot? After more than a year of development, White Box Robotics is preparing to ship its 912 series of customizable robots (shown) in the first quarter of 2005. |
The Motley Fool
January 6, 2005
Rich Smith |
Rise of the Machines at Toyota Forget low-cost labor. Toyota's testing no-cost labor in Japan. As a first step, the company has already introduced several dozen advanced robots. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Erik Sofge |
The 8 Evil Forms of AI That Gave Robots a Bad Name It's not the hardware but the software that turns machines into monsters. Here is a timeline with the most iconic examples of malevolent artificial intelligence in movies and the fears each inspired. |
BusinessWeek
January 14, 2011
Eric Spitznagel |
The Robot in the Next Cubicle The new wave of robots for sale is aimed squarely at the office market. |
BusinessWeek
July 19, 2004 |
A Chat With Roomba Man The surprise success of iRobot's Roomba vacuum cleaner marked the arrival of mobile robotic appliances. Yet the company's CEO and co-founder is cautious about the future of more advanced humanoid robots. |
Chemistry World
July 9, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
3D printing allows soft robots to rise up Although they may not be taking over the world any time soon, a 3D printed soft robot mimicking the flexible body of an invertebrate has been manufactured by a group of scientists in the US. |
Inc.
April 2006
Chuck Green |
A Record Year For Robots New orders of industrial robots jumped by 23 percent in 2005, thanks in part to growing interest in robots among entrepreneurs. Larger tax credits for purchases of new equipment are driving the trend, as are other factors. |
