ROBOTICS News, Feb 07, 2012

ROBOTICS

Flying Robots Called 'Nano Quadrotor' Drones Swarm Lab (VIDEO) Huffington Post This freaky footage of a gang of tiny flying robots looks like it's straight out of a sci-fi flick. But it's 100 percent real. On Wednesday, robotics researchers at University of Pennsylvania released a video of what they call "nano quadrotors" - tiny ... See all stories on this topic »

Ross Acquires Robotics Company TV Technology Ross Video has acquired FX-Motion, a robotic camera systems company based in Brussels. Belgium. FX-Motion is now Ross Robotics, a new product line in RossVideo's portfolio. Terms of the deal, which closed in December, were not disclosed. See all stories on this topic »

Swarm of little flying robots is amazing, terrifying (video) Digitaltrends.com We humans have a peculiar relationship with robots. On the one hand, we create them, and they amaze us with their awesomeness. On the other, well, have you ever heard of a little thing called Terminator? In few instances is our love-hate relationship ... See all stories on this topic »

Future Engineers Help Get Robotics Club Off the Ground [VIDEO and PHOTOS] Patch.com By Alana Quartuccio One might think that putting objects together out of Legos is just play but in the Hasbrouck Heights High School Robotics Club it is so much more. “It's really like a form of art,” explains Mike Pitkowski, the club's vice president, ... See all stories on this topic »

VIDEO: Robotics excitement! Nova News Now The following video features comments and scenes from the 2011-12Robot Programming Competitions at Acadia University... It's more about teamwork, fun and learning than competition. However, after months of preparation, the annual Robot Programming ... See all stories on this topic » Nova News Now

A moving experience – robotic mannequin debuts in Tokyo Digitaltrends.com One might think that a mannequin in a store window that suddenly starts pulling a few moves would be enough to make shoppers jump out of their skin, but looking at a video of one that has recently appeared in the window of a department store in Tokyo ... See all stories on this topic » Digitaltrends.com

2012-VEX-Robotics-Julien-design-a-winner-OPJ-01.m4v YouTube 2012 VEX Robotics Percy Julian design a winner, in red. Oak Park Education Foundation sponsor of this event. Suburban Journals of Chicago Inc video, OakParkJournal.com. See all stories on this topic »

Android Girl In Tokyo Shop Interacts With Shoppers (VIDEO) Huffington Post The "robot lady," perched in the window display of a shop in Tokyo, is on loan from therobotics lab of Osaka University's Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro. She's one of a long line of "Geminoid" robots - extremely lifelike bots that look, behave, and interact ... See all stories on this topic »

The mini flying robots that swarm like 'a 1980s arcade game' The Week Magazine Mini-helicopter robots fly in formation: Researchers hope these machines could one day serve as surveillance bots. Photo: YouTube SEE ALL 30 PHOTOS The video:Robotic "helicopter bees" are nothing new. But researchers at the University of ... See all stories on this topic »

Robots bring beer but Rosie still takes cake Stuff.co.nz Romo the robot users download the Romo app to their smartphone and plug it into Romo – which looks like an iPhone dock on wheels. You can then cruise around and get a live video feed from your phone. Romo's creators have also developed an app that lets ... See all stories on this topic » Stuff.co.nz

Symbotic's 25 mph robots Boston Globe Baum did not want me to shoot video of the bots in action - “We're still slightly paranoid,'' he said - but I did get to see them moving merchandise around a test track. The bots followed white tape on the floor and used finger-like rods that extend ... See all stories on this topic »

Video: Villa Maria Academy senior Erika Arrojado is Main Line Student of the Week Main Line By Bruce Adams Arrojado, a senior, is a well-rounded young woman who is a member of the National Honor Society, Math Honor Society, French Honor Society, Malvern Robotics Club, Malvern Theater Society and the Children of Mary organization at Villa ... See all stories on this topic » Main Line

Hiroshi Ishiguro's android mannequin creeps out Japanese shoppers (video) Engadget In an attempt to lure shoppers, Japanese department store Takashimiya installed an eerily lifelike interactive robot for its Valentine's window display. The retailer called onrobotics guru Hiroshi Ishiguro to provide the humanoid dummy, which can not ... See all stories on this topic »

This Week In Bots: Nothing's Gonna Stop Them Now--The Robot Revolution Is ... Fast Company They're calling them nano-quadrotors, and as the video below shows, by making them small you can pack more together in a limited flying space and create truly astonishing swarm behavior. It's not just for show, though. If you equipped each of these ... See all stories on this topic » Fast Company

