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Is Zeno the future of home entertainment?

Zeno, a humanoid robot with a $300 price tag, is set to be released in 2009. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos takes a look at a prototype and asks why this one may be different than others that have come before it.

Tags: News.com, Home Entertainment, Robots, Personal Technology, Emerging Technologies, zeno, robot, humanoid, david hanson, hanson robotics, robotics, massive, effects, michael kanellos, robodevelopment, TechRepublic Inc.

Videos 2007-10-29

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Consulting Company for Nonprofits Manages Bigger Contracts With Accounting Solution

Based in Pasadena, California, Hanson & Company, a management consulting firm for nonprofit organizations, consists of owner Noel Hanson and three employees. To date, Hanson has run the business on a simple, cash-only basis, with rudimentary use of Quicken, Microsoft Office Excel 2003, and manual accounting processes. However, the company...

Tags: Accounting, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Consulting, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

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Robotics: Using Lego Mindstorms and Java

In the past, robotics and related research was pretty much limited to serious hobbyists or to those working at big corporations, research institutions, and universities. The introduction of affordable Robotics Invention System by LEGO Mindstorms has helped make the art and science of robotics available to every one. The LEGO...

Tags: Robotics, Java, LEGO Co., Lego Mindstorms, LEGO Robotics Invention Kit, Robots, Emerging Technologies

White papers 2005-02-21

Robotics and Oracle 10g

Can anyone confirm if it is true that you would not be able to use Robotics or screen scraping technology with Oracle 10g? We are evaluating a product which uses Robotics as a front end to an existing Oracle legacy system. The Legacy system is currently on Oracle...

Tags: chris_greenway@..., integration, it management, legacy system, middleware, oracle, Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle Corp., programming, Robotic, robotics, screenscrape, software, windows

Discussion threads 2007-01-16

U.S. Robotics Modem Update Wizard (exe)

Available in this download is the Modem Update Wizard for your U.S. Robotics modem. Follow the simple onscreen instructions to update your modem's current speed code, or upgrade to 56k technology from U.S. Robotics. This is the PC version. It supports the USR Courier analog and the Sportster models, including...

Tags: U.S. Robotics, Modems, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 1998-10-20

Microsoft Robotics Studio (exe)

The goal of the Microsoft Robotics Studio is to supply a software platform for the robotics community that can be used across a wide variety of hardware, applicable to a wide audience of users, and development of a wide variety of applications. The Microsoft Robotics Studio delivers areas of software...

Tags: Robotics, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Robotics Studio, Robots, Emerging Technologies

Software downloads 2007-08-17

ROBOTICS FUN

There are an incredible number of robotic websites on the internet having a wide range of components that can plug onto the micro-controllers that include; accelerometers, servors, actuators, compasses, stepper motors, vast array of sensors, and cameras. These micro-controllers can be programmed right from your PC in C++, PBasic, and...

Tags: FluxIt, GeoBub, MrMiami, robotics

Discussion threads 2005-05-09

GPRS-Based Real-Time Remote Control of MicroBots With M2M Capabilities

Machine to Machine (M2M) communication is gathering momentum. Many network operators deem that the future of the business on data transmission lies on M2M. In parallel, the application of robotics is progressively becoming more widespread. Traditionally, robotics has only been applied to industrial environments, but lately some more exoteric (e.g....

Tags: Robotics, M2M, GPRS, Robots, Emerging Technologies

White papers 2005-05-23

FANUC Robotics America, Inc. Uses Avaya Contact Center and Mobility Solutions to Provide Personal Touch

FANUC Robotics wanted to create a branded customer service experience, providing its customers with intuitive and reliable ways to interact with its talented team of engineers in its Customer Resource Center CRC - ordering parts, requesting service calls, and/or receiving technical support. In turn, FANUC Robotics realized this superior customer...

Tags: Mobility, Contact Center, Avaya Inc., Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

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Microsoft enters robotics race

Help me, God!Microsoft in Robotics! I hope they build the three keys CTRL+ALT+DEL right on the forehead of the robot. One never knows!It's begun......This is an exciting time in our history,mark this era. This period in our time is what Apple,the 8088, 286 was when large scale computing began. It's...

