Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center (ISRC)

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FCC approves new frequency for
intelligent highway systems

FCC approves new frequency for
intelligent highway systems 12/17/2003 04:56 PM
Boston Globe Dec 17 2003 4:38PM ET

Storming Robots Learning Center, Helping
to Build a Generation with Robotics
Science as Part of Its Culture

Storming Robots Learning Center, Helping
to Build a Generation with Robotics
Science as Part of Its Culture 07/17/2004 03:20 AM
Storming Robots Robotics Learning Center is the first learning center in New Jersey offering multi-disciplinary Robotics programs for youth, as well as the LEGO MINDSTORMS Center provides hands-on LEGO robots workshops. Its programs aim to inspire children's interests in robotics and science technologies by developing their intellect in fundamental engineering concepts, mathematics, strategic thinking, and problem solving. [PRWEB Jul 17, 2004]

Intelligent Production Machines and
Systems Conference 2005 will take place
July 4 to 15

Intelligent Production Machines and
Systems Conference 2005 will take place
July 4 to 15 06/24/2005 07:01 PM
IPROMS 2005 is an online web-based conference organized by the EU-funded FP6 IPROMS Network of Excellence. IPROMS 2005 allows people across the world to register as guest delegates and view paper abstracts and presentations and take part in online discussions. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2005]

International Federation of Robotics
Hosts Groundbreaking Advanced Robotics
E-Symposium

International Federation of Robotics
Hosts Groundbreaking Advanced Robotics
E-Symposium 06/05/2005 11:53 PM
The Advanced Robotics E-Symposium will be held online on July 6 2005. Its international outreach, cutting edge topics and line-up of world-renowned experts already makes it one of the 'must-attend' fixtures of this year for organizations, academics, industries and government representatives. [PRWEB May 10, 2005]

Industry Leading Robotics Vendors,
Associations and Media Firms Sponsor
Emerging Robotics Technologies &
Applications Conference

Industry Leading Robotics Vendors,
Associations and Media Firms Sponsor
Emerging Robotics Technologies &
Applications Conference 05/31/2004 02:13 PM
iRobot, Evolution Robotics, VIA Technologies, Robotics Foundry and Others Sponsor First Robotics Conference to Focus on Commercialization of Emerging Robotics Markets [PRWEB Dec 12, 2003]

Electronic Systems Center tests Internet
capability on Joint STARS

Electronic Systems Center tests Internet
capability on Joint STARS 09/04/2004 06:28 AM
Af.mil - Sat Sep 4, 04:57 am GMT

Cisco Systems to Acquire Topspin
Communications; Broadens Data Center
Portfolio with Server Fabric Switches, I

Cisco Systems to Acquire Topspin
Communications; Broadens Data Center
Portfolio with Server Fabric Switches, I 04/15/2005 06:50 PM
dBusinessNews.com Apr 15 2005 11:25PM GMT

Concrete Washout Systems, Inc. Awarded
The 2004 Pollution Prevention Award by
The Business Environmental Resource
Center (BERC)

Concrete Washout Systems, Inc. Awarded
The 2004 Pollution Prevention Award by
The Business Environmental Resource
Center (BERC) 12/22/2004 01:06 AM
CWS recognized for implementing a technological application based on outstanding pollution prevention efforts resulting in environmental protection. [PRWEB Dec 21, 2004]

In the Charts: Media Center 2005 PCs
Take Center Stage Among Desktops

In the Charts: Media Center 2005 PCs
Take Center Stage Among Desktops 12/29/2004 11:54 AM
This month's Top 15 Desktop PCs chart highlights two trends: the emergence of powerful new gaming systems that have sophisticated style, and the rapidly growing selection of Media Center PCs, which expand PC-based home entertainment beyond gaming. Examples of the former are two new Athlon-fueled machines that sit atop the power section of our chart: Alienware's Aurora 64 FX-55 and ABS's Ultimate M5-64. Both of these systems are visually appealing without shouting "I'm just for games." Not only are they the two fastest systems on the chart, but they also produced outstanding sound with their high-end Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 cards and their 5.1-channel Logitech speakers (the X-530 and the Z-680, respectively).

