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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
- Case studies
- Systems Integrator Builds Affordable, Flexible Mobile Robot
- CoroWare provides solutions and systems integration and offers a number of specialty areas, including robotics. When CoroWare executives saw the market potential for affordable mobile robots based on standardized components, they needed to move fast to get a working prototype to an industry trade show. The company chose Microsoft Windows...
- Tags: Robotics, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., CoroWare, Robots, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
- Case studies
- 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
- Case studies
- 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
- 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
- Soccer Simulation for Microsoft robotics Studio (5))
- The simulated soccer services implement a simulated soccer competition, using the RoboCup specifications for the field environment, plus automatic enforcement of RoboCup game play rules. The robotic players can be a variety of simulated entities ranging from articulated robots, to simple differential drive models. This version is the first release...
- Tags: Robotics, Microsoft Corp., Robots, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2007-08-28
- Sumo Competition for Microsoft robotics Studio (1.5) (5))
- The Sumo Competition Services provide a simulation environment which hosts sumo competitions as well as a sample sumo player service which can be used in the simulation environment and with physical robots. The sumo competition takes place in a round ring. The inner part of the ring is a non-reflective...
- Tags: Robotics, Microsoft Corp., Ring, Robots, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2007-08-28
- Microsoft robotics Studio (5))
- 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
- Review of Data robotics' Drobo 'storage robot'
- Last week I gave a fairly harsh review of the Drobo "storage robot" product based on some initial investigation I did. I concluded that while it's possible to do some level of hard drive mixing, it really wasn't worth it since you didn't get meaningful capacity out of it. I...
- Tags: Storage, Servers, Networking, Hardware, Desktop
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Is the Drobo 'storage robot' fact or myth?
- There's a new personal storage device that's been getting some rave reviews lately. The company is Data Robotics and they sell a device called the "Drobo" which is a USB 2.0 connected device that houses 4 hot-swappable SATA hard drives. Many online gadget reviewers, colleagues, and friends of mine were...
- Tags: Storage, Hardware, Consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Photos: Robots as toys, tools and teachers
- RoboBusiness 2007, a robotics conference held this week in Boston, presents bots for use by the military, children and researchers.
- Tags: Robots, robotics, bot, robot, teacher, Boston, researcher, photograph, conference, tool
- Image galleries 2007-05-16
- Sizing up the coming robotics revolution
- Link to the photo galleryHumanoid robots come to life at MIThttp://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-3513_11-66025.htmlStay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!http://nl.com.com/MiniFormHandler?brand=techrepublic&list_id=e019
- Tags: Robots, Sonja Thompson, robotics
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
- robuBOX: Seamless Building of Microsoft robotics Studio-Based, Industrial-Grade Service Robots
- The robuBOX aims at making faster and cheaper the development of industrial-grade service robots for professional use, in fields like transport, cleanliness, security or health. This paper describes the innovative concept of robuBOX developed by ROBOSOFT. The paper describes all the flexibility of this concept, at both hardware and software...
- Tags: Robotics, Microsoft Corp., Robots, Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management
- White papers 2006-07-25
- An Autonomous Robotic Fish for Mobile Sensing
- In this paper an innovative approach to robotics education is reported, where hands-on learning is integrated with cutting-edge research in the development of an autonomous, biomimetic robotic fish. The project aims to develop an energy-efficient, noiseless, untethered swimming robot for mobile sensing purposes. The robot is propelled by an Ionic...
- Tags: Robotics, Mobile, Wireless Communication, Michigan State University, Robots, GPS, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2006-02-14
- Video: Real-world functional battlemech for sale
- Geek WarholWhat happens when a profoundly geeky geek has too much time and money. Land Walker! On the other hand, consider how much more valid this is than the "Not-Art" (designed by a clerk and executed by secretary, or something like that) that
- Tags: project management, hardware, robotics, off-topic, video, mediavant@...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-09
- request for seminar
- am a electronics and communications student from 8th sem.if any one could send relevant seminar topics on hardware as well as security systemscheck thisIf ur intereseted in the hardware and security system , try giving a seminar on BITLOCKER security which is usd in the Windows VISTA . This helps...
- Tags: deepak_ap007@...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-04
- 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
- 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
- Why the Three Laws of robotics are immoral and broken
- First order of business: I love the fact that there's a Web site called Asimovlaws.com dedicated to the ethical and technical issues surrounding the development of human-friendly artificial intelligence. Truly, this Internet thing has got some real potential.So, what is the first issue for debate on said uber-cool...
- Tags: Robotics, Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-07-05
- (Photos: A robot with moves by Microsoft)
- Stupid QuestionHow does this differ from remote control?Just a guessThe controller works like a remote, yes, but it appears to be programmable. That means that you can control how the robot reacts when you presss the different buttons, keypad.then put it to the test and use it as a...
- Tags: matt.olmstead@..., software, hardware, robotics, Microsoft Corp., photograph, robot
- Discussion threads 2006-12-14
