The Fondazione Mondo Digitale or the Digitalized World Foundation aims at combining innovation, instruction and fundamental values in order to create an inclusive knowledge society. The organization’s main goal is to share knowledge that will in turn…
Japan’s Konan University offers five diverse faculties for both citizens and foreigners. The Faculty of Science and Engineering has a Department of Information Science and Systems Engineering, which works on a variety of robotics projects. One of these…
Two dozen international teams will meet in Poland for the first European Rover Challenge from September 5th till 7th. Organized by the Polish Mars Society it attracted a lot of international attention that resulted in a lot of international participants.
The watch company, Citizen, developed a miniature soccer playing robot called Eco-Be. This wheel driven robot is powered by a watch battery and can move in any direction.
DigInfo TV is a Tokyo-based online video news site that is dedicated to the coverage of original cutting edge technology, research and products from Japan. DigInfo TV is the news production arm of Digitized Information, a translation and video production…
Founded in 1975, the European Committee for Standardization, also known as CEN, serves as a global non-profit association. Aimed at eliminating trade barriers for consumers and industries in Europe, CEN plays an important role as a business facilitator.
From this modest start in 1950, IIT Kharagpur has been engaged in a steady process of development with about 18 academic departments, five centers of excellence. The vast tree-laden campus, spreading over 2100 acres has a self contained township of over…
One of Germany’s largest and most prestigious research and education institutions, KIT is home to the Robotics Research Group. The group focuses on autonomous robots and industrial automation. They have developed several robots through the CoMiRo-Collective,…
UPenn’s Masters Program in Robotics is recognized as one of the top premier research centers in the country today. It provides students with an ideal foundation for artificial intelligence, computer vision, and the prototyping of robotic systems. Among…
The University of Bremen is one of the most elite universities in Germany. The university has several research institutions, facilities, and centers for research on robot technology like the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) which…
USC is one of the leading robotics universities in the U.S. The USC Robotics Research Laboratory works on projects in service and humanoid robots, among others, for everything from Homeland Security to environmental cleanup. The goal of the lab is to…
ZonMw is a company that promotes research in the field of healthcare. Serving as the Dutch organization for scientific research, ZonMw also works as an agency for the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport while using and distributing investment…
ABB Robotics Organized its “Technology Days” Event At Its North American Headquarters and Training Center in Michigan
Thirty-seven Teams from Australia, Brazil, China and Hawaii to Compete at First-Ever Australia Regional Event Hosted by Macquarie University
To protect deminers and save time, ICARUS has started to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for mapping and detecting. One of the major issues facing flood-hit areas is the widespread presence of unexploded devices from the war.
A total of $250,000 USD in prize money to be awarded for a successful device or method that optimizes the quality and condition of harvested FRESH blueberries.
DARIUS aims at addressing the different aspects related to the application of the unmanned robot systems in SAR operations. The different objectives of this project will be tested on realistic scenarios.
The European Robotics project, ICARUS, aims at developing robotic tools that can detect and rescue human beings. These systems will be used to help “human” crisis intervention teams.
Paro is Dutch Robotics project designed to improve the mental and physical well-being of people with dementia. Paro was developed to reduce patient stress and increase patient interaction among themselves, and to reduce the strain on health care systems.…
Karlsruhe University developed a humanoid called ARMAR which learns based on exploration, observation and action. The goal is to develop reasoning for all things robots perceive.
Karlsruhe University developed a humanoid called ARMAR II. It has improved vision and arms, and can learn to improve its grasping abilities via touch of the object on its own.
