NASA Humanoid Robot on the Moon
The New York Times recently published an article about a NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) program called Project M. Project M’s goal is to develop a walking, humanoid robot that will be sent to the...
View ArticleTRACLabs awarded Army thermal vision contract
The US Army has awarded TRACLabs a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to develop a thermal sensing system for robots. The system, called PROWL for Perception for Robotic...
View ArticleRobots in the military
The New York Times recently published an interesting article on robots in the military. Entitled “War Machines: Recruiting Robots for Combat,” the article discusses the latest technologies that are...
View ArticleHelp for the visually impaired
TRACLabs is developing the Wearable Augmented Perception for Environmental Recognition (WRAPPER) under a National Science Foundation grant. WRAPPER is a computer vision system that provides...
View ArticleTracking Humans
It would be quite useful for a robot operator to simply tell the robot “Follow me” and have it track the operator in a variety of situations and environments. TRACLabs and Brown University are...
View ArticleLeader Following and Gesture Recognition
A previous post discussed human following and showed videos of robust human tracking indoors. This work has now been integrated with 2D “best-based” gestures from Brown University in order to allow...
View ArticleNational Robotics Week
National Robotics Week was April 9 – 17, 2011. TRACLabs scientists took several of our robots to Space Center Houston for demonstrations to the general public. Demonstrations included using stereo...
View ArticleTRACLabs receives Navy STTR award
The Navy has announced that TRACLabs and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will be receiving a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) award worth $150,000. The award is to to...
View ArticleTRACLabs receives Army STTR award
The US Army has announced that TRACLabs and Texas A&M University will be awarded a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) award worth $150,000. The award is to develop an autonomous...
View ArticleNew Army contract
The US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center (TARDEC) recently announced that it was awarding TRACLabs a $730,000, two-year contract entitled “PROWL: Perception for Robotic...
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