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Google Pulls Robot From Robotics Challenge… Leaning Towards Commercial Product.

DARPA’s three year, $2 million Robotics Challenge, recently lost a participant in the Japanese team Schaft, which was acquired by Google in November. Rumor has it that Google has its eyes on a commercial product, and let’s face it Google doesn’t have to prove it self in a robotics contest. DARPA program manager Gill Pratt […]

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Parking Your Car at the Airport is a Hassle…Say Hello To Ray the Robot Valet!

A robot valet named Ray begins working today at Duesseldorf airport in Germany, and you can book the valet via smartphone. All a traveler has to do is simply take their vehicle to a drop-off point, confirm their car is empty, then Ray will take their car to one of 249 parking spaces specifically for […]

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Riot Control Drone Shoots Pepper Spray Paintballs

The Skunk Riot Control Copter from South African company Desert Wolf, features four paintball guns and a host of cameras capable of taming a rowdy crowd in a matter of minutes. The drone is capable of firing dye markers, solid plastic pellets, or small capsules of pepper spray from four different hoppers at rioters. It […]

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Bob Is a Security Robot Capable of Patrolling Your Office!

Bob is the name of a new security bot capable of patrolling an office with human colleagues. Incredibly Bob has the ability to make his own rational decisions about security by taking 3D scans of rooms he enters and reporting items out of place or things out of the ordinary. “Bob is not about replacing […]

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Automated Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) To Benefit From $103 Billion Shale Oil & Gas Investments

The shale oil and gas boom is being touted as the “bridge” to a sustainable energy future in the US. To get the US close to 100% renewable energy will take at least until 2030 and burning coal in the interim, of which there is a vast supply in the US, would wreak havoc on […]

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DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge Offers $2 Million For Best Automated Network Security

The DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge is a two year contest offering participants the opportunity to design fully automated network security systems capable of discovering and nullifying threats before they occur. The computer security tournament will involve contestants the opportunity to break down other team’s systems while attempting to protect their own automated security network. The […]

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Pepper: The Humanoid Robot Capable of Watching Your Baby!

SoftBank has developed a new humanoid robot named Pepper who the company describes as the “world’s first personal robot with emotions.” Pepper learns from human interaction, uploading acceptable behaviors, sayings, and unique experiences to its cloud AI system in order to act natural and human-like over time. Pepper weighs in at 62 pounds and measures […]

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Overview Of The Evolution Of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)

The Evolution Manufacturing The creation of any product requires a sequence of operations. In the old days, the sequence was done by human hands and simple tools. With the industrial revolutions, machines were invented to help reduce the need for manual labor and increase product quality. As time went on and the number of machines […]

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New Software Automates Individual Animal Tracking

Scientists are continuously studying the behavior and of small animals, such as the mating habits of zebrafish. In order to obtain accurate data, the fish in this case have to be studied as individuals, requiring a large amount of tedious manual coding by researchers. Now, a team of Spanish researchers have developed a software capable […]

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Tappan Zee Bridge Being Built By Robotic Welders

Robotic welders are helping a team of Gulf Coast workers build the new Tappan Zee Bridge in New York. The robots are state-of-the art machines tasked with speeding up the process of installing over 1,000 steel pipes on the Hudson River. David McQuaid, a welding expert who has consulted on the project, says, “If you […]

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