Video: Nicki Minaj a sexy steampunk in Turn Me On Vancouver Sun Going off of "Turn Me On," the new music video from Nicki Minaj and David Guetta, you'll need some training in advanced robotics. Guetta's the mad robot doctor in this instance -- helping Minaj take her Harajuku Barbie schtick one perpetually ... See all stories on this topic »

A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors: The flying robot video you absolutely must watch SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) As you watch the video below you can form your own conclusions about this natural evolution of robotics. But I'll give you some of my opinions below the video: As a technologist I would like to remind you all that every future use case for incredibly ... See all stories on this topic »

Boffins uncloak G-rated teledildonic breakthrough Register A team of robot reseachers have developed a prototype of internet-based remote kissing devices that – for reasons unexplained – comes in two versions, one a cartoonish bunny, the other a cow. The bunny, well, The Reg can accept, seeing as how a ... See all stories on this topic »

Super Science Saturday draws hundreds to JCC WatertownDailyTimes.com She organized the engineering exhibit, which also included small robotics activities for the children. “I hope that these kids get excited to build robots, rather than playingvideo games,” she said. Dr. Mark D. Irwin, event co-chairman, said he hopes ... See all stories on this topic »

Snake Vs. Robosquirrel Science 2.0 The device was also outfitted with data logging and a video camera. They prototyped Robosquirrel in a laboratory with snakes. That worked, so they converted it into a fieldable robot, primarily by making it radio controllable and by enclosing the ... See all stories on this topic »

Freeland Fabricators look forward to Novi Midland Daily News During the student-controlled rounds, students control the robot using a video game remote. During the autonomous rounds, the students put their programs to the test, and the robots act independently. On Jan. 14, the Freeland Fabricators placed fifth ... See all stories on this topic »

NB/CL readies for Rebound Rumble Chisago County Press The deadline to complete the robot is Tuesday, February 21. To view a video of the challenge, go to YouTube and search "Rebound Rumble." Follow the progress of FIRST Team 3038 on facebook or at the website www.icerob otics.org. See all stories on this topic »

President Obama to Host White House Science Fair Whitehouse.gov (press release) Through the experience, these middle school students not only learned the innovation and engineering necessary to develop an award-winning robot, but the marketing and business skills that spark true entrepreneurial spirit. • Writing a Video Game that ... See all stories on this topic »

Jazz Connect: the office robot that lets you be in two places at once Wired.co.uk This one-metre tall, 10kg robot is designed to be in places you can't get to. Developed by Gostai, a Paris-based robotics company specialising in telepresence, Jazz Connect is fitted with a camera, speakers, microphones and Wi-Fi, and can help you be ... See all stories on this topic » Wired.co.uk

Analyzing butterflies for next generation micro robots SmartPlanet.com (blog) By Charlie Osborne | February 3, 2012, 2:17 AM PST Researchers at John Hopkins University are studying the aerial movement of painted lady butterflies in an attempt to further refine small robotic engineering. Tiras Lin, an Undergraduate engineer at ... See all stories on this topic »

Mitt Romney is not programmed to care for very poor people (video) Death and Taxes Could it be, Fung muses, that Mitt Romney actually falls into the emotionally dissonant realm known as the “uncanny valley,” in which human-seeming automatons like sex robots or even zombies invoke an unsettling empathy? In robotics, researchers have ... See all stories on this topic » Death and Taxes

John Hopkins Researchers Study Butterflies to Develop Bug Size Flying Robots AZoRobotics By Andy Choi In a research funded by US defence agencies, a research team from John Hopkins University are studying the manner in which butterflies flutter to develop small flying robots having the ability to do similar maneuvers. See all stories on this topic » AZoRobotics

Video: 20 nano quadrocopters flying in formation, ready to attack DVICE The nano quadrocopters belong to the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception lab and were created by Alex Kushleyev, Daniel Mellinger and Vijay Kumar. They can also form structures. See all stories on this topic »

The autonomous squadron made up of 20 quadrotor robots from KMel Robotics ... Gizmag Remote-controlled quadrotor robots have been around for some time, but in the following video just released by a research team at the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab, science fiction edges ... See all stories on this topic » Gizmag