Know-Center - Austria's Competence
Center for Knowledge Management

Know-Center - Austria's Competence
Center for Knowledge Management 02/05/2005 09:29 PM

Know-Center

Know-Center - Austria's Competence Center for Knowledge Management
http://www.know-center.at

The Know-Center is Austria’s Competence Center for knowledge-based Applications and Systems. The Know-Center has its core competences in the fields of information technology as enabling technologies for knowledge management and in human-oriented knowledge management. As a connecting link between science and industry the Know-Center carries out problem-driven, result-oriented and application-oriented projects in these competence areas. Their close cooperation with scientific institutions, such as Graz University of Technology and JOANNEUM RESEARCH ensures the access to latest research results. Together with their partner companies, the Know-Center transfers these scientific results in innovation for Styria in particular and Austria in general. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Robotics + Car = Hallucigenia

Robotics + Car = Hallucigenia 12/02/2003 10:15 PM
News for nerds writes "I4U has news about a new transportation concept, called The Hallucigenia 01, which is a working 1/5 scale vehicle prototype, designed by ...

Mobile Robotics

Mobile Robotics 04/07/2005 05:18 AM
New website launched

Robotics: Grow Up!

Robotics: Grow Up! 06/17/2005 07:12 PM
Lance Ulanoff of PC Magazine says, "Robotics: Grow Up!" and then tells the robotics industry to gets its act together. Lance does a great job in bringing to light what's wrong with the robotics industry by recollecting his experiences with a recent robotics trade show. Sadly, a lot of his points are completely correct. The robotics industry appears to be mired in myopic, over- schooled robotic geeks making piddly wall-detection robots that no one wants nor can they sell. His solution? Simplify your robot and run a cost-benefit analysis to see if it will sell. He says the Roomba meets that cost-benefit criterion. Check out the article to find out more about Lance's interesting observations.

A New Face For Robotics

A New Face For Robotics 02/10/2004 02:52 AM
Slashdot Feb 10 2004 1:19AM GMT

IBM on Wireless Robotics

IBM on Wireless Robotics 12/31/2004 09:07 PM
IBM has posted a new developerWorks article on wireless robotics. The article explains some of the uses of wireless robotics - either human control of non-autonomous robots or for inter-robot communication between cooperative autonomous robots. It further breaks cooperative robots in marsupial teams where there is a mother-child relationship and competitive teams such as RoboCup soccer robots. A list of pitfalls that may be encountered when using WiFi for wireless robotics is also provided.

Integrated Surgical Systems, Inc. Signs
a Letter of Intent with FUJIFILM Medical
Systems, USA

Integrated Surgical Systems, Inc. Signs
a Letter of Intent with FUJIFILM Medical
Systems, USA 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
Integrated Surgical Systems, Inc. (ISS) signs a letter of intent with FUJIFILM Medical Systems, USA (Fuji) for it to purchase additional technology and marketing rights for its Synapse system for the Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) market. [PRWEB Dec 2, 2004]

Lynx Wealth Management Systems and STB
Systems Announce Strategic Alliance

Lynx Wealth Management Systems and STB
Systems Announce Strategic Alliance 09/17/2004 02:49 AM
Lynx Wealth Management Systems, the leading supplier of wealth management systems to the financial services industry, has entered into an alliance with leading compliance software specialist STB Systems. [PRWEB Sep 17, 2004]

Microsoft puts the "center" in Media
Center

Microsoft puts the "center" in Media
Center 01/08/2004 07:06 PM
A new line of linked Media Center devices promise to cost quite a bit of money.

Perot Systems signs 10-year deal with
Key Safety Systems

Perot Systems signs 10-year deal with
Key Safety Systems 01/05/2004 06:44 PM
Key Safety will relocate its Florida data center to Perot's Texas headquarters.

Pyro, Python Robotics 3.2.0

Pyro, Python Robotics 3.2.0 09/10/2004 05:39 AM
Tools for programming mobile robots in Python.

RadioShack's Vex robotics system

RadioShack's Vex robotics system 04/05/2005 07:03 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Today, Sam Mahserjian, a marketing manager for RadioShack, came by today to show me the new Vex robotics design system. I don't know much about hobby robotics, but I was really impressed by what I saw here.

