Robotics News
Open-source software powers Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
When NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hovered above the Red Planet April 19 on its maiden voyage, the moment was hailed as the first instance of powered, controlled flight on another planet. Figuring out how to fly on Mars, where the air is thin but gravity is about a...
Researchers develop human-aware motion planning algorithm
Basic safety needs in the paleolithic era have largely evolved with the onset of the industrial and cognitive revolutions. We interact a little less with raw materials, and interface a little more with machines. The post Researchers develop human-aware motion planning...
Pawsey Unveils Fastest Supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere
The first phase of what will be the fastest public research supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere has been unveiled at its new home at WA’s Pawsey Centre, resplendent in artwork that reflects the skies it will help researchers to unlock. The post Pawsey Unveils...
Supercomputing Experts React to Dire Climate Report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released the first major component of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). The IPCC’s first assessment report since 2014, AR6 paints a bleak picture of both the present and the future, illustrating...
MassRobotics launches inaugural Robo Boston Festival
Robo Boston will take place in the innovative Boston Seaport neighborhood on Friday, October 1 and Saturday, October 2, 2021. More than 40 companies and universities will gather to showcase cutting-edge robotics and technology in a series of professional and...
Festo advances robot programming with AI
Production, warehouse, shipping – where goods are produced, stored, sorted or packed, picking also takes place. This means that several individual goods are removed from storage units such as boxes or cartons and reassembled. With the FLAIROP (Federated Learning for...
Cobot market to grow to $8B by 2030, report finds
Despite the challenges facing the wider manufacturing industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, collaborative robots continue to attract attention and investment, due to their ease of use, re-deployability, and convenience to end-users who struggle to afford more...
Interventional Systems receives FDA clearance for mini surgical robot
Interventional Systems has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Micromate robot for percutaneous procedures. Kitzbühel, Austria–based Interventional Systems developed Micromate as a table-mounted medical robot for interventional procedures, touting it as the world’s...
Parallel Structured Light Addresses Limitations of Standard 3D Sensing
The Parallel Structured Light approach for 3D sensing aims to fill a critical gap among 3D sensing solutions, enabling a whole new range of machine vision applications and tasks in the process. The post Parallel Structured Light Addresses Limitations of Standard 3D...
Automating Robot-Assisted Surgical Subtasks – An Interview With UC Berkley’s Ken Goldberg
Researchers, including Ken Goldberg’s team at UC Berkley, are hard at work developing robotic systems that assist surgeons by automating routine, often tedious subtasks common to all surgical procedures. Listen to the interview at the Robotics Business Review. The...
Comau’s Racer5 switches between industrial robot, cobot speeds
Italian robot manufacturer Comau introduced a 6-axis collaborative robot (cobot) arm called the Racer5-0.8 COBOT. The Racer5 COBOT features a 5 kg payload, and a 809 mm reach with 0.03 mm repeatability. However, the key differentiating feature for the robot is that it...
Surgical Robots as a Service in Gains Traction in Pandemic Aftermath
The healthcare sector is struggling from the combined pressure of skyrocketing costs, as well as the need to continuously improve the quality of services and results. The Covid-19 pandemic only exacerbated the challenge. As a result, new healthcare business models –...