PC/104 Design Contest Winners Announced

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.Mac Creativity Contest Winners
Announced

.Mac Creativity Contest Winners
Announced 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
Apple has announced the winners of its HomePage Creativity Contest. The contest featured 3 categories, Creative Page, Humorous iMovie, and Incredible Pets, with winners and runner-ups each receiving iPods. Congratulations to the winners!

'Me and My iPod' photo contest winners
announced

'Me and My iPod' photo contest winners
announced 05/07/2004 12:09 PM
The iPodlounge has announced the winners of its "Me and My iPod" photo contest...

Perl Haiku Contest Winners Announced

Perl Haiku Contest Winners Announced 02/14/2004 01:14 PM

Zend's PHP 5 Coding Contest winners
announced

Zend's PHP 5 Coding Contest winners
announced 12/17/2004 06:33 PM
Congratulations to Qiang Xue, whose application 'PRADO' earned high votes both from the public and from the judges' panel! There are 49 other prizewinning applications in Zend's contest gallery - too many to list here. Some of them are ongoing projects, bringing PHP 5 a small armoury of useful open source tools. The top 50 applications will remain on display until the end of this year, giving you the chance to take a leisurely look through the code and see how the new features in PHP 5 should be used.

'Rock with Rapidweaver' contest winners
announced

'Rock with Rapidweaver' contest winners
announced 07/19/2004 10:03 AM
Realmac Software has announced the winners of its "Rock with RapidWeaver" competition...

OS X Conference: Innovators Contest
winners announced

OS X Conference: Innovators Contest
winners announced 10/31/2003 09:31 AM
Winners of the third and final round of the Mac OS X Innovator's Contest have been announced at O'Reilly's Mac OS X Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. Sponsored by Apple Developer Connection (ADC), the contest "rewards innovative Mac OS X applications, plug-ins, user interface widgets, or other creative original software."

Unified Site Contest III Winners
Announced

Unified Site Contest III Winners
Announced 04/21/2004 10:24 PM
The third installment of the Unified Site Contest is over and the winners have been announced. Find out if you are lucky and just where WERE all of those hidden pieces?

Moving Images Contest Winners Announced

Moving Images Contest Winners Announced 03/06/2004 01:53 AM

We're happy to announce the winners in our GET CREATIVE!: Moving Images Contest. Last fall, we asked aspiring filmmakers and flash artists to create a short film that explained the mission of the Creative Commons. Our panel of judges has selected the top three entries and they're all terrific. We want to thank everyone that entered, everyone that helped spread the word, our judges for taking time to help us with the contest, and most of all thanks and congratulations to Justin Cone, Sheryl Seibert, and Kuba & Alek Tarkowski.

WThRemix Contest Winners to be announced
March 24th

WThRemix Contest Winners to be announced
March 24th 03/19/2003 10:26 PM
Due to busy schedules and the overly complex voting system I put together, the WThRemix contest winners will be announced...

Industrial Design Winners Announced

Industrial Design Winners Announced 07/25/2004 10:39 AM

AllTheWeb Alchemist Skin Design Contest
Winners

AllTheWeb Alchemist Skin Design Contest
Winners 12/06/2002 10:02 AM
In 2002 AllTheWeb has quietly become one of the most innovative search engines we have ever seen. They have announced the winners of their unique CSS skin design contest.

Apple announces Keynote design contest
winners

Apple announces Keynote design contest
winners 07/30/2004 12:19 PM
In June Apple started its "Present Your Passion" contest, and now it's announced the winners. The event sought the best presentations created using Apple's Keynote software. "Present Your Passion" garnered hundreds of entries, according to Apple, and the company has posted the top three winners and six honorable mentions. QuickTime movies of all winners and honorable mentions have been posted; you can even download the source for the grand prize, first place and second place entries.

WWDC: Apple Design Award winners
announced

WWDC: Apple Design Award winners
announced 06/30/2004 02:24 PM
On Wednesday, Apple announced the winners of its ninth annual Apple Design Awards, in conjunction with Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which is happening this week at the Moscone West convention center in San Francisco, Calif. The Design Awards reward Mac developers with free equipment and recognition for their efforts. This year's ninth annual Apple Design Awards were broken into three categories: Application Software, QuickTime Content and Performance Demos.

REALbasic Design Awards 2005 winners
announced

REALbasic Design Awards 2005 winners
announced 03/30/2005 11:21 AM
REAL Software on Wednesday announced the winners of its REALbasic Design Awards for 2005. The awards are given out to REALbasic developers based on creativity, ease of use, design, utility and supporting information.

