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Self-Healing Robots of Doom From UPenn

OshMan writes "University of Pennsylvania's ModLab is doing some interesting stuff with modular robots. In this case involving absolutely no weapons! An example clip on YouTube shows one of their cluster robots re-assembling itself after being kicked apart. For more information about the program check out their site. So let the Borg and Terminator jokes begin!"

Self-Healing System Applied to Aviation

ScienceDaily is reporting that the self-healing materials are being used in some new aircraft designs. We covered several self-healing systems in the past months, but it is nice to see it starting to find practical applications. "This simple but ingenious technique, similar to the bruising and bleeding/healing processes we see after we cut ourselves, has been developed by aerospace engineers at Bristol University, with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). It has potential to be applied wherever fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are used. These lightweight, high-performance materials are proving increasingly popular not only in aircraft but also in car, wind turbine and even spacecraft manufacture.

A Curriculum of Holistic Healing and Advanced Business Practices Makes California Academy for the Healing Arts One of the State's Most Dynamic Healing Arts Schools

A Curriculum of Holistic Healing and Advanced Business Practices Makes California Academy for the Healing Arts One of the State's Most Dynamic Healing Arts Schools

Self-healing computers for NASA spacecraft

As you can guess, hardwired computer systems are much faster than general-purpose ones because they are designed to do a single task. But when they fail, they need to be totally reconfigured. This can be just a costly problem in a lab on Earth, but it can be vital in space. This is why a University of Arizona (UA) team is working with NASA to design self-healing computer systems for spacecraft. The UA engineers are working on hybrid hardware/software systems using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to develop these reconfigurable processing systems. As said the lead researcher, ‘Our objective is to go beyond predicting a fault to using a self-healing system to fix the predicted fault before it occurs.’ But read more…

Self-Healing Computers for NASA Spacecraft

Roland Piquepaille writes "As you can guess, hardwired computer systems are much faster than general-purpose ones because they are designed to do a single task. But when they fail, they need to be totally reconfigured. This can be just a costly problem in a lab on Earth, but it can be vital in space. This is why a University of Arizona (UA) team is working with NASA to design self-healing computer systems for spacecraft. The UA engineers are working on hybrid hardware/software systems using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to develop these reconfigurable processing systems. As the lead researcher said, 'Our objective is to go beyond predicting a fault to using a self-healing system to fix the predicted fault before it occurs.'"

A Curriculum of Holistic Healing and Advanced Business Practices Makes California Academy for the Healing Arts One of the State's Most Dynamic Healing Arts Schools

California Academy for the Healing Arts (CAHA), recognized as one of California's premier holistic education schools, is celebrating its fifth year teaching the techniques and expertise for professions in Bodywork and Holistic Healing. CAHA trains professional therapists in Massage, Energywork, Reiki and Reflexology, as well as providing Registered Continuing Education classes for professionals and courses for people new to the holistic health field.

Designing bug perception into robots

12 May 2008 Insects have provided the inspiration for a team of European researchers seeking to improve the functionality of robots and robotic tools. The research furthers the development of more intelligent robots, which can then be used by industry, and by emergency and security services, among others. Smarter robots would be better able to find humans buried beneath the rubble of a collapsed building, for example. The EU-funded SPARK project set out to develop a new robot control architecture for roving robots inspired by the principles governing the behaviour of living systems and based on the concept of self-organisation.

Springer Handbook of Robotics Debuts at ICRA

Robots! Robots on Mars and in oceans, in hospitals and homes, in factories and schools, robots fighting fires, making goods and products, saving time and lives. Robots today are making a considerable impact on many aspects of modern life, from industrial manufacturing to healthcare. Reaching for the human frontier, robotics is also vigorously engaged in the growing challenges of new emerging domains. Interacting, exploring, and working with humans, the new generation of robots will increasingly touch people's lives. The prospect of practical robots among humans follows half a century of robotic developments that established robotics as a modern scientific discipline.

