ROBOTICS News, Mar 13, 2012

Waltham firm's 'cheetah' robot makes big leap Wicked Local By Ignacio Laguarda A video of a galloping robotic cheetah manufactured by a Waltham-based firm has gone viral, drawing the attention of news sites from all around the world. Boston Dynamics, located on 4 th Avenue in Waltham, developed the cheetah ... See all stories on this topic »

Help Kickstart Real-Life Mech Warfare with a New Arena IEEE Spectrum The human pilot can't see their robot at all: the driving and shooting is all done through first-person cameras in the robotsthemselves, just like a video game. Except real. It's one of the most awesome things, you know, ever, and Mech Warfare needs... See all stories on this topic »

How Can You Use a Snowboard to Make an Acute Angle? Smithsonian (blog) At the Ripley Center's International Gallery is a math lesson masquerading as a video game arcade. Crowds of excited children ride bikes up a mountain, control robotic satellite arms and play computerized musical instruments. What they don't realize is ... See all stories on this topic » Smithsonian (blog)

Dr. William Robert Norris Joins CoroWare Board of Advisors Telepresence Options About CoroWare Headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, CoroWare is a solutions integrator with expertise in affordable and open mobile robotics; business class video conferencing; and operational business intelligence. Since 2004, CoroWare has delivered ... See all stories on this topic »

Technology Video: A Swarm of Nano-Copters CaryCitizen Cary, NC – This video, from the University of Pennsylvania, shows a swarm of Nano-Copters, little self-controlled flying machines, performing acrobatic tricks in the air. Nano-Copters, also called Nano Quadrotors, are little flying robots, ... See all stories on this topic » CaryCitizen

Texas Instruments and iRobot team up to shape future robotic innovation Military Technologies Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), a leader in robotic technology-based solutions, announced a partnership to develop robotic technologies using TI's smart multicore OMAP(TM) platform. The relationship stems from the companies' shared vision to ... See all stories on this topic »

Texas Instruments and iRobot Team Up Citybizlist (press release) (NASDAQ: IRBT), a leader in robotic technology-based solutions, today announced a partnership to develop robotic technologies using TI's smart multicore OMAP TM platform. The relationship stems from the companies' shared vision to create intelligent ... See all stories on this topic »

Texas to See Chips for iRobots French Tribune In what may well turn out to be one of the most recent and promising development in the field of robotic sciences, it has been revealed that Texas Instruments, the leading chip designer, and iRobot Corp., a big fish of the robotic technology-oriented ... See all stories on this topic » French Tribune

Colonoscopy Saves Lives! One of New Jersey's Leading Board Certified ... MarketWatch (press release) The scope inflates the large intestine and a small camera mounted on the scope transmits a video image from inside the large intestine to a computer screen, so your colorectal surgeon can examine the intestinal lining. According to Dr. Gallina, ... See all stories on this topic »

Is an MS Drug the Next Treatment for Spinal Cord Injuries? ABC News Women Among Many MS-Sufferers Watch Video Of Mice and Men WatchVideo Controversial Procedure for MS Under Scrutiny Watch Video "Another issue is that in this study, the drug was given immediately after the SCI, and rarely do we have the opportunity to ... See all stories on this topic »

Zeitgeist Phone Booth Shows Off Smart Windows' Capabilities Wired News ... touch the walls, and transform them into something entirely different: One second they're displaying data you can manipulate with taps and swipes, the next you've got an immersive, 360-degree video of someone skydiving surrounding you. See all stories on this topic » Wired News

Friends dream up next big invention Charlotte Observer After a short introduction video featuring will.i.am, students broke into groups to discuss ideas of gaming consoles, flying sneakers and climate-control jackets. Team “X-Tron” looked at aspects of gaming systems that frustrated them, and decided to ... See all stories on this topic » Charlotte Observer

DARPA's Crusher Drives Itself, Laughs at Your Puny "Traffic" Gizmodo "It can read the terrain" and define flat ground, vegetation, and obstacles, said Tony Stentz a Carnegie Mellon robotics engineer working on Crusher's autonomy. During one demonstration, the Crusher didn't Hulk Smash at all. See all stories on this topic »

WPI Receives Grant for Development of Software Tools to Enhance Student Learning PR Web (press release) Recognizing that current methods for measuring engagement—self reports and teacher reports on surveys, observations by researchers, and videoanalysis— are subjective, obtrusive, and inconsistent, the foundation has launched a new program to develop ... See all stories on this topic »

Quadrotor robots are a hit with James Bond ... - CNET News.com Shown at the TED conference, flying quadcopter robots take to the recording studio to jam out a robotic version of the James Bond theme song. Read this blog ... news.cnet.com/.../quadrotor-robots-are-a-hit-with-james-bond-...

Middle school students build functional robots (SLIDESHOW, VIDEO ... FORT WALTON BEACH — Imagination, an instruction manual, a few tools and some nuts and bolts all fused together Wednesday to bring an engineering ... www.nwfdailynews.com/news/beach-47833-fort-robots.html

Science News Daily || Video Friday: A Robot With Bird Legs, DARPA ... DARPA's Autonomous Robotic Manipulation (ARM) program is developing software to perform human-level tasks quickly and with minimal direction. www.sciencenewsdaily.org/robotics-news/cluster138842276/

Video Friday: A Robot With Bird Legs, DARPA Manipulation Demo ... In this edition of our video-filled Friday post, we present you a robot with ...IEEE Spectrum's robotics blog, featuring news, articles, and videos onrobots, ... spectrum.ieee.org/.../robot-with-bird-legs-darpa-arm-darwin-o...

Robots at the Library! | Video | San Diego County News Center Robots at the Library! Teenagers from two robotics schools showcased theirrobots at the Encinitas Library, as part of FIRST Robotics Day. Road Crews Ready ... countynewscenter.com/video?v=115503

Viral video: Flying robot quadrotors created by Penn scientists play ... An earlier video of quadrotors created by the GRASP Lab and shared on YouTube shows the robots in motion and has netted more than 5.5 million views since ... blog.pennlive.com/life/.../viral_video_flying_robot_quadr.ht...

Robots That Fly - Video Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby , ... If you have enjoyed any of the many videos of quadrotor robotsdoing ... www.i-programmer.info/.../3866-robots-that-fly-video.html

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