Robotic Blogs

Press Release from Universiteit Maastricht in The Netherlands:A Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Universiteit Maastricht contains some controversial forecasts about the future of human-robot relationships. The thesis is entitled “Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners” and its author is David Levy, an International Master at chess from London....

The 3000th Argo ocean sensor probe is to be launched from the RV Kaharoa off New Zealand.The Argo program started in 2004 collects temperature, salinity and pressure readings from all of the worlds oceans with the 3000 sensor probes.The robot sensors sink in the water to a depth...

Roomba maker iRobot has introduced a new household robot, the Looj, made for cleaning rain gutters.You just drop the small Looj into you gutter and it "augers" it way through and ejects the crappy buildup out and away. Just in time for the fall season.The price range from US $100...

The folks at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute have come up with another unique robot creation.The Scarab is a 4-wheel robot is designed for prospecting on the Moon. The design has been optimized for drilling into rock in cold and dark environments.The drill in the center of...

The Sacramento, California police department is developing a specialized Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, UAV, as a low cost alternative to helicopter cops.They currently have two helicopters that can stream live video to remote terminals in police cars or command centers.Their UAV's are...