iRobot and Willow Garage Debate Closed vs. Open Source Robotics at Cocktail Party POSTED BY: FRANK TOBE / THU, MARCH 22, 2012 In this post, Frank Tobe, a robotics analyst and publisher of The Robot Report, describes a recent debate between two…..
Gumby-like flexible robot crawls in tight spaces This undated photo provided by Harvard University/Robert Shepherd shows a soft-bodied robot navigating, top to bottom, an obstacle course. Harvard researchers have built this flexible prototype robot that can crawl and move in…..
Programming Contest Top 3 The SCIS Programming Team and the ACM Club held a programming competition last Saturday, Feb 4, and we are happy to announce the winners: 1. Leo Shao ¥éË (Undergaduate student in Discovery Lab) 2. Jorge…..
KAIST sells eight HUBO 2 robots to US and Singapore Each of the bots sells for about $3.4 million. We like us some robots around these parts. The KAIST HUBO 2 robot is a humanoid that reminds…..
Robotics Trends for 2012 What’s in store for robotics in 2012? Nearly a quarter of the year is already behind us, but we thought we’d spend some time looking at the months ahead and make some predictions about whatäó»s…..
Amazon has just announced that it will acquire order fulfillment company Kiva Systems for $775 million in cash. We’ve embedded the release below. Kiva Systems interconnected hardware and software package is designed to streamline the process of picking, packing and…..
MobiCon: A Mobile Context-Monitoring Platform Youngki Lee, S.S. Iyengar, Chulhong Min, Younghyun Ju, Seungwoo Kang, Taiwoo Park, Jinwon Lee, Yunseok Rhee, and Junehwa Song Smart mobile devices are the gateway for personal services in the emerging pervasive environment, enabling context-aware…..
On Optimizing Autonomous Pipeline Inspection Xin Li, Member, IEEE, Wuyi Yu, Student Member, IEEE, Xiao Lin, and S. S. Iyengar, Fellow, IEEE Abstract—This paper studies the optimal inspection of autonomous robots in a complex pipeline system. We solve…..