News: REALbasic Design Awards 2005
winners announced

News: REALbasic Design Awards 2005
winners announced 03/30/2005 05:41 PM
REAL Software on Wednesday announced the winners of its REALbasic Design Awards for 2005. The awards are given out to REALbasic developers based on creativity, ease of use, design, utility and supporting information.

2004 Adobe Design Achievement Awards
winners announced

2004 Adobe Design Achievement Awards
winners announced 07/30/2004 09:57 AM
More than 1,400 college students from the US, UK and Canada competed in the fourth annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards, sponsored by Adobe Systems Inc., and now the company has announced the winners. The program recognizes talented student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators and digital filmmakers who use the latest Adobe products to show off their skills.

"2005 WEBBY AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
- You Vote for the Best Websites -
Winners announced in May 2005"

"2005 WEBBY AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
- You Vote for the Best Websites -
Winners announced in May 2005" 04/15/2005 11:41 PM

Introducing the Band of Gonzos Web
Design and SEO Forum: Website Design
Contest

Introducing the Band of Gonzos Web
Design and SEO Forum: Website Design
Contest 06/15/2004 02:12 AM
We invite entries for a basic website design with navigation for a hosting company website (OgreHosting.com). The winning design will incorporate the existing graphics/logos and the general theme of OgreHosting. [PRWEB Jun 15, 2004]

CC Contest Winners

CC Contest Winners 03/06/2004 01:51 AM
The winners of the Creative Commons contest have been announc ed. I would have had a particularly hard time picking between the first two. "Mix Tape" is a brilliant way of making the point.

Gmail contest winners

Gmail contest winners 06/14/2004 02:18 AM

First off, let me just say I got a ton of response to my gmail photo invites thing and among the entries I got far too many good ones to pick just a few. I actually used gmail's built-in tools to track everything. By labeling all incoming entries, I can see in one click that 118 people sent a photo link in. Of those, I put a star next to 36 I liked on first view. Of those, I narrowed them down to 31. Among those 31, there was something compelling about the colors, lighting, and/or subject matter and any one of ten could have had the top spots. I'm going with my gut reaction on first viewing but here are the three winning entries:

a kite photo, a net photo, & a sunset photo

It was really hard to pick the top three, as any one of these could have also been there. If I had more invites to give out, I would have thrown them all into this list, in no particular order:

§ § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § §

I learned some things in this experiment. The biggest one is that when I said "send in your best photo" I figured that meant the best composition with the best lighting and most technically superior image. What most people sent was their finest memory captured on film, regardless of photo quality. It was eye-opening to me, and told me a lot about over a hundred strangers. I got to see many, many photos from vacations and untold numbers of sunsets. It's a fantastic way to experience meaningful moments in peoples' lives, by seeing these photos. I've been getting way too far into the technical side of photography for the last year or two and forgot that photography is first and foremost a way to record memories.

Overall, I got to see (and share here) many wonderful photos and memories from those that sent them in. I wish I had more invites to give and thank everyone for participating.

SearchEngineWatch Winners Announced

SearchEngineWatch Winners Announced 01/28/2003 11:47 PM

IOCCC Winners Announced

IOCCC Winners Announced 08/30/2004 09:54 AM
Slashdot Aug 30 2004 1:57PM GMT

Konfabulator winners announced

Konfabulator winners announced 03/13/2003 10:15 AM
The March 1 deadline has come and gone, and two great Spymac Konfabulator Widgets were submitted to us in time. We'll skip the "community voting" phase and just give both contestants a copy of Konfabulator. Congratulations. Thalez's Forum widget and Seven5's Gallery creation both keep track of recent additions to Spymac right from your desktop. Our own team is working on producing enhanced XML streams for our Chat and Gallery system, opening up the door for future Spymac...

MacJams announces contest winners

MacJams announces contest winners 08/30/2004 08:40 AM
Our friends at the GarageBand user's site MacJams.com today announced the winners of its recent MacJamboree song and user participation contest...

FeedDemon banner contest winners

FeedDemon banner contest winners 02/10/2004 02:47 AM

Yes terday I listed the finalists in the FeedDemon banner contest, and as promised I'm ready to announce the winners.

