data robotics

Drobo 2: Return of the data robot

Crave While we're on the subject of cool storage devices, you really should know about the second-generation Data Robotics Drobo -- the sequel to the totally drool-worthy Drobo we reviewed back in February.

Tags: storage, disks, gen, final cut pro

20 August 2008, 9:55 > More matches in Crave

News.blog: Google Street View to hit Europe in 3D?

News With an automated solution, they could go for blanket 3D coverage", rather than the more limited approach today involving user contributions of basic 3D models, robotics engineering student Mark Cummins observed on his Educating Silicon blog.

Tags: google, earth, maps, scanning

22 April 2008, 8:45 > More matches in News

Data Robotics Drobo review

Reviews Data Robotics says Drobo is the world's first data storage robot. It's like an external RAID device - which can copy files from one disk to another so you never lose data -- but is superior in many ways.

Editor's rating   8

Tags: data robotics, disks, storage, capacity

25 February 2008, 10:11 > More matches in Reviews

Drobo: Automated data robot

Crave Rory ReidUpdate: Read our full Data Robotics Drobo review. Data storage is usually as dull as ditchwater, but our ears pricked up when we heard about Drobo -- the world's first storage robot. Because Drobo automatically backs up data from any one...

Tags: data robotics, disk, remove, storage

21 December 2007, 8:00 > More matches in Crave

Photos: Racing robot cars

News Team Caltech, a robotics group at the California Institute of Technology, is fine-tuning 'Alice; -- a heavily modified 3,600kg Ford E-350 van reinforced with armour plating. After passing over the two previous DARPA competitions, the Massachusetts...

5 October 2007, 10:06 > More matches in News

Google sets $30m prize for moon landing

News At a recent artificial intelligence conference, Peter Norvig, the former head of computation at NASA Ames facility who is now Google's director of research, suggested that the space agency was taking the more expensive approach in trying to send...

14 September 2007, 10:29 > More matches in News

Hyperactive Bob gets fries to go

News Unglamorous jobs such as running a kitchen in a fast-food outlet represent the future of robotics, according to many. Pittsburgh is one of the national centres for robotics because of the robotics program at Carnegie Mellon University, which has...

27 March 2007, 10:30 > More matches in News

Driving lessons for robot racers

News Despite DARPA's mission of advancing robotics for military vehicles via its challenges and grants, the Stanford team is highly focused on advancing AI for consumer cars. As a result, Junior must have much more sophisticated sensors that can "see...

19 February 2007, 10:03 > More matches in News

Gearing up for DARPA's street race

News They were slow but they got it done," said Doug Traster, team leader for 2005 entrant Indy Robotics and president of Indianapolis-based Precise Path Robotics. Indy Robotics didn't qualify in the 2005 race.

29 January 2007, 9:14 > More matches in News

News.blog: The man-sized rolling robot

News Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, a well-known hub for breakthroughs in robotics, said on Wednesday that they've built a new type of mobile robot that can balance and move in any direction on a ball, instead of with mechanical legs or...

10 August 2006, 8:55 > More matches in News

Robot car tech shifts into high gear

News So much robotics research has been done at Carnegie Mellon that CMU's hometown of Pittsburgh is known as 'Roboburgh' in some science circles. One is RedZone Robotics, which uses robotic machines to make maps of sewer systems.

19 October 2005, 9:31 > More matches in News

The awkward smart phone grows up

News The company was swallowed up by US Robotics, which in turn was snapped up by 3Com. It's a special kind that doesn't erase all your data when the Treo's battery dies (unlike most previous Palms), which is good.

4 July 2005, 9:25 > More matches in News

The all-singing, all-dancing robot vacuum cleaner

News You're going to see some other good management teams formed in the robotics space. I know of a bunch of venture funds that have money set aside for robotics," said Angle. The human has always got to be in the loop when you get to any fire decisions...

24 June 2005, 9:23 > More matches in News

Mobotsim

Downloads It has a BASIC Editor in which the user can write macros making use of specific functions to get information about robots and sensor data and to set speed and driving data for them as well as making use of all the power and ease of BASIC language...

16 December 2001, 21:30 > More matches in Downloads