Robotics News
Zapata Computing Earns DARPA Award for Quantum Benchmarking
Zapata Computing, a leading enterprise software company for quantum solutions, announced that the company, along with several academic and technology partners, has earned a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) award for quantum benchmarking. The...
Robotics-Assisted Surgery – Five Predictions for 2022
Asensus Surgical CEO of Anthony Fernando extrapolates from current trends, and provides insights into the future of robotics-assisted surgery, digitized surgery and telesurgery. The post Robotics-Assisted Surgery – Five Predictions for 2022 appeared first on Robotics...
Meta’s Massive New AI Supercomputer Will Be ‘World’s Fastest’
Fresh off its rebrand last October, Meta (née Facebook) is putting muscle behind its vision of a metaversal future with a massive new AI supercomputer called the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC). Meta says that RSC will be used to help build new AI models, develop...
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...