Vecna's BEAR™ robot featured in the Economist and to appear in "Modern Marvels"

PRLog (Press Release)– Mar 23, 2011– CAMBRIDGE, MA - Modern Marvels examines the ways in which technology fundamentally changes the world and our daily lives, covering a broad range of topics from science and engineering to food and agriculture. The episode "Weird Machines" will focus on the unique and unusual technologies developed by inventors to solve everyday problems in unexpected ways.

Television and movies commonly anthropomorphize robots, assuming they are as capable as humans across the spectrum of mundane tasks we perform without a second thought: picking up coffee cups, walking through doorways, running down stairs to catch an arriving train. The reality bmw of current robots is much less sensational — nearly all robots in use today are designed a buick wsmatic.com/category/chevrolet">chevrolet round a single purpose, acting essentially as automated tools. BEAR, on the other hand, was intended from its conception as the first of a new generation of multipurpose, generally capable robots that can work alongside humans.

"The future of robotics is smart, powerful robots that can autonomously navigate and manipulate complex objects in unstructured environments," said Vecnas CTO Daniel Theobald.  "Vecna has been tackling many of the hardest problems in robotics, and more importantly is solving them.  I am proud of the work being done by our talented and dedicated team of engineers.  The passion they br rc helicopter and car market place ing to this field is impressive and it is clear that this is just the beginning of a long line of technological breakthroughs."

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