"Dr. Dolittle 4" Writer to Remake "Short Circuit" WorstPreviews.com Then in August, the studio hired "Alvin and the Chipmunks" director Tim Hill to direct from a script by Dan Milano ("Robot Chicken"), who did a re-write of the SS Wilson and Brent Maddock script. Now comes word that Dimension is once again not happy ... See all stories on this topic » WorstPreviews.com

Skynet for Real: Organized Swarm of Nano Quadrocopters (Video) Mobile Magazine Yes, Skynet is here and I, for one, welcome our robot overlords. Developed by the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Lab (GRASP), these nano quadrocopters (or quadrotors, if you prefer) are able to fly in various complex formations, ... See all stories on this topic » Mobile Magazine

Video: An Exclusive Interview with Milani Malik Opposing Views Its goal is to foster artificial intelligence and robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies can be examined and integrated. The concept of soccer-playing robots was first introduced in 1993. See all stories on this topic » Opposing Views

David Anderson on Subsumption-based Robots Robots.net David Anderson, a long time member of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group, did an interesting presentation recently in which he distills down what he's learned about building subsumption based mobile robots over the years. The video is a bit long but ... See all stories on this topic »

Lake Country Watch Sussex Sun 01, 2012 2:28 pm | Parent Night for the Meadow View Lego Robotics Club, which has been meeting weekly since November, is planned for Feb 9, from 6 to 7:30 pm Parent Night marks the culminating activity for the 50 third and fourth grade students ... See all stories on this topic »

The Zen Table: The Interactive Glass Coffee Table (video) Gadget Review Based on an idea software developer Simon Hallam sketched in a notebook back in 1997, the interactive coffee table is built on the idea of a Japanese Zen Garden but incorporates electronics and robotics that that sculpt geometric patterns and images ... See all stories on this topic »

Indio students get down and dirty in mud run The Desert Sun The event — inspired by robotics coach Sheri Gundlach, who showed students videoof her own 3-mile mud runs — raised about $1000. The group hopes to bring the event back on a larger scale next year, she said. See all stories on this topic »

Hiroshi Ishiguro's android mannequin creeps out Japanese ... By News Reporter The retailer called on robotics guru Hiroshi Ishiguro to provide the humanoid dummy, which can not only wink and yawn as people approach, but also display a range of. ...News and Announcements · Call of Duty Videos & Movies · Black Ops ... Call of Duty: Modern Warfare...

See nano quadcopter robots swarm (video) - Yahoo! News From Yahoo! News: In the future, a swarm of flying robots may do the work now done by human search teams. news.yahoo.com/see-nano-quadcopter-robots-swarm--video-...

See Nano Quadcopter Robots Swarm (video) | Conscious Life News A robotics research team has designed a system to coordinate a number of small quadcopters, a step toward coordinating multiple robots for tasks. consciouslifenews.com/nano-quadcopter-robots.../1124227/

Science News Daily || Airborne robot swarms are making complex ... Daily coverage of the most popular science and technology news. Home · Internet ...Airborne robot swarms are making complex moves (w/ video). GRASP Lab's ... www.sciencenewsdaily.org/robotics-news/cluster133589138/

See nano quadcopter robots swarm (video) | News - Cutting Edge ... The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP) lab at UPenn yesterday posted a video on You Tube with nano quadcopters showing ... wap.cnet.com/Article.rbml?nid=57369480&bid...

Watch new videos from FIRST Teams - Oregon FIRST Robotics FIRST Teams 1359, 2915 & 4125 sent in some new videos. Watch as they build theirrobot in FIRST 2012 Game: Rebound Rumble! www.oregonfirst.org/2012/02/new-videos/

Swarm of little flying robots is amazing, terrifying (video) - Yahoo ... From Yahoo! News: We humans have a peculiar relationship with robots. On the one hand, we create them, and they amaze us with their awesomeness. On the ... news.yahoo.com/swarm-little-flying-robots-amazing-terrifying...

Robots Aboard the International Space Station - 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/.../robots-aboard-the-international-space-stat...

Video: Dung beetle dance inspires robotics research - The Globe ... The dance of the dung beetle provides clues to navigation and could lead to more sophisticated ... www.theglobeandmail.com/news/.../article2320919/

Neato - watch IR laser beam during work!! [video] • Robot Reviews Neato - watch IR laser beam during work!! [video]. News and information about the Neato XV-11 Robotic Vacuum. All discussion and troubleshooting questions ... www.robotreviews.com/chat/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=15698

  

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