DARPA code teams compete on same K9 robot
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Multiple-personality droid dog; mad science indeed DARPA, the Pentagon research bureau which likes to put the battiness back into battle-boffinry, is pressing ahead with its robot dog/packmule/mini-Imperial-Walker programme.â¦
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RoboCops and robot soldiers got a little closer to reality Thursday as a maker of floor-cleaning automatons teamed up with a stun-gun manufacturer to arm track-wheeled 'bots for the police and the Pentagon.
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Winning robot for iRobot Create contest does many things you wish the company already offered in a home robot.
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Researchers are working out the rules for a future code of social behaviour in human-robot interaction.
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Linux-based robots are tricky to create, but Michael Surran's Robotics class found out it can be done.
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Companies will demonstrate how their technology will work together.
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To join DARPA airship-bot flotilla 12 miles up Fuelled by a seemingly inexhaustible stream of federal military/security research cash, the US flying-robot industry seems to produce fresh wonders every day.â¦
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In the past couple of years, robots have started to move around and work independently. Just don't expect them to look, walk and talk like C3PO in the Star Wars movies -- rolling and beeping like R2D2 is more like it.
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Whether mopping up a battlefield or living room floor, the robot maker is working on vehicle to get the job done.
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Legs or wheels? Entertaining or functional? The robot world has a lot of questions to resolve.
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DARPA eliminates as many as 24 teams in qualifying rounds before the big robot car race Saturday.
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Innovators take note: The folks behind the X Prize vow there will soon be more competitions in several disciplines. Also: The da Vinci team presses ahead in Canada.... Rubicon team plans another launch attempt. By Dan Brekke.
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A German art group reprograms old assembly-line robots to become autonomous artists. The machines draw, spin tunes and dance in public. The group wants to show that the industrial beasts can create beauty. By David Cohn.
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Human GIs to be pawns in deadly man-vs-machine chess game The scientists and engineers of DARPA (The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency), the Pentagon's gateway to the technological left field, have struck again. The bulgy-bonced battle boffins have decided to sink some cash into an effort to develop a super-intelligent battle computer system which will enable US soldiers to be invincible in the field.â¦
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A custom chip powered a disputed demonstration of quantum computing by D-Wave Systems.
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It's hard to miss the similarities between iRobot Corp.'s military robot and one produced by a new rival when the two models are side by side. Both have track wheels that can climb over debris or rough terrain and an extendable arm that can defuse a bomb or hold a camera.
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Israel rolls out a tiny, Uzi-toting robot. But what happens when the armed equivalent of the Blue Screen of Death occurs? In Danger Room. In Danger Room.