NooTriX | Robotics Today and Tomorrow

May 16, 2012
ROS Installation Made Easy
Being Mac users, we decided to install ROS on one of our Mac Book Pro. We first took the latest release: Fuerte although it is tagged as experimental for Mac OS X. It requires XCode 4 and Homebrew...
May 14, 2012
Robotics News & Trends: 7-13 May 2012
One of the hottest topics this week is funding programs in Europe. In the UK, £1.65 million (approx. $2.6 million) has been spent for the new Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), a partnership between..
May 7, 2012
Robotics Trends: 30 April – 6 May 2012
This week, we highlight two news. On the area of service robotics Panasonic demoed its “shampoo-bot”. This head care robot showed in our selection of videos is already being experimented..
April 30, 2012
Robotics Trends: 22-29 April 2012
We don’t hear often about Russians in the robotics field. But, when they show up, they are impressive. About two years ago, we came across the Tesh-Drive, an amphibious off-road vehicle...
April 23, 2012
Robotics Trends: 16-22 April 2012
The DARPA Humanoid Challenge is still a hot topic! Competitors start to organize. Davide Faconti who led the REEM-B humanoid project at Pal Robotics is currently recruiting partners for a European..