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Robotic Penguin For Girls
Bossa Nova Robotics is a Pittsbrugh based company that has just unleashed two new robots.
Like most robotic stuff in Pittsburgh the company has its roots in Carnegie Mellon University.
Shown here is Penbo, the robotic penguin, the other robot is called Prime 8 Gorilla and aimed at boys.
What can we say. It is pink. It is [...]
Moon Diggers
Astrobotic Technology, with some help from the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon, has created a robot to compete in the The NASA Regolith Excavation Challenge. The challenge will award $500,00 for the robot that can dump the most simulated moon dirt in 30 minutes.
Led by Dr. William “Red” Whittaker, Astrobotics main focus is still developing [...]
Robotic Farmhands
Carnegie Mellon is at it again. This time they want to make robots do all the farm work.
Tony Stentz, an engineer from Carnegie Mellon thinks the time is right for such pursuits. Tony worked on Boss, the autonomous vehicle that won DARPA’s Grand Challenge.
Tony and other colleagues have outfitted the tractor pictured here and are [...]
Roboworld = Robonirvana
A press conference on 4/21/09 from the Carnegie Science Center has given us four major tidbits of information about Roboworld, otherwise known as robonirvana. First , they have named the greeting robot, second they told us about the exhibits, third they announced new inductees into the Robot Hall of Fame and lastly they announced a dance contest.
Wow [...]
Red Rover Shoots For Lunar X Prize
William “Red” Whitaker from Carnegie Mellon, the man that led the Carnegie Mellon team to win the DARPA Urban Challenge, has a new goal. That goal is to win the Lunar X Prize by putting a robot on the moon.
Red and his team have created Red Rover. Shown here is prototype 2 of the rover.
Red [...]