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Farming with Driverless Tractors… is it Possible?
Driverless tractors present an interesting conundrum for everyone from advanced technology suppliers to legislators. Most industry experts agree that the technological capabilities are there. It is more a matter of “if” than “when.” The post Farming with Driverless...
Performance Motion Devices adds ultra-compact motion controller
Performance Motion Devices (PMD) recently debuted its new ION/CME N-Series Digital Drives, new members of the ION Digital Drive family that provide high-performance motion control, network connectivity and amplification. The N-Series ION digital drives feature a...
TACC Supercomputers Power Quest for Space Weather Prediction
If you’re not worried enough by the ongoing pandemic or rapidly accelerating climate change, you’re in luck: you can worry about space weather, too. In the interim since the last major space weather event – a massive solar flare in 1859 that fried telegraph machines –...
How Perseverance Rover made oxygen on Mars
The growing list of “firsts” for Perseverance, NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet’s thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen. A toaster-size, experimental instrument aboard Perseverance called the...
Hirebotics Cobot Welder is simple to use and setup
Hirebotics announces the launch of the Hirebotics Cobot Welder. The new solution is a complete, user-friendly collaborative robot (cobot) welding system that enables painless automated welding deployments. The post Hirebotics Cobot Welder is simple to use and setup...
Training drones to avoid obstacles at high speeds
If you follow autonomous drone racing, you likely remember the crashes as much as the wins. In drone racing, teams compete to see which vehicle is better trained to fly fastest through an obstacle course. But the faster drones fly, the more unstable they become, and...
Metallic Glass Gears Up for Collaborative Robots, Coatings, and More
Bulk metallic glass could reduce the prices of cobots, and also lead to advanced 3D printed metals. The post Metallic Glass Gears Up for Collaborative Robots, Coatings, and More appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
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...