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Robots and gaming on the timetable at hi-tech school
Posted by ashley on Wednesday, April 28 @ 07:48:56 BST (204 reads)
Topic International News
| Andrew Webb visits the San Diego school where robot building plays a major role in the curriculum. Student Kit Haggard filmed some of this report.
The moment you walk into San Diego's High Tech High you realise this is a school unlike most others....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8631641.stm
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Academic Robotics Platform
Posted by ashley on Friday, May 29 @ 11:16:38 BST (1211 reads)
Topic International News
| Are you aware of our Academic Robotics Platform specially designed for universities to display their robotics videos and photos to the industry and public, all free of charge? You’ll find robotics projects from top universities such as MIT, CMU, Oxford, ANU, Cambridge, and many German, Canadian and Asian universities on this platform.
Visit www.expo21xx.com/automation21xx/university.htm to see these projects. I think you would appreciate our collaborations with and projects of these top robotics departments.
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AIR 2009: International Summer Research Camp On Autonomous Intelligent Robots
Posted by ashley on Monday, March 23 @ 10:07:44 GMT (1328 reads)
Topic International News
| To be held at Aberystwyth University on 23rd to 30th June 2009.
With a focus theme on "Adaptation on Different Timescales", this summer camp is intended as a platform for work exchange between PhD students and early researchers to learn from each other by working on small robotic-related research projects. It is a unique opportunity to see their own research from a different angle and to gain the valuable experience of applying competence and skills in new domains.
The camp will commence with a two-day Symposium where invited speakers, researchers from Aberystwyth University and camp participants will present their views on this topic and related work. Following the symposium, participants will spend the following days working together on research projects in small groups. The week will conclude with a series of presentations from all the project groups, detailing their progress and findings.
Applications for this event will be assessed on a first-comes-first-served basis but the ultimate deadline for submission is 5th April 2009.
For more information please go to
http://users.aber.ac.uk/msh/AIR/ and direct your questions and/or applications to Martin Hülse.
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Armed Military Robots
Posted by ashley on Saturday, July 05 @ 22:12:49 BST (5333 reads)
Topic International News
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http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~noel/soundofscience/Prog06.mp3
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~noel/soundofscience/Prog07.mp3
In this two-part special on Robots of War, Professor Noel Sharkey explains the ethical issues of using military robots that are allowed to apply lethal force on their own terms. These are not terminator-style robots; they are more like tanks, trucks or fighter jets. There are over 4000 robots currently deployed on the ground in Iraq. These are mainly for explosive ordnance disposal, although some are armed. There are also many robot fighter planes, such as Predators and Reapers. For now there is always a person in the loop to decide when to kill, but this is could change soon. Find out how this ties in with the Laws of War and the international laws on discrimination.
Noel interviews experts in this field – Professor Ron Arkin, director of the mobile robotics lab at Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr Peter Asaro, philosopher of technology at Rutgers University in New York, Matt Armstrong, an independent defence analyst in California, Rear Admiral Chris Parry who worked for the UK MoD, and Richard Moyes, policy director of Landmine action. Noel also attends the International Military Robotics conference in London and talks to military robotics people from NATO, the German and Swedish Armies, as well as the French equivalent of our MoD.
The Sound of Science
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Auto lawn mower by a Meath Entrepreneur
Posted by ashley on Wednesday, April 23 @ 06:54:54 BST (3225 reads)
Topic International News
| Anonymous writes "A MOWER which cuts the grass by itself is being marketed by a co Meath entrepreneur Patrick McCann. Patrick, who hails from Oldcastle, has an impressive track record when it comes to innovative technology. Back in 1999 he launched his own VOIP Telco Company online. Today the VOIP industry has changed the world of telecoms for ever, over 25 million people use VOIP services online, many internet users have heard of the VOIP giant service, Skype, Patrick built his own VOIP 3WTEL for over four years before selling it to USA based company.
Patrick was also one of the first to pioneer e- learning technology (online computer training) in Ireland. Live streaming computer courses delivered straight to a home or office desktop Thus eliminating the need to attend evening classes.
