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5 unusual facts about robotics


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Jean Robieux

He was a professor at the École centrale Paris and Founding Director of the Robotics Option in 3rd year between 1982 and 1989.

He is the former Scientific Director of the Research Center of Alcatel Mobile Phones at Marcoussis, and during many years, head of the Robotics college at the École centrale Paris.

Quad Quandary

In the 2007-2008 FIRST Tech Challenge robot competition, Quad Quandary is the first challenge theme replacing the former FIRST Vex Challenge, with similar general rules regarding the specifications of the robot and the game play.

Tanegashima Space Center

In the Robotics;Notes visual novel, Tanegashima Space Center is one of the major settings found in the game.


2013 in robotics

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation is scheduled to be organized in Karlsruhe, Germany in May.

AIRS

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Society, an association for students interested in Robotics, Electronics, Mechanics, and Artificial Intelligence

Alex Zelinsky

He worked as a Research Scientist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, developing computer vision and robotics technologies (1991–1994).

Almost Human: Making Robots Think

RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1993.

Autonomous research robot

Grinnell More's Real World Interface, Inc. (RWI) and James Slater's Nomadic Technologies (US), along with Francesco Mondada's K-Team (Switzerland), were other pioneering companies in this field, addressing the need for ready-made robots for use by robotics researchers.

Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro Campus

Types of projects that students can apply to are: knitting, Physics Olympiad, Garage Band, Radio Lab, Equations, The Sims, Robotics, Earth preservation, Fitness, Teacher, and many more.

CASsat

In 2006, it was being jointly conducted by the University of Sydney's Australian Centre for Field Robotics, the University of Technology, Sydney's Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems Group, and the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems.

COSAT

In Grades 8 and 9, learners are exposed to Robotics (Lego NXT Robots) and Scratch Programming.

Dekalb Academy of Technology and Environment

The school's clubs include the National Beta Club (Junior Beta), Technology Club, and Girl Scouts of the USA (Brownies, Daises and Juniors,), Robotics, Recycling Club, STEAM Team, Broadcasting, Yearbook, Little Miss Sunshine, Young Generals, Performing Arts, Legos, and Boy Scouts of America 1833 (Boy Scouts and cub scouts tiger cub and junior cub).

Dragonlord

DragonLord Enterprises, Inc., the gaming/robotics/artificial intelligence company

Drew McDermott

Although new approaches have since been found, McDermott turned to other areas of AI, such as vision and robotics, and began working on automated planning again.

Future of robotics

The most commonly used software in the robotics research are Free Software solutions such as Player/Stage or cross-platform technologies such as URBI.

Gateway School District

Lego Mindstorms are used for robotic competitions by the robotics club at Gateway Middle School.

Geoffrey A. Landis

Landis has also been a faculty member of the International Space University; in 1998 he was on the faculty of the Department of Mining, Manufacturing, and Robotics in the Space Studies Program, and in 1999 he was on the faculty of the 12th Space Studies Program at the Suranaree University of Technology in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.

High throughput biology

Classical High throughput screening robotics are now being tied closer to cell biology, principally using technologies such as High-content screening.

Hikikomori

Other examples include main characters in Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, Hayate the Combat Butler, Jeff Beckhaus' Hikkomori and the Rental Sister (2013); Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko, Castaway on the Moon (2009), Chaos;Head (the lead character Takumi Nishijō), and Robotics;Notes (the character Frau Koujiro).

Jenny Scheinman

She is the niece of robotics pioneer Victor Scheinman, and the granddaughter of Telford Taylor, Chief Prosecutor at the United States war crimes trials at Nuremberg.

Kealakehe High School

Dean Kamen, Founder of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), created the world's leading high school robotics competition in 1992.

LCSR

JHU LCSR: Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics at Johns Hopkins University

Lyle Estill

He purchased BLAST software from U.S. Robotics, helped found EMJ Internet, and was briefly involved with OpenNMS, an open source network management company founded by Tarus Balog.

Marcos Prado Troyjo

Troyjo has been chosen one of "The Outstanding Young Persons of the World - TOYP" along with HM Queen Rania of Jordan and robotics scientist Takanori Shibata by the Junior Chamber International during its 2004 World Congress held in Fukuoka, Japan.

Mega Man Battle Network

Like the original, there were two main projects and only one was funded, but unlike the original, the work of Dr. Tadashi Hikari (the series' version of Dr. Light) in the field of networking and AI programs had been funded over Dr. Wily's research in robotics.

