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Boston Dynamics and Trimble are expanding the capabilities of Spot within the construction industry. | Credit: Trimble The construction industry has been an area of early commercial success for Boston Dynamics‘ Spot quadruped. And today [Oct. 20. 2020] during its...

Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital hope to reduce the risk to healthcare workers by using robots such as Spot to remotely measure patients’ vital signs. Source: Image courtesy of the researchers, MIT News During the current coronavirus pandemic, one...

Earnest Cunningham and Nimbus. Source: Nevoa As businesses, hospitals, schools, and other public venues look to reopen in the wake of the novel coronavirus, many are turning to disinfection robots. Several such robots use ultraviolet light, but Nevoa Life Sciences...

Researchers built a dataset by recording video and audio of 60 common objects as they rolled around a tray. The team captured these interactions using Tilt-Bot — a tray attached to a Sawyer robot arm. Source: CMU Although humans rely on multiple senses to comprehend...

A member of the ALYN Hospital team demonstrates the use of a robotic arm designed to assist patients with spinal injuries in performing daily tasks from a wheelchair. Source: ALYN Hospital One of the most promising uses for robotics and artificial intelligence is in...

Recent advances in machine and deep learning have improved SLAM techniques, leading to an increased richness in maps, with semantic scene understanding improving localization, mapping quality and robustness. The post SLAM + Machine Learning Ushers in the “Age of...

Clearpath Robotics, a Kitchener, Canada-based developer of mobile robots for research and development, now supports the Robot Operating System (ROS) on Windows 10. Clearpath’s unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have always been based on ROS, the open-source platform that...

Freedom Pilot is intended to help developers bring devices such as delivery robots to market. Source: Freedom Robotics Freedom Robotics Inc., which has been developing a cloud-based infrastructure for managing fleets of robots, has released teleoperation and resource...

The Multimodal Autonomous Vehicle Network, or MAVNet, allows users to operate drones from anywhere in the world using only an Internet connection. Source: Horizon31 Horizon31 LLC has exclusively licensed a new communications system that enables users to reliably...

Army researchers developed Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning that allows swarms of unmanned aerial and ground vehicles to optimally accomplish various missions while minimizing performance uncertainty on the battlefield. Army researchers developed a reinforcement...

Drones can do many things, but avoiding obstacles is not their strongest suit yet – especially when they move quickly. Although many drones are equipped with cameras that can detect obstacles, it typically takes from 20 to 40 milliseconds for the drone to process the...

Source: ABB Robotics & Discrete Automation Robots can reduce or eliminate the need for time-consuming manual inspection and increase manufacturing productivity, said ABB Robotics & Discrete Automation last week. It said its new 3D quality inspection, or 3DQI,...