Robotics News

Woodside Energy’s Ripley robot uses reinforcement learning to perform manipulation tasks. | Credit: Amazon Amazon launched SageMaker Reinforcement Learning (RL) Kubeflow Components, an open-source toolkit designed to help manage robotics workflows. SageMaker RL is...

OnRobot’s VGP20 electric vacuum gripper can be used in palletizing applications. | Credit: OnRobot After a busy year product-wise in 2020, OnRobot today released its first new end-of-arm tool (EOAT) for 2021. The VGP20 is an electric vacuum gripper that can handle...

Loop-X is a fully robotic mobile intraoperative developed by Brainlab. | Credit: Brainlab The recent availability of these robotic medical devices is bringing a futuristic vision of the modern digital operating room closer to reality supporting surgeons in their...

Insects’ acrobatic traits help them navigate the aerial world, with all of its wind, obstacles and uncertainty. | Credit: Kevin Yufeng Chen If you’ve ever swatted a mosquito away from your face, only to have it return again (and again and again), you know that insects...

In September 2020, Clearpath Robotics released a ROS package for Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped. The idea was to allow robotics researchers to leverage ROS capabilities out-of-the-box, as well as open-source libraries, tools and the greater ROS community to...

MIT developed ‘robomorphic computing, an automated way to design custom hardware to speed up a robot’s operation. | Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT There are three main steps in a robot’s operation, according to Neuman. The first is perception, which includes...

Army researchers identified ways to make small drones, like PUMA, quieter. | Credit: Sgt. Hillary Rustine It’s no secret the U.S. Army wants its small unmanned aerial systems to operate quietly in densely-populated regions, but tests to achieve this can be expensive,...

Millennials with children were found to be generally accepting of emerging health technologies. Source: IEEE Each generation must learn to adapt to new technologies, but the level of interest and adoption may vary. From artificial intelligence for telehealth to...

Earlier this month, it was announced that – based on preliminary cargo numbers from 2020 – the Memphis International Airport would become the top cargo airport in the world, bypassing Hong Kong. Memphis is the headquarter city for FedEx Express and the main hub in its...

StrawBot keeps pace with the human pickers as they work down a row of strawberries during harvest season. (Credit: Ag Pro Robotics) California-based Ag Pro Robotics launched a semi-autonomous strawberry harvesting robot called StrawBot. The machine is designed to...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has found great success in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries, and robotics solutions are making AEC inroads. The two technologies can be synergistic, and when used together can deliver additional value...

Unity is showcasing how its AI and machine learning capabilities could benefit industrial robotics. The new demo, called Object Pose Estimation, demonstrates how synthetic data can help robots learn rather than be programmed. The post Unity demos how synthetic data...