And the winner is...well, every one of the finalists is a winner! I found it impossible to choose a single winner among the finalists in each category, since I could see myself using all of their banners. So, all three of the finalists will receive a free copy of both TopStyle Pro and FeedDemon. My thanks again to everyone who submitted a design, and my congratulations to the three winners below:

• Olegas Kurasovas
• Albert Tanutama
• Christopher Owens

Now that the contest is over, I've created a page of FeedDemon banners and buttons:

http://www.bradsoft. com/feeddemon/banners/

If you'd like to use any of these images on your site, please feel free to do so :)

Fine Art of Sampling Contest Winners

Fine Art of Sampling Contest Winners 03/14/2005 06:06 PM

The final winners of the Freestyle Mix, and the Milita Mix contests have been announced on Mixter. The top eleven Freestyle Mix entries have won a spot on the Creative Commons release, The WIRED CD -- Ripped. Sampled. Mashed. Shared. (playing off the original WIRED CD), and free passes to the M3 Music Summit in Miami. The top track of the Militia Mix Contest won a spot on the next Fine Arts Militia Album Featuring Chuck D. Brian Hardgroove of Fine Arts Militia has this to say: "Overall, I would have been proud to put most of those mixes on the new record -- mad props to the producers."

We'd like to offer a huge thanks to all the contestants and judges, and specifically to Victor Stone for building Mixter and moderating the site (more on Mixter later). This experiment has yielded some great music that will hopefully promote the concept of collaboration over space and time, even further.

EFF Pioneer award winners announced

EFF Pioneer award winners announced 04/08/2005 05:28 AM
Cory Doctorow: Next Wednesday, as part of the festivities in Seattle's Computers, Freedom and Privacy confernece, EFF will host its Pioneer Awards, at 7PM at the Sci Fi Museum. Today, the org released the list of (very) distinguished winners for the year:

Dr. Patrick Ball is a leading innovator in applying scientific measurement to human rights. He directs the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) at Benetech (www.benetech.org), a nonprofit organization that combines the impact of technological solutions with the social entrepreneurship business model to help disadvantaged communities. He served as the catalyst behind two open source software tools for the human rights community, "Martus" and "Analyzer," which aid in the secure storage and analysis of data on human rights violations. He will be accepting his award from East Timor.

Edward Felten is a professor of Computer Science at Princeton University whose research interests include computer security and technology law and policy. He brings these scholarly interests to his work as an activist. In 2001, Felten and EFF sued the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Felten is also author of "Freedom to Tinker" (www.freedom-to-tinker.com), a highly regarded weblog exploring the ways government and industry attempt to limit technological innovation and what activists can do about it.

Mitch Kapor is President and Chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation (www.osafoundation.org), a nonprofit organization he founded in 2001 to promote the development and acceptance of high-quality application software developed and distributed using open source methods and licenses. He is widely known as founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer app" that made the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980's. In 1990 he co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation and served as its chairman until 1994.

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iMovie Competition Winners Announced

iMovie Competition Winners Announced 12/11/2003 09:39 AM
This aimed to identify the best short movies made using Apple's consumer video-editing application. (Macworld UK via MyAppleMenu)

Macworld UK award winners announced

Macworld UK award winners announced 05/21/2004 08:22 AM
Macworld UK announced the winners of its annual Ma cworld Awards on Thursday at a ceremony hosted by Macworld UK Editor-in-Chief, Simon Jary, and Editor David Fanning. Among the Editors Choice winners were HP, FileMaker, Canon, Adobe, LaCie and Aspyr Media. Apple was given honors for the Power Mac G5.

The winners of the Prix Ars Electronica
have been announced

The winners of the Prix Ars Electronica
have been announced 05/05/2004 08:12 AM
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Pixelpalooza 2004 winners announced

Pixelpalooza 2004 winners announced 04/21/2004 12:47 PM
The Iconfactory has announced the winners of Pixelpalooza 2004, its icon design contest. The company said that 100 entries were made from around the world; of that, nine were picked.

The Fine Art of Sampling winners
announced

The Fine Art of Sampling winners
announced 03/14/2005 05:51 PM
CC's Fine Art of Sampling contest has announced its winners. Read about it on the CC blog.

Winners of the ExtremeTech Extreme Case
Mod Contest

Winners of the ExtremeTech Extreme Case
Mod Contest 06/21/2004 11:21 PM
And the winners of the contest are...

Qt/Mac Application Developer Contest
winners named

Qt/Mac Application Developer Contest
winners named 06/29/2004 05:23 PM
Trolltech has announced the winners of the worldwide contest for Qt/Mac developers, which has the goal of encouraging developers to "be creative with Qt for Mac OS X" and to "increase the number of innovative applications on the Mac."...

