U.S. Robotics device helps link proliferating PCs

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James Coates: U.S. Robotics device helps
link proliferating PCs

James Coates: U.S. Robotics device helps
link proliferating PCs 04/11/2004 06:50 AM
Chicago Tribune Apr 11 2004 10:39AM GMT

Device helps blind navigate

Device helps blind navigate 02/16/2004 06:49 PM
globetechnology.com Feb 16 2004 10:13PM GMT

Device Helps Blind Navigate Streets

Device Helps Blind Navigate Streets 02/16/2004 01:19 PM
AP via Daily Press Feb 16 2004 5:11PM GMT

GPS device helps runners track speed and
distance

GPS device helps runners track speed and
distance 11/07/2003 05:31 AM
San Jose Mercury News Nov 7 2003 4:39AM ET

Digital Camera Link For iPod: Device
Transfers Your Photos

Digital Camera Link For iPod: Device
Transfers Your Photos 09/22/2004 10:43 AM
The Digital Camera Link for iPod is handy for clearing out your camera's CompactFlash cards and tucking your images afely into your iPod until you can get them into your Mac. By Jackie Dove, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

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]

New link popularity tool with integrated
spam check helps ...

New link popularity tool with integrated
spam check helps ... 01/15/2003 03:43 AM
It has become one of the most important factors for high rankings on popular search engines such as Google, AltaVista and AllTheWeb. ...

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]

LifeLynx Launches New Child Safety
Technology in Ohio - Device Helps Speed
Up the Search for Missing Kids

LifeLynx Launches New Child Safety
Technology in Ohio - Device Helps Speed
Up the Search for Missing Kids 09/15/2004 02:13 AM
Life Lynx has developed a new child safety tool that can alert the authorities of a missing child in seconds. This alert will include a recent picture, which is the most important piece of data that the authorites need to do their job effectively and bring the child to safety. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]

Mytob e-mail worm proliferating quickly

Mytob e-mail worm proliferating quickly 03/29/2005 11:22 AM
The mass-mailing varmint makes up in numbers what it lacks in heft, security watchers say.

Embedded Macromedia Flash Proliferating
in Mobile and Real-Time Computing

Embedded Macromedia Flash Proliferating
in Mobile and Real-Time Computing 12/17/2004 06:30 PM
Vibren Technologies Experiences Surge in Embedded Flash Projects [PRWEB Dec 10, 2004]

Sena Debuts Embedded Device Server for
Device Networking

Sena Debuts Embedded Device Server for
Device Networking 02/01/2005 09:14 PM
The Nemo10 is a compact serial-Ethernet communication module in 24-pin dual-in-line form factor for onboard installation. [PRWEB Jan 11, 2005]

Veypor Helps Helps Measure Motorcycle
Manhood

Veypor Helps Helps Measure Motorcycle
Manhood 04/22/2004 01:17 PM
One of the better trends to come out of the automotive tuning scene are the adoption of cheap, accelerometers that let the drivers keep track of quarter-mile times, 0-60 second rates, braking distance, etc., all from within their own car. With units like the Beltronics FX2 available for under $200,...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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!.

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]

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.

FIRST Robotics Championship Underway

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

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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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.

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.

Aerial Robotics Competition

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

21st Century Robotics

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

Microsoft to Embrace and Extend
Robotics?

Microsoft to Embrace and Extend
Robotics? 12/19/2004 03:41 PM
NateW writes, "Microsoft has just begun beta testing a product aimed at robotics and electronics hobbyists. The ".net cpu module" puts some of the same technologies behind the SPOT watch into a breadboardable form factor. The kit includes a CPU module, eval board, and a special version of the Visual Studio .Net development system (editor, compiler, in-circuit debugger, etc). The beta costs $500, which unfortunately puts it out of reach of most hobbyists for now..." Scary. Will this lead to an attempt to use their embrace and extend strategy on the robotics market, locking people into expensive, proprietary Microsoft tools? It appears the .netcpu is a 27MHz ARM7TDMI CPU. Open alternatives available now include the 60MHz ARM7TDMI-S New Micros TinyArm ($69) or even the 400MHz XSCale-based gumstix ($169). Both can use the full GNU gcc tool chain and the Gumstix will even run Linux (all Free Software).

U.S. Robotics Wireless Access Point DoS

U.S. Robotics Wireless Access Point DoS 08/04/2004 02:35 AM

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“Albert Puigsech Galicia has reported a vulnerability in U.S. Robotics Wireless Access Point 8054 Series, allowing malicious people to cause a Denial of Service….The vulnerability has been reported in firmware version 1.21h. Other versions may also be affected. Solution: Restrict access to the administrative interface.”…

MARIE: Rapid Prototyping for Robotics

MARIE: Rapid Prototyping for Robotics 07/06/2004 12:08 PM
Carle Côté emailed to tell us about the first public release of MARIE: We are proud to announce the first public release of MARIE, Version 0.1 (Tinker). The Mobile and Autonomous Robotics Integration Environment (MARIE) is a robotic development and integration environment focused on existing softwares reusability and exploitation of already available APIs and middlewares frequently used in robotics. The main purpose of MARIE is to create a rapid-prototyping approach to software development in robotics.

Isaac Hayes’ Three Laws of Robotics.

Isaac Hayes’ Three Laws of Robotics. 07/20/2004 11:02 PM
Engadget: Isaac Hayes’ Three Laws of Robotics.
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