In a tournament aptly called «Edge of Robot: Ski Robot Challenge,» eight
robotics teams from research universities, institutes, and a private company competed for a $ 10,000 prize to see which robot could ski down the slopes and race to the finish line the fastest while avoiding obstacles.
The Future Innovators of Robotics Showcase will host
robotics teams from Las Vegas - area high schools who will bring the robots they've built and demonstrate how each work.
Not exact matches
Although Uber's self - driving program is only a few years old, Kalanick's typically no - holds - barred approach quickly led to the establishment in 2015 of an autonomous car
team consisting largely of
robotics experts raided
from Pittsburgh's prestigious Carnegie Mellon University.
The rather sizable
robotics team, created
from Google's flurry of acquisitions two years ago, has been homeless for over a year since its one - time boss Andy Rubin departed.
Our
team of engineers hailing
from MIT, Stanford, and Harvard University work together to break ground on new and relevant surgical
robotics technology.
A
team of scientists has developed a
robotic arm that responds to commands
from peoples» minds, raising hopes that the technology could be use to help people who are paralyzed.
Fans in the U.K. are disappointed that their
robotic soccer
team has been eliminated
from the RoboCup, which is basically a World Cup for soccer played by robots.
A
team led by Brown University neuroscientist John Donoghue has implanted sensors in the brains of four quadriplegic patients that connect signals
from the motor cortex to output devices, thereby enabling paralyzed patients to move computer cursors, control
robotic limbs, and operate wheelchairs.
Not long before the
team finished for the season, they dispatched a three - foot - long
robotic snake equipped with a camera built by a
team from Carnegie Mellon University to look inside.
By using the research ship and
robotic vehicles together, the NOC
team were able to create a series of detailed maps of the site at different scales
from tens of kilometres down to a few millimetres.
Six girls
from Afghanistan built a ball - sorting robot to compete against
teams from 157 other countries in an international
robotics competition this month.
A
team from the London - based Open Space Agency (OSA) has produced the Ultrascope, a downloadable telescope design that can be generated by a 3D printer, be controlled by simple
robotics, and captures images using the camera on a smartphone.
Scientists designing
robotic aircraft, the
team suggests, might be able to learn a trick or two about energy - efficient flight
from these birds.
In a clinical trial, the Caltech
team and colleagues
from Keck Medicine of USC have successfully implanted just such a device in a patient with quadriplegia, giving him the ability to perform a fluid hand - shaking gesture and even play «rock, paper, scissors» using a separate
robotic arm.
The research has been led by a
team from the Australian Centre for
Robotic Vision at QUT, including Professor Michael Milford in collaboration with Catepillar, Mining3 and the Queensland Government.
A
team from the Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR, UPM - CSIC) has developed a
robotic exoskeleton that performs more efficiently rehabilitation therapies of patients with shoulder injuries.
As the
team reports this week in Review of Scientific Instruments,
from AIP Publishing, their
robotic exoskeleton is intended to help stroke patients strengthen their physical fitness, aid the rehabilitation training of paralyzed patients, or to assist those who need help performing daily activities.
A
team from the University of Buffalo has found that tiny crystal lattices called «self - assembling molecular nanosheets» expand after exposed to light, a discovery that could lead to new light - powered actuators, oscillators and other microscopic electronic components used in artificial muscles and other soft
robotic systems.
January 7, 2016, WEST ORANGE, N.J. — A joint
team from Kessler Foundation and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is developing new applications for wearable
robotic exoskeleton devices with a $ 5 million federal grant
from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research.
A group of academic researchers, led by cognitive and computer scientists
from Brown University, is
teaming up with a cross-functional
team from global play and entertainment leader Hasbro to design a smart
robotic companion capable of assisting older people with simple but sometimes challenging tasks of everyday living.
In a recent study published in Science
Robotics, an international research
team, including scientists
from the US, the UK, Argentina, Japan, Italy, and Korea, are looking to harmonize
robotics and biology to promote tissue growth and regeneration.
Each year, our
teams perform thousands of surgical procedures ranging
from routine procedures to complex operations,
from hernia repair and appendicitis to transplant, trauma surgery and
robotic surgery.
PULLMAN, Wash. — A student
team from Washington State University is in New York this week as one of 30 national finalists in NASA's $ 2.5 million 3D - Printed Habitat Challenge to design an environment for Mars exploration using
robotics and 3D printers.
To fill this gap, Gady has brought in experts over video, primarily
from Microsoft, to discuss their career paths, explain concepts of coding, and even help coach the school's
robotics team.
Students will be inspired by real space, STEM and education experts including Sue Horne and Libby Jackson
from the UK Space Agency Exploration
team, volcanologist Professor Tamsin Mather, Mars weather expert Professor Stephen Lewis, Pamela Burnard, Professor of Arts, Creativities and Education at the University of Cambridge and
robotics expert Professor Peter McOwan at Queen Mary University of London.
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Robotics is the largest and fastest growing middle and high school
robotics competition in the world, with more than 20,000
teams from 40 countries that participate over 2300 competitions across the globe.
Students, parents, and staff attended an afternoon picnic on the school's football field, featuring hot dogs, hamburgers, music
from the school band, and exhibitions
from student clubs, such as the school's
robotics team.
With these design challenges, students might work individually and in
teams to solve problems ranging
from robotic challenges to bridge designing to physics puzzles.
But I get a lot of satisfaction
from the job, especially
from leading the
robotics team.
Friendship's award - winning
teams know the tough and the technical,
from resilience in
robotics to grit on the gridiron.
Student voices were also showcased at the event with performances
from the Soul'd Out a cappella group
from Wilsonville High School and a lunch - hour demonstration
from the Wilsonville
robotics team, Error Code Xero, which included short speeches
from students on what being involved in
robotics has meant to them.
Automatron showcases some neat design ideas
from the Bethesda
team, particularly with regards to the new raider gang, whose abuse of the mechanized inhabitants of the Commonwealth has made way for some surprisingly grotesque
robotic creations; I'm a big fan of the way that they mount the remains of defeated robots on spikes, in particular.
From the
robotic mascot patrols to the rogue rescue
team members, players will always have to face enemies with great care.
For the inaugural episode of Smashified Trophies, series creator Artsy Omni and his
team are giving us a look at the
robotic Mettaton
from indie sensation Undertale.
A
team of architects and engineers
from the University of Stuttgart devised a
robotic technology to produce this glass - and - carbon - fiber pavilion inspired by the shells of flying beetles.
This isn't the last walking robot we'll see
from Konstantin Ivanov, a
team that includes an aviation technician and an electronics engineer, but no one with any academic training in
robotics.
Representatives
from the EMEA in - house
team sit on a global legal artificial intelligence (AI) working group, which is looking at AI and
robotics, document automation tools, negotiation platforms, deal and document management, billing processes, policy management, and researching legislation and regulation.
Ingestible, microwavable, 3D printed and soft robots
from the minds at MIT: CSAIL head Daniela Rus will be showing off a wide cross-section of her
team's groundbreaking work in
robotics.
MIT Technology Review divulged that a
team of
robotics researchers
from several European universities, RoboHow, are trying to impart knowledge to robots about cooking, among the other necessary things.
A smart home consists of all sorts of exciting gadgets
from app - controlled lighting and heating to
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