ROBOTICS News, Dec 26, 2011

The Inspiring, Nerdy Toys of A. C. Gilbert Scientific American By Rose Eveleth | December 24, 2011 | 1 Before video games and roboticscompetitions, toys were much simpler: girls got dolls; boys got model trains and bicycles. Toys that promoted learning and experimentation were rare until one inventor,... See all stories on this topic »

Julia Loeb, retirement can't stop robotics team leader: Community Heroes 2011 Plain Dealer (blog) By James Ewinger, The Plain Dealer Julia Loeb, Community Hero Retired teacher, Julia Loeb continues to run the robotics team at East Tech High School even after her retirement. Watch videoElectricity runs the robots that Cleveland's East Tech High ... See all stories on this topic »

France creates the cutest telepresence robot on the planet DVICE The E-One was developed by French robotics company EOS Innovation as a means to monitor and aid the elderly, or simply keep watch over your home remotely. The twist here is that is puts yourvideo image in a head-like structure, giving anyone ... See all stories on this topic »

Hack a Roomba Wall Street Journal (blog) ... robotics program, and the Brainlink was developed with the assistance of the university's CREATE lab. (CREATE's mission, in part, is “furthering Human-Robot Interaction,” a phrase with “Battlestar Galactica” overtones, no?) Video after the jump: See all stories on this topic »

Japanese Roboticists Are Building the Tallest Humanoid Ever Popular Science Hajime Sakamoto, president of the humanoid-robot-building Hajime Research Institute, already has a 7-foot-tall humanoid robot, which you can see kicking a soccer ball in the awesomely soundtracked video below. This one will be nearly twice as tall, ... See all stories on this topic » Popular Science

Telemedicine to allow analysis for strokes Jackson Hole News&Guide The telemedicine program will rely on a device with advanced video technology to connect doctors and patients over long distances. The hospital received its “robot” earlier this month and plans to start using it in February. In the meantime, St. John's ... See all stories on this topic »

Adept's Hidden Value: Its Patent Portfolio Seeking Alpha Adept Technology's hidden value lies in 20 years of experience with automation and over a dozen patents with smart camera systems used in robotic automation. The XBOX 360 Kinect from Microsoft (MSFT) uses digital camera recognition to play a video game ... See all stories on this topic »

Mint Automated Floor Cleaner Review The Gadgeteer by Bill Kuch on December 22, 2011 · 3 comments OK, I'll admit to a fascination withrobotic floor cleaners. I've owned a Roomba since 2006, so when I had the opportunity to review the Mint Automated Floor Cleaner from Evolution Robotics, ... See all stories on this topic » The Gadgeteer

Prototype Asterisk Robot From Japan Has Got Mad Moves (Video) Geeky gadgets Sluggish economy or not, they still put in the hours to develop new types of robots. Seen here is Asterisk, which named after its shape, a six-limbed insectoid prototype that's being tweaked at the Arai Robotics Lab. Japan needs its robots though. ... See all stories on this topic »

Domestic drone use on the rise; where's NLR's? Arkansas Times (blog) Ryan Calo, the Director for Privacy and Robotics at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, wrote in a report that “these machines are disquieting. Virtually any robot can engender a certain amount of discomfort, let alone one associated ... See all stories on this topic » Arkansas Times (blog)

CES setting up its own startup alley CNET All told, more than 80 young companies will be on hand, representing fields such as robotics, energy, digital health, gaming, and so on. Eureka Park is CES' first "big attempt at attracting startups" in 10 years, said Karen Chupka, ... See all stories on this topic »

The Engineer's Top 10 Technologies of 2011 The Engineer (blog) It will be a some time before this technology filters through to robots operating in the real world but cracking energy autonomy will meet one of the biggest challenges in therobotics world today – even if it does raise some slightly frightening ... See all stories on this topic » The Engineer (blog)

Pro-Ron Paul PAC to combat 'racist claims' in new web advertisement The Hill (blog) It's not like Cain with texts to a mistress, or a disorganized Gingrich, or an oops Perry, or therobotics of Bachmann & Romney. People have read his books, played his videos, and researched his articles. The man is the furthest thing in the world from ... See all stories on this topic »

