Trends in Robotics
The Falcon Controller: Where Gaming and Surgery Cross Paths
added Sun Jul 01 08:28 2007 ET from TechNewsWorld
The Falcon has three robotic arms and a base that houses the small motors that drive the controller's movements.
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NASA to send little Mars rover into gaping crater
added Fri Jun 29 08:01 2007 ET from Reuters
There is the chance that Opportunity will be unable to handle the terrain inside Victoria Crater or get out once it gets in.
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Robot soldiers to be armed with Tasers
added Fri Jun 29 07:56 2007 ET from USA Today
By adding Tasers to robots it already makes for the military, iRobot says it hopes to give soldiers and law enforcement a defensive, non-lethal tool.
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Flexible and Fearless, Seeking Rescue Work
added Mon Jun 25 07:50 2007 ET from New York Times
A robotics exercise sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security is trying to find ways to evaluate the performance of robots.
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Team searches for sea-floor life at the top of the world
added Sat Jun 23 08:51 2007 ET from USA Today
Armed with a unique set of robotic tools, a team of scientists is searching for life along a little-explored gash in the ocean floor known as the Gakkel Ridge.
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It's robot eat robot at the AI zoo
added Thu Jun 21 20:55 2007 ET from New Scientist
The inhabitants of a new robot zoo interact with visitors and attack each other.
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Blog: U.S. Congress to give robots a big think
added Thu Jun 21 20:53 2007 ET from Scientific American
Intriguingly, it appears that Bill Gates' recent article in Scientific American may be partly to credit for this new interest in robots on the part of our legislative branch.
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DARPA Seeks Miniature Networking Robots For Urban Combat
added Thu Jun 21 20:49 2007 ET from TechWeb
The military wants droids that could intelligently choose locations and self-configure to form a mesh wireless voice/data network.
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Robot sub explores giant canyon
added Wed Jun 20 08:55 2007 ET from BBC
Researchers are for the first time able to view previously hidden features up to 5km deep in the Nazare Canyon off the coast of Portugal.
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Driver Not Included in This Performance Test
added Fri Jun 15 09:17 2007 ET from New York Times
A team of Stanford University engineers unveiled its next-generation vehicle that will maneuver in traffic without a human driver.
