Penn State Abington Robotics Club

02/10/2015

Flying robots.....
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/airdroids/the-pocket-drone-your-personal-flying-robot/description

The Pocket Drone is the personal flying robot that enables anyone to capture amazing video and photos from the sky. The year 2014 is going to be the “Year of the Drone.” Personal and professional photography is literally beginning to take off. Everybody can already take great looking photos and vide…

05/18/2014

DARPA Taps Winners in Virtual Robotics Challenge...........

http://www.livescience.com/37811-darpa-virtual-robotics-challenge.html

05/18/2014

http://www.livescience.com/37811-darpa-virtual-robotics-challenge.html

10/03/2013

Scientists have developed a new feedback system to remotely control mobile robots. This research will allow robots to operate with minimal supervision and could eventually lead to a robot that can learn or even become autonomous.

09/19/2013

DARPA working on reusable, cost-effective space plane

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is at work on a new space plane that could put as much as 4,000 pounds into orbit for about $5 million a launch, writes Leonard David. Other goals for the reusable XS-1 include flying 10 times in 10 days, as well as achieving Mach 10, David notes.
More Information-
http://www.space.com/22836-military-experimental-space-plane-darpa.html

The United States military is kick-starting a suborbital hypersonic vehicle program that also aims to launch payloads into orbit on the cheap. The new XS-1 program is run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

09/19/2013

Machine makes strawberry harvest more efficient

A hydraulic drive-powered harvesting machine from Oregon-based GK Machine uses a covered conveyor belt that sends flats filled by workers to either side of the machine for pallet stacking. "You're looking at a 38% increase in productivity for growers and pickers just by the pickers not having to carry crates back and forth to the roadways," said salesman Jim Wolf.
More Information-
http://www.thepacker.com/fruit-vegetable-news/Strawberry-harvesting-aid-helps-farmworker-efficiency-224138711.html

GK Machine Inc., is ramping up the marketing of harvesting machinery designed to help strawberry growers cut labor costs.

09/19/2013

Robots get even closer to humans on the assembly line

Industrial robots are getting safer, with advancements finally making it possible for humans and production-line robots to work safely in close proximity. The debate is what this means for humans: even more jobs displaced by robotics or a chance for humans to work better and later into life?

More Information-
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/518661/smart-robots-can-now-work-right-next-to-auto-workers/

It used to be too dangerous to have a person work alongside a robot. But at a South Carolina BMW plant, next-generation robots are changing that.

09/19/2013

Robots are reshaping the jobs. Interesting topic from" The Times of India"-
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/careers/job-trends/How-robots-are-reshaping-jobs/articleshow/22510627.cms

Technology is driving a big rearrangement in the job market , disturbing their distribution over geographies and sectors.

09/17/2013

Another method in exploring the terrain of Mars and the development of the planet, but through robot snakes?

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/snake-robot-mars-european-space-agency/story?id=20271152

Aksel Transeth, a senior research scientist at SINTEF, along with some of his colleagues, are conducting a feasibility study for the European Space Agency, examining how a snake robot would fare on the red planet.

09/17/2013

"Cell-sized Robots deliver medication where it's needed"

Micro-robots 100 microns long, about the size of a human cell, can be injected into the body and guided magnetically to deliver medication where it's needed, writes Eileen Yu. The devices, developed by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, are expected to prove particularly useful as an alternative to risky surgery in more delicate areas such as the eye and brain to treat such afflictions as retinal degeneration and stroke.
More Interesting Information at-
http://www.zdnet.com/cn/chinese-researchers-build-cell-size-bots-to-carry-drugs-7000020698/

Researchers from Chinese University of Hong Kong develop micro-robots no larger than a human cell to carry larger volumes of drugs more accurately into targeted parts of the body, providing alternative to invasive treatment.

09/17/2013

Japan's IHI is more than just a maker of crawler cranes, with tower cranes now among its specialties. The company has been able to meet a variety of needs from builders, including four climbing cranes for the 2,080-foot Skytree Tower in Tokyo, one of which took the concept to new heights of performance.
More Interesting information-
http://www.khl.com/magazines/international-cranes-and-specialized-transport/detail/item88329/Tower-cranes:A-tailored-solution

The essential information source for equipment users and buyers in the crane and specialized transport industry worldwide

09/14/2013

The most useful robot for human beings. Found in Japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv_hfobQ_Pk