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Stanford Robot Block Party 2013

Liquid Robotics launches autonomous sea-faring data center

The new Wave Glider SV3 is essentially a fully autonomous floating server rack, a system its maker fashions as the Amazon Web Services of the open ocean.

GIT Applies Dance Style to Robotic Motion

More Research and Academics stories A dancing robot is nothing new. But at the Georgia Institute of Technology, researchers are taking robots and dance to a higher level. Instead of programming a robot to copy an existing dance such as those in the online videos, Amy LaViers, a Ph.D.

Micro-robot Addresses Challenges of Bladder Cancer Surgery

More Service and Healthcare stories Although bladder cancer is the sixth most common form of cancer in the U.S. and the most expensive to treat, the basic method that doctors use to treat it hasn't changed much in more than 70 years.

Navy-funded Robotic Jellyfish Now Bigger and Better

More Security and Defense stories This five-and-a-half-foot robot jellyfish could be the future of Navy underwater surveillance. Seriously. Maybe. Certainly, if a team of engineers from Virginia Tech gets its way. Meet the Cyro, an autonomous robot with eight mechanical legs ringing its metal chassis, designed to mimic the unique, efficient underwater propulsion of a jellyfish.

Terrestrial Rover Kickstarter Mission Leads to Telerobotic Parks

More Design and Development stories Arxterra, a southern California robotics company, has developed technology for controlling robots via the internet orsmartphones with 3g/4g access. Arxterra will be demonstrating this technology with a terrestrial rover kickstarter mission in the high deserts of California.

Russian Engineers Focused on Robots for Combat Surveillance

More Security and Defense stories Russian engineers, based at the Central Research Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (RTC) in St. Petersburg, are developing an integrated control system for a group of combat robots. It includes various robotic platforms for transportation and surveillance purposes - for example, carrying weapons or monitoring levels of contamination.

Terradynamics: Scientific Technique Could Help Robot Designers

More Design and Development stories Using a combination of theory and experiment, researchers have developed a new approach for understanding and predicting how small legged robots - and potentially also animals - move on and interact with complex granular materials such as sand.

SCHUNK Introduces Milling Toolholder Solution, Chuck Quickfinder App

More Industry and Manufacturing stories Workholding and tooling manufacturer SCHUNK has released two dynamic toolholding solutions for the shop floor and the mobile device. The Sino-R milling toolholder is designed for simple installation for heavy duty cutting operations. The solid body toolholder clamps onto the cutting tool via actuation wrench in a "simple" operation that can cut downtime.

ESA Gathers Data for Docking Robotic Spacecraft from Consumer Drone Owners

More Consumer and Education stories A free ESA app released this month turns a popular iPhone-controlled 'home drone' into a spacecraft. The augmented reality game lets owners of Parrot AR.Drone quadcopters attempt dockings with a simulated International Space Station while flying their drones for real - in the process helping to improve robotic rendezvous methods.

Ship-based Quadcopter Designed to Rescue Potential Drowning Victims

More Research and Academics stories The RTS Lab in Tehran is developing Pars, an aerial rescue robot designed to save potential drowning victims. The ship-based quadcopter that responds instantly when alerted to potential victims in the ocean, locating them with FLIR, and dispensing life preservers directly over them.

Danish Robot Arms Reach Across North America

A UR5 robot from Universal Robots works right alongside the employees in the production of gear wheels at BJ-Gear. BJ Gear is one of the world's leading manufacturers of special gears, precision gears and transmissions. The company had been looking to automate production for several years but was reluctant to acquire solutions from robot manufacturers as these were too costly and complex.

Design and Development: Swiss Lab Builds Modular, Amphibious Robot | Robotics Trends

More Design and Development stories We have seen our fair share of nature-inspired robots, from a water strider bot that walks on water to a faster-than-Usain-Bolt robotic cheetah that runs on land, and we never cease to be amazed by the technological advances we gain from merely mimicking what already exists in nature.

Service and Healthcare: Humanoid Simulates Vomiting | Robotics Trends

More Service and Healthcare stories This robot vomits so we don't have to. Larry the projectile vomiting robot spews all over the place, and it's for a good cause. Larry was created by microbiologist Catherine Makison-Booth at the United Kingdom's Health and Safety Laboratory in the Occupational Hygiene Unit.

Security and Defense: View the Leading Manufacturers of Military Robots | Robotics Trends

More Security and Defense stories This is an overview of leading manufacturers of military robots compiled in March 2013 by the Global Robotics Brain. The Global Robotics Brain is a product that business intelligence consultant, Wolfgang Heller, started to keep track of the robotsphere.

Industry and Manufacturing: SCHUNK Debuts New Light-Weight Magnetic Gripper | Robotics Trends

More Industry and Manufacturing stories The Magnetic Gripper EGM from SCHUNK maintains high holding forces even in confined work spaces. It is light-weight, yet powerful enough to handle difficult applications even in situations which may require an emergency stop. It also promotes energy efficiency because electricity is only needed for magnetization and demagnetization of the unit.

Consumer and Education: Robotic Tour Guides Catch on in Australia | Robotics Trends

More Consumer and Education stories They look like giant chess pieces - one black pawn, another white, slowly making their way around the museum with dozens of online visitors. The CSIRO-built robots come packed with high definition technology, visiting a selection of exhibits.

Research and Academics: Henrik Christensen presents new Roadmap for U.S. Robotics | Robotics Trends

More Research and Academics stories Robots are being used more widely than expected in a variety of sectors, and the trend is likely to continue with robotics becoming as ubiquitous as computer technology over the next 15 years.

Security and Defense: DARPA Aims to Launch UAVs from Small Ships | Robotics Trends

More Security and Defense stories Effective 21 st-century warfare requires the ability to conduct airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and strike mobile targets anywhere, around the clock. Current technologies, however, have their limitations. Helicopters are relatively limited in the distance and flight time.

Industry and Manufacturing: Smart Vision Enables One ABB Work Cell to Build Axles of Varying Sizes | Robotics Trends

More Industry and Manufacturing stories A flexible Tube Press and Weld System developed by ABB Robotics for the Ford Sterling Axle Plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan, has won the 2012 Ford Global Powertrain Technical Maturity Model Excellence Award. Installed in 2012, the ABB Tube Press and Weld system was selected for the "2012 Top Award" out of 126 global submissions.