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MassRobotics and Analog Devices have once again teamed up to offer the Real-Time Sensor Fusion Challenge 2.0. The challenge looks for the next innovative robotics team to bring context awareness to a series of real-life applications through sensors.

ARM and the Defense Department have called for projects in response to the pandemic. Source: ARM The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM, Institute today said it has selected nine technical projects to help U.S. industry recover from the ongoing COVID-19...

As retailers continue to adopt and roll out omni-channel distribution models, new logistical challenges arise, along with industrial automation technologies and techniques, including autonomous mobile robots, that can overcome them. The post 5 Warehouse Automation...

Sport robotic surgical workstation. Source: Titan Medical Titan Medical Inc. has resumed development of its single-port robotic surgical system, said CEO David McNally in a letter to shareholders yesterday. The Toronto-based company had paused research and development...

The emergence and rapid proliferation of collaborative robots have resulted in the proliferation of a new class of 'lean' integrators specially adapted to the needs of SMEs who wish to leverage automation. The lean integrator has evolved precisely to deliver robot...

Source: PTR Robots Robots have been entering hospitals for materials handling, checking in patients, and surgical procedures, as well as for therapeutic use. PTR Robots has been working with healthcare professionals at a university hospital and a nursing home to...

Cloud computing represents the most important horizontal innovation for the robotics industry to date, with the market for robot-related services powered by cloud computing reaching US$157.8 billion in annual revenue by 2030. The post Cloud Computing Will be the Great...

Hello Robot co-founder and CEO Aaron Edsinger with the Stretch mobile manipulator. | Credit: Hello Robot He just couldn’t stay away. Aaron Edsinger, the former Director of Robotics at Google (2013-17), is back with another mobile manipulator. After three years in...

MIT’s system uses a pair of soft robotic grippers with high-resolution tactile sensors to manipulate freely moving cables. | Photo Credit: MIT CSAIL. For humans, it can be challenging to manipulate thin flexible objects like ropes, wires, or cables. But if these...

The Scout drones were designed with specific capabilities in mind. Source: American Robotics Despite the hype surrounding drones for the past decade, we are still only scratching the surface of what is achievable with this technology, particularly within the...

Robotic textiles could be unobtrusive. Source: Wyss Institute at Harvard University Amultidisciplinary team of researchers from Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...

For robotics systems, "supervised autonomy”, readily available for implementation today, can be used as a bridging solution between teleoperation and full autonomy. The post The Role of Supervised Autonomy in Mobile Manipulation appeared first on Robotics Business...