Disinfection drone with UV light payload. Source: Exyn Technologies As businesses around the world get ready to reopen after novel coronavirus closures, many are looking to autonomous cleaning and disinfection. Unmanned aerial vehicles have several potential uses for public health, but using disinfection drones for large public spaces is not yet feasible, found a recent […]

Realtime Robotics, a Boston-based developer of responsive motion planning for robotics and autonomous vehicles, today launched its Realtime Controller. It claims the controller simplifies the programming and deployment of robotic workcells. The post Realtime Robotics controller aims to simplify industrial robotics deployments appeared first on The Robot Report.

Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped is now available commercially in the U.S. | Credit: Boston Dynamics Nine months after the limited release of its Spot, Boston Dynamics made the quadruped robot commercially available. Applicable business can buy Spot from Boston Dynamics’ online store for a base price of $74,500. The post Spot’s commercial availability a milestone […]

Four years after entering into a collaboration with researchers at Harvard University to develop wearable exoskeletons for patients with limited mobility, ReWalk Robotics revised the research agreement to extend the terms of the collaboration. Continuing the ongoing project until March 2023, the research team will also investigate how their novel designs for exoskeletons may incorporate […]

Source: Brain Corp As retail stores and other public spaces reopen after closures in response to the novel coronavirus crisis, interest in robots for disinfection and cleaning has grown. San Diego-based Brain Corp., which provides autonomy to mobile systems, said it expects demand for cleaning robots to persist. The post Cleaning robots, ease of use, […]

DHL is scaling up its robotic workforce. Last month it announced an expanded roll-out of Locus Robotics’ autonomous mobile robots, and today it said it’s scaling the use of Avidbots’ Neo floor-scrubbing robot. The post DHL deploying hundreds of Avidbots’ Neo cleaning robots appeared first on The Robot Report.

Although robots are quickly becoming ubiquitous in farms, factories, warehouses, hospitals, and even city streets, some developers of service robotics have assumed that older adults would be hostile to new technologies, particularly humanoid robots. However, a study by psychologists at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, suggests that older people are far less anxious and […]

“What can I do to support the battle against COVID-19? I kept thinking about this question over and over again,” says Yu Qi, Head of Siemens China’s Research Group for Advanced Manufacturing Automation located in Qingdao. As China intensified its efforts to combat the virus during Chinese New Year holidays, he was trying to figure […]

BADGR successfully reached its goal while avoiding collisions and bumpy terrain, unlike a geometry-based policy. Source: Greg Kahn, BAIR A geometric approach to mobile robot navigation and obstacle avoidance may be sufficient for environments such as warehouses, but it might not be enough for dynamic settings outdoors. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, said […]

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