Latest Robotics Stories
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online iRobot's new Mirra 530 pool-cleaning robot could make your life a little less stressful as it cleans up the messes that come with owning one of the summer's favorite past times. The Mirra 530 pool-cleaning robot replaces iRobot's Verro 500 model, and will become available this spring for $1,300. The robot uses a self-contained pump to vacuum and filter debris and dirt off of any pool surface. Mirra 530 is supposedly cheaper to...
NASA NASA Television will broadcast the annual FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Kickoff event on Saturday, Jan. 5, starting at 10:30 a.m. EST from Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester. The event also will be streamed live on NASA's website. As in past years, NASA plays a significant role by providing public access to robotics programs to encourage young people to investigate careers in the sciences and engineering. Through the NASA...
CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Razer(TM), the world leader in high-performance gaming hardware, software and systems, today announced the release of the Razer Orbweaver, a customizable, mechanical gaming keypad designed with tournament-grade controls, ergonomics and full customizability. Building on the huge success of its predecessor, the Razer Nostromo®, the Razer Orbweaver lets gamers bind an infinite number of controls to 20 mechanical keys and a programmable...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online When humanity first built a robot to build cars for us, we thought their determined logic and tireless work ethic would help to create a better automobile. Then we asked robots to perform other monotonous tasks for us, glad to be rid of such boring jobs. Now, we’re making robots humanoid, capable of playing soccer and dancing the popular dances of today’s pop music culture. What’s even more frightening, we’re asking them to...
The Grandville Robotics & Engineering Center recently kicked off the West Michigan VEX League, the first robotics competition of its kind in Michigan Grandville, MI (PRWEB) December 19, 2012 Twenty-four teams from West Michigan schools have come together to form the state's first VEX robotics league. In late November, the Grandville High School RoboDawgs hosted the first league play event for the newly formed West Michigan VEX League. Teams from Grandville, Belding, and Grand...
Carnegie Mellon develops method to detect where people's gazes converge What is everyone looking at? It's a common question in social settings because the answer identifies something of interest, or helps delineate social groupings. Those insights someday will be essential for robots designed to interact with humans, so researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have developed a method for detecting where people's gazes intersect. The researchers tested the method...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Robots have been doing our work for years now. As scientists make advancements in the field of robotics, they’ve been able to make these robots smarter and smaller, giving them even more jobs to do. Robots have even been made to break land speed records and run like speedy jungle cats. Now, researchers at the University of Tokyo are showing off a robot that not only looks human, it’s also built like one. Named Kenshiro,...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online In another tale of robots being used to complete the work once performed by humans and animals, one autonomous bot has just set a Guinness world record after traveling 9,000 nautical miles across the wide open Pacific Ocean. While setting a world record is a fine achievement, the creators of this robot, a Silicon Valley startup called Liquid Robotics, have said their main goal was to collect huge amounts of data about the...
PARIS, November 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Last October, NAO was named the best robot for education as part of the "Robot Hall of Fame(R) [http://www.robothalloffame.org ]" Competition organized by Carnegie Mellon. ALDEBARAN Robotics, a global leader in humanoid robotics and academic partner of some of the most prestigious universities, schools, and laboratories, is proud to announce that NAO is the most widely used humanoid robot for learning STEM and is additionally...
CARLSBAD,Calif., Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Razer(TM), the world leader in high-performance gaming hardware and software, today announced the Open Beta release of Razer Game Booster, an award-winning optimization software that streamlines PC gaming performance. Razer Game Booster is the latest evolution of the CNET Editor five-star-rated IObit Game Booster software, an immensely popular precursor that has been downloaded more than 100 million times. Users can try the Open...
