Robotics News

MIT engineers have developed a robotic replica of the heart’s right ventricle, which mimics the beating and blood-pumping action of live hearts. The robo-ventricle combines real heart tissue with synthetic, balloon-like artificial muscles that enable scientists to...

Given the rapid uptake and untested effectiveness of AI technologies, HPCwire asked Steve Conway, senior analyst at Intersect360 Research, to comment on government attempts to regulate AI and what effect these might have on HPC. Conway has closely tracked AI progress...

When you push a button to open a garage door, it doesn’t open every garage door in the neighborhood; that’s because the opener and the door are communicating using a specific microwave frequency, a frequency no other nearby door is using. Researchers from the...

The journey of robotics to establishing a presence in retail stores is a decade in the making. Progress has been slowed by people’s perceptions, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the complexity of problems to solve, as well as the fact that the industry has traditionally...

This photograph of Neptune, one of the ice giant planets addressed in a paper recently published by researchers at UC Berkeley, was reconstructed from two images taken by NASA Voyager 2. Credit: NASAWhat’s going on inside the most distant planets in our solar system?...

The ocean provides about half of the oxygen necessary for humans to survive. Scientists at Oregon State University wanted to better understand how plankton populations in the ocean will respond to climate change. To study plankton populations, they developed a new way...

In today’s fundraising environment with its intense focus on cash flow positive business models, robotics entrepreneurs are left navigating some thorny challenges: high CapEx costs, workflow and change management, and long enterprise deployment cycles to name a few....

While defense spending is the source of many innovations in robotics and artificial intelligence, government policy usually takes a while to catch up to technological developments. Given all the attention on generative AI this year, October’s executive order on AI...

Clustering resources for faster performance is not new. In the early days of clustering, the Beowulf project demonstrated that high performance was achievable from commodity hardware. These days, the “Beowulf cluster meme” gets used every time some new technology is...

Hyperscalers Google, Amazon, and Meta have developed barebones servers by stripping down parts, but you cannot buy them off the shelf. Startup Oxide took on that idea and started shipping a mega-server with custom motherboards stripped of unnecessary parts, wires, and...

Robotics developer Kabilan KB is bringing autonomous navigation capabilities to wheelchairs with the aim of helping improve mobility for people with disabilities.  KB is an undergraduate at the Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences in Coimbatore, India. For...

igus GmbH has developed a finger gripper for its ReBeL collaborative robot. “The ReBeL can now perform a variety of simple humanoid tasks with the new low-cost robotic hand,” said the company. Automation is entering small and midsize enterprises (SMEs), particularly...