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Robotic earth moving monster

September 11, 2008, 10:00 am by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Robots Tags: carnegie, caterpillar, mellon, Robots, Software, truck, university

The robotics team at Carnegie Mellon University have teamed up with the newly formed automation department of Caterpillar, the construction equipment makers famous for these formidable trucks capable of shifting a 240 ton payload.

Tumbleweed robot duo detect threats

August 19, 2008, 1:30 pm by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Robots Tags: autonomous, challenge, defence, ministr, Robots, salisbury, university

Students from Manchester University have produced this prototype pair of robots for the Ministry of Defence Grand Challenge, a competition set up by the MoD to uncover new talent across the UK for military hardware use.

Robot with biological brain

August 14, 2008, 10:24 am by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Robots Tags: autonomous, brains, neurons, reading, Robots, university

Meet Gordon, the worlds first robot controlled entirely with living brain tissue, the primitive grey matter was designed at the University of Reading just been put through its paces.

Robot etiquette includes knock before entry

July 23, 2008, 1:30 pm by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Robots Tags: artificial, basque, Robots, tartulo, university

The University of the Basque country in Spain has unveiled its latest creation called Tartalo and it has the ability to recognise different doors and decide before entering whether its necessary to knock.

The future of robotic movement inspired by Molluscs

July 7, 2008, 1:30 pm by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under News, Robots Tags: animal, engineering, movement, Robots, snail, study, university

An Institute for Technology isn’t the most likely location for a terrarium but the mechanical engineering department at the one in Massachusetts has, and its full of snails as part of a movement study.