Tags: IT IS, robotics, This IS, microsoft, Microsoft Corp., shubh_80@..., networking

Discussion threads 2006-06-22

Smartphones Let Attorneys Take Their Offices with Them

When the San Francisco law firm of Hanson Bridgett needed a wireless solution that would give its attorneys access to data from any location at any time, it chose Palm® Treo™ smartphones with Good Technology's GoodLink service. Among the solution's major selling points: Combined PDA and cell phone functionality...

Tags: wireless access, phone, wireless, telephone, processor, PDA, smart phone, security, Palm Treo, Palm Inc., cell phone, e-mail, attorney

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Hanson Aggregates Ltd Improves Control of Business With New Technology

Hanson Aggregates Ltd is one of the United Kingdom's biggest construction materials businesses, with more than 500 operational sites and 4,000 employees. The company wanted to replace a heavily customized, 20-year-old legacy system and a de-supported technology platform. The challenge was to implement a scalable, flexible, reliable system to meet...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Hanson, Financial Management, Hardware Upgrade, Construction, Investment, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance, Hardware

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Geek Trivia: Secret to his success(ion)

Test your command ofuseless knowledge by subscribing to TechRepublic's Geek Trivia e-newsletter. Automatically sign up today!Hard-core American history scholars not to mention longtimeGeek Trivia readers will recognize the name John Hanson as the first person tohold the office of President of the United States. George Washington was infact the first...

Tags: David Rice Atchison, Constitution

Technical articles 2004-06-22

School District Boosts Web Performance 20 Percent, Gains Security, User Satisfaction

The Whitman-Hanson Regional School District was using an inflexible router-based Internet access solution that required the local ISP to manage all port-configuration changes. Bandwidth was maxed out without effective tools for bandwidth management or prioritization of users and applications. Denial of service attacks and viruses remained real threats. Whitman-Hanson turned...

Tags: Web, Bandwidth Management, Microsoft Corp., Internet Performance, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Remote Access, Internet, Security

Case studies

Wireless Security Surveillance for Parma High School

Parma High School needed to implement video surveillance as part of a security enhancement program. U.S. Robotics worked closely with MC Informatica to develop an integrated solution to meet all the requirements of Parma High School. The recommendation accepted by Parma included 5 IP web-cameras (JVC model VN30C-U) with vertical...

Tags: U.S. Robotics, Wireless Security, Network Technology, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Networking

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Fast-Growing Robotics Engineering Center Armed With Versatile, Expandable Disk- and Tape-Based Storage Solutions

The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University conducts basic and applied research in robotics technologies to boost the productivity and competitiveness of businesses throughout the United States. The company's rapid data growth drove need for scalable storage capacity and inability to react quickly to overnight surges in storage requirements. Their...

Tags: Disk, Robotics, Overland Storage Inc., Robots, Storage, Backups, Emerging Technologies, Hardware

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ABB Robotics Customers Increase Productivity With Flexible Customization Technology

ABB Robotics provides global manufacturers with automation technologies. One of these technologies is RobotStudio, the programming software for robotic systems. For years, ABB Robotics used Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications for customization technology in RobotStudio. But the company wanted to give customers a more flexible, reliable, and easily managed toolset...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Robotics, Microsoft Corp., ABB, ABB Robotics, Robots, Microsoft Development Tools, Emerging Technologies, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

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Using Bluetooth to Control a YaMoR Modular Robot

The Biologically Inspired Robotics Group BIRG of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne EPFL is working on modular robotics. Computer simulations are mainly used but prototypes also exist. Most of them are controlled by a wired connection. This paper explains how the wires can be replaced by a...

Tags: Wireless Communication, Robots, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Emerging Technologies

White papers 2005-02-11

Marilou Robotics Studio 2008 (zip)

Marilou Robotics Studio is a modeling and simulation environment for mobile robots, humanoids, articulated arms and parallels robots operating in real-world conditions that respect the laws of physics. In a realistic graphical environment, Marilou lets you create the hierarchy necessary for building and testing even the most complex assemblies from...

Tags: Robotics, Environment, Marilou Robotics Studio, Robots, Research & Development, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations

Software downloads 2008-02-05

Carnegie Mellon University: Perl Brings Everything Together - Quickly

At Carnegie Mellon University, Perl figures in robotics applications development more times than ONE can count. They use Perl constantly - from simple CGIs, to application 'Glue,' to fully functional speech synthesizers written in Perl. Perl's rapid prototyping, flexibility, system interaction, object-oriented mechanism, and networking capabilities make Perl right for...

Tags: Perl, Carnegie-Mellon University, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development

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