Automation Scientists Fredrik Danielsson and Bo Svensson are developing flexible automation systems. (Credit: Image courtesy of University West)
TechAndComputer (Dec. 5, 2012) Researchers at University West in Sweden have created an automation system where machines and robots make their own decisions and adapt to external circumstances. They continue to work even when something goes wrong. You can reprogram them every day and easily vary equipment and manufactured products.
Automation Scientists Fredrik Danielsson and Bo Svensson have demonstrated that this works in reality. The tests are performed on an automated production line which contains three robots, two metal cutting machines, a...
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Automation systems become flexible when robots make their own decisions
- 05 December 2012
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Squirrels and birds inspire researchers to create deceptive robots
- 03 December 2012
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Using deceptive behavioral patterns of squirrels and birds, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed robots that are able to deceive each other. (Credit: Image courtesy of Georgia Institute of Technology)
TechAndComputer (Dec. 3, 2012) Using deceptive behavioral patterns of squirrels and birds, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed robots that are able to deceive each other.
The research is funded by the...
TechAndComputer (Dec. 3, 2012) Using deceptive behavioral patterns of squirrels and birds, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed robots that are able to deceive each other.
The research is funded by the...
Robotic equivalent of a Swiss army knife: Reconfigurable robot a step toward something that can become almost anything
- 30 November 2012
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A four-segment milli-motein chain with a one-centimeter module size. (Credit: MIT Center for Bits and Atoms)
TechAndComputer (Nov. 30, 2012) The device doesn't look like much: a caterpillar-sized assembly of metal rings and strips resembling something you might find buried in a home-workshop drawer. But the technology behind it, and the long-range possibilities it represents, are quite remarkable.
The little device is called a milli-motein -- a name...
TechAndComputer (Nov. 30, 2012) The device doesn't look like much: a caterpillar-sized assembly of metal rings and strips resembling something you might find buried in a home-workshop drawer. But the technology behind it, and the long-range possibilities it represents, are quite remarkable.
The little device is called a milli-motein -- a name...
Bioinspired robot meets fish: Robotic fish research swims into new ethorobotics waters
- 20 November 2012
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(Credit: Image courtesy of Polytechnic Institute of New York University)
TechAndComputer (Nov. 20, 2012) New research is illuminating the emerging field of ethorobotics -- the study of bioinspired robots interacting with animal counterparts. They studied how real-time feedback attracted or repelled live zebrafish. The fish were more attracted to robots with tail motions that mimicked the live fish. The researchers hope that robots eventually may steer live animal...
TechAndComputer (Nov. 20, 2012) New research is illuminating the emerging field of ethorobotics -- the study of bioinspired robots interacting with animal counterparts. They studied how real-time feedback attracted or repelled live zebrafish. The fish were more attracted to robots with tail motions that mimicked the live fish. The researchers hope that robots eventually may steer live animal...
Experimental interplanetary Internet used to test robot from International Space Station
- 08 November 2012
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TechAndComputer (Nov. 8, 2012) NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully have used an experimental version of interplanetary Internet to control an educational rover from the International Space Station. The experiment used NASA's Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocol to transmit messages and demonstrate technology that one day may enable Internet-like communications with space vehicles and support habitats or infrastructure on another planet.
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