News tagged with robotic camera

Students design underwater robot that does more than score points

(Phys.org) -- Since he was 12 years old and successfully talked his way onto an underwater robotics club for kids aged 13 and up, Trevor Uptain has been building robots of the kind used by oceanographers and ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A robot learns how to tidy up after you

(Phys.org) -- Sooner than you think, we may have robots to tidy up our homes.

Electronics / Robotics

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Canon seeks full automation in camera production

(AP) -- Canon Inc. is moving toward fully automating digital camera production in an effort to cut costs.

Technology / Business

created May 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Opportunity rover rolling again after fifth Mars winter

(Phys.org) -- With its daily supply of solar energy increasing, NASA's durable Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven off the sunward-tilted outcrop, called Greeley Haven, where it worked during its ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Tomb exploration reveals first archaeological evidence of Christianity from the time of Jesus

The archaeological examination by robotic camera of an intact first century tomb in Jerusalem has revealed a set of limestone Jewish ossuaries or "bone boxes" that are engraved with a rare Greek inscription and a unique iconographic ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (24) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Developing hardier, weather-resistant crops

At first, the back room of plant physiologist Edgar Spalding's lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison might be mistaken for an alien space ship set straight out of a Hollywood movie. It's a room bathed in low-red light ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Close encounters: When Daniel123 met Jane234 (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Qbo robots created a stir recently when their developers succeeded in demonstrating that a Qbo can be trained to recognize itself in the mirror. Now the developers have taken their explorations ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

NASA rover launch to Mars delayed to Nov 26

The US space agency has postponed by one day its plan to launch the biggest rover ever to Mars, with the liftoff of the Mars Science Laboratory now set for November 26.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers seek ways to beef up military armor

It was a simple act, really, one that Ledjan Qato performed dozens of times in the corner of a spacious engineering lab at Villanova University.

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Digital panoramas of rangelands could be rich source of research data

A scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is exploring how rangeland ecologists could use high-resolution digital panoramas to track landscape changes.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Opportunity begins study of martian crater, new samples 'unlike any seen before'

(PhysOrg.com) -- The initial work of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity at its new location on Mars shows surface compositional differences from anything the robot has studied in its first 7.5 years of exploration.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 28 | with audio podcast

It's alive! Space station's humanoid robot awake

NASA's humanoid robot has finally awakened in space.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 9

Teaching robots to identify human activities

(PhysOrg.com) -- If we someday live in "smart houses" or have personal robots to help around the home and office, they will need to be aware of what humans are doing. You don't remind grandpa to take his arthritis ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Auto-pilots need a birds-eye view

New research on how birds can fly so quickly and accurately through dense forests may lead to new developments in robotics and auto-pilots.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 01, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The Aeryon Scout gets VideoZoom10x upgrade (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Aeryon Scout is not a new piece of technology. This flying robot, which was created by a Canadian company called Aeryon Labs, is able to quietly hover in place and point a camera down ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog