May 9, 2008

Foster-Miller delivers 2,000th Talon robot

MCLEAN, Va. (UPI) - QinetiQ North America subsidiary Foster-Miller says it has delivered its 2,000th Talon roadside-bomb-disabling robot to the U.S. military.

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May 8, 2008

First Steps Toward Autonomous Robot Surgeries

The day may be getting a little closer when robots will perform surgery on patients in dangerous situations or in remote locations, such as on the battlefield or in space, with minimal human guidance.

Engineers at Duke University believe that the results of feasibility studies conducted in their laboratory represent the first concrete steps toward achieving this space age vision of the future. Also, on a more immediate level, the technology developed by the engineers could make certain contemporary medical procedures safer for patients, they said.

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May 8, 2008

Cable Driven Robot Assists Patients With Neurological Disorders

Florida Atlantic University has filed a provisional patent for a unique robotic device to assist with the physical rehabilitation process of patients suffering from neurological damages to their upper extremities such as those due to stroke or Parkinson's disease. Inventors, Dr. Oren Masory, chair and professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, and Melissa Morris, FAU engineering graduate student, designed and built the device to aid physical therapists and their patients to retrain injured muscles.

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May 8, 2008

Flying saucers, tiny helicopters compete in British war game

Emotion-detecting robot cars will face off against eavesdropping flying saucers in the English countryside when scientists, academics and schoolchildren compete later this year to design the next generation of military equipment.

The British Ministry of Defense's first ever "Grand Challenge" intends to encourage participants to turn their ideas into prototypes for machines the army can use in urban environments.

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May 7, 2008

Mechanical squirrels, robot lizards jump into research

One gray squirrel, its bushy tail twitching, barked a warning as another scrounged for food nearby. It was an ordinary spring day at Hampshire College, except that the rodent issuing the warning was powered by amps, not acorns.

Dubbed "Rocky" after the cartoon character, the robo-squirrel is working its way into Hampshire's live-squirrel clique, controlled by researchers several yards away with a laptop computer and binoculars.

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May 7, 2008

Robot goalkeeper better than the Bundesliga, boffins say

A robotic goalkeeper is better than human keepers in Germany's football Bundesliga, its inventors boasted Monday as they demonstrated the computer-controlled device, Goalias, to the media.

Players from first-division side VfB Stuttgart, including Germany team player Mario Gomez, tried last week to outwit Goalias, shooting indoors at a full-size goal mouth from 11 metres out. Scientists have since fine-tuned Goalias.

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May 1, 2008

Artificial Intelligence Boosts Science From Mars

Artificial intelligence (AI) being used at the European Space Operations Centre is giving a powerful boost to ESA's Mars Express as it searches for signs of past or present life on the Red Planet. Since January 2005, Mars Express has been using its sophisticated instruments to study the atmosphere, surface and subsurface of Mars, confirming the presence of water and looking for other signatures of life on and below the Red Planet's rocky terrain.

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May 1, 2008

MAST program to advance military robotics

MERRIMACK, N.H., April 30 (UPI) - BAE Systems is participating in a U.S. science universities collaboration to advance military robotics.

The Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology Collaborative Technology Alliance plans to make progress in developing fundamental science and technology for future robotic systems in sectors such as small-scale aeromechanics and ambulation; propulsion; sensing, processing and communications; navigation and control; micro-devices and integration; platform packaging; and systems architectures, BAE Systems said in a statement.

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