The $300 kit, which is already starting to go on sale at RadioShack retail stores, has wheels, spin motors, gears, a programmable microcontroller, servos, a radio receiver, a 6-channel radio transmitter, and tons of Erector-set style hardware for building robots. I like the fact that you are encouraged to cut and bend the metal structural pieces to build you bots. They'll be selling sensors and effectors in the coming months, and the platform will be open enough that lead users will be able to develop and sell aftermarket sensors and components for it.

I want to find out what my garage roboticist buddy, Gareth Branwyn thinks of Vex. I'm going to ask him to write about it for Make.
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Aerial Robotics Competition

Aerial Robotics Competition 07/23/2004 04:51 PM

PC/104+ Robotics Drivers for Linux

PC/104+ Robotics Drivers for Linux 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
A new robot control software package aimed at PC/104+ users has been released. The new software, called dio48s, includes drivers for the ACCES 104-DIO-48S digital I/O board, up to 8 Polaroid ultrasonic sensors, and an interface to a PIC controller for motor control with encoder feedback. Dio48s is Free Software written in C and licensed under the GNU GPL.

New Robotics Group in Massachusetts

New Robotics Group in Massachusetts 03/28/2005 01:42 PM
Pete Gray is forming a new robotics group in Massachusetts. If you're in the area and would like to get together with other homebrew robotics people, visit the Yahoo! Groups MassRobotics page and sign up. At present they haven't settled on a name for the group or an initial meeting date. Pete says, "At the moment, the group is just an 'online' entity, created just this month...although if enough people join up, I'm sure we'll become a 'real world' entity." You may recognize Pete from his work with New Micros on C compilers and assemblers for the Motorola DSP56F80x that's used in the IsoPods.

Cornfield robotics in the Netherlands

Cornfield robotics in the Netherlands 06/15/2004 10:12 AM
BoingBoing reader Bas Suverkropp says:

The Field Robot event is kind of a miniature DARPA Grand Challenge, small robots must navigate through a maize field. Join Corn2Bwild, SANDRA, Wiedrobot and many others on june 17th and 18th as 22 teams from the Netherlands, Germany, USA, Hungary, Israel, Gambia, Poland, Nigeria,Ireland and Belgium compete in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

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Robotics and the Meaning of Life

Robotics and the Meaning of Life 07/20/2004 11:18 AM
The Open University in the UK, has found a practical use for Asimov's robot stories. They're being used as part of a robotics class, called Robotics and the Meaning of Life: a practical guide to things that think. The Laws of Robotics are considered in terms of real control architectures such as subsumption and on the practicality of using them to design safe robots. Asimov's Laws are just one part of a larger course that reviews the history and state of the art in robotics from R.U.R. and the Turing Test to Moore's law. Students get hands-on experience using a Lego Mindstorms compatible robotics simulator called OU-Robotlab. Required reading for the course includes Asimov's I, Robot, and Ruth Aylett's Robots: Bringing Intelligent Machines to Life.

NSF Robotics Research News

NSF Robotics Research News 10/30/2003 11:57 PM
The National Science Foundation has released a handy news summary that details many of their robotics and sensory research programs. You can read about tiny, two-wheeled robomotes, the COTS Scout family of robots, long-distance robot teleoperation, and other interesting areas of robotics research being sponsored by the NSF.

21st Century Robotics

21st Century Robotics 05/19/2004 07:26 PM

Pyro, Python Robotics 3.1.2

Pyro, Python Robotics 3.1.2 09/02/2004 11:24 PM
Tools for programming mobile robots in Python.

New Robotics Group in Pittsburgh

New Robotics Group in Pittsburgh 04/09/2005 06:21 PM
Dan Roganti writes, "I'd like to introduce our new Robotics club here in Pittsburgh, the The Pittsburgh Robotics Society. We're simply a group of people, mostly with engineering backgrounds, that find this hobby rewarding and fun to do. I've been involved with this hobby ever since high school, about 30yrs now. Since we are still rather new, we haven't a competition planned for this year. Although, we do have an exhibit planned for SciTech (Sep.30-Oct.9,2005) at the Carnegie Science Center You can read more about us on our website. We have monthly meetings on the first saturday of the month." The group also has a mailing list based on Yahoo!.

