The ocean provides about half of the oxygen necessary for humans to survive. Scientists at Oregon State University wanted to better understand how plankton populations in the ocean will respond to climate change. To study plankton populations, they developed a new way of photographing large populations of these creatures at sea, using PSC’s Bridges-2 system […]
In today’s fundraising environment with its intense focus on cash flow positive business models, robotics entrepreneurs are left navigating some thorny challenges: high CapEx costs, workflow and change management, and long enterprise deployment cycles to name a few. This is further exacerbated by the choice of a business model such as RaaS (Robotics as a […]
While defense spending is the source of many innovations in robotics and artificial intelligence, government policy usually takes a while to catch up to technological developments. Given all the attention on generative AI this year, October’s executive order on AI safety and security was “encouraging,” observed Dr. Brendan Englot, director of the Stevens Institute for […]
Clustering resources for faster performance is not new. In the early days of clustering, the Beowulf project demonstrated that high performance was achievable from commodity hardware. These days, the “Beowulf cluster meme” gets used every time some new technology is deployed. For instance, “Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Frontier systems.” Funny enough, but a little […]
Hyperscalers Google, Amazon, and Meta have developed barebones servers by stripping down parts, but you cannot buy them off the shelf. Startup Oxide took on that idea and started shipping a mega-server with custom motherboards stripped of unnecessary parts, wires, and components typically found in off-the-rack servers. The company’s secretive hardware-software co-design plan has developed […]
Robotics developer Kabilan KB is bringing autonomous navigation capabilities to wheelchairs with the aim of helping improve mobility for people with disabilities. KB is an undergraduate at the Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences in Coimbatore, India. For this project, he aimed to create a device that could be helpful for his cousin, who has […]
igus GmbH has developed a finger gripper for its ReBeL collaborative robot. “The ReBeL can now perform a variety of simple humanoid tasks with the new low-cost robotic hand,” said the company. Automation is entering small and midsize enterprises (SMEs), particularly in the form of collaborative robots or cobots. They can sort, pick and move […]
Kevin Yager—leader of the electronic nanomaterials group at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory—has imagined how recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) could aid scientific brainstorming and ideation. To accomplish this, he has developed a chatbot with knowledge in […]
Cornell researchers have combined soft microactuators with high-energy-density chemical fuel to create an insect-sized quadruped robot powered by combustion. These tiny robots can outrace, outfit, outflex, and outleap its electric-driven competitors. The post These tiny quadrupedal robots are powered by combustion appeared first on The Robot Report.
In robotics, success is often measured in numbers. Metrics surrounding productivity, speed, and return on investment (ROI) reign as the most valuable information a robotics company can demonstrate – and rightfully so. By design, robots are expected to improve upon all these metrics and prove how automation can benefit the bottom line. But can the […]
