Robotics News
Advanced vision and the future of robot safety in manufacturing
FreeMove is a vision-based safety system. Source: Veo Robotics Vision systems have been employed in manufacturing for parts inspection, parts alignment, quality control, part identification, and part picking for many years. Now, new vision technology helps provide...
Robotic prosthetics AI incorporates computer vision in NC State research
Imaging devices provide environmental context for robotic prosthetics. (a) On-glasses configuration using a Tobii Pro Glasses 2 eye tracker. (b) Lower limb data acquisition device. (c) and (d) Example frames from the cameras for the two configurations. (e) and (f)...
What Will Become of the Unmanned Store?
Market momentum stalled for the retail sector’s “Next Big Thing”, but ongoing investment and innovation, along with critical business drivers, ensures incremental progress continues. The post What Will Become of the Unmanned Store? appeared first on Robotics Business...
Stanford developing tetherless soft robot that changes shape
Graduate students Zachary Hammond (on left) and Nathan Usevitch pick up and move the isoperimetric robot, demonstrating that it is lightweight, resistant to damage and safe around humans. Credit: Farrin Abbott/Stanford University News Advances in soft robotics could...
NASA’s A-PUFFER robots prepping for moon exploration
A shoebox-sized wheeled robot explores the rugged terrain on the surface of the Mars Yard at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory during recent tests of the Autonomous Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (A-PUFFER) project. | Credit: NASA/JPL Caltech JPL developed the...
Intelligent Freight Mobility Platform designed to manage efficiency of Einride autonomous trucks
The Intelligent Freight Mobility Platform includes a portal to deliver live insights to fleet managers. Source: Einride Autonomous and semi-autonomous trucks promise to help an industry facing a shortage of drivers and increasing e-commerce demand, but they need to...
Hollow shaft kit encoders from POSITAL FRABA designed for robot arms
Hollow shaft kit encoder. Source: POSITAL FRABA Space and power are always at a premium for robotics designers and suppliers. Although current controllers often require two single-turn encoders working in parallel, as well as a gearbox for synchronization, POSITAL...
UC San Diego developing flexible feet to help robots walk faster
An off-the-shelf six-legged robot equipped with the feet designed by UC San Diego engineers can walk up to 40 percent faster than when not equipped with the feet. | Credit: UC San Diego Roboticists at the University of California San Diego have developed flexible feet...
AMP Robotics’ CEO Matanya Horowitz Talks Recycling and Robotics
Industrial Robot’s Joanne Pransky interviews the CEO of AMP Robotics, a company that automates the identification, sorting and processing recycled waste material. The post AMP Robotics’ CEO Matanya Horowitz Talks Recycling and Robotics appeared first on Robotics...
HAMR-JR next-gen cockroach-inspired robot is small but mighty
HAMR-JR is only slightly bigger in length and width than a penny, making it one of the smallest yet highly capable, high-speed insect-scale robots. (Credit: Kaushik Jayaram/Harvard SEAS) This itsy-bitsy robot can’t climb up the waterspout yet but it can run, jump,...
Accelerator technique from Intel could benefit edge robotics and augmented reality
From raycast accelerator research paper. Source: Intel Robots and other “intelligent” devices need a lot of computational power for machine vision, path planning, manipulation, and other functions. One alternative to trying to put all that capacity onboard was to move...
How Amazon robotics engineers continue to build technologies from their garages
Team members in Boulder loading equipment to move to their homes. Source: Amazon At Amazon, we’re constantly innovating to support our employees, customers, and communities as effectively as possible. As our fulfillment and delivery teams have been hard at work...