New Manufacturing Innovation Institutes Announcements
The President announces new initiative in digital manufacturing which includes advanced design and manufacturing tools that are digitally integrated and networked with supply chains can lead to...
View ArticleNew era nears, experts say
Science fiction is quickly taking a back seat to science fact. Just look at A Roadmap for U.S. Robotics drafted by the country's leading roboticists. By 2030, it says, robots will be everywhere.At the...
View ArticleThe Rise of Robot Jobs
Machines have been chipping away at manufacturing jobs for decades, proving themselves faster, cheaper, and more precise than flesh-and-blood line workers. Now engineers are aiming higher than factory...
View ArticleMembers of Top Nine Software Teams Move Forward from DARPA’s Virtual Robotics...
June 27, 2013. DARPA press release.After Several Mergers, Seven Teams to Receive DARPA Support to Compete with an ATLAS Robot in 2013 DARPA Robotic Challenge TrialsThe DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC)...
View ArticleX-47B UCAS Completes First Carrier-based Arrested Landing
ABOARD USS GEORGE H. W. BUSH— It worked so smoothly, it was hard to tell it was so ... well, hard.The Northrop Grumman X-47B, an aircraft designed to prove that unmanned jets could operate from...
View ArticleROBOBusiness 2013
RoboBusiness is the leading business development event for the global robotics industry, where executives come together to accelerate the commercial advancement of robotics.Meet more high level...
View ArticleSpecial Issue on “Robotic Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies”
CALL FOR PAPERSInternational Journal of Intelligent Computing and CyberneticsSubmission Deadline: October 10, 2013Guest Editors: Dr. Gui DeSouza, University of Missouri, United StatesMillions of...
View ArticleNew Revision of the National Robotics Initiative (NRI) Program Solicitation
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): January 21, 2014 November 13, 2014 Second Thursday in November, Annually ThereafterIMPORTANT INFORMATION AND REVISION...
View ArticleNational Robotics Initiative invests $38 million in next-generation robotics
The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and NASA, today announced new investments totaling...
View ArticleRobot Rings the NASDAQ Bell for the First Time
A robotic arm has rung the NASDAQ closing bell to honor the launch of ROBO-STOX™ Global Robotics and Automation Index (Bloomberg: ROBO/ROBOTR), the first benchmark index dedicated to this burgeoning...
View ArticleGoogle Acquires Seven Robot Companies, Wants Big Role in Robotics
A few months ago, we heard rumors that Google was planning something big in robotics. We also heard that Andy Rubin, the engineer who spearheaded the development of Android at Google, was leading this...
View Article2014 CPS Solicitation
The Cyber Physical Systems Program at the National Science Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2014 CPS Solicitation has been released. This year’s solicitation has several notable changes from...
View ArticleRise of the Robots: Special Report in The Economist
ROBOTS came into the world as a literary device whereby the writers and film-makers of the early 20th century could explore their hopes and fears about technology, as the era of the automobile,...
View ArticleNational Robotics Week 2014
The fifth annual National Robotics Week event was held April 5-13, 2014.The Purpose of National Robotics Week is to:Celebrate the US as a leader in robotics technology developmentEducate the public...
View ArticleNew Datalink Toolkit ROS Package
The ARC Lab at WPI is releasing the Datalink Toolkit ROS package, designed to for remote operation of a robot over a high-latency and low-bandwidth datalink. The package was developed and extensively...
View ArticleRobotic invasion coming to St. Louis from across the world
It’s the fourth year in a row that U.S. FIRST — For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology — has held its top competition here, drawing competitors from 38 countries.The matches will be...
View ArticlePresident Obama played soccer with a Japanese robot
TOKYO -- President Obama played soccer Thursday with a Japanese robot. Obama's visit to the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, or Mirikan, aimed to highlight both Japan's...
View ArticleGoogle, Facebook and Amazon race to invest into robotics & AI.
"The amount of money that Google and other commercial companies will pour into robotics and artificial intelligence could at last take it truly into the commercial world where we actually do have smart...
View ArticleWearable Robot: How the Ekso Bionic Suit Works
In this Bloomberg TV video Nathan Harding, co-founder and CEO of Ekso Bionics, discusses the company's wearable bionic suit that helps people with paralysis learn how to be mobile and even walk again....
View ArticleA Goal to Combat Malaria With the Help of a Robot
In its effort to develop a unique malaria vaccine, the American company Sanaria wants to build a robot that will do what now requires a line of trained humans with microscopes: dissecting half-frozen...
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