“The 2007 installment of RoboCup has begun; individual events opened to the public today. RoboCup is an international robotics symposium and competition whose goal is to advance the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence to the point that in 2050 a robot soccer team can defeat the human world champions. This year, RoboCup is located [...]

I am extremely excited to break even more good news today; Pleo pre-orders started today!!
After quickly converting the dollar price to danish kroner (DKK) I immediate went to order it, BAM!!! I was hit by a brick in the head, when reading this:
We ship to addresses in the United States.
Oh no!! Pleo is [...]

Good news robotics freaks! Today NASA JPL released a version of their robotics framework for the public.
CLARAty is the Coupled Layer Architecture for Robotic Autonomy. The first release of its software, version 0.10-beta, is now available publicly at http://claraty.jpl.nasa.gov.

CLARAty is an integrated framework for reusable robotic software. It defines interfaces for common [...]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–Junior, the robot Volkswagen, passed its basic driver’s test here Thursday.Now comes the hard part: a race on mock city streets that will raise the bar for artificial intelligence in the 21st century.
A team of officials from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) visited a parking lot here next to Google headquarters [...]

Nice combo gadget! LEGO Mindstorms NXT robot playing a perfect game of Wii Sports Bowling!

BattleBricks: WiigoBot, The Perfect Game

Tags: Bowling + Game + LEGO + Mindstorms + Nintendo + NXT + Robotics + Wii

“Jeff Hawkins is best known for founding Palm Computing and Handspring, but for the last eighteen months he’s been working on his third company, Numenta. In his 2005 book, On Intelligence, Hawkins laid out a theoretical framework describing how the neocortex processes sensory inputs and provides outputs back to the body. Numenta’s goal is to [...]

It’s Alive!
Say hello to Pleo. From the guy who brought you Furby, it’s a snuffling, stretching, oddly convincing robotic dinosaur. You are so going to want one.
By Clive Thompson

WHEN I FIRST MEET PLEO, the tiny dinosaur is curled up on a kitchen table, its long tail and big head pulled inward. It’s snoring quietly, emitting [...]

LEGO has released their latest robotics firmware for MINDSTORMS NXT as Open Source under their own License (I haven’t look long at it, but it is most likely derived from an existing common license).
You can now start developing your own LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT firmware version. By acception the “LEGO Open Source License Agreement” below, you [...]

Our little robot friends on mars have recieved xmas gifts too! In the form of software upgrades ;) Basically it makes them spot dust clouds, whirlwinds and other features, so it can more efficiently choose what data to send back to earth.
Press Release - December 28, 2006
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Microsoft has released their first version of Robotics Studio for Windows Visual Studio 2005. Since it is free and I have a msdn subscription via my work (meaning I don’t have to pay for Visual Studio), I am going to do some tests with the LEGO Mindstorms NXT very soon.
Microsoft Robotics Group has released Microsoft [...]