Robots for Home, Work & Entertainment
Whatever business a company may be in, software plays an increasingly vital role, from managing inventory to interfacing with customers. Software developers, as a result, are in greater demand than … Read More
Whatever business a company may be in, software plays an increasingly vital role, from managing inventory to interfacing with customers. Software developers, as a result, are in greater demand than … Read More
Multiply Labs, a San Francisco-based company developing automated manufacturing systems to produce individualized drugs at scale, raised $20 million in a Series A funding. The round was led by Casdin … Read More
Performance Motion Devices (PMD) recently debuted its new ION/CME N-Series Digital Drives, new members of the ION Digital Drive family that provide high-performance motion control, network connectivity and amplification. The … Read More
How impressed has Walmart been with its last-mile delivery tests with Cruise? So impressed that Walmart just invested in the San Francisco-based developer of autonomous vehicles. Walmart, and several institutional … Read More
Canvas’ drywall robot relies on humans being in the loop. | Credit: Canvas San Francisco-based robotics startup Canvas has raised $24 million in Series B funding. The round was led … Read More
Acquisition of industry leading mobile robotics website, together with Mike Oitzman continuing as Editor, strengthens WTWH Media’s Robotics Group and serves as catalyst for future growth. Business-to-business publisher WTWH Media … Read More
A submersible robot snake could assist the Department of Defense inspect ships, submarines and other underwater infrastructure. | Credit: CMU Carnegie Mellon University’s acclaimed snake-like robot can now slither its … Read More
On April 11, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity will take to the skies of Mars for the first time. It will do so fully autonomously, out of necessity—the time delay between … Read More
The DARPA Subterranean Challenge Final Event is scheduled to take place at the Louisville Mega Cavern in Louisville, Kentucky, from September 21 to 23. We’ve followed SubT teams as they’ve … Read More
Working safely is not only about processes, but context ? understanding the work environment and circumstances, and being able to predict what other people will do next. A new system … Read More
In the fictional worlds of film and TV, artificial intelligence has been depicted as so advanced that it is indistinguishable from humans. But what if we’re actually getting closer to … Read More
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover took this picture of the Ingenuity Helicopter on Apr. 4, 2021. | Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-CalTech NASA is one step closer to achieving the first flight on … Read More
MIT’s RF Grasp system uses both a camera and an RF reader to find and grab tagged objects, even when they’re fully blocked from the camera’s view. | Photo Credit: … Read More
Most humans are bipeds, but even the best of us are really only bipeds until things get tricky. While our legs may be our primary mobility system, there are lots … Read More
Researchers demonstrate a wheeled robot that can navigate its environment without a computer. By having the left and right wheels of the robot powered by different units, they show a … Read More
In recent years, robots have gained artificial vision, touch, and even smell. “Researchers have been giving robots human-like perception,” says MIT Associate Professor Fadel Adib. In a new paper, Adib’s … Read More
In recent years there have been exciting breakthroughs in wearable technologies, like smartwatches that can monitor your breathing and blood oxygen levels. But what about a wearable that can detect … Read More
Artificial living organisms can work together in swarms and record information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYUuWWnfRsk Using robots to unload freight on receiving docks isn’t a novel idea. A quick YouTube search will return a slew of results. But many of these previous approaches have … Read More
Electronics-free DraBot uses air pressure, microarchitectures and self-healing hydrogels to watch for changes in pH, temperature and oil.
AI is endowing robots, autonomous vehicles and countless of other forms of tech with new abilities and levels of self-sufficiency. Yet these models faithfully “make decisions” based on whatever data … Read More
Collaborative robots (cobots) are designed to operate around humans in a factory environment and to execute tasks in a human-like fashion. Interestingly, assembly tasks that are simple for humans to … Read More
The more an Autonomous Mobile Robot can sense, the better it will perform. And the larger the field-of-view of each sensor, the more practical a solution can be. By Mark … Read More
Researchers study the expressiveness of android faces using motion capture cameras and identify ways in which they still lack the complexity of real human reactions, which may help guide future … Read More
There are some tasks that traditional robots — the rigid and metallic kind — simply aren’t cut out for. Soft-bodied robots, on the other hand, may be able to interact … Read More
