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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...

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TRACLabs 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...

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Robots 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...

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Help 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...

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Tracking 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...

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Leader 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...

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National 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...

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TRACLabs 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...

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TRACLabs 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...

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New 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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