Different dreams, startlingly brought to reality, but still mostly futuristic ... Innovation Investment Journal The website of the Singularity Hub blog is where you can find blog postings giving details of his talk: it is in fact an interesting news site with regular coverage of many innovation topics includingrobotics and biotechnology. ... See all stories on this topic »

Dr. Teresa Prendergast: Garden City is Really a Choice School District Patch.com Upcoming plans also include Robotics (fourth and fifth grade) offered through the Winter Program for Kids (January, 2012) and a college essay writing course, geared toward the college application process (summer, 2012). For more information about the ... See all stories on this topic »

More Than Fun and Games Chier Learning Officer In Humana's Winning Major program, teams of five salespeople act collectively as a salesperson for a robotics company. They handle three clients over three virtual years in three rounds of computer-based simulations held in a physical classroom. ... See all stories on this topic » Chier Learning Officer

Colorado business briefs, 12/20 Denver Post Hair Sciences Center of Colorado, a Denver-based hair restoration practice, has brought the world's first robotic-based device in the treatment of hair loss and hair restoration to its clinic. The Artas System is a FDA-cleared, physician-controlled, ... See all stories on this topic »

Parkville Students Hold Candlelight Memorial for Classmate Patch.com Zahara Kazmi knew Ryan through the school robotics team, where he was interested in mechanics and programming. "I'll always remember Ryan for his questions — the last day we were fighting over a tutorial question, I said goodbye to him and I left," ... See all stories on this topic »

Study Shows AT&T's LTE Network Is Faster Than Verizon's — For Now Wired (blog) Sprint will begin rolling out its 4G LTE network in mid to late 2012. Christina is a Wired.com staff writer covering Apple, robotics, and everything in between. She's also written for Gizmodo and Wired magazine. Check out her Google+ profile here. See all stories on this topic » Wired (blog)

Review: Legend by Marie Lu Is Believable YA Fiction Wired (blog) Kathy Ceceri is a senior editor at GeekMom.com, science craft teacher and homeschooling mom. She is also the author and illustrator of activity books for kids. She is currently at work on a book about robotics for Nomad Press. See all stories on this topic » Wired (blog)

Every Team Should Have a Devil's Advocate Gainesville Sun This interview with Ori Hadomi, CEO of Mazor Robotics, a medical technology company based in Israel, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Ori Hadomi, the chief executive of MazorRobotics, a medical technology company based in Israel, ... See all stories on this topic »

Video: Kombusto, MIT's Interactive Dragon Robot - IEEE Spectrum IEEE Spectrum's robotics blog, featuring news, articles, and videos on robots, humanoids, automation, mechatronics, artificial intelligence, robot kits, and more. ... spectrum.ieee.org/.../video-kombusto-mit-interactive-dragon-r...

Lego robotics competition draws creativity, excitement (video) - Post ... Lego robotics competition draws creativity, excitement (video) - The Post-Bulletin is Rochester and South East, Minnesota's number one local news, sports, ... postbulletin.com/news/stories/display.php?id=1479061

Science News Daily || Video Friday: Hexapod Robot Transforms Into ... The MorpHex in the early stages of the project. (Credit: Kare Halvorsen ) In the world of robots, there are those that fall into the cute category, and then there are ... www.sciencenewsdaily.org/robotics-news/cluster126037058/

Cool New Robot App Infographic (Video) | Robots Dreams The Robots App Store put together an interesting and thought provoking .... The Robots Dreamsvideo channel on YouTube includes new robot product news, ... www.robots-dreams.com/.../cool-new-robot-app-infographic-...

Urban Robotics Extends Octree Format to Point ... - Yahoo! News News: Urban Robotics' Highly Scalable 3D Octree-based Format Lays ... Discover news, videosand much more based on what your friends are reading and ... news.yahoo.com/urban-robotics-extends-octree-format-point-...

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