Robotics News
MIT AI Hardware Program Launches to Bolster Innovation in Next-Gen AI Hardware
The MIT AI Hardware Program is a new academia and industry collaboration aimed at defining and developing translational technologies in hardware and software for the AI and quantum age. A collaboration between the MIT School of Engineering and MIT Schwarzman College...
Summit Supercomputer Used to Model Classroom Covid Spread
As the world’s students return to classrooms, a general unease remains over the dynamics of Covid transmission even as the omicron variant settles into a lull. A trio of researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
MassRobotics named strategic partner of Robotics Summit & Expo
Business-to-business publisher WTWH Media announced MassRobotics will serve as the exclusive Strategic Partner for the Robotics Summit & Expo to be held on May 10-11 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. In that role, MassRobotics will provide strategic...
Edge to Exascale: A Trend to Watch in 2022
Edge computing is an approach in which the data is processed and analyzed at the point of origin – the place where the data is generated. This is done to make data more accessible to end-point devices, or users, and to reduce the response time for data requests....
iRobot launches Create 3 educational robot
In celebration of National Robotics Week, iRobot today launched the Create 3 educational robot. Based on the Roomba i3 Series robot vacuum platform, Create 3 is a mobile robot development platform for advanced makers who are learning ROS 2. The post iRobot launches...
Intelligent magnetic gripping revolutionizes ferrous automation applications
Robotic end effectors enable a robotic arm to interact with the world around it. As robotic arms are used in more diverse industries, the demand for end effectors that can adapt to multiple use cases has risen. The post Intelligent magnetic gripping revolutionizes...
New AutoStore R5+ robot handles larger bins
AutoStore announces the arrival of the new R5+ robot. This newest addition to the AutoStore fleet has a taller profile and is designed to handle deeper bins, up to 425 mm. The new dimension is the tallest bin size available in the AutoStore system. The post New...
IEEE Computer Society Unveils Its 2022 Technology Predictions
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., Jan. 13, 2022 — The IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) has unveiled its annual Technology Predictions, addressing the long-lasting influence of the pandemic on tech advancements, as well as introducing new fundamentals and anticipated trends shaping...
Summit Powers Novel Protein Function Prediction Work
There are hundreds of millions of sequenced proteins and counting—but only 170,000 have had their structures solved by researchers, bottlenecking our understanding of proteins and their functions across organisms’ genomes. Now, researchers led by Oak Ridge National...
Q-Ctrl – Tackling Quantum Hardware’s Noise Problems with Software
Implementing effective error mitigation and correction is a critical next step in advancing quantum computing. While a lot of attention has been given to efforts to improve the underlying ‘noisy’ hardware, there’s been, perhaps, less spotlighting of similar efforts to...
5 mistakes robotics startups should avoid
Years ago, robots were inflexible, hard to program, stationary and, except for industries with long production runs, cost-prohibitive. Plus, they were blind, deaf, incapable of tactile sensing, unintelligent and couldn’t be trusted to work next to people. Now, thanks...
ACEINNA unveils system for autonomous vehicle positioning
ACEINNA announced the INS401 INS and GNSS/RTK solution for autonomous vehicle precise positioning. The INS401 is part of ACEINNA’s new product portfolio that provides high accuracy and high integrity localization for developers and manufacturers of ADAS and Autonomy...