Willow Garage compiled this video of robots having fun and also demonstrating some of the most advanced service robot arms in existence, at their Mobile Manipulation Challenge at ICRA 2010. Read the full article, which identified most of the robots in the video, at [spectrum.ieee.org]
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Robot Party
Posted by Eric on June 7th, 2010
Posted in AI, available for purchase, biped, domestic, research, roboticists, video 
Tags: arms, compilation, party, robot, willow garage 
No Comments »Mondo Spider
Posted by Eric on June 7th, 2010
Dale Dougherty, found of Maker Faire, rides the Mondo Spider robot. Here is the maker of the Mondo Spider, in an older video, riding an earlier prototype. An earlier, internal combustion, clankier prototype: And here it is… the coolest thing ever.. the Mondo Spider at night, lit up with red EL wire:
AAAI 2010 Fall Symposium “Dialog with Robots”
Posted by Eric on June 3rd, 2010
Bilge Mutlu, Phd (Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison) and colleagues are organizing a Fall Symposium entitled “Dialog with Robots” to bring together dialog and human-robot interaction communities to discuss the challenges in building real-world, embodied spoken human-robot dialog systems. From their website, Dialog with Robots, “Researchers in the human-robot interaction (HRI) community have [...]
“There’s a huge, surging interest in robotics”
Posted by Eric on June 2nd, 2010
Interesting bit about robots yesterday on Businessweek. Excerpt: “The worldwide personal robotics market, which encompasses household machines and toys, is expected to reach $5.26 billion by 2015, from $1.16 billion in 2009, according to ABI Research.” See the article at [businessweek]
