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- a programmable machine equipped with sensing capabilities used in production environments. Robots are used in automatic assembly and automated handling situations.
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- Corporate ads tag robot racers
- LOS ANGELES -- When the Pentagon's research arm first called for innovators to design and race a self-driving car to make warfare safer, a ragtag bunch of garage tinkerers, computer geeks and even high school students answered. No one won the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's inaugural...
- Research articles 2007-10-29
- Honda's Perfect Team Players
- Having trouble dividing the workload with your fellow team members? Do squabbles over workflow drive your manager crazy? You might want to think twice about twice about airing your disputes to management, because as Honda tells us, robots are becoming quite adept at working as a team. ...
- Blog posts 2007-12-30
- Team CIMAR Enters Dept of Defense Robot Race: 1st Place, $2 Million
- GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- This fall, Team CIMAR Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics plans to unleash the NaviGATOR, an unmanned robotic vehicle that looks like a cross between a jeep and a swamp buggy, on 175 miles of uncharted terrain near Las Vegas, Nev. The team held a successful...
- Research articles 2005-05-19
- The robots' great race: a $2 million DARPA derby in the desert
- Double your money, double your fun. That rationale seems to work for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA. When the $1 million Grand Challenge 2004 prize for autonomous navigation of a 150-mile course went unclaimed, the agency boosted the 2005 Challenge purse to $2 million. By the February 1...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- iRobot and Boeing Team to Deliver New Military Reconnaissance Robot
- BURLINGTON, Mass. -- iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ: IRBT) and The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) today announced they have signed a teaming agreement to develop and deliver a new, next-generation Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle SUGV to military, civil and commercial users. Weighing less than 30 pounds, the robot, named SUGV Early, will...
- Research articles 2007-04-23
- University of Alaska-Fairbanks Puts Robot in Driver's Seat in Race for Funds.
- By Robert Howk, Alaska Journal of Commerce, Anchorage Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 4--Slow and steady wins the race. And the Arctic Tortoise has a good chance at victory -- next time. That's the philosophy of Rick Ruhkick, team leader of...
- Research articles 2004-04-04
- Big robot race is a real smash
- The rise of the machines suffered somewhat of a setback Saturday as a fleet of high-tech, unmanned vehicles demonstrated the ability to plow into fences, snarl themselves in barbed wire and even self- immolate, all unaided by human hands. Played out in the unforgiving sands of the Mojave...
- Research articles 2004-03-14
- Desert Robot Race to Begin in Victorville, Calif., to End in Primm, Nev.
- By John Galayda, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 6--Twenty-five teams of scientists and engineers are busy this week gearing up for an autonomous robotic race that could win them a $1 million prize. The "Grand...
- Research articles 2004-03-06
- Robot sky patrol: the military's remotely piloted planes make ideal spies--but each one costs millions. Stanley Herwitz thinks off-the-shelf technology can make aerial sensing affordable for everyone. (Demo).
- Wake up and sense the coffee. One day last September, that was the job of a research team led by Clark University earth scientist Stanley Herwitz, a proponent of low-cost wireless aerial imaging for the masses. Rising well before dawn, Herwitz's team rolled Pathfinder Plus, a solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle...
- Research articles 2003-02-01
- U.S. SENDS ROBOT TO CHERNOBYL TO PREVENT NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS.
- A significant step was taken recently to diminish the chance of another nuclear disaster at Chernobyl when the "Pioneer" robot team presented the Ukrainians with a robot powered by SGI(NYSE:SGI). According to the leaders of this robotics &q A significant step was taken recently to diminish...
- Research articles 1999-07-01
- NASA Team Demonstrates Robot Technology for Moon Exploration
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- Research articles 2008-02-27
- WAR OF THE ROBOTS: LOCAL COMPANIES JOIN WITH STUDENTS IN 'THE ULTIMATE MIND SPORT'.
- Engineering might lack the bone-snapping thrills of football and the fast-paced action of basketball. But as with sports, the challenges are exciting. And team effort, tenacity and discipline can bring success and satisfaction. Supporters say that Engineering might lack the bone-snapping thrills of...
- Research articles 1999-04-19
- Caterpillar Inc. and Carnegie Mellon Strengthen Team Support to Win 2005 Grand Challenge Desert Race; Robot Vehicle Technology Races Ahead.
- Byline: Carnegie Mellon University Byline: Carnegie Mellon University
- Research articles 2005-08-25
- Digital teams win SME award for CIM success. (Digital Equipment Corp., Society of Manufacturing Engineers, computer-integrated manufacturing)
- Digital teams win SME award for CIM success Automated assembly, materials handling in ultra-clean room help Digital make high-performance disk drives. Manufacturing high-performance, computer disk drive assemblies posed major challenges for Digital teams win SME award...
- Research articles 1989-11-01
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- Indianapolis Motor Speedway Announces Support for the Indy Robot Racing Team; Indiana Continues Its Automotive and Racing Legacy
- INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home to the greatest spectacle in racing, announced today their support for the Indy Robot Racing Team. The Indy Robot Racing Team, presented by Indiana University, developed an autonomous ground vehicle capable of maneuvering without human control. Indiana's Robotic Vehicle IRV is competing in...
- Research articles 2005-09-22
- How dangerous could a hacked robot possibly be?
- IDG News Service - It seems like a question ripped from the back of a cheap sci-fi novel: What happens when the robots are turned against us? But researchers at the University of Washington think it's finally time to start paying some serious attention to the question of robot security....
- News items 2009-10-09
- Thales Navigation's BR2G-S GPS Receiver Helps Trinity College Robotics Team to Strong Finish in Unmanned Vehicle Competition
- Business Editors SANTA CLARA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 6, 2002 Accuracy and Light Weight Were Key Factors, Team Members Say Engineering students on the Robot Study Team RST at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., took full advantage of a Thales Navigation BR2G-S global positioning system GPS receiver to finish...
- Research articles 2002-08-06
- Thales Navigation's BR2G-S GPS Receiver Joins Trinity College Robotics Team in Unmanned Vehicle Competition
- Business Editors & Technology Writers Team cites of ease of use, sub-meter accuracy and light weight in choosing Thales As society seeks answers to its long-term transportation problems, one organization is hard at work with engineering students from around the world to integrate robotics with future systems,...
- Research articles 2002-07-03
- Waiting for robot: DARPA's autonomous vehicle challenge
- A lonely vigil took place March 13 at the desert finish line of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's DARPA Grand Challenge. Spectators and team members anxiously awaited word of fifteen unmanned vehicles on a hazardous 146-mile course from Barstow, California to Primm, Nevada. Starting at dawn, the vehicles attempted...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- Robot Walks on Water
- It could be called a mechanical miracle-a robot that walks on water. With inspiration from nature and some help from research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.), a team led by Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh engineering professorIt could be called a mechanical miracle-a robot that walks on water. With...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
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