Linux robots descend on Atlanta
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| Linux-powered robots are flocking to Atlanta this week to compete
| in the Robocup scientific competition.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5556707251.html
Related:
We, Robots: Open Source Robotics
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| Now Orocos is nothing like, say, the Linux kernel, which after
| some configuration and adding a number of tools, runs on pretty
| much any 32-bit and quite a few 64-bit architectures once would
| care to think of. Indeed, Orocos is likely to use the Linux kernel
| itself via a real-time interface to talk to hardware.
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http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/183
First Public Release of CLARAty Software
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| With this release, a total of 44 CLARAty modules (~100K lines of code) are
| now available under the JPL Open Source License. This release is intended to
| share with the robotics community some of the core robotic modules which were
| jointly developed with NASA Ames Research Center, Carnegie Mellon, and
| University of Minnesota. This first release represents about 10% of all
| CLARAty modules and 30% of the generic modules planned for future release.
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http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/news/newsStory.cfm?NewsID=69
NASA Expands Order for Innova Robotics & Automation's Universal Robot
Controller to Enhance Ground Testing
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| In addition, Innova will provide an external clock synchronization
| signal to NASA's Linux-based host PC that will function as the
| "heart beat" that triggers the initiation of commands to the robotic arm.
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http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=219764
Linux humanoid robot on French TV
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| A Linux-powered humanoid robot has been interviewed on 8-Fi, a
| French television magazine devoted to new technology.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9128800823.html
Build Your Own Robot
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| IBM has embraced it, Microsoft is threatened by it, and some companies,
| including RedHat and Novell, have made it their primary focus. It's
| the open-source movement, and now another company, Motley Fool Rule
| Breakers recommendation iRobot (Nasdaq: IRBT), is seeking to apply
| the main principle of open source -- allowing users to view and modify
| one's software code -- to its own business.
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http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2006/mft06120407.htm?source=eptyholnk303100&logvisit=y&npu=y
http://tinyurl.com/ya2plt
Linux Robots Rule at Wired NextFest
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| What types of business models are the start-ups pursuing?
| Beyond its hybrid operating environment, Hanson Robotics
| also wants to retain a hybrid mix of open source and
| proprietary technology, according to the company's president.
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| As David Hanson sees things, the ideal ratio is 70 percent
| open source, versus 30 percent proprietary.
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6321/1/
Mark Tilden's RS Media exclusively available at Debenhams
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| RS media combines Robosapien V2's features with some multimedia
| functionality - a full colour LCD screen, a USB connector and MP3 and
| MP4 playback. RS Media can display and store data easily from your PC or
| play a song through the speakers in his hands. Using the Personality
| editor, you can edit all his movements, sound files and video files.
| You can even assign voice files or choreograph a routine to a favourite
| dance track.
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http://www.techdigest.tv/2006/09/mark_tildens_rs.html
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