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Autom Available for Pre Order
Fall is upon us and winter is almost here. Along with that come the holidays and lots of eating and drinking. A time when most people put on an extra pound or two. Well, along comes Autom, your personal diet and eating coach robot to help out from Intuitive Automata. Autom is a diet and [...]
Robots to Help Aging Nuclear Plants?
The recent crisis in Japan has spurred the United States and other countries to think harder about nuclear power and safety. Nuclear facilities in the US may get a pipe inspecting robot to help them out. Harry Asada, the director of MIT’s d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology and his colleagues are working on [...]
MIT Developing Smart Cars
Traffic accidents are one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Researchers at MIT are working on a system to make cars smarter and avoid crashes. The researchers are developing an algorithm modeled on human driving behavior that would warn the driving of an accident and possibly take over control of the [...]
The BilliBot Project
The BilliBot Project is a project started by Garrat Gallagher from MIT that uses the iRobot platform and a Kinect sensor with ROS software. ROS is the Robot Operating System developed by Willow Garage. What is BilliBot you ask? Bilibot, from the German word ‘billig’, or cheap, is a sophisticated robotics platform at an affordable [...]
Know Your Roboticist : Heather Knight
Heather Knight is currently a PhD student at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute. Before getting to Carnegie Mellon she studied at MIT and even worked at Aldebaran Robotics for a while. She was kind enough to answer a few questions for us for National Robotics Week. RL: When you were at MIT did you get [...]