Robotics News
NASA: wheeled robots not enough for future space exploration
In 2022, university students’ robotics designs may hop, slither, crawl, balloon, tumble, levitate, or leap to victory, displaying alternative rover motion techniques during NASA’s annual Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-Changing (BIG) Idea Challenge. The post NASA:...
Start-ups Powering New Era of Industrial Robotics
Robotics start-ups are releasing solutions designed to assist manufacturers address labor challenges, confront global competition and provide lasting business value. Examples include products and technologies that increase the ease and speed of robotics software...
How to mitigate the impact of ROS Kinetic EOL
For more than ten years, the Robot Operating System (ROS) has been enabling innovators around the world to develop robot platforms and applications. Through its collection of tools, libraries, and conventions, ROS simplifies the task of creating complex and robust...
Watch a Cassie bipedal robot complete a 5K
When it comes to athletic bipedal robots, nothing compares to Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot. We’ve seen Atlas run, jump, dance, and do parkour. Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) are getting in on the fun, showcasing its Cassie bipedal robot completing a 5K....
Additively Manufactured Robotic End-of-Arm Tooling
A growing number of opportunities exist for robotics-enabling technology OEMs and system integrators offering solutions that leverage the capabilities of the respective technologies for the benefit of the other. This is especially true for the use of 3D printing for...
Meet Cyberdog, a new open source quadruped robot from Xiaomi
Xiaomi announced the release of a new quadruped robot called CyberDog. The product is designed to meet the requirements of research engineers and hobbyists who want to develop code and applications for a quadruped robot, but don’t want to pay for a platform like the...
Workers in Physical Occupations Benefit from Back-Relieving HeroWear Apex Exosuit
Field tests affirm the wearable, lightweight, non-powered HeroWear Apex exosuit device lends flexible support for heavy lifting. The post Workers in Physical Occupations Benefit from Back-Relieving HeroWear Apex Exosuit appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
Watch GE’s risk-aware autonomous robot navigate through woods
GE Research successfully completed year one of a project with the U.S. Army through its Scalable Adaptive Resilient Autonomy Program (SARA). The goal is to develop a risk-aware autonomous ground vehicle that can navigate complex, off-road test conditions. The post...
Facebook open-sources Droidlet robotics development platform
To help researchers build more intelligent robots, Facebook has created and open-sourced a robotics development platform called Droidlet. Facebook researchers wrote in a blog today that Droidlet is a modular, heterogeneous embodied agent architecture, and a platform...
Watch a soft robotic hand play Super Mario Bros.
A team of researchers from the University of Maryland has 3D printed a soft robotic hand that is agile enough to play Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. – and win! Editor’s Note: This article was republished from the University of Maryland. The post Watch a soft robotic...
How a surgical robot saved a person’s arm from amputation
Medical Microinstruments (MMI) said its Symani surgical system was successful in a post-traumatic limb reconstruction procedure that saved a patient’s arm from amputation. The reconstruction procedure was performed at Careggi University Hospital Florence by Dr. Marco...
Democratizing Automation – The Benefits of No Code Robotics
A critical challenge for manufacturers is the ongoing skills gap for programming, integrating and operating the robots and the capabilities operators possess. For manufacturers to become agile and autonomous, robots must be faster and easier to program and implement....