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Sang-Rok Oh, KIST advisor In a presentation at InnoRobo, the Innovation Robotics Summit held March 23-25 in Lyon, France, Sang-Rok Oh, from the South Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), and an advisor to the government on r-learning, described the early childhood project that many of us have read about. Most of the stories,…

From left: R2A, Ronald Diffler, Marty Linn and R2B In a March 22 presentation at Automate 2011 in Chicago, the NASA and GM Team Leaders provided new details about Robonaut2 A and B, called R2A and R2B, the two products of their four-year collaboration. Marty Linn, from GM, talked about the flexibility and quality that…

Jeopardy! Was Just The Beginning Alex Trebek, Ken Jennins, Watson and Brad RutterPhoto courtesy of Jeopardy! IBM’s achievement with their Watson system and software was more than good television: It’s a major language processing realization. Computing systems will no longer be limited to responding to simple commands. The data management aspect lends itself to specialization,…

This week’s World Ag Expo in Tulare, California was a massive agricultural trade show.  With an expected 100,000 visitors (of which 13% were foreign), 1,600 exhibitors and 60+ acres (2.6 million sq ft) of exhibition space.  Massive!  Outdoors, indoors, trams to cover the distances and food stalls of every type, mostly with BBQ smoke stoking…

I was disappointed with the section of President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union speech regarding investing in selected new technologies for future growth. I had hoped he would use the word “robotics” and include the necessity for an American robotics industry in his speech and it is unfortunate that he did neither. That he…

Collage of robot consumer products shown at CES 2011 ROBOTS AND SMART DEVICES AT CES 2011 – LAS VEGAS Robotics Trends, a division of EH Publishing, an events, e-media and technology publishing company covering the electronics, construction and robotics industries, sponsored what CES called a “Robotics Tech Zone” focused on robotic consumer products. Unfortunately, there…

Guess which one is me taking notes I spent three days at CES listening, checking, talking and walking. My focus was robotics and the showing was meager. There were few consumer robotic products at the show. A full list of those can be seen in “Speed, 3D, 4G, TV Everywhere – Oh… And Robots Too.“…

Las Vegas, January, 2011 iRobot had a booth at CES 2011 in Las Vegas to show their upgraded line of robotic vacuum cleaners and a few other consumer products. In addition to iRobot, there were other booths showing Korean and Chinese versions of robot floor-cleaning devices. Ava, iRobot’s telepresenceconcept mobility device But this little gem…

2011 is a pivotal year for industrial and service robots. In fact, we may see the marriage of industrial with service robots to be used as assistants in manufacturing. The recent launches in Europe of pi4-robotics’ workerbot and Japan’s Motoman’s two-armed headless robot, and the anticipated 2011 launch in the U.S. of Heartland Robotics’ factory…