By Dan on December 5, 2010
Originally a NASA project, the X-37B became the military’s secret unmanned space shuttle in 2004. When the X-37B launched last April, no one knew what was really going on. Foreign media saw the launch as a signal of space militarization. Officials say the spacecraft is undergoing testing.
Posted in Space and NASA
| Tagged Military, military robot, secret, shuttle, space
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By Dan on November 28, 2010
Robot Box is a community oriented site where users share the robots they have created. Local robotics groups, user created robot showcases, and part reviews are popular features of the site. Robot Box allows you to create relationships with other users, almost like a supped’ up Facebook for your robot creations!
Posted in Other
| Tagged friends, robots, share, social, websites
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By Dan on November 28, 2010
Get Robotics Jobs is a great resource for robotics professionals or hiring managers to seek or fill jobs in the robotics industry. Their listings are easy to use and don’t require you to login like other job search sites. One click allows a job hunter to quickly sort listings by country, state, and keyword. Get Robotics Jobs’ listings are up to date and plentiful. This site is an excellent tool for anyone looking for employment in the field of robotics.
Posted in Other
| Tagged employment, jobs, robotics, websites
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By Dan on November 15, 2010
Robot is controlled entirely by lab grown rat brain cells. The team grows neurons on an electrode array, which via wireless (bluetooth) communication receives signals from the robot’s ultrasonic sensors.
Posted in Research
| Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, cyborg, neuron, New Robots, rat, research, robot, video, wireless
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By Dan on November 13, 2010
Check us out on Facebook! No one likes us yet … You can be the first!
Posted in robot news
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By Dan on November 13, 2010
This robotic deer helps protect wildlife and citizens from illegal hunting. The remote controlled deer has a moving head and tail. Officers bust hunters shooting from their cars shortly after the shooters are tricked by this life-like animatronic deer.
Posted in Videos
| Tagged animatronics, deer, hunting, robotic, video
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By Dan on November 7, 2010
Using electricity in a robot hand to pick up objects! This new technology is called electroadhesive gripping, and it allows robots to grip a wide array of objects and surfaces. Traditionally, robots have had a hard time gripping objects because there are few good universal grippers. Most objects are very different from each other, with different textures, sizes, and physical properties. Using electroadhesion, grippers may be designed to pick up many more objects than previous robot grippers could.
Posted in Research
| Tagged climbing, electroadhesion, gripper, new
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By Dan on October 16, 2010
Surgical robot ‘Sofie’ has force feedback to allow surgeons to feel their cuts. An important advancement for medical science and robotic surgery.
Posted in medical
| Tagged force feedback, medical, New Robots, robotic surgery system, sofie, surgery
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By Dan on October 14, 2010
Google’s autonomous car, which is a highly modified Toyota Prius, has logged over 1000 miles of humanless driving!
Posted in New Robots, robot news
| Tagged autonomous, car, google
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By Dan on April 9, 2010
Check out this video of modified Segway bots being used to simulate human targets in a live fire sniper training exercise. The bots are programmed to react much like real humans would. After a target is hit the bots are programmed to scatter.
Posted in Military
| Tagged Military, rmp 200, segway, sniper, training
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