"Our ambition is to become a leading player in helping (elderly) 
    people stay in their homes longer," Angle said. "We think we can 
    be a huge part of helping people to gracefully age in place."

BizJournals.com::iRobot CEO: "robot doctors" will drive growth

[03 February 2012, top]

[16 January 2012, top]

   "Robotics experts at the University of California, Santa Cruz 
    and the University of Washington (UW) have completed a set of 
    seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical 
    research laboratories throughout the United States." 
    [source: EurekAlert.org]

EurekAlert.org::'Open-source' robotic surgery platform going to top medical research labs

[13 January 2012, top]

   Happy birthday Isaac Asimov! Word of the Day: robotics: The science 
   and technology of robots. 
   http://www.wordnik.com/word-of-the-day/2012/01/02

[02 January 2012, top]

I kept putting off and off and off, but there's no more putting it off--I needed to start blogging about robots. So on 8 June 2008, the Robot YottaFiler blog was created.

Yotta- is a metric prefix that implies 10 raised to the 24th power (1024), which when written as a whole number is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. One YottaFiler equals one septillion. The symbol for Yotta- is 'Y'. The multiplicative inverse for Yotta- is yocto- (i.e. 'y'). My initial name for this blog was PetaFiler, but that term Googled too well. One YottaFiler is one million Petafilers.

M-W.com (Merriam-Webster Online) gives the following definitions for file: [transitive verb] "to arrange in order for preservation and reference" and [intransitive verb] "to place items in a file." A filer is one who files.

I used the Wikipedia to get the following "definition" for robot: "A robot is a mechanical or virtual, artificial agent." The term bot typically refers to software agents. Nanorobots are nano-sized robots and nanobots are very, very, very small bots.

One of my favorite quotes comes from Ray Kurzweil...

   "The future is biotech, nanotech, and, ultimately, robotics."

Robotics, in a nutshell, is the "science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application."

In this blog, we're going to file yotta-bits of information about robots, bots, robotics, nanorobots and nanobots.

Robot YottaFiler Archives: 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008

[01 January 2012, top]