Today Patrick is enjoying the success of his latest venture, The Home Automatic Robotic Lawn Care Systems. A few years ago the thought of a lawn mower going out by itself and mowing the lawns was nothing short of a dream. But thanks to Patrick's vision and international research this is now a reality and his new business AutolawnMow Ireland is taking the Irish market by storm.
The robotic mower has attracted considerable media coverage since Patrick
launched AutoLawnmow Ireland, in early 2007. The mower has been featured on national TV and radio stations as well as most newspapers. Mobile phone
companies are also coming on board and have designed software pplications which will work with robotic mower.
Patrick says he has been amazed by the response and his company is fast becoming a household name throughout the 32 counties, with over 3,000 systems installed in Irish homes both north and south.
So how can you delegate this onerous task to a the robotlawnmower? First a visit by a technician from AutolawnMow will evaluate the grounds around the house to check if the lawns are suitable to operate an automatic robotic lawn care system. Ninety per cent of them are. Once the green area has been approved the technician, using a special machine, will inject a nickel silver wire into the lawn to about half an inch under the surface. The wire will then be linked to a base station, usually a garage, in which the robot resides while resting. The robot, travelling from one lawn to another around the house, will leave them mowed to a very high standard.
The cost of operating the system is a mere Ü7 a year. It does not require petrol or oil, there are no grass clippings to collect. The mower carries a two year guarantee and the company has systems to suit all lawn sizes from 1.3 to three acres.
For more details on the range of systems prospective clients may contact
Tel: 086-3970917
email:sales@autolawnmow.ie
Contact 086 3970917
Email: sales@autolawnmow.ie
website : http://www.robotlawnmowers.ie
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Your Future with Robots
Posted by ashley on Wednesday, April 09 @ 11:05:09 BST (2533 reads)
Topic International News
| They have been part of our collective imagination almost since we began to set down words. Mechanical beings sparked to life in the myths of ancient Greece, the Middle East, China and the Nordic countries. Today we call them robots--from robota, meaning "drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech and related languages. As that name implies, so far these useful machines have been limited in their applications to the sorts of repetitive tasks best suited to automatons--tirelessly turning screw after screw in a factory assembly line, for instance.
Now robots are beginning to enter our lives in much more personal ways. Already robo-vacuums such as the Roomba are easing housework, and digital pets such as Tamagotchis and the e-dog Aibo are serving as electronic companions. Experts envision far more in the short years ahead. Bill Gates writes in his feature article "A Robot in Every Home," of nothing less than a transformation of domestic life. It is only a matter of time. After all, he adds: "Some of the world's best minds are trying to solve the toughest problems of robotics, such as visual recognition, navigation and machine learning." Two million personal robots were in use worldwide in 2004, and seven million more will be installed by this year, according to one estimate.
To expand further, they will require adaptive, complex processors, as Hans Moravec describes in "Rise of the Robots." By 2050 robot "brains" that execute 100 trillion instructions per second will start to rival human intelligence. Robots will also need to become more physically flexible and adaptable. In "Artificial Muscles," Steven Ashley describes springy polymers that could even produce power with movement.
At the same time that robots will be acquiring more human attributes, people will be adopting electronic implants to improve skills such as memory, according to "The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine," by Ray Kurzweil. We will also be using the power of thought to direct machines, say Miguel A. L. Nicolelis and John K. Chapin in "Controlling Robots with the Mind." Indeed, the differences between maker and creation grow less distinct all the time.
Scientific American Special Edition on Robotics
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Ascribe extends integrated Pharmacy and Robotic IT systems
Posted by ashley on Thursday, April 03 @ 08:00:35 BST (2901 reads)
Topic International News
| Anonymous writes "Ascribe extends integrated Pharmacy and Robotic IT systems to Royal Bolton Hospital
Ascribe plc (AIM:ASP), the innovative health IT Group, today announced that it has successfully installed its Web Pharmacy solution at the Royal Bolton Hospital, part of the Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust and that the site is completely operational. One unique aspect of this ‘Go Live’ was that, on the same day that the hospital changed its pharmacy IT system, they also brought online a robotic dispensing system; thereby taking a massive leap forward in improving patient care and safety.
