Robotics is undergoing fundamental change in three core areas: collaboration, autonomous mobility and increasing intelligence. Autonomous mobility technology is entering the industrial vehicle marketplace of AGVs, forklifts and tugs with new products, better navigation technologies and lower costs. Forecasters Grandview Research and IDTechEx suggest that autonomous forklifts and tugs will emerge as the standard from…
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When exploring marine environments, underwater robots tend to be a bull trout in a china shop, disturbing marine life with their bulk and disruptive propulsion. Enter SoFi, the soft, agile robotic fish with a delicate demeanour. Scientists said they ...
In order for bipedal robots to live up to their potential usefulness, it's important that they can navigate on a variety of different surfaces and deal with whatever potential obstacle is thrown their way. That's something that researchers from China's ...
More than 650 fluid power manufacturers, users and academics have come here to Aachen, a small western German city, to talk about the future of hydraulics and pneumatics technology, as well as current R&D projects. However, last night, what everyone was talking about was robots. The closing keynote at the 11th International Fluid Power Conference…
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"You kind of learn, when you get into this — it's really hard to match what humans can do," says Bob Pitzer, an expert on robots and co-founder of a company called Harvest CROO Robotics. (CROO is an acronym. It stands for Computerized Robotic ...
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robot was spotted taking a walk yesterday with Bezos at the annual MARS robotics conference in Palm Springs, California, though the robo-pooch was missing the door-opening arm that we saw back in February. Someone with a more alarmist disposition
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A pair of autonomous RadPiper robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute will help decommission a former US Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear facility. The RadPiper robot can safely go where humans can’t and accurately measure radiation levels on the inside of pipes. The Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio, which shut down…
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Unlike Iron Man, who can take to the skies like a rocket, this Chinese
robot always needs to have at least one foot safely planted on the ground. So what's the point of having jets strapped to those feet if it can't fly? In case you haven't noticed
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Trash Robot is the brainchild of Urban Rivers, which is looking for US $5,000 in funding. It plans to use the money to improve on the first prototype. Version two will get a base station for dropping off garbage, greater Wi-Fi range, GPS-tracking, and ...
An Uber self-driving car struck and killed a pedestrian Sunday night in Tempe, Arizona. The preliminary investigation is underway, but Tempe police said the car was in autonomous mode at the time of the crash, was traveling about 40 MPH, and did not show any signs of slowing down. Uber certainly has a recording of…
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