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Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2005 |
KVH to supply fiber-optic gyros for DARPA's robotic race across the Mojave Robot designers will create driverless Hummers able to trek 175 miles across the Mojave desert in the Grand Challenge competition sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.   |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Manuela Veloso on Robot Companions The professor of computer science and member of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is turning robots from joystick-operated poles on wheels into "CoBots" -- intelligent companions that can navigate and move. |
National Defense
March 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Robots Get Smarter, But Who Will Buy Them? While the technologies to enable fully autonomous vehicles have advanced, robotics experts say there is still more to be done to make them viable in military and commercial applications in the next decade. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2009
Erik Sofge |
3 New Farm Bots Programmed to Pick, Plant and Drive Researchers say the key to the future of industrial farm robots is keeping costs down by adapting existing commercial vehicles instead of building new ones. |
InternetNews
October 10, 2005
Roy Mark |
Stanford's Stanley Wins Off-Road Prize The driverless Volkswagon powers past Carnegie Mellon's entry to win $2 million first prize in the Pentagon's driverless vehicle challenge. |
National Defense
December 2007
Grace Jean |
What's Next for Ground Robots? As the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's automated car challenge gets more successful, the agency must think ahead about what will be the goal for next years competition. |
Fast Company
Rose Pastore |
Carnegie Mellon "In A Crisis" After Uber Poached 40 Of Its Researchers The Wall Street Journal says that the robotics center at Carnegie Mellon is "scrambling to recover" after the ride-hailing company Uber hired 40 of its scientists. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2007
Erik Sofge Render |
DARPA's Robot Car Race Hits the City: 2007 Preview (with Video) A cross between a DMV driving test and a rally, this year's race promises to be DARPA's most complex yet. |
National Defense
December 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Army, Marine Corps In Pursuit of Robotic Convoy Systems As part of its modernization plan, the Army is funding several ground robotics programs ranging from small, remotely controlled explosive ordnance disposal units to large autonomous tactical wheeled vehicles. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2007
Daniel H. Wilson |
DARPA's Tough New Robot Road Test A robot expert explains why DARPA's previous robotic races were GPS-guided cakewalks compared to the upcoming Urban Challenge. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Growing Robots From the Ground Up Patient, long-term investors are encouraged to stay abreast of trends in the robotics field because as people become more comfortable with robots, the field will grow up fast. |
National Defense
February 2015
Stew Magnuson |
DARPA Contest Seeking Humanoid Rescue Robot The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's latest robotic challenge calls for a human-shaped robot to carry out a series of search-and-rescue tasks. |
National Defense
February 2008
Stew Magnuson |
Army Tests `Hands-Free' Driving for Troop Protection The Army is in the process of testing a new system to allow drivers in truck convoys to keep their hands off steering wheels and their eyes open to spot roadside threats. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2007
John Voelcker |
Autonomous Vehicles Complete DARPA Urban Challenge Six of 11 autonomous vehicles finish 90-kilometer course with no major accidents. |
Wired
March 2004
Douglas McGray |
The Great Robot Race Unmanned aerial vehicles are for wimps. 20 driverless bots are about to get down and dirty in the Pentagon's million-dollar rumble from L.A. to Las Vegas. Start your engines. |
CIO
January 15, 2004
Christopher Lindquist |
Security Supergroup Carnegie Mellon's CyLab combines experts into an information security powerhouse. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2005
Willie D. Jones |
Hard Drive In the past year, the robotics community has learned a great deal about how to make cars drive themselves. Recently, computer algorithms showed that cars might just be ready to take the wheel without human chaperones. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Google Is Outfitting Carnegie Mellon With Smart Tech To Create A "Living Lab" The university will essentially become a petri dish for Google's Internet of Things technology. |
InternetNews
November 12, 2007 |
Yahoo Sets Program to Boost Distributed Computing Yahoo will launch an open source program for developing software for distributed computing, with Carnegie Mellon University as its first academic partner in the venture. |
National Defense
July 2010
Matthew Russell |
Unmanned Systems: Can the Industrial Base Support the Pentagon's Vision? Perhaps the most revolutionary transformation in U.S. military operations during the past decade has been the rapid growth in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. Their application in the future will transform both warfare and the civilian sector. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2005
Jill Jusko |
DOE Partners In Energy Projects Focus is on combustion engines and heat conversion projects to develop more fuel-efficient passenger and commercial vehicles. |
The Motley Fool
January 21, 2010
Toby Shute |
A Megaminer Hungers for Potash BHP's pushing ahead with a huge new potash mine. |
Defense Update
Issue 3, 2006 |
The New Road Warriors Armored Trucks Light armored trucks can't manage the extra weight needed to defend against mines and other explosive devices. However, newer versions of explosive reactive armor (ERA) are being created for these lightweight platforms. |
National Defense
December 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Simulator to Help Developers Push Robotics Technology Forward A simulator intended to give robot makers a hand during a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contest is expected to remain an integral part of how developers design the machines in the future. |
National Defense
February 2010
Erwin, Magnuson & Jean |
Army, Marines Mull Over Options to Modernize Truck Fleets The Defense Department has been on a truck-buying spree for the past several years, and the demand will remain high for some time. But truck manufacturers don't expect the good times to last too much longer |
Home Toys
June 2002
Galaasen & Hengl |
Robotic Technology Has Arrived With the increased use of microchips in equipment such as appliances, heating and cooling systems, entertainment systems, fire and burglar alarms and the general trend towards home automation, advanced personal robotics naturally follows. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
From R2D2 to Spirit and Beyond: What's in Store for Intelligent Robots? While we tend to imagine robots in terms of sci-fi adventures and movies, or as legions of automatons replacing human workers in the job force, the truth may be more mundane and less sinister. |
The Motley Fool
October 15, 2010
Rich Smith |
It's Movie Night at the Pentagon The Pentagon's latest project is simply 3-D-licious. This week, DARPA, the research and development arm of the Department of Defense, announced that it has tapped Lockheed Martin and Textron subsidiary AAI to try to build a "Transformer X." |
