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Archive for the ‘autonomous’ Category
UK military unveils “Taranis” – semi-autonomous, flying, armed robot
Posted by Eric on July 15th, 2010
Posted in AI, autonomous, defense, ethics, flying, government, military / law enforcement, weapon 
Tags: aircraft, autonomous, flying, Taranis, uav, UK, weapon 
No Comments »Robotic milestone – full-sized helicopter makes autonomous flight
Posted by Eric on July 14th, 2010
“In mid-June, a single-turbine helicopter took off from a test field in Mesa, Arizona, avoided obstacles in-flight, scoped out a landing site and landed safely. It’s like the kind of flight choppers have made tens of thousands of times before. Except this time, the helicopter did it entirely on its own – with no humans [...]
Posted in autonomous, flying, milestone, video Tags: flight, helicopter, helo, milestone No Comments »World’s first robot safety film?
Posted by Eric on July 8th, 2010
The chaps at Willow Garage have put together a safety film featuring their PR2 robot. They have a lot of firsthand experience and observations involved with what amounts to large, heavy, powerful, moving machinery around people. Very insightful, it will probably become required training for people working with or purchasing domestic robots. via [PlasticPals]
Posted in autonomous, domestic, education, milestone, roboticists, video Tags: pr2, safety, training, video, willow garage No Comments »Autonomous mobile assault robot with target-tracking abilities (seems like bad idea)
Posted by Eric on June 30th, 2010
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Posted in autonomous, defense, ethics, featured, milestone, military / law enforcement, video, weapon Tags: camera, drone, laser, rgb, tank, tracking No Comments »Myon robot to teach us about language origination
Posted by Eric on June 28th, 2010
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Play “Mars Escape” to help MIT Media Lab develop robots that collaborate with humans
Posted by Eric on June 17th, 2010
There has been a lot of chatter lately regarding the coming trend of using games for work, using games to get people to accomplish tasks. This is one such game, designed to gather data as people interact, which can be used later for modeling actual robot behavior. “The MIT researchers are encouraging as many people [...]
Posted in AI, autonomous, education, future, games, research, space, study, testing Tags: behavior model, game, mars, model, play No Comments »The future of robots – Stefan Schaal Interviewed by Sander Olson
Posted by Eric on June 16th, 2010
Excerpt: “Question: What specific robotic advancements do you anticipate for the next two decades? Answer: Within the next 20 years, we will get to the point that an individual can purchase a general purpose robot. The individual would then tell the robot what it wanted to do, and the robot would learn to perform the [...]
Posted in AI, autonomous, biped, domestic, future Tags: future, littledog, Sarcos, willow garage No Comments »Modular “Myon” robot
Posted by Eric on June 16th, 2010
The Myon series of robots are modular in design, so that if they lose a limb or two, they can keep functioning. A very useful feature for robots doing some of the dangerous jobs robots do these days. In fact, the head can be removed and can still function autonomously on its own. Here [...]
Incredibly agile autonomous quadrotors
Posted by Eric on June 14th, 2010
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Posted in autonomous, flying, video Tags: agile, flight, meaneuver, quadcopter, quadrotors No Comments »Non-profit research organization CTC developing new military robots
Posted by Eric on June 14th, 2010
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Posted in AI, aquatic, autonomous, defense, featured, military / law enforcement, research Tags: Air Force, CTC, defense, military, navy No Comments »
