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An American robotics network is being launched. The network is termed the Robotics Virtual Organization (Robotics VO). The formation of the network is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, but has to be self-sufficient by the end of the first year.
The President announces new initiative in digital manufacturing which includes advanced design and manufacturing tools that are digitally integrated and networked with supply chains can lead to "factories of the future" forming an agile U.S. industrial base with significant speed to market advantage.
In his remarks on the 150th Anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences President Obama praised advances in science, engineering, infrastructure, innovation, education and environmental protection. Amazing breakthroughs in robotics were mentioned by the President among several technological innovations.
Please mark your calendars for the first National Robotics Initiative Principal Investigators (NRI PI) meeting on October 1-2, 2013. The event, which will be held in Arlington, Virginia at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, will bring together the community of researchers, companies, and program managers who are actively engaged in the National Robotics Initiative launched in 2011.
March 20, 2013. Washington, D.C. — Today, the Robotics Caucus Advisory Committee of the U.S. Congress hosted a briefing to present A Roadmap for U.S. Robotics: From Internet to Robotics–2013 edition.
A series of National Robotics Initiative (NRI) workshops will be organized to discuss challenges and potential solutions leading to the development of novel robotics systems. Robotics VO will publish the information about these NRI workshops here.
(New York Times, January 26, 2013, by Carla Diana.) Meeting Simon for the first time was one of the most sublime experiences I’ve had. With every coy head nod, casual hand wave and deep eye gaze, I felt he already knew me. Simon is a humanoid robot being developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology for the purposes of exploring intuitive ways for people and machines to live and work alongside one another.
(New York Times, January 23, 2013, by John Markoff.) The robot equipment industry has one word for the alarmist articles and television news programs that predict a robot is about to steal your job: Fiddlesticks! Well, that wasn’t actually the word used this week at the Automate 2013 trade show held here through Thursday, but the sentiment was the same.
Today’s robotics are having an impact on the factory floor, in warehouse and distribution centers, and even in executive offices and homes.
Dear Colleagues, we would like the new web site of Robotics VO to become an important place for exchange of ideas and information for the members of the robotics community in the USA. We start this very first forum to hear your suggestions on the features and functions that our new web site should have.
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