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It was the first of many moments of truth. Was the mechanical arm of the robot strong enough to make the teeter-totter bridge come down to the floor so the robot could maneuver over the obstacle? For the members of Hoover High School’s Robotics Club,

By Scott Kirsner, Globe ColumnistCasePick Systems is a company I've been tracking since I had my first meeting with its founder, John Lert, on a Friday afternoon in the fall of 2007. Lert didn't want me to write about the company at the time, but he

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Newt Gingrich is wrong, we don't need to send people back to the Moon. A full scale model of the space shuttleis moved on December 11, 2011 from the Visitor Complex at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to make room for a new space shuttle exhibit featuring

NARASHINO, Chiba Pref. — New robots for gathering data inside the radiation-contaminated Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are ready to go into action, the Chiba Institute of Technology said Monday, three months after an older version got stuck

7:28am by Phil Hornshaw Tags: Fresh Start your week with a dose of Hamlet, thanks to our leading iPhone app, Hamlet in Bits. The app brings you all kinds of information that helps to understand Shakespeare’s play, including audio and animated

Pressbox (Press Release)- Trondheim, Norway ¨C XBOSoft, a software quality assurance services company, announced it was selected by Norway-based Marine Cybernetics to teach best practices in software testing as well as review and optimize testing

Posted by Editor Monday, 30 January 2012 Top computer science students at a dozen prestigious universities across North America are just two days away from battling it out in the Windward International Collegiate Programming Championships. On January 28,

Gamers looking for some hardware assistance can breathe a sigh of relief; Mad Catz's latest eye-catching forays into gaming mice and headsets are almost, if not already, upon us. The Cyborg M.M.O.7 mouse (£130) manages to offer up 78 definable commands

Top computer science students at a dozen prestigious universities across North America are just two days away from battling it out in the Windward International Collegiate Programming Championships. On January 28, 2012, hundreds of student teams from

When director Matt Lenski first went to Michael Sullivan's apartment, he probably never imagined he would be walking into a den of robot porn. After years of working with Sullivan, who made miniature sets for Lenski's commercials and music videos, the

Today we will be taking a look at Cyborg's new version of the R.A.T. 7 Aimed at the large massively multiplayer online role playing game market the M.M.O. 7 looks to take all the innovative features of the R.A.T. 7 and add in the extra button and

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ABB has launched an ISO 5 (Class 100) cleanroom version of its smallest ever multipurpose industrial robot, the six-axis IRB 120. The new model eliminates the potential for contamination of the manufacturing area and the components being processed.

Since 2003, Sundance awards the Alfred P. Sloan Prize to a feature with “science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character.” 2011 saw the slow but intriguing Another Earth win, and this year

– ABB Robotics introduced an ISO 5 (Class 100) Cleanroom version of the IRB 120, its smallest multipurpose 6-axis robot. The component materials of the IRB 120 prone to particle generation have been modified to eliminate the potential for contamination

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From the outside, 3851 Warren St. is an unfriendly, unremarkable warehouse that hardly merits a second glance. But behind the white, unmarked door of the Powelton Village building, a freezing room that is home to the Atomic Robotics 4-H Club buzzed on a

When thinking about robots, most people conjure up those that they've seen in movies or read about in books. Others think of manufacturing or medical robots. But how many think about domestic robots? In a January 2012 survey conducted by Persuadable