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Robocrop: world's first raspberry-picking robot set to work | Technology | The Guardian
Curated from www.theguardian.com - May 28th, 2019 by RobotShop

Autonomous machine expected to pick more than 25,000 raspberries a day, outpacing human workers

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Robots find a new job: Skyscraper window washers
Curated from www.cnn.com - May 28th, 2019 by RobotShop

The role, which can pay an upward of $27 an hour, often requires workers to hang hundreds of feet above the ground. The high wages and steep turnover rates have made the industry ripe for automation.Israeli startup Skyline Robotics wants to replace those roles with robots, while employing the same p...

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Flipper-legged robot runs, swims, and is ready to hit the bigtime
Curated from newatlas.com - May 28th, 2019 by RobotShop

Called the Aqua2, the new robot is soon to be commercially manufactured by McGill spinoff company Independent Robotics.

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Plant Motion Sensors To Robot Venus Flytraps: Welcome To The World Of Cyborg Botany
Curated from www.digitaltrends.com - May 28th, 2019 by RobotShop

From motion-sensing plants to a Venus Flytrap you control using a computer interface, Harpreet Sareen is the brains behind a weird field called Cyborg Botany. Here's why he believes that it matters -- and what we can expect from this fast-growing (literally) area in the future.

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Are These Robots Better Than You at Sports?
Curated from singularityhub.com - May 28th, 2019 by RobotShop

The list of robots in sports is surprisingly long and diverse. There are robot skiers, tumblers, soccer players, sumos, and even robot game jockeys.

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Why putting googly eyes on robots makes them inherently less threatening
Curated from www.engadget.com - May 28th, 2019 by RobotShop

At the start of 2019, supermarket chain Giant Food Stores announced it would begin operating customer-assisting robots -- collectively dubbed Marty -- in 17

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This Crafty Robot Can Write in Languages It’s Never Seen Before
Curated from www.wired.com - May 28th, 2019 by RobotShop

After training to hand-write Japanese characters, the robot could then copy words in Hindi, Greek, and English just by looking at examples.

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Robots Are Getting Better At Cutting Lawns And Carbon Emissions
Curated from www.forbes.com - May 24th, 2019 by RobotShop

Robots that run on batteries rather than polluting small gas engines can mow your lawn while cutting out emissions. And a Swedish company just came out with a four-wheel-drive unit.

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This robot watches you flex to learn to be a better teammate
Curated from www.technologyreview.com - May 24th, 2019 by RobotShop

An MIT robot collaborates with a person by tracking his or her muscles.

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Mad scientist builds a robot to beat the crap out of him in a VR fighting game
Curated from thenextweb.com - May 24th, 2019 by RobotShop

Since the 80s, fighting games have been a raucous good time, a way to blow off some steam while digitally beating an AI opponent to smithereens. In the VR world though, these same characters might one day fight back — physically. James Bruton, a robotics engineer and YouTube creator, teamed up with ...

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Watch a dog-like robot struggle to pull a much larger aircraft
Curated from www.siliconrepublic.com - May 24th, 2019 by RobotShop

To test its strength, Italian researchers tasked a four-legged robot to pull an aircraft many times its weight.

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Soft robot gripper guided by touch and slip
Curated from www.theengineer.co.uk - May 23rd, 2019 by RobotShop

Cambridge Consultants has unveiled a new gripping robot that uses soft air-filled fingers guided by an embedded sense of touch.

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This Adorable Bouncing Robot Would Be Terrifying if It Was Huge
Curated from futurism.com - May 23rd, 2019 by RobotShop

UC Berkeley's Salto robot is fast, agile, and smart — traits that would make the bot terrifying if it weren't less than a foot tall.

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Ford Self-Driving Vans Will Use Legged Robots to Make Deliveries - IEEE Spectrum
Curated from spectrum.ieee.org - May 23rd, 2019 by RobotShop

Agility Robotics’ Digit will bring packages from a delivery vehicle to your front door

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Robots take over farms faster than expected through autonomous equipment start-ups
Curated from www.independent.co.uk - May 23rd, 2019 by RobotShop

Farmers hope machines can be more precise and efficient than humans

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Watch a Five-Seater Air Taxi’s Maiden Flight
Curated from futurism.com - May 22nd, 2019 by RobotShop

German startup Lilium has developed an air taxi capable of seating five people — and after two years of development, the craft finally took flight.

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Watch a robot solve a Rubik's cube in less than half a second /
Curated from boingboing.net - May 22nd, 2019 by RobotShop

MIT robot killing that previous world record by spinning a solution in .38 seconds.

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Inside Swamp Works, the NASA Lab Learning to Mine the Moon
Curated from www.wired.com - May 22nd, 2019 by RobotShop

NASA's Swamp Works may be humans' best hope for figuring out how to live and work on other planets.

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Automation is rewiring the future — the time for action is now
Curated from thehill.com - May 21st, 2019 by RobotShop

New technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, and machine learning, may represent a tipping point, leading to faster and broader change than in the past.

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Drone uses swiveling propellor arms to become a robotic car when it hits the ground
Curated from newatlas.com - May 21st, 2019 by RobotShop

​We've seen a few impressive drones now that can adapt themselves to different modes of transport. Equally so is a new quadcopter developed at Israel's Ben-Gurion University, which flies like a regular quadcopter but turns its propellor arms into wheels to keep moving once it hits the ground. ​

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How Smarter Robots Will Impact Security Workforces
Curated from www.securitysales.com - May 21st, 2019 by RobotShop

Robots can be instrumental in providing security personnel with another set of eyes and ears in many locations and notify them of events.

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Watch this open-source dog robot do backflips
Curated from www.futurity.org - May 21st, 2019 by RobotShop

A new robot called Doggo can walk, jump, and even do backflips. You can download everything you need to build your own, too.

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6 robotics applications demonstrating new tech, markets
Curated from www.therobotreport.com - May 17th, 2019 by RobotShop

Columnist Kayla Matthews looks at six robotics applications and how developers should understand the similarities and differences among them.

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A new era in 3-D printing
Curated from news.mit.edu - May 17th, 2019 by RobotShop

Throughout MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, faculty members have been finding new ways to incorporate 3-D printing across a vast array of research areas. New techniques promise to help solve the biggest problems of the 21st century.

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