CellBots: using mobile phones as a robot's control computer

Mon, 08/13/2012 - 21:40 — rafael-aroca

Imagine a robot control computer with a GPS receiver, built-in high resolution cameras, 3-axis compass, accelerometer and gyroscope, high resolution camera, and network connectivity using Wifi or 3G/GPRS/HSPDA data services and also Bluetooth communication. On some cases, Near Field Communication (NFC) is also included for landmark recognition using RFID. Imagine that this control computer has programming libraries and frameworks for voice recognition and synthesis that can be easily used in several languages. The processing power is based on low power ARM processors faster than 1GHz with one or multi-core CPUs and using 1GB or more of memory. Finally, imagine that this control computer is manufactured in the scale of millions so that it costs much less than buying all these sensors alone and building a robotic platform.

Such control computer exists and it might be in your pocket. Smartphones are the perfect fit for robots' computers. In fact, IEEE Spectrum Magazine and Robotics and Automation Magazine published articles earlier this year pointing "Smartphone controlled robots: the new brain of robots" as one top robotics trend for the year of 2012.

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Call for papers: International Workshop Smart Gadgets Meet Ubiquitous and Social Robots on the Web (UbiRobots'12)

Mon, 05/07/2012 - 11:49 — yacine-amirat

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Call for papers:
ACM International Workshop Smart Gadgets Meet Ubiquitous and Social Robots on the Web (UbiRobots'12)
Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 8, 2012
Submission : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ubirobtos12
Website : https://sites.google.com/site/ubirobots2012/

IMPORTANT DATES
Papers submission due date: June 10, 2012
Paper notification acceptance/rejected: June 23, 2012.

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Robotic Wheelchair Takes Elderly Customers Shopping

Thu, 05/19/2011 - 01:31 — dylan-glas

[Kyoto, Japan] On March 30, 2011, researchers at ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories demonstrated the latest developments in the Ubiquitous Network Robot project, this time featuring a robotic wheelchair in a shopping mall. The demonstration featured autonomous planning and safety using ubiquitous sensor networks, location-based services, and integration with remote teleoperators and mobile devices over the internet, giving elderly wheelchair users the independence to go shopping on their own.

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IROS 2011 Symposium "Networked Robots Everywhere"

Fri, 03/11/2011 - 22:50 — volkan-isler

Our TC will organize a symposium titled "Networked Robots Everywhere" at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011) in San Francisco, California, USA, between September 25-30, 2011.

More information is available on the symposium page.

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Robot Teleoperation for Everyone

Mon, 12/27/2010 - 04:25 — dylan-glas

[Nara, Japan] In a televised demonstration at the Nara City Tourist Information Center on December 15th, researchers at ATR's Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories unveiled a prototype system enabling elderly operators to control a conversational robot over the internet. Laboratory director Norihiro Hagita explained that the target of the system is to enable people with limited mobility, such as retirees or parents raising young children, to easily engage in part-time work using teleoperated robots.

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IROS 2010 Workshop on Ubiquitous Networking Robotics

Sun, 10/31/2010 - 23:37 — dylan-glas

I recently attended the Ubiquitous Networking Robot workshop at IROS 2010 in Taipei. This was the 11th workshop in a series at IROS and ICRA conferences since its inception in 2004. Presenters included academic speakers from several organizations in Japan and the European Union, representatives from industry, including Toshiba and NEC, and an invited talk from Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro, from Osaka University.

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Distributed machine learning and sparse representation with massive data sets (DMMD 2011)

Tue, 10/26/2010 - 22:20 — oliver-obst

This is the second announcement of the

DMMD 2011 Symposium: Distributed machine learning and sparse representation with massive data sets
Web page: http://research.ict.csiro.au/conferences/machine-learning/

The symposium will take place at the CSIRO Campus in Sydney (Marsfield), Australia.

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CFP: Special Issue on Ubiquitous Networked Robots of Journal Annals of Telecommunications- Springer

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 15:02 — yacine-amirat

With the growing emergence of ambient intelligence, ubiquitous computing, sensor networks and wireless networking technologies, “ubiquitous networked robotics“ is becoming an active research domain of intelligent autonomous systems. It targets new innovative applications in which robotic systems will be integrated into ubiquitous computing environments as physical autonomous entities. These entities are able to interact autonomously with the ambient environment and provide added value services like assisting people in smart homes, offices, buildings and public spaces.

Workshop on Networked Mobile Wireless Robotics

Tue, 06/08/2010 - 03:13 — lakshminarasimh...

During the Hannover Industrial Fair 2010, a Workshop on Networked Mobile Wireless Robotics took place on Monday 19th April 2010 in the Robotation Academy GmbH
This initiative was supported by ABB, ETSI - European Telecommunications Standards Institute, Goetting AG, Intel, Microsoft, OFFIS Oldenburg, University of Würzburg, Technical University Munich and Zentrum für Telematik, Gerbrunn.

IFAC Telematics Applications Symposium 2010, Timișoara, Romania

Tue, 06/08/2010 - 03:06 — lakshminarasimh...

Networked Robotics will be in the spotlight in the form of a major feature during the IFAC Telematics Applications Symposium between October 5th and October 8th, 2010. With speakers from all around Europe and the world against the backdrop of the largest city in western Romania, the conference aims to bring together the latest in the field of Robotics. More information and the official conference pages can be found under IFAC Telematics Applications Symposium 2010.