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2020 has been a year unlike any other. If the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t enough, several other world-shifting events dominated headlines, including wildfires, an impeachment trial, a racial justice movement, and an unprecedented U.S. election. While most people are...

Roboat II, MIT’s latest autonomous boat, is 2 meters long and capable of carrying passengers. | Credit: MIT The feverish race to produce the shiniest, safest, speediest self-driving car has spilled over into our wheelchairs, scooters, and even golf carts. Recently,...

Concept of the adaptable Wheel-and-Leg Transformable Robot being developed by Texas A&M researchers. | Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Kiju Lee A team of researchers is creating mobile robots for military applications that can determine, with or without human...

After nearly a decade of research and development, soft wearable robots are leaving the laboratory and are being deployed across a range of exciting application areas, according to Conor Walsh, a professor at Harvard University. The members of his multidisciplinary...

The Covid-19 pandemic has broadened the use case for food and grocery delivery services, and enhanced their value proposition. The same can be said for autonomous food and grocery delivery, but significant, business, technological, social and political challenges...

Realtime Robotics is helping robots solve the motion planning problem by giving them collision avoidance capabilities. Here, a robot avoids a researcher’s waving hand. | Credit: Realtime Robotics Realtime’s key enabling technology is a unique circuit design that, when...

A Treeswift drone on a test run in a New Jersey forest. | Credit: Treeswift Forests cover 30 percent of the Earth’s landmass, but that number is on the decline. Despite forests’ crucial role in conserving wildlife and processing carbon dioxide, many are threatened by...

Source: InOrbit Thanks to the Robot Operating System, there is a community platform for robotics programming, but there has not been one for scaling of robot fleets — until now. The Robot Operations Group is a new collective of people, companies, and organizations...

Before deploying autonomous driving systems (ADS), we must know how, when, and whether they will work. There is no excuse for allowing the attention of drivers to stray during automated operation – if a system is really semi- and not fully autonomous.

SemExp, or Goal-Oriented Semantic Exploration, uses machine learning to train a robot to recognize objects and understand where in a home they are likely to be found. A robot travelling from point A to point B is more efficient if it understands that point A is the...

For small-to-medium manufacturers (SMMs), especially those with high-mix, low-volume production loads, collaborative robots provide many benefits over traditional industrial robots for certain tasks. But deploying cobots can be challenging. Thankfully, the US’s...

Coty Cosmetics uses eight Universal Robots cobots to automate picking and packing of products. Until fairly recently, automation has been primarily been a big-company advantage. Several factors have now begun to level the playing field, including the emergence of...