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[Redcone Robot News] Schilling Robotics names new PR firm: Swallowable cameras, which were pioneered by Israel's Given Imaging  and are now being developed by several companies, have changed the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding and inflammatory bowel disease. Metin Sitti, director of the NanoRobotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon, is developing a set of legs that could be incorporated into the swallowable camera-in-a-pill as a way to give physicians a measure of control. Story

[Redcone Robot News] Organised chaos gets robots going: Swallowable cameras, which were pioneered by Israel's Given Imaging  and are now being developed by several companies, have changed the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding and inflammatory bowel disease. Metin Sitti, director of the NanoRobotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon, is developing a set of legs that could be incorporated into the swallowable camera-in-a-pill as a way to give physicians a measure of control. Story

[Radio.weblogs.com] Robotics to Play Major Role in Future Warfighting: To refine its goals, it held a workshop at Johns Hopkins University at the end of July to review its study, aptly named "Unmanned Effects: Taking the Human out of the Loop."

 [Scienceblog.com] Science Blog -- Carnegie Mellon Robotic Helicopter Will Help NASA ...: From June 22 to July 26, a 20-member science team from NASA, Carnegie Mellon and several other research organizations will explore the Haughton Impact Crater on Devon Island in the Canadian High Arctic. Scientists consider the site to be a potential Mars analog because many of its geologic features, including ice-rich terrains, ancient lake sediments and nearby networks of small valleys, resemble those reported at the surface of Mars. The site may shed light on the red planet's early history when its climate may have been wetter and warmer.

[Ravllc.com] Robotic Autonomous Vehicles: July 2004: Thank you for visiting.  Feel free to comment or just drop your url if you are even vaguely robotics related.  Want to post a new topic or article?  Send me an email at johnf@ravllc.com.  I'm not sure yet what this blog is to accomplish.  I was urged by several people to start one so here it is.  I figure we'll let it take its' course and see where things go.  I only ask that you abide the general rules of gentlemanly and lady like conduct.  No profanity and no flaming.  At the time I'm not requiring any kind of sign up or membership so anyone is free to comment as they wish.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Ravllc.com] Robotic Autonomous Vehicles: The method is applicable to a robotic vehicle equipped with (1) a stereoscopic machine-vision system that generates data equivalent to a topographical map of the terrain in the vicinity of the vehicle, (2) an onboard navigation system that computes the planned path of the vehicle across the terrain, and (3) a speed-control system. In this method, the process for generating a speed command begins with utilization of the topographical and planned-path data to compute the relative surface height as a function of distance along the planned tire tracks immediately ahead of the vehicle. The roughness of the surfacealong each tire track is quantified in terms of the derivatives (particularly the second derivative) of surface height with respect to distance. To suppress the additional noise that would otherwise be generated by differentiation of noisy height data, the height-vs.-distance data are fitted piecewise cubic spline polynomial curves, the parameters of which give the required derivatives directly.

[Primidi.com] Robotics to Play Major Role in Future Warfighting: To refine its goals, it held a workshop at Johns Hopkins University at the end of July to review its study, aptly named "Unmanned Effects: Taking the Human out of the Loop."

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