ROBOTICS News, Jan 03, 2012

Video: Swiss Jumpglider Bot Leaps Into Flight, Inspired by Insects and Bats Popular Science A wheel not unlike a fishing reel is attached to the robot's underbelly, controlling the lines running throughout the wings. The jumpglider project was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO) last month in ... See all stories on this topic »

DSP Robotics supplies hard-drive for use with Flowstone graphical programming ... The Engineer ... and is suitable for use in robotic, embedded computing and industrial applications. The FIT PC is a miniaturised, fanless PC that features an Intel Atom 1.6Ghz processor, 1Gb RAM, two x Gigabit LAN, Wifi, COMport, four x USB, digital video output, ... See all stories on this topic »

Almost human Scienceline The other speaker, Heather Knight, brought in a human imitation that clearly sidestepped the uncanny valley: a robot with a stand-up comedy routine. In a routine about Manhattan, the robot joked: “I am such a devout tourist that I have two video ... See all stories on this topic »

Writing Code Is as Easy as Raspberry Pi Patch.com ... Pi for everything from robots to turning older TVs into Smart TVs, for car entertainment systems, as a smart home energy monitor, to make an arcade-game box, a home digital video recorder, for home automation, as a sophisticated aquarium monitor, ... See all stories on this topic »

Laser Displays, Mobile Payments, Video Collaboration, Innovation Furniture ... Xconomy The main 5×5 program will then feature one company representing each of Xconomy's five cities: Kiva Systems (warehouse robotics, Boston), On-Ramp Wireless (wireless grid monitoring, San Diego), TerraPower (nuclear power, Seattle), Arbor Networks ... See all stories on this topic »

Cat-brushing robot draws all signs of contentment (w/ video) The Tokyo-based Veltrop has a video out that demonstrates how Nao, a humanoidrobot, is able to take a brush and gently apply it to the cat. ... www.physorg.com/.../2012-01-cat-brushing-robot-contentme...

Taylor Veltrop's Robot Avatar Project Complete - ROS robotics news A year ago I released my first video of Kinect robotics when I loosely controlled a KHR (mini humanoid). Now I have "completed" the robot avatar project. ... www.ros.org/.../taylor-veltrops-robot-avatar-project-complete...

Seeing The World As Your Robot Sees It (Video) | Robots Dreams While other robot researchers have demonstrated interesting ... The Robots Dreamsvideo channel on YouTube includes new robot product news, exclusive ... www.robots-dreams.com/.../seeing-the-world-as-your-robot-se...

Toku Toku Maru Brings Joy for Christmas (Video) – Robot Platform ... His talents extend far beyond robotics. It seems like he is constantly exploring new technology applications and building leading edge devices, like multi-prop ... www.robotplatform.com/.../toku-toku-maru-brings-joy-for-ch...

Greying Singapore taps robots, games in rehab - Yahoo! News Discover news, videos and much more based on what your friends are reading ...laterally," he said after a recent hour-long session with the "Armeo" robotic arm. ... news.yahoo.com/greying-singapore-taps-robots-games-rehab-...

  

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