Meet Isamu, the humanoid robot

Isamu stands 53 inches tall, weighs 121 pounds, and walks at over one mile per hour. Not only that, Isamu climbs up and down stairs, carries 4-pound objects in its hand-like grippers, and even recognizes human faces via its dual-camera stereo vision system. (more…)

In a recent study, embedded systems market analyst Venture Development Corporation reports that although certain segments of the embedded market have been slow to adopt Microsoft's “Windows Embedded” operating systems, the software giant is beginning to gain ground with Windows CE (Pocket PC) in the consumer electronics segment. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com takes a look at Isamu, a humanoid robot.

Isamu stands 53 inches tall, weighs 121 pounds, and walks at over one mile per hour. Not only that, Isamu climbs up and down stairs, carries 4-pound objects in its hand-like grippers, and even recognizes human faces via its dual-camera stereo vision system. (more…)

This handy little online “Flash” presentation from K Computing provides an extremely well presented, easy-to-follow, step-by-step mini-tutorial on BusyBox– the Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux. (more…)

The Embedded Systems Conference Boston asked that the following announcement be passed along to the LinuxDevices.com community . . . (more…)

[Updated: 10:45 PDT] Lineo provided the following statement in response to inquiries from LinuxDevices.com regarding rumors about a recent layoff . . .

On Friday, July 13, 2001, Lineo conducted a layoff that affected 13 percent of our worldwide staff, or 42 people. (more…)

This handy little online “Flash” presentation from K Computing provides an extremely well presented, easy-to-follow, step-by-step mini-tutorial on BusyBox — the Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux. The online mini-presentation includes information about what BusyBox is, where to get it, and how to configure and compile it. (more…)

[Updated, 16:20 PDT] Empower Technologies Inc., a 30-person company based in Redmond, WA, today announced what they are calling “the world's first major operating system upgrade for Palm IIIx and IIIxe handhelds”. (more…)

Milpitas, CA; Lindon, UT — (press release excerpt) — Panasonic and Lineo Inc. today announced the availability of a Lineo Embedix embedded Linux operating system image for Panasonic's OEM DVD-RAM drive. By using an Embedix image created with the Lineo Embedix Software Development Kit (SDK) 2.0, the Panasonic 4.7/9.4GB rewritable DVD drive becomes a removable mass storage solution for any embedded device… (more…)

Although this is not a story about Embedded Linux, it certainly deals with the underpinnings of the computing revolution on which the growing success of Linux is based: Moore's Law, the tendency of silicon device technology to double in density every 18 months. (more…)

RidgeRun, Inc. today announced immediate availability of a Board Support Package (BSP) for the Texas Instruments TMS320DSC21 digital signal processor. The new product offering allows embedded system developers to build an embedded product quickly, start writing applications before hardware is available, access royalty-free Open Source code to jump start development and use the power of DSPs without… (more…)

Haiva, Israel — (press release excerpt) — CompuLab announced the 586CORE, a tiny module implementing a complete Embedded PC within just 3.1 x 2.4 inches (78 x 60 mm) of space. The functional content of the module is equivalent to a well-equipped desktop computer, including a Pentium-class CPU, SDRAM, Flash Disk, and practically all the standard peripheral interfaces. (more…)

Toronto, Canada; Augsburg, Germany — (press release excerpt) — MGI and TUXIA today announced a non-exclusive partnership to develop and market a complete multimedia and TV software infrastructure for Linux-based entertainment devices. (more…)

By Wylie Wong; special to ZDNet News . . .

Software maker Borland will soon rent out Web-based tools for software developers to write and build their programs. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — NetClue Corporation today announced the release of Clue Browser 4.0, an embedded Java Browser for Java applications and smart mobile devices. Clue 4.0's new features include DOM 2, CSS 2, and full JavaScript 1.4 support. (more…)