Pentagon robot challenge goes corporate
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When the Pentagon's research arm first called for innovators to design and race a self-driving car to make warfare safer, a ragtag bunch of garage tinkerers, computer geeks and even high school students answered.
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Wired correspondent Eliot Van Buskirk takes a spin inside "Boss," the robot-controlled car created by GM and Carnegie Mellon for the Darpa Urban Challenge.
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Legs or wheels? Entertaining or functional? The robot world has a lot of questions to resolve.
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A new project will create collaborative, multitasking miniature robots that can work together to help humans build factories or assist in rescues after natural disasters. By Emmet Cole.
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ConnectR communications robot lets you see who's talking and follow them around the room.
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Microsoft on Wednesday officially released its robot software development environment, aiming to put the company in the center of robotics by licensing out its operating system to hobbyists and companies alike.
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The space agency taps Lockheed Martin and MD Robotics to build robotic technology it may use to repair the ailing Hubble Space Telescope. By Amit Asaravala.
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Swarm robots, car robots, team robots -- you name it, you can find it at the RoboNexus convention. Daniel Terdiman reports from Santa Clara, California.
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The Pentagon's research arm has reversed course and announced it will restore cash prizes to the top three finishers of a robot race set for next year.
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Seiko Epson is developing a flying robot that looks like a miniature helicopter and is about the size of a giant bug. The company hopes it&#39;ll prove handy for security, disaster rescue and space exploration.
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Ballbot, a narrow, 5-foot-tall robot, balances delicately on what looks like a bowling ball. Swaying slightly on a laboratory floor, the aluminum-framed droid seems ready to fall at any moment.
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Company competes in Baja 1000 as a way to build its name and test its technology.
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Roomba maker set to build mechanoid legions Noted droid manufacturer iRobot has this week landed a major contract from the US Army, after the deal had initially been awarded to a competitor. However, iRobot successfully argued that its rival, Robotic FX, had stolen its technology.â¦
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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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It&#039;s one of the greatest challenges for robotics engineers: Building a machine that actually walks like one of us.
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Ifbot, the resident robot at a Japanese nursing home, can converse, sing, express emotions and give trivia quizzes to seniors to help with their mental agility. Yet the pale-green gizmo has spent much of the past two years languishing in a corner alone.
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In what sounds like a science  fair project on steroids, engineers at Stanford University plan  to have an unmanned robot car ready to navigate urban traffic  in less than a year.