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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...
Phantom AI, Renesas develop low cost ‘full stack’ driver assistance system
Phantom AI full stack L2 ADAS solution on Renesas V3H. Source: Phantom AI Burlingame, Calif.-based Phantom AI makes advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) using computer vision, sensor fusion, and control capabilities. The company, which raised $22 million in...
Qualcomm RB5 a Potential Game Changer for Intelligent Robots
Qualcomm Robotics’ RB5 platform offers high end compute, edge AI, 5G and more for robotics developers. The post Qualcomm RB5 a Potential Game Changer for Intelligent Robots appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
Watch how much Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robots improved in 10 years
10 years of progress in Boston Dynamics robotics. pic.twitter.com/m0NwlEbBXO— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) March 12, 2020 Admittedly, the video above is old. But it’s making the rounds again on social media and, frankly, it’s too astonishing to not...
OmniTact uses micro-cameras for multi-directional tactile sensing
A team of researchers at UC Berkeley recently developed a new multi-directional tactile sensor, called OmniTact, that overcomes some of the limitations of previously developed sensors. OmniTact, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, acts as an artificial...
Cheetahs inspire NC State robots that can move faster, grasp more precisely
Soft robots are typically slower and are less precise for manipulation than more rigid devices, but biomechanics have inspired advances in those capabilities. Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed soft robots inspired by cheetahs. The post...