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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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...