University of Nevada, Reno, scientists design indoor navigation system for blind
University of Nevada, Reno computer science engineering team Kostas Bekris and Eelke Folmer presented their indoor navigation system for people with visual impairments at two national conferences in the past two weeks. View More (2012-05-21)
Oscillating Gel Acts Like Artificial Skin, Giving Robots Potential Ability to "Feel"
Sooner than later, robots may have the ability to "feel." In a paper published online March 26 in Advanced Functional Materials, a team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) demonstrated that a nonoscillating gel can be resuscitated in a fashion similar to a medical cardiopulmonary resuscitation. View More (2012-03-30)
NRL Tests Robotic Fueling of Unmanned Surface Vessels
Engineers from the NRL Spacecraft Engineering Department (SED) successfully demonstrate the robotic fluids transfer from a stationary platform to an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) in wave heights greater than three feet. View More (2012-03-21)
Researchers 'Print' Polymers That Bend Into 3-D Shapes
Christian Santangelo, Ryan Hayward and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently employed photographic techniques and polymer science to develop a new technique for printing two-dimensional sheets of polymers that can fold into three-dimensional shapes when water is added. View More (2012-03-12)
Sandia seeks better neural control of prosthetics for amputees
Sandia National Laboratories researchers, using off-the-shelf equipment in a chemistry lab, have been working on ways to improve amputees' control over prosthetics with direct help from their own nervous systems. View More (2012-02-22)
Humanoid Robot Exhibition Opens Drexel Engineers Week
Drexel's College of Engineering will kick off its National Engineers Week celebration with an unprecedented unveiling of seven adult-size humanoid robots as part of nationwide research collaboration. View More (2012-02-22)
New system allows robots to continuously map their environment
Robots could one day navigate through constantly changing surroundings with virtually no input from humans, thanks to a system that allows them to build and continuously update a three-dimensional map of their environment using a low-cost camera such as Microsoft's Kinect. View More (2012-02-17)
'Open-source' robotic surgery platform going to top medical research labs
Robotics experts at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Washington (UW) have completed a set of seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical research laboratories throughout the United States. View More (2012-01-13)
Carnegie Mellon creates computerized method for matching images in photos, paintings, sketches
Computers can mimic the human ability to find visually similar images, such as photographs of a fountain in summer and in winter, or a photograph and a painting of the same cathedral, by using a technique that analyzes the uniqueness of images, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. View More (2011-12-07)
A new, more versatile type of control for autonomous systems
The standard controllers used in industrial processes generally have derivative and integrative control actions with whole, preset orders. View More (2011-12-06)
Recent trends show recession's effect on US advanced technology exports
U.S. exports of advanced technology products (ATP) fared better than other non-advanced technology exports during the recent U.S. recession, says a new report from the National Science Foundation (NSF). View More (2011-09-07)
Sandia Labs' Gemini-Scout robot likely to reach trapped miners ahead of rescuers
In the first moments after a mining accident, first responders work against the clock to assess the situation and save the miners. But countless dangers lurk: poisonous gases, flooded tunnels, explosive vapors and unstable walls and roofs. Such potentially deadly conditions and unknown obstacles can slow rescue efforts to a frustrating pace. View More (2011-08-17)
Disney, CMU researchers build face models that give animators intuitive control of expressions
Flashing a wink and a smirk might be second nature for some people, but computer animators can be hard-pressed to depict such an expression realistically. View More (2011-08-10)
Researchers turn motion capture inside out
Traditional motion capture techniques use cameras to meticulously record the movements of actors inside studios, enabling those movements to be translated into digital models. But by turning the cameras around - mounting almost two dozen, outward-facing cameras on the actors themselves - scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh (DRP), and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have shown that motion... View More (2011-08-09)
Inside the innards of a nuclear reactor
As workers continue to grapple with the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant in Japan, the crisis has shone a spotlight on nuclear reactors around the world. View More (2011-07-22)
Hips take walking in stride; ankles put best foot forward in run
In a first-of-its-kind study comparing human walking and running motions - and whether the hips, knees or ankles are the most important power sources for these motions - researchers at North Carolina State University show that the hips generate more of the power when people walk, but the ankles generate more of the power when humans run. Knees provide approximately one-fifth or less of walking or... View More (2011-05-25)
Robot Based on Carnegie Mellon Research Engages Novice Computer Scientists
Learning how to program a computer to display the words "Hello World" once may have excited students, but that hoary chestnut of a lesson doesn't cut it in a world of videogames, smartphones and Twitter. View More (2011-05-06)
Carnegie Mellon researchers build time machine to visually explore space and time
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have leveraged the latest browser technology to create GigaPan Time Machine, a system that enables viewers to explore gigapixel-scale, high-resolution videos and image sequences by panning or zooming in and out of the images while simultaneously moving back and forth through time. View More (2011-04-22)
Can bees color maps better than ants?
In mathematics, you need at most only four different colors to produce a map in which no two adjacent regions have the same color. Utah and Arizona are considered adjacent, but Utah and New Mexico, which only share a point, are not. View More (2011-03-11)
For Robust Robots, Let Them Be Babies First
Want to build a really tough robot? Forget about Terminator. Instead, watch a tadpole turn into a frog. View More (2011-01-21)
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