Norwegian Scientists Create Evolving Hardware While Jeff Hawkins Creates the Brain (Verdict: Start Building Nuclear Shelters NOW)
Say hello to Kyrre Glette, Jim Tørrenson, Jeff Hawkins and one of your future robot overlords. The first three have developed two different ways to create independent machines. The fourth is just looking to destroy you. Glette and Tørrenson, from Oslo University, have come up with what could be the next generation of hardware—machines that…
Fish, Subs, Stickmen and the USS Enterprise All Found at the Underwater Robot Convention 2007
If you needed any proof of the increasing popularity of robots, then look no further than Tatsumi International Pool in Tokyo, which recently played host to this year’s underwater robot convention. Four times larger than last year’s event in Kobe, the convention showed off over 80 H2O-friendly machines, including a snake that could move at…
FIRST Robotics Competition: Like Battlebots with Fewer Saws
This weekend was the FIRST robotics competition at the Javits Center here in NYC, an event where groups of students compete to see who built the best robot in the six-week competition window. How it works: The core of the high school–level FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is the design and building of a robotic competitor.…
