But what type of robots are best suited for these cosmic jobs? One NASA engineer thinks that we should turn to Star Wars for inspiration. In the popular saga, Astromechs are repair droids that act as autonomous mechanics aboard ships. They are also ...
Kids like to touch things. Kids like to whack things. This is usually fine when the thing is a toy, but it can be a problem when the thing is a robot. We've written about children beating robots up before, and it seems like it's an inevitability when ...
Like an episode out of "Black Mirror," Walmart has filed a patent for autonomous
robotic bees, technically called pollination drones, that could potentially pollinate crops just like real bees. The drones would carry pollen from one plant to another
...Walmart May Be Building Drone Army of Robot Bees to Pollinate CropsPopCulture.com
The trucking industry is heading for an autonomous future. Self-driving trucks have been in the works for several years – Daimler introduced in 2014 the Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025 – but developments within the last year show the transformation is moving full steam ahead. The tests being done currently are limited to semi-autonomous systems that…
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Amazon, for example has started to include capabilities like a display, Echo Spot (display + camera + Alarm clock), Echo Show, security cameras, and even a fashion advisor. If you ask me, it's pretty clear what Amazon is doing here—it's effectively ...
Festo has introduced the Festo Motion Control Package (FMCP), a control system for coordinated motion of up to six axes for pick and place and other high speed, precision Cartesian robotic applications. This prewired and ready-to-install control solution provides the kinematics for H-portal, T-portal, 2D, and 3D Festo standard gantry systems. OEMs quickly configure Cartesian…
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Seven years ago, iRobot introduced us to Ava, a sort of tech demonstrator designed to show how
robots were capable of doing things like—well, the company wasn't entirely sure, but telepresence was one of the ideas. The
robot's autonomous navigation
...A new telepresence robot takes the stageNetwork World
A Japanese robotics company appear to have invented a real-life version of the murderous robot dog from Black Mirror. The 'Super Monster Wolf' is a 65cm-long, 50cm tall robot dog, designed to keep wild boar away from rice and chestnut crops. And it's ...
Robotics and AI are two off the hottest segments of tech right now, so it stands to reason that there are plenty of companies out there doing their best to combine them. When they do, however, the results keep getting more and more creepy. We recently ...
The robot can listen to a song, analyze how fast it is, and sway to the rhythm. ANYmal dances to Beyoncé, Macklemore, and Daft Punk without missing a beat. A new robot created by Swiss researchers might be able to out-dance you. The ANYmal bot is a ...