Robotics News

SICK and Universal Robots (UR) announced a new safety solution for the safeguarding of accessible cobot applications for the URe Series of cobots. When combined, the sBot safety system and URCap from SICK increase productivity with immediate automated restart and...

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter unlocked its rotor blades on Mars. | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU I’ve been captivated by the NASA Ingenuity Helicopter in the past month. I was curious to know more about the helicopter’s localization and state estimation technology – what...

The race was on – safely – for more than 50,000 spectators Saturday at the 147th Kentucky Derby in part thanks to Pittsburgh-based AERAS. The company used its patented charged-electrostatic drone technology to sanitize Churchill Downs against COVID-19. This in part...

Robot orders in Q1 2021 were up 20% over the same period in 2020, according to the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). There were substantial increases in purchases coming from non-automotive industries, including metals (up 86%), life...

This quadruped, called Dyret, automatically adapts its morphology to different conditions in unstructured outdoor environments. The four-legged robot Dyret can adjust the length of its legs to adapt the body to the surface. Along the way, it learns what works best....

Yaskawa announces the availability of two new 4-axis palletizing robots that extend the range of payloads for the Yaskawa PL (palletizing) product line. The Yaskawa PL190 has a 190 kg payload capacity and the Yaskawa PL320 has a 320 kg payload capacity. All of the...

Researchers fitted exoskeleton users with cameras and are optimizing computer software to process the video feed to recognize stairs, doors and other surroundings. | Photo Credit: University of Waterloo Robotics researchers are developing exoskeletons and prosthetic...

An operator remotely driving a forklift using technology from Phantom Auto. | Photo Credit: Phantom Auto As the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred warehouse and logistics operators all over the world to implement social distancing policies, the work-from-home trend is...

The new mobile collaborative robot from Desmasa enables placement of a cobot arm anywhere within a facility | Photo credit: Desmasa Spanish automation integrator Desmasa launched a mobile manipulator platform that it described as a “mobile collaborative robot” (MCR)....

This quadruped relies on a series of valves that open and close in a specific sequence to walk. | Credit: UCSD Engineers at the University of California San Diego have created a four-legged soft robot that doesn’t need any electronics to work. The quadruped only needs...

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...