Just like with human drivers, rain, snow and fog can all distort a self-driving car’s vision. Self-driving cars operate mainly in sunny, warm places during the day, to avoid potential weather-related complications. Waymo, whose robotaxis can see 360 degrees around the car and over 3 football fields away, is looking to better combat weather conditions, […]

Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a soft, lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand. Amputees who tested the artificial limb performed daily activities, such as zipping a suitcase, pouring a carton of juice, and petting a cat, just as well as — and in some cases better than — those with […]

Alphabet is testing how well a fleet of robots can clean some of Google’s offices around the Bay Area. As an update to its Everyday Robots project that was first talked about in 2019, X, the moonshot division of Alphabet, released more details about how these robots are sorting trash, cleaning tables and tidying chairs. The […]

A report by KPIX said residents in the Richmond District of San Francisco have recently seen a steady stream of Waymo self-driving cars making u-turns on the dead-end street of 15th Avenue. One resident said the cars come at all hours of the day. The KPIX report even caught two Waymo vehicles attempting to turn […]

Clearpath Robotics and Open Robotics announced TurtleBot 4, the next generation of the popular open-source mobile robotics platform. TurtleBot 4 aims to build on the success of previous versions by providing a low-cost, fully extensible, ROS-enabled reference platform for robotics researchers, developers, and educators. The post TurtleBot 4 re-designed from ground up with ROS 2 […]

MIT developed a system that improves the speed and agility of its Cheetah robot as it jumped across gaps in terrain. | Credit: MIT A loping cheetah dashes across a rolling field, bounding over sudden gaps in the rugged terrain. The movement may look effortless, but getting a robot to move this way is an […]

The sensor array on Tangram Vision’s Classic Mini. | Photo Credit: Tangram Vision. For the past decade, an increasing number of self-driving test mules have plied the streets of Silicon Valley. Waymo. Zoox. Motional. Cruise. They’ve become so commonplace that residents like myself barely blink an eye when a Jaguar I-Pace outfitted with multiple LiDARs, […]

The Skyline Robotics Osmo employs a 6-axis industrial robot to autonomously clean skyscraper windows. | Image credit: Skyline Robotics Skyline Robotics announced a multi-year partnership with Platinum, Inc. to deliver Ozmo, a high-rise window-cleaning robot, to New York City skyscrapers. Platinum is a building restoration and maintenance service provider in New York City, owning contracts […]

Lucid Vision Labs introduced its Helios2+ 3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) camera for $1,745. This is an upgraded version of the Helios2 ToF camera and offers two new on-camera depth processing modes: High Dynamic Range Mode (HDR) and High-Speed Mode. The post Lucid launches Helios2+ time-of-flight camera appeared first on The Robot Report.

Starting tomorrow, November 4, Waymo will begin mapping the streets of New York City. Waymo said five of its Chrysler Pacifica minivans will be driving in Manhattan, primarily south of Central Park. Its operations will extend down through the city to the financial district and also out to a small section of New Jersey through […]