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Roomba Maker to Develop DARPA’s ChemBot Morphing Robots
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iRobot to Build Soft Military Robots Tuesday, June 17th @ 7:15am PDT The U.S. military has gone soft - with a contract for soft, flexible “ChemBots” that can creep through tiny spaces.
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Roomba Maker to Develop DARPA’s ChemBot Morphing Robots
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iRobot takes up the ChemBot challenge, no one is safe by Paul Miller, posted Jun 17th 2008 at 11:50AM Hide your kids, iRobot just got that ChemBot contract DARPA was shopping around last year, which means that before we know it, sentient bots will be oozing through keyholes and making really bad movies without regard for human life or decency. Probably. The project is a “multi-year, multi-million” R&D effort to build robots that are soft and flexible, and can squeeze through openings smalle
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The US defence agency DARPA decided last year that it needed “Chemical Robots” (ChemBots) that could change shape in order to squeeze through small gaps. It’s now chosen the people to provide them - US firm iRobot. The company makes the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner (video) and the ‘Packbot’ used for bomb disposal. The DARPA programme manager overseeing the project gave a hint at what the robots could be used for: “During military operations it can be important to gain covert access to denied or
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iRobot Wins RFP to Create Liquid Shape-Shifting RobotPosted 17 Jun 2008 at 16:15 UTC by jlin iRobot announced that it has won DARPA’s RFP for a shape-shifting chemical robot. Nicknamed ChemBot, the robot should be “soft, flexible, mobile objects that can identify and maneuver through openings smaller than their static structural dimensions; reconstitute size, shape, and functionality after traversal; carry meaningful payloads; and perform tasks.” The iRobot team will include experts from Harva
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iRobot to develop ‘ChemBot’ for military Tue, Jun 17th, 2008 posted by admin 08:06 AM PackBot maker awarded multi-year, million dollar plus project from DARPA to develop shape-shifting flexible robot.
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iRobot, maker of Packbot and the Roomba vacuum cleaner, has announced that it was awarded a contract by the far-out thinkers at the Pentagon to build a robot that can slither under doors and through other small openings. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard will work with iRobot on the ambitious Chembots project, which is run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa). “During military operations it can be important to gain covert access to denied or hostile s
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Robots, deals, Military Robert Buderi wrote: Burlington, MA-based iRobot (NASDAQ: IRBT) announced today that it has received a $3.3 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army Research Office to develop a soft, pliable robot that can “maneuver through openings smaller than its actual structural dimensions” to perform reconnaissance and urban search and rescue operations. IRobot will work with MIT and Harvard researchers to develop the so-called chemical
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