Robots with a Vision

The deployment of robots in industrial environments is increasing so as to achieve manufacturing economies. This trend is being driven by the technological advancements in the field of robotics. Several important performance parameters of robots have seen a phenomenal change over the past decade—there has been a drastic improvement in the reliability of robots, the payloads robots can handle, and the diversity of applications that can be deployed. Computer-vision-based robotic guidance is a significant technology that has facilitated this change (see Fig. 1). Machine-vision-based feature tracking has replaced encoder-based tracking technology in many applications.

Robots or not?

With so much written and researched about relationships between men and women, it would seem that every detail has been explored. But according to experts, the next revolution will be all about human robots. Researchers say that within four decades, there will be robots with emotions who will talk and display their own personalities. And within five years we can all expect robots which will be used as sex toys. Let's hope they don't go the way of most Durban robots, which lie mangled on our street corners!

Microsoft Announces Winners of "Robots Among Us" RFP

Moving the technology toward these so-called “social robots” are researchers in a variety of disciplines engaged in the growing field of human-robot interaction (HRI). To explore some of the challenges in realizing the potential of HRI, Microsoft Research launched the “Robots Among Us” request for proposals (RFP) last October with the bold declaration, “The robots are coming!” Eight winners will receive a share of more than US$500,000 awarded under the program. Winning research proposals were selected from 74 submissions from academic researchers from 24 countries. The research projects explore a broad range of devices, technologies and functions as robots begin to work with and alongside human beings.

Motoman EH-Series New "Expert Handling" Robots

"Motoman's EH-series 'Expert Handling' robots set a new standard for speed with a large robot," said a company spokesperson. "Compared to general-purpose robots, the EH-series offers up to a 22% increase in speed depending on model. These high-speed, high payload robots are specifically designed for high duty cycle material handling and offer superior performance in machine tending and material handling applications. Large work envelopes and the ability to bend over backwards, allow tools to be stored behind the robot, allowing better clearance for maintenance. Five EH models are available. These robots include an IP67 rated wrist for protection in machining environments.

Self-Healing Computer Systems: Coming Soon to a Spacecraft Near You

A professor and some students at the University of Arizona are working on a project to build self-healing computers to be used on spacecraft. The theory is that these systems can catch and fix errors before they compromise the entire mission and save millions of dollars. Their work has garnered funding from NASA and support from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Self-Healing Computers for Damaged Spaceships

What happens when a robotic space probe breaks down millions of miles away from the nearest spacecraft engineer? If there is a software bug, engineers can sometimes correct the problem by uploading new commands, but what if the computer hardware fails? If the hardware is controlling something critical like the thrusters or communications system, there isn't a lot mission control can do; the mission may be lost. Sometimes failed satellites can be recovered from orbit, but as there's no interplanetary towing service for missions to Mars. Can anything be done for damaged computer systems far from home? The answer might lie in a project called "Scalable Self-Configurable Architecture for Reusable Space Systems". But don't worry, machines aren't becoming self-aware, they're just learning how to fix themselves…

Intridea Debuts Scalr Self-Curing, Self-Scaling Hosting Environment for Amazon EC2

Intridea, Inc., the agile enterprise Web 2.0 company, today announced the debut of Scalr, the self-curing and self-scaling hosting environment utilizing the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). For $50 per month, enterprise IT professionals can use Scalr to quickly and cost effectively set up server farms capable of scaling up to 100,000 or more users. The on-demand service requires no installation or configuration, so enterprises can signup and start using Scalr immediately. Scalr is being introduced in conjunction with RailsConf 2008, being held May 29-June 1, 2008 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR.

Intridea Debuts Scalr Self-Curing, Self-Scaling Hosting Environment for Amazon EC2

PORTLAND, Ore. --(Business Wire)-- Intridea, Inc., the agile enterprise Web 2.0 company, today announced the debut of Scalr, the self-curing and self-scaling hosting environment utilizing the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). For $50 per month, enterprise IT professionals can use Scalr to quickly and cost effectively set up server farms capable of scaling up to 100,000 or more users. The on-demand service requires no installation or configuration, so enterprises can signup and start using Scalr immediately. Scalr is being introduced in conjunction with RailsConf 2008, being held May 29-June 1, 2008 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR.