O'Reilly announces OS X Innovators
Contest winners

O'Reilly announces OS X Innovators
Contest winners 10/30/2003 09:21 PM
O'Reilly announced the winners of the third and final round of its Mac OS X Innovators Contest at the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference today...

No "Free Entry Winners" In The iTunes
Contest...

No "Free Entry Winners" In The iTunes
Contest... 07/13/2004 06:48 PM
It's pretty much impossible to know if the free entries were really ever even part of the contest. By Phillip Torrone, Engadget (via MyAppleMenu)

eEurope Awards for eHealth the winners
announced

eEurope Awards for eHealth the winners
announced 05/10/2004 03:04 AM
PublicTechnology.net May 10 2004 7:28AM GMT

Macworld Awards 2004 winners announced

Macworld Awards 2004 winners announced 05/21/2004 08:25 AM
Macworld UK has announced the winners of its Macworld Awards 2004...

2002 ActiveState Awards Winners
Announced

2002 ActiveState Awards Winners
Announced 07/24/2002 08:58 AM

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Visual Searching by an Autonomous Robot

Visual Searching by an Autonomous Robot 04/20/2004 03:40 PM
When a robot needs to guard a region of space within a building, it's faced with solving geometric problems known as the Watchman Problem and the Art Gallery Problem. A new paper titled Online Searching by an Autonomous Robot (PDF format) describes the use of a KURT3D robot with a low cost 3D laser scanner to find realistic solutions to these problems. They test their work by putting the Linux-based robot through its paces in the great hall of Schloss Birlinghoven at Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. Video of the robot in action and 3D scans are available on the website.

Will There Be A Winning Autonomous Robot
in 2005?

Will There Be A Winning Autonomous Robot
in 2005? 06/05/2004 09:07 PM

DARPA's Grand Challenge Autonomous Road
Race Much More Popular Than Expected

DARPA's Grand Challenge Autonomous Road
Race Much More Popular Than Expected 10/30/2003 11:46 PM
We wrote about DARPA's "Grand Challenge" road race when it was first announced and then a few months ago. In the meantime, it appears that it's really struck a nerve with a lot of people. DARPA says they've received 106 applications to participate, which is a lot more than they expected. They thought there would be much fewer (under 30) applicants, and that many wouldn't pass initial scrutiny. The plan was to announce the entrants by now, but with so many applications, the review process is taking much longer than expected. The Challenge, if you haven't been following the story, is to build a completely autonomous vehicle that can drive on-road and off, which will have to complete a 250 mile course, all by itself, that will only be revealed two hours before the race begins.

No Autonomous Mining Robots, says Minsky

No Autonomous Mining Robots, says Minsky 04/16/2005 07:19 PM
According to a CNEWS story on the recent International Symposium on Mine Mechanization and Automation we are decades away from fully autonomous mining robots. Marvin Minsky, who addressed the conference, said that while it was possible such machines could be built, his forecast was gloomy: "There isn't anything in the laboratory right now that is very promising". He notes that one of the problems is that companies today are financially incapable of doing long term research and development because it doesn't turn a fast profit for the stockholders. On the upside, tele-operated mining equipment is feasible and may be a good intermediate step toward full autonomy.

DARPA's Autonomous Vehicle Challenge Too
Popular?

DARPA's Autonomous Vehicle Challenge Too
Popular? 11/03/2003 04:44 PM
Tim writes "Mobilerobotics.org has an editorial accompanying a copy of a letter to one of the teams entering the DARPA Grand Challenge 1 million dollar ...

5 New Papers on Autonomous Robots

5 New Papers on Autonomous Robots 02/10/2004 03:00 AM
Dave Hrynkiw sent us a link to the latest issue of the Kluwer Journal, Autonomous Robots. Normally a pay per-view journal, the January issue has been released for free. Papers in this issue include Evolvable Hardware in Evolutionary Robotics, A Set Theoretic Approach to Dynamic Robot Localization and Mapping, Bayesian Robot Programming, Mobile Robot Learning by Self-Observation, and A Color Vision-Based Lane Tracking System for Autonomous Driving on Unmarked Roads. (all in PDF format). Enjoy.