The Ascribe Web enabled pharmacy system is designed by healthcare clinicians to ensure higher patient safety standards. It achieves this by using a patient’s medication record which effectively warns pharmacy staff automatically, via use of its integrated decision support service, if there may be a dangerous drug interaction or allergic reaction arising from the dispensed medications.
The Ascribe pharmacy system was selected by Bolton Hospital NHS Trust because it extends such a broad range of complementary pharmacy services outside of the dispensary. The system has been designed to allow ward-based clinical services, such as medicines management (whereby medicines can be ordered wirelessly from the wards) and electronic prescribing and medicine administration (which records exactly what medication was prescribed, when the medication was administered to the patient, and what reaction was noted). In addition to this, the Ascribe pharmacy system also provides the hospital pharmacy staff with a bi-directional interface from their pharmacy system to their Rowa Speedcase Robotic Dispensing unit, allowing pharmacists to both issue requests for prescriptions to their robotic system and receive (stock level) updates from their robot.
Brian Smith, Chief Pharmacist at the Royal Bolton Hospital said “The Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust is delighted that Ascribe was able to deliver such a robust and flexible pharmacy system within a twelve week project cycle. Our staff has welcomed the additional patient safety features that are embedded within the system and we look forward to extending our pharmacy services beyond the pharmacy itself, thereby saving time and providing a higher level of service to our clinicians and patients.”
Stephen Critchlow, Executive Chairman of Ascribe plc said “Ascribe is delighted that the Royal Bolton has taken this step to improve patient safety standards. Our technology enables Hospitals to provide their clinicians with comprehensive and relevant information when and where healthcare decisions are made. This technology is in increasing demand and we have recently sold similar systems in the UK (at Addenbrookes Hospital, part of the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), and overseas in Australia & New Zealand.”
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SKILLIGENT ANNOUNCES DISTRIBUTORSHIP AGREEMENT WITH SOOSUNG EDUCATION SYSTEM
Posted by ashley on Monday, January 14 @ 07:17:53 GMT (1590 reads)
Topic International News
| Anonymous writes "Skilligent and Soosung Education System recently signed a distributorship agreement to jointly promote Skilligent Robot Learning and Behavior Control System in South Korean market.
Skilligent LLC today announced a distributorship agreement with Soosung Education System, a South Korean supplier of products and solutions for research and education market.
Skilligent Robot Learning and Behavior Control System is a complete trainable control system for autonomous service robots which includes a behavior control and coordination system, task and skill learning functions, a powerful computer vision system, a social human-to-machine interface, a database for storing knowledge and other integrated components.
The main concept behind the control system is that it enables robots to learn procedures and skills directly from humans without programming. Solution providers and researchers around the world use the control system to build autonomous service robots for various domains including the health-care, elder-care, service robotics and defense
“South Korean robotics solution providers and researchers will appreciate the power of Skilligent Robot Learning and Behavior Control System, the first commercially available robotics control system which can learn directly from humans. The control system greatly simplifies the task of building autonomous service robots. By expanding into the booming South Korean robotics market, Skilligent adds an important part to its global distribution network and stays on the growth path.”, said Sherrie Shearer, Skilligent’s COO.
“The Skilligent product is very unique in the robotics industry. It gives new capabilities to robot builders and researchers. In the near future most service robots will be trainable, not programmable. By partnering with Skilligent, we provide the cutting-edge technology to the robotics engineers in South Korea.”, said Doo-Yeob Park, the founder of Soosung Education System.
About Skilligent LLC
Skilligent develops and markets a trainable robotics control system for applications in industrial robotics, service robotics and home robotics industries. The company employs a team of talented engineers and researchers with background in control systems design, industrial automation, computer vision and embodied cognition. Skilligent LLC is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and operates an off-shore research and development center.
http://www.skilligent.com
http://www.skilligent.com/kr/
About Soosung Education System
Soosung Education System is a distributor of robotics products designed for research and education market. The company represents a growing number of leading international robotics technology companies in South Korea.
http://soosungedu.co.kr/
Skilligent Media Contacts
Sherrie Shearer, COO
Phone: +1 903 819-5009
http://www.skilligent.com/contacts/
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