Soft and squishy chemical robots will one day squeeze through tight spots then expand to 10 times larger, offering an advantage over rigid robots. Once a mission is complete, a chembot would biodegrade.

Soft and squishy chemical robots will one day squeeze through tight spots then expand to 10 times larger, offering an advantage over rigid robots. Once a mission is complete, a chembot would biodegrade.

Nortel: Nortel Wireless Network Liberates Robots at Ashikaga Institute of Technology Wireless Mesh Carries Video and Data To and From Mobile Robots

TMCNet: Nortel: Nortel Wireless Network Liberates Robots at Ashikaga Institute of Technology Wireless Mesh Carries Video and Data To and From Mobile Robots

Robots moving closer to humans

Robots today are making a considerable impact on many aspects of modern life, from industrial manufacturing to healthcare. Reaching for the human frontier, robotics is also vigorously engaged in the growing challenges of new emerging domains. Interacting, exploring, and working with humans, the new generation of robots will increasingly touch people’s lives. The prospect of practical robots among humans follows half a century of robotic developments that established robotics as a modern scientific discipline.

EPSON Robots Announces New G-Series Scara Lineup

EPSON Robots, a leader in PC controlled, precision robots, has introduced the EPSON G-Series, the next generation, high performance SCARA Robots for its Micro PowerDrive Controllers.

Colin Self: Art in the Nuclear Age

Pallant House Gallery presents the summer exhibition Colin Self: Art in the Nuclear Age, the most comprehensive display to date of works by leading British Pop artist Colin Self (b.1941). This challenging exhibition considers the artist’s engagement with modern culture in the era of the Cold War, and is the first show of its kind to bring together the most important pieces from each period of the artist’s life, from the 1960s to the present day. This important exhibition, which comprises around one hundred paintings, drawings and sculptures by Self, includes iconic works such as Leopardskin Nuclear Bomber (1962-3); pieces never shown before such as Strike: Waiting Women on the Shore (1963/2008); important contemporary works including New York Disaster (1998); and the controversial Trilogy: The Iconoclasts (2007).

New Robots Developed to Climb Walls

An anonymous reader writes "SRI International, a nonprofit research and development organization, has developed a new technology that enables some robots to scale walls. The wall-climbing robots could be a boon for the US military, which could use them on reconnaissance or other missions in war zones, said Philip von Guggenberg, director of business development for SRI International, adding that the independent group has received some funding from DARPA, the technology research arm of the Pentagon. Von Guggenberg said that the new electrical adhesive technology called compliant electroadhesion, provides an electrically controllable way to stick machines to a wall. So what can they do? That adhesion lets the robots, using either feet or tracks, scale a vertical wall.

How Robots are Improving the Quality of Healthcare-Automatically

These days, doctors and nurses need to be as efficient as possible. Every minute wasted is a minute that could be better spent elsewhere, giving patients the best possible care. That's why many healthcare facilities have discovered an innovative new approach to freeing up healthcare providers' time: robots. These robots don't take the place of doctors or nurses, but instead bring drugs, equipment, meals, and other healthcare necessities to doctors and nurses, anywhere in a facility. See how Aethon, the leading manufacturer of these courier TUG mobile robots, uses Cisco wireless and security products to make it happen.

How Robots are Improving the Quality of Healthcare-Automatically

These days, doctors and nurses need to be as efficient as possible. Every minute wasted is a minute that could be better spent elsewhere, giving patients the best possible care. That's why many healthcare facilities have discovered an innovative new approach to freeing up healthcare providers' time: robots. These robots don't take the place of doctors or nurses, but instead bring drugs, equipment, meals, and other healthcare necessities to doctors and nurses, anywhere in a facility. See how Aethon, the leading manufacturer of these courier TUG mobile robots, uses Cisco wireless and security products to make it happen.

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