| | New sensor and MCU technology are key to nextgen robots... | | Constructing a robot back in the "good old days" was a difficult, error-prone and time-consuming process. Sensing the environment was achieved with devices built from discrete components, many of which were never designed to effectively function toge... |
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SEATTLE — Robots stole the show at the recent International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence hosted by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Besides the fifth annual RoboCup, which featured robots play... |
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| | Flying robotic insect slated to explore Mars... | |
ROLLA, Mo. — Motivated by the notion that the Mars landscape may prove easier to navigate by air than with ground-based rovers, NASA is backing a research project to build toy-sized flying robots, modeled on the entomology of inse... |
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| | Object-Oriented State Machines... | |
State machines are extremely useful in managing the behavior of embedded systems. Here's a C++ framework for implementing them with the greatest of ease.
As part of a project to develop a library of software for programming a six-legged ... |
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| | Robots called electronics driver of 21st century ... | |
FUKUOKA, Japan — As the competitive field narrows for World Cup soccer, Honda Motor's Asimo robot kicked a soccer ball to start the RoboCup competition last Thursday (June 20) as part of the Robotrex 2002 exhibition, where develop... |
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| | Robots try humble path to success... | |
Never mind the computer or even the Cuisinart. Engineers at a handful of companies are finally turning out machines that promise to be useful from the ground up: smart, economically priced robots that can vacuum floors and mow lawns.
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| | ASIMO to the rescue... | |
While surfing the web, Michael Barr, the editor in chief of Embedded Systems Programming, came across a project undertaken by Honda. The goal of the project was to build a robot to help people. The result was ASIMO, a human-sized, human... |
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| | Japan promotes robots as the next consumer wave... | |
YOKOHAMA, Japan — At the Robodex show here this week Japanese companies unwrapped platforms and supporting technology designed to make robots a mainstream consumer electronics market. Their goal is to boost the robot industry as the... |
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| | Sony robot runs and jumps... | |
TOKYO — Sony Corp. has developed an integrated walking, running, and jumping motion control technology that enables its humanoid robot "Qrio" to smoothly combine conventional walking movement with new running and jumping motions.
"In the... |
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| | Autonomous vehicles to put embedded technology to the test... | |
Ground-based transportation will take a new turn this week, as 20 driverless vehicles, described as "supercomputers on wheels," race across the southern California desert in a million-dollar, winner-take-all competition sponsored by the U.S. D... |
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| | Robots' future in hobbyists' hands... | |
Behind the televised clatter of mechanized combat during last month's RoboGames in San Francisco was a quiet concern. Robots won't save the world. But, equipped with enough intelligence and mechanical precision, they could disarm bombs and p... |
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| | The Grand Challenge... | |
Around mid-October the second DARPA Grand Challenge race had gear heads and bit heads glued to their Web browsers watching robotic cars traverse the Arizona desert. Unlike last year, many of the self-guided trucks actually made it to the finis... |
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| | Porting an existing embedded system to Linux ... | |
Every embedded system has the potential to reach a limit where
requirements cannot be implemented without compromise to the design, or
perhaps at all. When that time comes, the company's management and
technical staff must agree on what to do.... |
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| | Advances in industrial robot intelligence... | |
According to the Robotic Industries Association , the North American robotics industry grew at an average annual rate of 20% from 2003-2005. Taking into consideration a relatively soft automotive market and increased pressure from overseas m... |
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| | Helping Designers Make the Right Choices for Automation... | |
A while back, I heard a statement that stuck in my mind: "While automation has played a large part in increasing productivity, we have not gotten the help from robotics that we had hoped for." That took me by surprise, since I've worked as a designe... |
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| | Roomba sweeps low-cost parts... | |
To view an on-demand seminar featuring the Roomba Discovery robotic vacuum, click here.
The flying-saucer-shaped Roomba Discovery robotic vacuum, at the upper end of a range of Roomba devices from iRobot, features autoreturn to a home charger ba... |
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| | SOFTWARE: Robot-building tool set rolls ... | |
San Jose, Calif. -- Microsoft Corp. believes hobbyists' interest in commercial robotics today is similar to their enthusiasm for personal computers in the 1970s. The company rolled out a commercial version of its Robotics Studio application develo... |
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| | Six axis robots palletize Carlsberg beverages ... | |
Carlsberg Breweries is one of the world's largest brewing groups. Its core markets are the Nordic region, Eastern Europe, the United Kingdom and Asia. The breweries sell around 7,000 million liters of beer via subsidiaries and affiliated companies a... |
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| | Make Your Own Home Bot With iRobot's New Robotics Platform... | |
Picture this: It's the final quarter of a big playoff football game and you can't tear yourself away from the TV, but you have a terrible thirst for a beer or a soda. What can you do?
You could send your iRobot Create bot to the refrigerator to open... |
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| | Driverless vehicles meeting challenge... | |
PORTLAND, Ore. — The winners of the last Grand Challenge, an autonomous vehicle race sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), announced their entry for this year's Urban Grand Challenge.
The entries were announced... |
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| | Heavy-duty connector targets motion control systems, motors... | |
Harrisburg, Pa. — Tyco Electronics Corp. has expanded its HTS heavy-duty connector series with a new range of plastic connectors for motion control, industrial machinery (e.g., transportation belts/equipment, pumps and positioning equipment) an... |
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