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Robotics firms continue to forge partnerships, collaboration with customers
Remotec, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, has announced a distribution agreement with Kinova for the Kinova Remote Robotic Manipulation System. The agreement will allow Remotec customers to access a small manipulator for use as a tool and accessory on the Remotec’s...
Analysis: Elevate attendees express high interest in warehouse robots
Organizations looking to deploy autonomous mobile robots within their environments visit with several companies at HighJump event. The post Analysis: Elevate attendees express high interest in warehouse robots appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
The essential interview: James Kuffner on motion planning, cloud robotics
The CEO of Toyota Research Institute - Advanced Development discusses his career around robotics and motion planning algorithms. The post The essential interview: James Kuffner on motion planning, cloud robotics appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
OTTO, Boston Dynamics Handle demo future of warehouse robotics
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Drone tests demonstrate that autonomous UAVs can evade air traffic
This NASA aircraft was one of two mock intruders used in drone tests, simulating a close approach to evaluate whether a radar-equipped drone could detect and avoid them. Photo by Amy Robertson for Virginia Tech In the drone industry, it’s called “the detect-and-avoid...
Robots on a chip could move droplets for biomedical applications
Overview of robots on a chip system concept and mechanism. Source: UCLA Engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have developed microscopic robots on a chip that could move droplets of fluid like warehouse robots. Such systems could help expedite and...
Robotic piece picking gets more flexible with AI-enabled adaptive tooling
Features of XYZ’s vision processor. Source: XYZ Robotics To achieve maximum throughput in robotic piece picking, it’s not simply a matter of adding machines to the line. Robotics designers, suppliers, integrators, and users need to identify the best combination of...
Robots in retail: Assessing current progress and long-term vision
Which players are on the right track in scaling and maturing their retail-focused robots? The post Robots in retail: Assessing current progress and long-term vision appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
Why and how to run machine learning algorithms on edge devices
Intel’s Neural Compute Stick 2 is an example of machine learning hardware for edge devices. Source: Intel ...With the arrival of powerful, low-energy consumption Internet of Things devices, computations can now be executed on edge devices such as robots themselves....
MIT researchers look under the road to aid self-driving cars
Source: MIT CSAIL Car companies and researchers have been feverishly working to improve the technologies behind self-driving cars. But so far, even the most high-tech vehicles still fail when it comes to safely navigating in rain and snow. The post MIT researchers...
Mechanical controller design combines gripper features for robotic surgery
A new controller design for robot-assisted surgery. Source: Tokyo Institute of Technology Scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology announced a new type of controller for the arms used in robot-assisted surgery. The mechanical controller combines two types of...
The Covid-19 Pandemic Is a Crisis That Robots Were Built For | WIRED
Robots can help doctors distance from patients, and help those in isolation cope...This pandemic is a unique opportunity to jump-start the development of medical robot technologies, argue a dozen roboticists in an editorial out today in the journal Science...