Neven

Hartmut Neven (born 1964 in Aachen, Germany) is a scientist working in computational neurobiology, robotics and computer vision

Noel Sharkey

He is best known to the British public for his appearances on television as an expert on robotics; including the BBC 2 television series Robot Wars and Techno Games, and co-hosting Bright Sparks for BBC Northern Ireland.

Port Credit Secondary School

The team was started in 2004 and has taken part in the VEX, FRC, and Skills Canada robotics competitions.

Port Perry High School

Science and Technology students have, along with main corporate sponsor General Motors Canada Engineering sponsored the FIRST Robotics team known as Fast Eddie Robotics, or Team 1006.

Rizal National Science High School

RNSHS actively participates annually to different contests like Schools Press Conferences, Science Fairs, Essay Writing Contest, Patimpalak ng Sabayang Pagbikas, Speech Choir Competitions, Oratorical and Extemporaneous Speaking, Water Rocket Events, Tagisang Robotics of the Department of Science and Technology, and other events sponsored by other schools, government agencies/units and non-government organizations.

RoboEarth

In late 2009, the RoboEarth project was awarded a 4-year funding grant from the European Commission’s Cognitive Systems and Robotics Initiative in order to develop their networked database platform, Rapyuta, and to develop proof-of-concept systems to demonstrate it's use.

Roboethics

From this standpoint, it can be seen as natural and necessary that robotics drew on several other disciplines, like Logic, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Psychology, Biology, Physiology, Philosophy, Literature, Natural history, Anthropology, Art, Design.

Robotics Certification Standards Alliance

RCSA accepted this challenge and worked alongside Lincoln Electric Automation, ABB and Wolf Robotics to develop the details and procedures of the CRAW which was launched in June 2008.

Robotics Institute

The Robotics Institute (RI) is a division of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

Robots and Avatars

The project includes contributions by a diverse range of experts, professionals and specialists working with robots and avatars including Professor Noel Sharkey (Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and Professor of Public Engagement University of Sheffield), Pear Urishima (Apple), Ghislaine Boddington from body>data>space and Derek Richards from Hi8us South.

S-bot mobile robot

Targeted to swarm robotics, a field of artificial intelligence, it was developed within the Swarm-bots project, a Future and Emerging Technologies project coordinated by Prof. Marco Dorigo.

Schulich School of Engineering

Among the projects done in the course are a product completion, from concept to creation in the first semester and both a Lego robotics project and a project in collaboration with an industry partner.

Sebastian Thrun

He returned to CMU to an endowed professorship, the Finmeccanica Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics.

Taree High School

In addition to the mandated, more traditional areas of study, the school offers unique study units such as Bush and Camp Crafts, Surf Survival, Ceramics and Robotics.

The Holy Cows

Starting in 2011, High Tech High's The Holy Cows and Francis Parker High School's the Warlords began hosting an off-season FIRST Robotics Competition.

The Positronic Man

In The Positronic Man, the trends of fictional robotics in Asimov's Robot series (as outlined in the book I, Robot) are detailed as background events, with an indication that they are influenced by Andrew's story.

Three Laws of Robotics

The futurist Hans Moravec (a prominent figure in the transhumanist movement) proposed that the Laws of Robotics should be adapted to "corporate intelligences" — the corporations driven by AI and robotic manufacturing power which Moravec believes will arise in the near future.

Trenton Central High School

The Tornadoes 381 FIRST robotics team, from the Applied Engineering & Science Academy, is sponsored by Bristol Myers Squibb, Sarnoff Corporation and Princeton University.

U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men

Under the name U.S. Robotics, this company is also featured in I, Robot, the 2004 Will Smith movie loosely inspired by Asimov's short story collection of the same name.

Warren Fahy

During an extensive three-year research period for the novel, and while simultaneously maintaining lead writer positions first for Rockstar Games Red Dead Revolver and then for WowWee Robotics, Warren consulted with scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and worked with a team of concept artists: – Steven Olds, Ron Lemen, Daren Bader – and creative director and designer Michael Limber, who is also Warren's business partner.

William Whittaker

Red Whittaker (William L. Whittaker), roboticist and research professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University

Willow Garage

Willow Garage will continue to support customers of its PR2 personal robotics platform and sell its remaining stock of PR2 systems.


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