From Autonomous Vehicles That Crash To
Autonomous Vehicles That Learn

From Autonomous Vehicles That Crash To
Autonomous Vehicles That Learn 05/12/2004 12:53 PM
While some people considered DARPA's Grand Challenge race a flop when the autonomous vehicles failed to get very far, many involved thought that it was a good start, and with a little more time in the shop they could build autonomous vehicles that could successfully navigate the course. DARPA, however, seems to want to go in another direction. It seems like a bit of a kneejerk reaction away from where things were already headed, but now they say they want to focus on auton omous learning vehicles. The idea is that a smarter autonomous vehicle would learn to recognize a pothole and avoid it the next time one came around. All this really does, though, is add to the complexity of the vehicle, without necessarily leading to much benefit. Learning systems have a mixed history with most systems not doing all that well. To achieve this plan, though, DARPA plans to hold a series of races between a "learning" vehicle and a regular autonomous robotic vehicle, with the goal being for the learning vehicle to get much better each time. It's a little unclear if this new direction is separate from the regular autonomous Grand Challenge or an attempt to replace it. Still, some of those involved with the Grand Challenge say their systems will contain some amount of adaptive learning. However, the general consensus is that, for right now, it's more productive to focus on autonomous machines and let the humans do the learning.

Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots

Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots 06/15/2004 01:12 PM
MIT Press recently sent us their latest book on mobile robotics, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots by Roland Siegwart of EPFL and Illah R. Nourbakhsh of CMU. The book provides a load of useful information on mobile robot locomotion and navigation issues. If you're struggling with the problem of how to make your robot get from point A to point B quickly and efficiently while avoiding obstcles, this book may have your answer. Read on for the full review.

The Grand Flying Robot Challenge

The Grand Flying Robot Challenge 07/23/2004 03:08 PM
If you're sitting around waiting for the X-Prize contestants to blast into space looking for their millions of dollars, or the autonomous vehicles of DARPA's grand challenge to figure out how to travel more than 10 feet or so, there are always other similar "grand challenges" going on. Apparently going on for four years now, the International Aerial Robotics Competition was held yesterday to see if teams could create a robot that can "fly 3 miles, identify a building and enter it in less than 15 minutes." Once again, however, no team successfully finished the challenge. Each year, though, the prize goes up another $10,000. So, while no one won the $40,000 this year, next year the prize should be $50,000. Get to work.

Open Source Autonomous Ground Vehicle

Open Source Autonomous Ground Vehicle 07/30/2004 03:29 PM
Open Source project created for DARPA Grand Challenge 2005

Autonomous LAN Party

Autonomous LAN Party 01/01/2004 02:42 PM
ALP 0.96.10d released!

Cornell Builds Autonomous UAV

Cornell Builds Autonomous UAV 08/06/2004 09:25 AM

IBM aims to make chips more autonomous

IBM aims to make chips more autonomous 07/30/2004 02:02 PM
But will the new eFuse technology have Big Blue's chip saying "I, processor"?

Autonomous Lawn Mower Competition

Autonomous Lawn Mower Competition 06/03/2004 12:31 PM
We just found out that the Institute of Navigation will be holding their first annual Autonomous Lawn Mower Competition on June 4th and 5th in Dayton, Ohio. With the competition just hours away, it's probably too late to get an entry together but you can still check the action at this year's event if you're in the area. In addition to looking for the faster autonomous lawn mower, robots will be judged on their construction cost and projected manufacturing costs of a production model.

NASA Autonomous Spacecraft Ready to Test

NASA Autonomous Spacecraft Ready to Test 04/04/2005 01:35 PM
A New Scientist article says that NASA hopes to launch a fully autonomous test vehicle on April 15th. The robot probe is called Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART). DART's goal is to do what many robots here on Earth are doing these days: GPS-guided waypoint navigation. Over a 24 hour period DART will move through 52 steps of direction and velocity changes to approach an experimental satellite. GPS will be used to get to the general area and then a laser sensor system will be used to move within 5 meters of the satellite. For more information see NASA's DART factsheet (PDF format).