Behavior-based Robotics and AI

Behavior-based Robotics and AI 08/17/2004 01:32 PM
David P. Anderson of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group has written a combined review of two books recently added to the DPRG library, "Cambrian Intelligence The Early History of the New AI" by Rodney A. Brooks and "Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots" by Roland Siegwart and Illah R. Nourbakhsh. One of the books is based on the traditional artificial intelligence approach to robotics while the other presents Brook's behavior-based subsumption approach. This difference makes them ideal for a comparative review. Readers may also wish to read the review of the Siegwart and Nourbakhsh book posted last month here on robots.net. Readers wishing to learn more about Brook's ideas should visit his online archive of papers. Read on for the full review.

FIRST Robotics Championship Underway

FIRST Robotics Championship Underway 04/17/2004 11:21 AM

White Box Robotics Upgrades

White Box Robotics Upgrades 04/13/2005 11:07 AM

We’ve talked about White Box Robotics before, but now they’re releasing an advanced robot that is not just a PC case with wheels. The company is teaming up with Frontline Robotics in order to add advanced navigation and sound/video recognition functionality to their barebones PC-BOT. The 9-series can hold Mini-ITX motherboard, laptop hard and optical drives, as well as a few webcams and whatever else you can stuff into its bays.

There are going to be two flavors released May 10, 2005: a hobbyist system that has full motion and vision functionality and a commercial version that allows the 9-series to guard RFID-tagged objects and swarm on intruders. We’re waiting, as always, for the buzzsaw attachment.

Company Home Page [WhiteBoxRobotics]
Company Home Page [Frontline-Robots]

Migrating to PowerPC for Robotics

Migrating to PowerPC for Robotics 02/01/2005 10:05 PM
IBM DeveloperWorks recently posted an article titled, "Migrating from x86 to PowerPC: Robots and networked applications". The article compares the PowerPC (or "Power Architecture" as IBM prefers to call it these days) to traditional Intel x86 and ARM processors. Migrating from one of these architectures to another is actually not too difficult if the software is based on Linux which runs well on all three platforms. Ultra-cheap methods of getting started with PowerPCs are mentioned, such as cannibalizing a Nintendo GameCube console or using a Kuro Box. The author, Lewin A. R. W. Edwards, has published a book with more information on the topic, called A Cookbook for Open-Source Robotics and Process Control.

Anime and the Acceptance of Robotics

Anime and the Acceptance of Robotics 08/11/2004 05:12 PM
Generation 5 has posted a story based on the undergraduate dissertation of the site's webmaster, James Matthews, titled, "Anime and the Acceptance of Robotics in Japan: A Symbiotic Relationship" (PDF format). Robots in Japanese anime from Astro Boy to Akira are discussed. The paper suggests a relationship between Japanese pop-culture's image of robots and the acceptance of real robots in Japan.

Zero-g Robotics on an Air Hockey Table

Zero-g Robotics on an Air Hockey Table 05/28/2004 03:48 PM
Wei-Min Shen and other researchers from the USC Polymorphic Robotics Lab have been looking for a way to simulate zero-g robotics so they can develop autonomous robots that can assemble orbiting solar power stations and do other useful work in space. Their solution? Small robots called "pucks" that hover on a conventional air-hockey table. A new Nature article summarizes their work. The USC PRL website offers video of the puck robots at work including pucks assembling scale girders (MPEG), docking with each other (MPEG), and autonomously navigating (MPEG).

Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc.
Positioned Number One in Prestigious
Independent National Study for Surgery
Management Systems

Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc.
Positioned Number One in Prestigious
Independent National Study for Surgery
Management Systems 06/25/2004 02:16 AM
KLAS™, a research and consulting firm specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare’s information technology (HIT) vendors, announced today, the publication of a Surgery Management Systems Study. The 296 page report positioned Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc.’s product periOperative Resource Management System (ORMS) first among HIT surgery management products from an impressive list of firms including GE, McKesson and Cerner. [PRWEB Jun 25, 2004]

Cisco Systems Completes Acquisition of
Twingo Systems

Cisco Systems Completes Acquisition of
Twingo Systems 04/20/2004 08:48 AM
PA News via The Scotsman Online Apr 20 2004 12:36PM GMT

IBM gets intelligent about BI

IBM gets intelligent about BI 06/10/2004 09:53 AM
This year is the year IBM has chosen to get more intelligent about BI (business intelligence).
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