Yujin Robotics Selects Evolution Robotics to Guide Their Home Robot, Jupiter; NorthStar(TM) Gives the Jupiter Robot the Ability to Know Where It's at at All Times.PASADENA, Calif. -- Evolution Robotics, the leading provider of next-generation robotics technologies and component solutions, announced today that Yujin Robotics has selected its NorthStar(TM) product as the primary localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. method for their home robot prototype, Jupiter. Jupiter has been used for pilot testing in ordinary households since the beginning of October 2005 and is one of the key milestones of a project organized by the Korean Ministry of Information and Communication Ministry of Information and Communication
"We're excited to be working with Yuijin Robotics on the Jupiter project The Jupiter project was to be a successor to Digital Equipment Corporation(DEC)'s PDP-10 model. This project was cancelled in 1983, as the PDP-10 was increasingly eclipsed by the VAX supermini machines (descendants of the PDP-11). ," said Paolo Pirjanian, president of Evolution Robotics. "With this project, NorthStar is now being used on real robots Real Robots was the name of a fortnightly magazine by Eaglemoss Publications. Developed in partnership with Reading University, it allowed the reader to build a robot, "Cybot", and later a companion robot, "Tom". in real environments, proving its functions and performance." Jupiter is the first robot pilot in Korea being tested at a regular household environment where MIC uses three different types of robots and has a total of 64 units installed. The primary purpose of the pilot testing is to prove the Ubiquitous Robot Companion ("URC URC - Uniform Resource Citation (previously Universal). ") concept proposed by MIC. The URC concept is a scenario where the robot is connected to a server through a broadband connection See broadband and wireless broadband. allowing functions to be preformed on the server side, thereby minimizing the stand-alone function significantly and reducing the robot client cost. NorthStar is the world's lowest cost localization solution, enabling smart and intelligent navigation. NorthStar's localization system is comprised of two components: NorthStar Detector and NorthStar IR Projector. The NorthStar detector uses triangulation triangulation: see geodesy. The use of two known coordinates to determine the location of a third. Used by ship captains for centuries to navigate on the high seas, triangulation is employed in GPS receivers to pinpoint their current location on earth. to measure position and heading in relation to IR light spots that can be projected onto the ceiling (or other visible surface). Because each IR light spot has a unique signature, the detector can instantly and unambiguously localize lo·cal·ize v. lo·cal·ized, lo·cal·iz·ing, lo·cal·iz·es v.tr. 1. To make local: decentralize and localize political authority. 2. . Yujin Robotics incorporated a NorthStar sensor at the top of Jupiter and has designed the accompanying projectors to be aesthetically pleasing to better fit home environments. Jupiter's voice recognition function allows users to give Jupiter voice commands such as "go to the living room." The robot will then travel to the living room autonomously using localization data given by NorthStar. "Evolution Robotics plans to work closely with Yujin Robotics on the Jupiter project and will continue to improve NorthStar based on the feedback from this field testing, which will benefit NorthStar's other applications such as robotic vacuum cleaners vacuum cleaner, mechanical device using a draft of air to remove dust, loose dirt, or other particulate matter from dry surfaces. It is especially useful on highly textured surfaces, such as carpets and upholstery, that are difficult to clean by wiping or brushing. that can perform 'smart' vacuuming as opposed to the inefficient random movements used in current robotic vacuums," continued Pirjanian. Released in March 2005, NorthStar is being used by numerous customers for production development and R&D. For more information on NorthStar, please visit: http://www.evolution.com/products/northstar About Evolution Robotics Evolution Robotics(TM) (www.evolution.com) partners with brand leaders to make their products smarter by providing solutions for vision, autonomous navigation and intelligence. Evolution Robotics' mission is to make everyday products smarter through innovation in visual pattern recognition and robotics. The company's technology platform includes ERSP ERSP Electronic Retailing Self-Regulation Program ERSP Ente Regulador de los Servicios Públicos ERSP Evolution Robotics Software Platform ERSP Espace Régional de Santé Publique ERSP Eesti Rahvusliku Sõltumatuse Partei ERSP Edinburgh Ras Shamra Project (R), the standard Robotics OS, ViPR(TM), the gold standard in visual pattern recognition and NorthStar(TM), the world's lowest cost localization system for autonomous navigation. These can be licensed individually or acquired as part of Development Kits. Evolution Robotics has provided unique and differentiating functions for products such as robotic toys, robotic vacuum cleaning products and educational robots. The company also develops visual search engine technologies and partners with mobile service companies to develop mobile marketing and mobile commerce applications for camera phones. Additionally, the company markets LaneHawk(TM), a loss-prevention solution for retailers that reduces inventory shrinkage through Evolution Robotics Retail, a subsidiary company. Evolution Robotics is an operating company operating company A business that engages in transactions with outsiders. of Idealab, a creator and operator of technology businesses. |
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