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Robots – How they got off unemployment

By Bryan DeLuca Robots are probably one of the hottest and most interesting topics in engineering today. In many ways it seems humankind has also been a bit obsessed with robots, so far back as they even have many mentions in mythology.  But how did they go from our thoughts and designs to getting their [...]

Cyborgs – really?

I think of all the fictional robots out there, one of the most feared was the Terminator. The Terminator (Model T-101) was an almost unstoppable killing machine. It had an organic layer that hid its robotic form. It could make logical decisions (for a killer robot) and move like a human. We are far from [...]

OMG, C-3PO, what brings you to this neighborhood?

Last month I took a look at how robots from TV and movies have played a part in what we imagine them to be. But how close are real-life robots to the image portrayed on screen? How do our fine metal friends from celluloid stack up to the robots of the real world, and will [...]

National Instruments Introduces LabVIEW Robotics 2009 for Designing Sophisticated Robotics Control Systems

National Instruments today announced LabVIEW Robotics 2009, a new version of its graphical system design software that provides a standard development platform for designing robotic and autonomous control systems. NI LabVIEW Robotics 2009 delivers an extensive robotics library with connectivity to standard robotic sensors and actuators, foundational algorithms for intelligent operations and perception and motion [...]