Lettuce is a valuable crop in Europe and the USA, but labor shortages make it difficult to harvest this valuable field vegetable, as sourcing sufficient seasonal labor to meet harvesting commitments is one of the sector’s biggest challenges. Moreover, with wage inflation rising faster than producer prices, margins are very tight. The post How machine […]
A supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* (yes, the asterisk is part of it!) sits at the center of the Milky Way. Now, for the first time, we can see it. The resulting direct image of Sagittarius A*, revealed this week, was made possible by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) array and the Frontera supercomputer […]
The aviation industry is no stranger to automation. The first “gyroscopic automatic pilot” dates back to the earliest days of powered flight. In this century, automation has all but completely transformed the nature of aircraft manufacturing. The post Advanced cable management lets robots depaint airplanes appeared first on The Robot Report.
Researchers at MIT have developed a technique that can guide an autonomous robot through unknown environmental conditions. The technique helps a robot avoid obstacles without knowing the size, shape or location of what it could encounter. The post MIT researchers help robots navigate uncertain environments appeared first on The Robot Report.
Researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology have created a robot that is able to successfully navigate a crowded marina underwater. The robot is able to map its environment, track its own location and plan a safe route through a complex environment in real-time, simultaneously. The post Researchers developing underwater map-making robot appeared first on […]
By balancing energy gain and loss symmetrically in an open quantum system, Los Alamos National Laboratory physicists have challenged a long-held theory about quantum chaos and decoherence. The post Researchers Find Coherence in Quantum Chaos appeared first on HPCwire.
Guardian XO full-body exoskeleton is the world’s first battery-powered industrial exoskeleton. The company demo’d an alpha unit of the Guardian XO product, and showed it easily lifting a heavy tire. The exoskeleton suit is capable of lifting up to 200 lb (75 kg). The post Sarcos demonstrates exoskeleton and dexterous robot appeared first on The […]
Engineers at Northwestern University have created a remote-controlled walking robot half a millimeter wide. The tiny robot, modeled after a peekytoe crab, is able to bend, twist, crawl, walk, turn and jump. The post Researchers create walking robot half a millimeter wide appeared first on The Robot Report.
The autonomous vehicle and robotics sectors often employ LiDAR and other sensing modalities to provide their systems with object perception and recognition, localization and mapping, and other advanced capabilities. But cameras and computer vision should also serve as the technological underpinning for mobile robotics perception, including navigation. The post Why Robots Need to See appeared […]
Like all manufacturers, aerospace and defense firms must engineer existing or new facilities in preparation for much higher levels of robotic automation. To do otherwise places them at a competitive disadvantage. The post Aerospace and Defense Manufacturers Must Prepare for the Robot Revolution appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