AUTONOMOUS COMPUTING and AGENTS for
BUSINESS AUTOMATION

AUTONOMOUS COMPUTING and AGENTS for
BUSINESS AUTOMATION 01/16/2004 11:02 AM
NetLib Jan 16 2004 8:07AM GMT

DARPA Robot Contest Update

DARPA Robot Contest Update 01/02/2004 01:09 PM

DARPA figures out how to run a $2m robot
race

DARPA figures out how to run a $2m robot
race 08/02/2004 09:07 PM
Grand Improvement with revised rules

Autonomous Spacecraft DART Closes in on
Launch Date

Autonomous Spacecraft DART Closes in on
Launch Date 02/17/2004 09:56 AM
Space.com Feb 17 2004 2:07PM GMT

Robot Controlled By 3G Phone

Robot Controlled By 3G Phone 04/20/2004 03:29 AM
3G Apr 20 2004 7:17AM GMT

DARPA quells robot road rage

DARPA quells robot road rage 12/31/2003 06:13 PM
Grand Challenge back on track

Robot Navigation Shifts Gears

Robot Navigation Shifts Gears 05/12/2004 05:46 AM
The not-so-Grand Challenge in the California desert exposed some holes in the search for an autonomous vehicle, so Darpa wants to try something else -- building cars that learn. By Noah Shachtman.

DARPA doubles cash payout for second
robot race

DARPA doubles cash payout for second
robot race 05/17/2004 03:03 PM
Grander Challenge

Crash test dummies get date for DARPA
Robot Run II

Crash test dummies get date for DARPA
Robot Run II 06/09/2004 08:44 PM
$2m prize inside

Remote-Controlled Robot Could Browse The
Stacks

Remote-Controlled Robot Could Browse The
Stacks 12/09/2003 01:33 AM
An anonymous reader writes "A Japanese team of researchers has developed a robot that could help browse for books in a library by receiving instructions via ...

Hidden Markov Models for Robot
Navigation

Hidden Markov Models for Robot
Navigation 02/01/2005 10:04 PM
The use of Hidden Markov Models for pattern recognition in robots is discussed in a newly released paper, titled Learning to automatically detect features for mobile robots using second-order Hidden Markov Models (PDF format). Hidden Markov Models have traditionally been used for applications like speech recognition but Richard Washington and his fellow robotics researchers have successfully applied the technique to data from ultrasonic and IR sensors on experimental mobile robots. The robots learned to identified indoor navigational features such as doorways and T-intersections as well as outdoor navigational situations like climbing a hill or crossing over a rock.

A Running Robot Or A Rolling Robot?

A Running Robot Or A Rolling Robot? 12/18/2003 12:58 PM
It took years for researchers to figure out how to make a robot be able to stand and walk on two legs. In fact, it's so complicated, that some researchers are giving up on that idea and using Segway balancing technology on their robots instead of legs. However, the folks at Sony seem to have taken the concept of the upright walking robot one step further: they've figured out how to make a robot run. That's right, it actually leaves the ground at points while jogging along. It apparently needs a bit of a walking start to get up to speed, and even at running speed, it's more of a slow jog - where it's feet barely leave the ground. Still, it's a start, and with some more work, they believe they can really make the robot run.

Atair Aerospace Becomes the First
Company in the World to Demonstrate
Flocking and Swarming Capabilities on
Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Atair Aerospace Becomes the First
Company in the World to Demonstrate
Flocking and Swarming Capabilities on
Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 03/31/2005 03:03 AM
For the first time in history, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have flown using flocking and swarming algorithms. “Flocking and Swarming” are two words used interchangeably to refer to modeled flight that is biologically inspired by the flight of flocking birds and swarming insects. [PRWEB Mar 31, 2005]

Robot Automates Science

Robot Automates Science 01/29/2004 12:59 PM
Robot Automates Science
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/012804/Robot_automat es_science_012804.html

Scientists would seem to hold one of the last occupations threatened by automation, given the brainpower and education involved. But equipping a laboratory robot with artificial intelligence software makes for a fair approximation of a scientist. Faster gene and drug discovery could result.

Phil Baker and the Robot Vacuum
Challenge

Phil Baker and the Robot Vacuum
Challenge 07/16/2004 08:46 AM

In an amazing bit of promotion for iRobot (the company, not the travesty), one of the new Roomba Discoveries has written a comparison review for San Diego Source, putting an Electrolux Trilobite and columnist Phil Baker in an head-to-head deathmatch to answer the home automation question of our time: Can an $1,800 euro-robot clean floors more effectively than a technology columnist? Surprisingly, while Phil Baker is almost $1,500 cheaper than the Trilobite (at $250), his performance stands up fairly compared to the more expensive model, although he does have a tendency to leak some dust out of his waste pan when picked up. Score one for the journos!
Read - Robotic vacuums not yet substitute for human touch [SDDT]

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Two Timing Roomba Discovery Reviews [Gizmodo]
Roo mba Discovery [Gizmodo]

PC/104 Design Contest Winners Announced

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