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iRobot Sells Former Competitor’s Product

What has become a milestone in the evolutionary timeline of robotic market development, iRobot sued its former competitor Robotic FX to death last year.  At the center of the battle was the Robotic FX version of a robot called The Negotiator which allegedly violated U.S. Patents 6,263,989 and 6,431,296 that relate to robot platform and [...]

Ray Renteria | August 7th, 2008 | Continued

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SciVestor Video - Autonomous Vehicle Roadmap 2010-2020

SciVestor Executive Director Jonas Lamis narrates the Autonomous Vehicle Roadmap that was presented at RoboBusiness 2008. This presentation is based in part on Robot Central’s observations, research, and opinions of emergent technologies from the DARPA Grand Challenge series of competitions. It highlights progress and challenges in the technologies necessary to facilitate civilian [...]

Ray Renteria | May 16th, 2008 | Continued

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MoD Grand Challenge: Go Find the Bad Guys

In 2004 and 2005 came the DARPA Grand Challenges–competitions in which vehicles were expected to traverse hundreds of desert miles completely autonomously. In 2007, DARPA brought the robots into a suburban setting for the Urban Challenge.
Last August, we discussed ELROB, the European Land Robot competition in which robotic vehicles were challenged with [...]

Ray Renteria | May 2nd, 2008 | Continued

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MIT’s Technology Awakens Mobile Devices–Robots Next?

The SynTactic Analysis using Reversible Transformations (”START”) system is a super information-finding technology that was developed by Boris Katz and his associates of the InfoLab Group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. It’s a system that’s been running since 1993–long before Google came along.
The system has two syntactic modules: One for [...]

Ray Renteria | April 25th, 2008 | Continued

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Colin Angle on the Business(es) of Robotics

Blogging from RoboBusiness in Pittsburgh this week. Much to my disappointment, the Convention Center does not have wireless access, so blog postings are coming out when possible.
Colin Angle, Co Founder and CEO of iRobot spent 45 minutes romping through robotics market business concepts. He presented 21 (I only captured 20 for some reason) [...]

Jonas Lamis | April 10th, 2008 | Continued

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National Instruments shows Robot Partnerships

SciVestor took a tour of the Robotics Pavilion at National Instruments’ NI Week 2008.  Anu Saha, NI marketing manager discusses academic and corporate partnerships that feature LabView and CompactRIO technologies.

2Sep2008 | Jonas Lamis | 0 comments | Continued
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God’s Dice

Rodney Brooks had it right in his 1991 paper “Intelligence without Reason.”  His approach to Artificial Intelligence is based an emergence of behaviors not explicitly programmed into a system.  Instead, a hierarchy of discrete behaviors is organized in such a way that higher-level behaviors subsume the resources required by lower-priority behaviors when appropriate conditions are [...]

31Aug2008 | Ray Renteria | Comments Off | Continued
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Join SciVestor at The Singularity Summit

Intel CTO and Ray Kurzweil Among Visionaries Headlining Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership
SAN JOSE, CA, August 29, 2008 – Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership takes place October 25 at the intimate Montgomery Theater in San Jose, CA, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence announced today. Now in its third year, the Singularity Summit [...]

29Aug2008 | Jonas Lamis | 0 comments | Continued
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Three Questions with Brad Heath - Virtex Assembly

Virtex Assembly is a high tech circuit board assembly firm headquartered in Austin, Texas.  Founder and CEO Brad Heath sat down with SciVestor to discuss how Virtex is going to change the world, why Moore’s Law is driving automation gains, and why the business community cares about what Virtex is doing.

18Aug2008 | Jonas Lamis | 0 comments | Continued
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Touch Bionics a 2008 da Vinci Award winner

Touch Bionics, developer of the world’s first commercially available bionic hand, announced that the i-LIMB Hand has won a 2008 da Vinci Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
The da Vinci Awards recognize the most innovative developments and research in adaptive and assistive technology. The National Multiple Sclerosis Society understands well the difficulties people [...]

6Aug2008 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
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iRobot Launches New Robot to Address Growing Public Safety Market

iRobot Negotiator Provides a Cost-Effective, Basic Reconnaissance Robot to Public Safety Organizations
Bedford, Mass., August 6, 2008 – iRobot Corp. (Nasdaq: IRBT) today announced the introduction of the iRobot Negotiator, a low-cost tactical robot designed to meet the basic reconnaissance needs of public safety professionals.
After the success of the company’s iRobot PackBot 510, iRobot heard from [...]

6Aug2008 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
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iRobot Continues Strong Growth Trend

If iRobot is a bellwether for the future of personal robotics, then the market is not just hype.  iRobot’s second quarter revenue increased 43% over the same time last year with profits totaling $16.5M, or about 24% of Q2’s $67.2M revenue.
“In the second quarter we achieved our 16th consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth despite [...]

24Jul2008 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
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Jonas Lamis featured speaker at RoboDevelopment Conference

Robotics Trends has just announced the line up for the Robo Development Conference and Expo ‘08, to be held November 18-19 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.  SciVestor Executive Director, and RobotCentral contributor Jonas Lamis has been named as a Featured Speaker for the event.  Details are available here.

Intelligent Sensor Technologies 2010 to 2020: Impact [...]

23Jul2008 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
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Three Questions for Chetan Kapoor - Agile Planet

Chetan Kapoor is a roboticist at The University of Texas and CEO of Agile Planet.  We spoke about how his firm’s control software might change the world in the years ahead, what is driving robotics growth, and why business should take note.

9Jul2008 | Jonas Lamis | 0 comments | Continued
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