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Por lapso deixei de incluir o resto do artigo, aqui está o artigo completo!

There are now 1 million industrial robots toiling around the world, and Japan is where they’re the thickest on the ground. It has 295 of these electromechanical marvels for every 10 000 manufacturing workers—a robot density almost 10 times the world average and nearly twice that of Singapore (169), South Korea (164), and Germany (163).

Although the top three countries are in Asia, Europe gets the regional title as the epicenter of global automation; it has a robot density of 50, compared to 31 in the Americas and 27 in the Asia/Pacific region.

IEEE Spectrum computed the robot density for 67 nations in all, using data from the International Federation of Robotics and the International Labour Organization [see http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec08/robodata (to come) for the complete list].

Alexey Dudoladov/iStockphoto & Chad Anderson/iStockphoto

By 2011, the world’s industrial robot population is expected to rise to 1.2 million. Which countries these new robots will call home—and how the machine-to-human balance will change—remains to be seen.

Illustration: Mike Vella

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Já alguém conhecia? não cheguei a perceber que sensores utiliza e onde estão... aceito opiniões

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Um projeto open source muito bem documentado.

Formica: Affordable, open source swarm robotics

The Formica project began as a group project in the fourth-year Biologically Inspired Robotics module of the electronic engineering course at Southampton University. Formica was conceived and developed by Rob Spanton, Steve English, Alexis Johnson, Jo Sun and me, Jeff Gough. The project takes its name from the latin word for ants, as the robots were developed to explore the behaviour of social insects.


+ info aqui : http://warrantyvoidifremoved.com/formica