“Given iRobot’s current market position and projected global growth, the time was right to enhance our board with additional technology industry talent and business leadership.", shared Colin Angle, iRobot's co-founder and CEO.
10 lucky research organizations will stand to benefit from Willow Garage's PR2 Beta Program, under which they will each be granted free use of one PR2 robot and earn the privilege to participate in the advancement of open source robotics development.
If Popular Mechanics's list of "22 Top Products" and CES' own "Last Gadget Standing" awards are any indication, robotic vacuum cleaners like the Neato XV-11 and the Evolution Mint are going to make it big in 2010.
Since we had already covered all of the booths that had to pertain to robotics, we wanted to attend "The Last Gadget Standing" show. The show started at 10:30 in one of the meeting rooms. I arrived at the show doors early.
What a day it has been! It has been eventful, fun, exciting, tiring, and I am actually a little relieved that the day is over. There is just so much to see, which I suppose is why it's spanned out over 4 days.
This year I am going to attend the 2010 International CES show located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Last year there weren't a lot of robots offered and hopefully that will change this year.
Helen Greiner's newly renamed company, CyPhy Works Inc., has just been awarded a $2.4 million research grant to build unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for inspecting buildings, bridges and other civil infrastructures.