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Teradyne to Acquire AutoGuide Mobile Robots in $165M Deal
Curated from www.roboticsbusinessreview.com - October 22nd, 2019 by RobotShop

AutoGuide provides autonomy for industrial forklifts and mobile tuggers.

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Construction robotics is changing the industry in these 5 ways
Curated from www.therobotreport.com - October 21st, 2019 by RobotShop

Construction robots may be involved in specific tasks, such as bricklaying, painting, loading, and bulldozing. We expect hundreds of AMRs in the next two years, mainly doing haulage,” said Rian Whitton

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8 weird space robots NASA wants to send to Mars, the moon, and Titan
Curated from www.businessinsider.com - October 21st, 2019 by RobotShop

NASA is developing robots like the RoboSimian and Robonaut 2 to send to places like Mars, the moon, and even Titan.

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Man Uses His Heat-Seeking Drone to Find Missing Child
Curated from futurism.com - October 21st, 2019 by RobotShop

Numerous law enforcement agencies and even a state patrol helicopter contributed to the search — but it was a heat-seeking drone operated by a local photographer that led to the boy’s rescue, 10 hours after he went missing.

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Why Robot-Makers Love Utilizing Urethane Molded Parts
Curated from www.roboticsbusinessreview.com - October 21st, 2019 by RobotShop

Have you noticed that lots of robots include polyurethane parts? Here are some of the reasons why robot designers are using this material.

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88% of Chinese workers trust a bot over their human boss
Curated from thenextweb.com - October 18th, 2019 by RobotShop

A study published on Tuesday found that 88 percent of Chinese workers have more trust in robots than their human managers and believe AI is unbiased.

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Japanese airline wants robots to travel in your place
Curated from www.cnet.com - October 17th, 2019 by RobotShop

Newme the telepresence robot could replace the need for air travel one day.

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Robodog Replaces Cheerleaders in College’s Touchdown Celebration
Curated from futurism.com - October 17th, 2019 by RobotShop

A robodog does a push-up every time the Virginia Tech football team scores a touchdown, putting a high-tech twist on an old college tradition.

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Salad-Making Robot Earns Good Grades at Holy Cross
Curated from www.roboticsbusinessreview.com - October 17th, 2019 by RobotShop

Chowbotics continues to expand deployments of its Sally robot, which provides customized salads, bowls and breakfast options for colleges and hospitals.

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BILL-E is a cute robot that builds structures block by block
Curated from www.engadget.com - October 17th, 2019 by RobotShop

The MIT team behind BILL-E describes it as a 'relative robot.'

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Skydio'S Dock In A Box Enables Long Term Autonomy For Drone Applications IEEE Spectrum - IEEE Spectrum
Curated from spectrum.ieee.org - October 16th, 2019 by RobotShop

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Gita, the cargo robot from the makers of Vespa, is going on sale for $3,250
Curated from www.theverge.com - October 16th, 2019 by RobotShop

It follows you around with your stuff, like a little robot butler

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Realtime Robotics scores $11.7M Series A to help robots avoid collisions
Curated from techcrunch.com - October 16th, 2019 by RobotShop

One of the major challenges facing engineers as they develop more agile robots is helping them move through space while avoiding collisions, especially in a dynamic environment. Realtime Robotics, a Boston-based startup, announced an $11.7 million Series A investment to help solve this problem. SPAR...

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Machines are getting freakishly good at recognizing human emotions
Curated from www.digitaltrends.com - October 16th, 2019 by RobotShop

In certain scenarios, A.I. algorithms can outperform humans at identifying certain emotions, such as happiness and sadness, by looking at faces. Here is why that matters -- and what it means for the way that we will interact with machines (and vice versa) in the future.

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UK to send Spacebit's four-legged robot rover to moon by 2021
Curated from www.cnbc.com - October 15th, 2019 by RobotShop

The U.K. is sending a space exploration rover to the moon, in what will be a first for the country.

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Robotic Laundry Line Reels You In
Curated from hackaday.com - October 15th, 2019 by RobotShop

It may not be a laundry-folding robot, but this robotic launders line build by [Radical Brad Graham] is pretty neat. He has a 75-foot hanging laundry line from his house to a woodshed, and decided t

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OpenAI’s AI-powered robot learned how to solve a Rubik’s cube one-handed
Curated from www.theverge.com - October 15th, 2019 by RobotShop

Artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI has achieved a new milestone in its quest to build general purpose, self-learning robots. The group’s robotics division says that Dactyl, its humanoid robotic hand first developed last year, has learned to solve a Rubik’s cube one-handed.

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Virginia Tech's touchdown robot does push-ups after scores - The
Curated from www.washingtonpost.com - October 15th, 2019 by RobotShop

“We would like to make robots that can walk or run like animals or like humans,” said the engineer in charge of the machine.

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Nurse robot set to make the rounds at major hospitals
Curated from www.zdnet.com - October 12th, 2019 by RobotShop

Healthcare is a new hotbed of automation, and this robot is officially out of beta.

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A RoboCop, a park and a fight: How expectations about robots are clashing with reality
Curated from www.nbcnews.com - October 12th, 2019 by RobotShop

When Cogo Guebara pressed a button on a robot to call the police, she was instead instructed to "step out of the way."

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Robots help patients manage chronic illness at home
Curated from news.mit.edu - October 11th, 2019 by RobotShop

Talking Mabu robot provides one-to-one support while relaying information to doctors.

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Waymo hires former Anki employees, including co-founder Sofman
Curated from www.therobotreport.com - October 10th, 2019 by RobotShop

In what is likely the final nail in the coffin, Waymo has hired 13 former Anki employees, including Co-Founder and CEO Boris Sofman. According to Sofman’s LinkedIn profile, he is now Director of Engineering, Head of Trucking, Waymo. Sofman wrote about the news in a LinkedIn post called “A New Advent...

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Police Robot Ignores Woman Trying to Call Police
Curated from futurism.com - October 10th, 2019 by RobotShop

A woman tried to call for help via a Knightscope security robot covered in "police" markings, just to be told to step aside.

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Google Brain's ROBEL benchmark lets devs track AI quality on affordable robots
Curated from venturebeat.com - October 10th, 2019 by RobotShop

Google Brain and UC Berkeley researchers teamed up to make the ROBEL robotics platform and benchmark for two robots that cost less than $4,000.

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