Biology Inspires Perceptive Machines
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2006
Teaching a machine to sense its environment is one of the most intractable problems of computer science, but one European project is looking to nature for help in cracking the conundrum. It combined streams of sensory data to produce an adaptive, composite impression of surroundings in near real-time.
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Deep-Sea Robot Photographs Ancient Greek Shipwreck
Cambridge MA (SPX) Feb 06, 2006
Sometime in the fourth century B.C., a Greek merchant ship sank off Chios and the Oinoussai islands in the eastern Aegean Sea. The wooden vessel may have succumbed to a storm or a fire, or maybe rough weather caused the cargo of 400 ceramic jars filled with wine and olive oil to shift without warning. The ship went down in 60 meters (about 200 feet) of water, where it remained unnoticed for centuries.
20 Years After Challenger, Robots Grab The Headlines In Space Exploration
Paris (AFP) Jan 25, 2006
Twenty years ago, the loss of the US shuttle Challenger dealt an enduring blow to confidence in manned space flight yet also helped open up a golden era of exploration by machine.
Robot Follows Orthopedic Patients As They Move
Gainesville FL (SPX) Jan 24, 2006
The MRI and CT scan may one day have a robotic cousin capable of following and peering into patients as they move around.
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Robot
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 16, 2006
Will robots one day rule the world? For decades this notion has both fascinated and terrified humans, our hungry imagination fed by Hollywood blockbusters and sci-fi novels. Now a new generation of robots promises a breakthrough in the world of Artificial Intelligence as they become capable of cognitive thought processes.
Engineers Create Mathematical Method To Design Better Robots, Structures
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 12, 2006
Mechanical and civil engineers have created a new mathematical method to design better structures, machines and versatile computer-controlled robots called "robot manipulators."
QRIO Robot Ready To Box It Out In The Warehouse
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 16, 2005
Sony Friday unveiled an upgrade of its humanoid robot QRIO, which can now recognize boxes and play with them like building blocks.
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Japanese Celebrity Robot Gets A Real Job
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 13, 2005
Japan's celebrity robot, ASIMO, shifted from curiosity value to practical use on Tuesday with the world's first walking humanoid set to make its office debut next year as a receptionist.
Spider Robots And The Space Web
Noordwijk, The Netherlands (SPX) Dec 13, 2005
Robotic 'spiders' could be the key to building large-scale structures in space, according to ESA's Advanced Concepts Team. The tiny mechanical spiders would inch their way across large nets of fabric in space performing small tasks or lining up to create an antenna or some other structure.
Swarming For Success
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2005
Someone has to invent the future. And NASA wants a piece of the action. The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) was created to encourage scientists and engineers to think outside the box, to come up with ideas just this side of science fiction. Their hope is that some of these ideas will pan out, and provide the agency with technologies it can use 20, 30, or 40 years down the road.
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Robbie The Robot Works At Purdue
West Lafayette IN (UPI) Dec 12, 2005
Purdue University scientists now have a $1 million robot system at its Math Sciences Building with the capacity to store up to 1 petabyte of data.
Exploring Caves With Hopping Microbots
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2005
If you want to travel to distant stars, or find life on another world, it takes a bit of planning. That's why NASA has established NIAC, the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts.
Researcher Gives Computers A 'Human' Face
Tallahassee FL (SPX) Nov 17, 2005
The friendly facial expressions, the soothing hand gestures, the coolly intelligent voice: Put them all together, and she is both disarmingly lifelike and surprisingly persuasive.
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