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Smart swarms of bacteria inspire robotics: Adaptable decision-making found in bacteria communities

Science Daily — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:40:40 EST

Scientists have now discovered how bacteria collectively gather information to learn about their environment and find an optimal path to growth. This research will allow scientists to design a new generation of "smart robots" that can form intelligent swarms and aid in the development of medical micro-robots used to treat diseases in the human body.

Mask-bot: A robot with a human face

Science Daily — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:17:17 EST

Robotics researchers have developed an ingenious technical solution that gives robots a human face. By using a projector to beam the 3D image of a face onto the back of a plastic mask, and a computer to control voice and facial expressions, the researchers have succeeded in creating Mask-bot, a startlingly human-like plastic head.

Is that a robot in your suitcase?

Science Daily — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:30:30 EDT

A flying robot as small as a dinner plate that can zoom to hard-to-reach places and a fleet of eco-friendly robotic farm-hands are just two of the exciting projects a robotics team in Australia is working on.

Shape-Shifting Robot Shows Some Spine [Video]

Scientific American — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:30:00 EST

Surgical Robots to Provide Open-Source Platform for Medical Robotics Research

ACM — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:02:00 -0500

Random Robot Roundup

Robots.net — Thu, 5 Jan 2012 00:36:13 GMT

Robot Film Festival 2012 Submissions Opening Soon

Robots.net — Mon, 2 Jan 2012 13:58:09 GMT

Al Jazeera examines military robotics

Robots.net — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:19:14 GMT

TOSY Robotics mRobo Ultra Bass

Robots.net — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:14:32 GMT

Almost 1 In 3 U.S. Warplanes Is a Robot

ACM — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:42:00 -0500

Leaping Lizards and Dinosaurs Inspire Robot Design

ACM — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:07:00 -0500

Artificial Intelligence: Past and Future

ACM — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Santa in Flight Training with CISR Robot Arm

Robots.net — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:28:06 GMT

Birmingham Fellows in Robotics and Cognitive Systems

Conscious Robots — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:51:20 +0100

University of Birmingham is currently performing a search to find 50 world-class postdoctoral fellows in a variety of areas *including robotics and cognitive systems*. The post provides a 5-year research-only position followed by a permanent university position. Applicants that complement and enhance existing robotics and cognitive systems strengths will be very welcome. The full advert is below, but the relevant links are as follows: Fellowship scheme: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/excellence/fellows/apply/index.aspx Intelligent Robotics Lab: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/go/irlab Centre f...

The Tower of Hanoi for Robotics

Conscious Robots — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:34:39 +0100

The Tower of Hanoi for Robotics A contest in mobile manipulation for undergraduate and graduate robotics students London Science Museum, London, UK. Dec. 2, 2011. In association with the 1st European Robotics Week and the EU Robots Festival www.robotics-challenge.eu

Fast high precision eye-surgery robot developed

Science Daily — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:27:27 EDT

A researcher in The Netherlands has developed a smart eye-surgery robot that allows eye surgeons to operate with increased ease and greater precision on the retina and the vitreous humor of the eye. The system also extends the effective period during which ophthalmologists can carry out these intricate procedures.

Robot Allows High-Speed Testing of Chemicals

Scientific American — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:00:00 EST

Football analysis leads to advance in artificial intelligence

Science Daily — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:21:21 EDT

Computer scientists in the field of artificial intelligence have made an important advance that blends computer vision, machine learning and automated planning, and created a new system that may improve everything from factory efficiency to airport operation or nursing care. And it's based on watching the Oregon State University Beavers play football.

Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics

Conscious Robots — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:38:17 +0100

Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics is a new journal launched by Versita (www.versita.com/pjbr (http://www.versita.com/pjbr)), a science publisher in Central and Eastern Europe and distributed by Springer (http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/13230). Paladyn is a peer-reviewed, electronic-only journal that publishes the original research results on topics broadly related to biologically and psychologically inspired robots and other behavior-based autonomous systems. The journal focuses especially on cognitive developmental robotics which e...

Postdoctoral positions in Bioinspired Social Learning Mechanisms for Human Robot Interaction

Conscious Robots — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:14:41 +0100

Postdoctoral positions at Imperial College London in Bioinspired Social Learning Mechanisms for Human Robot Interaction Two postdoctoral positions are immediately available at Imperial's Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, to work on bionspired social learning algorithms for human-robot interaction. You will be working in a new EU FP7 STREP project, EFAA, to develop bioinspired algorithms for enabling humanoid robots to learn transferable sensorimotor and cognitive skills through multimodal interaction with human users in the context of tabletop games. Experience with modell...