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HRP-4C

The HRP-4C is a female humanoid robot, created by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology – a Japanese research facility. An in-public demonstration was put...

September 23, 2012

Cotton Candy (Computing)

The Cotton Candy is a very small, fan-less single-board computer on a stick, putting the full functions of a personal computer on a device the size of a...

September 23, 2012

Computable Document Format (CDF)

Computable Document Format (CDF) is a new electronic document format that has been designed to allow easy authoring of dynamically generated interactive content. It was created by Wolfram...

September 23, 2012

Amazon Silk

Amazon Silk is a web browser developed by Amazon for Kindle Fire. It uses a split architecture whereby some of the processing is performed on Amazon’s servers to...

September 23, 2012

Arachno-Bot

Arachno means spiders. Arachnobot is a spider robot whose legs are 20 centimeters long. Arachno-Bot is a printable spider robot built as an exploratory tool in environments that...

September 23, 2012

CRX10 Robot

The CRX10 is an autonomous mobile robot platform for education, training and research that was developed by South Korean robotics company CNRobot. CRX10 supports MSRDS, SPL (Simple Programming...

September 23, 2012

Canadarm2

Canadarm2 is a robotic arm that has been developed for the European Space Agency (ESA) by a number of European space companies, with Dutch Space as prime contractor...

September 23, 2012

European Robotic Arm (ERA)

The European Robotic Arm (ERA) is a robotic arm to be attached to the Russian Segment of the International Space Station. It will be the first robot arm...

September 23, 2012

Legged Squad Support System (LS3) (Alpha Dog)

The LS3 is a robot being developed by Boston Dynamics. In addition to navigating its environment, the Legged Squad Support System, or LS3, must be able to maintain...

September 23, 2012

Squad Mission Support System (SMSS)

Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) is currently being tested with troops in Afghanistan. Lockheed Martin touts this 2200 kg system as the largest autonomous ground vehicle ever deployed...

September 23, 2012

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