Robots that communicate what they're doing in AR are more efficient (and more pleasant) to work with
As an integral part of the warehouse team, the clerk will take care of parcels that enter and leave the shipping and receiving department.
Our oceans are home to a diverse array of aquatic organisms, a surprising number of which have yet to be discovered. To help in the search for these fascinating creatures, researchers have developed a robotic device capable of capturing even the most delicate deep-sea animals, which it does with a f...
Hundreds of companies and thousands of individuals, many of them researchers and engineers prominent in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence, vowed on Wednesday vowing never to apply their skills toward the creation of autonomous killing machines.
Machine vision expert Øystein Skotheim, co-founder and CEO of Zivid Labs, shares these four robotics trends he encountered at Automatica 2018.
Rick Allen, one of the world’s best known and most accomplished mountaineers was believed to have perished after an accident on Broad Peak, the world’s 12th highest mountain. However, a…
Our Lynxmotion MES-PDB (Multirotor Erector Set / Power Distribution Board) was created based on needs for our Lynxmotion MES frame system that will be released soon. Designing this board, the issues were to properly power all motors (up to eight motors), distribute the ESC signals and power the Lynx...
Researchers at the US Army Research Laboratory developed a new technique to teach mobile robots novel traversal behaviors with minimal human oversight.
Google X projects Loon and Wing have left the nest and graduated to independent companies under Google’s parent company Alphabet, Google X Captain of Moonshots, X Astro Teller wrote in a Medium post yesterday. “Today, unlike when they started as X projects, Loon and Wing seem a long way…
Are your houseplants burning up in the heat? You should get a robot-plant hybrid, like this mod from Vincross, which can move itself into the shade when it needs to, and even dances angrily when it’s drying up.
The first “civilian-registered” remotely piloted drone to ever make a flight across the Atlantic landed at 6:43pm local time (1:45pm ET) in RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire on Wednesday after taking off from Grand Forks, North Dakota on Tuesday, the BBC reported, after traveling nearly 3,800 miles.
Creator, formerly known as Momentum Machines, and its burger-making robots are one of a rising new type of automated restaurants, mixing the best of the tech industry’s software, robotics, and artificial intelligence skills with top-tier culinary expertise. The goal is not to automate away humans en...
Tired of lugging your carry-on around the airport? Engineers now have a solution: Robotic suitcases that will follow you through the airport, charge m
At Autodesk’s Robotics Lab in San Francisco, Universal Robots cobots are proving it might be possible to automate portions of the construction industry. The projects span human-robot interactions, machine learning, drawing, and smart assembly systems. Some say robots are going to take over, and huma...
Boston Dynamics' robots are performing human tasks out in the field. They could be adapted to create a more efficient future.
If you forgot about NASA after all of the noise SpaceX has made over the past months, yes, they still do exist and yes, they still do cool stuff! In a rover that is set to depart for Mars in 2020, …
AN Post made the first successful delivery of a package by drone in Ireland. The unmanned aerial system (UAS), nicknamed “Postman Padraig” delivered the small parcel from Roonagh pier i…
Robots are about to become a platform worthy of every developer’s time. After all, every single thing that a phone, desktop, or voice assistant can do, a robot can do. (And yes, like a phone, some…
Germ-blasting robot Solaris Lytbot is a portable "no-touch" disinfection technology that uses pulsed UV light to eliminate pathogens, but experts are worried cash-strapped hospitals will use automated disinfection instead of humans to save money.
via The Verge Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s JSK Lab have developed a “dragon drone,” made up of several small drones and capable of transforming on the fly, as reported by IEEE. Not only…
Do you feel underappreciated in life? Would you like a little more support? How about some applause for all that amazing work you do? Fantastic. You should definitely buy this tomato-faced robot to clap and cheer you on for the rest of your life.
MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot doesn’t need to see you to chase you up the stairs, a new video from MIT shows. Even without cameras to dodge obstacles by sight, the 90-pound robot’s equipped with new algorithms that help it navigate its environment by touch.
Versius, the world's smallest surgical robot, could receive approval for use in the United Kingdon before the end of 2018.
