Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 28.72
January 09, 2023
…Tools is hoping to set itself apart from other humanoid robot makers with its Pixar-inspired mobile manipulators, Miroki and Miroka. Featuring pointy ears and expressive cat-like faces, Miroki and Miroka were designed to be used in places like hospitals, nursing homes, and hotels to assist with the movement of items. Miroki and Miroka function the same, but Miroki was designed to look like a boy, and Miroka was designed to look like a girl. Using specially designed handles, the robots can grasp items with a 97% success rate, according to Enchanted Tools. They feature a “rolling globe” to navigate. Attendees…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 28.35
May 19, 2022
…AS has chosen its next-generation vision system for Halodi's humanoid service robot. Montreal-based Immervision's technologies combine optics, image processing, and sensor fusion. The company said its vision system will enable Halodi's robot to better perceive its environment, collect better-quality data for artificial intelligence pipelines, and provide an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience to remote operators. “Halodi Robotics approached us when searching for a fast, responsive, and immersive visual system capable of delivering wide-angle visual data simultaneously to both machine and humans,” explained Patrice Roulet Fontani, vice president of technology at Immervision. “Increased responsive speed starts with a high-quality, wide-angle lens.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 26.86
March 20, 2023
…warehouses, according to Agility Robotics. Since Digit is a humanoid, it can work in spaces designed for humans, the company said. And like a human, Digit can be used to complete a variety of warehouse tasks. “Three years ago, we introduced the first commercially available bi-pedal robot with a human form factor made for work,” said Damion Shelton, co-founder and CEO of Agility Robotics. “Since then, we have seen enormous interest in Digit from multinational logistics companies, and have worked closely with them to understand how they want to use Digit to improve warehouse and supply chain operations.” Shelton noted…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 26.82
January 09, 2020
…NVIDIA At the show, Toyota’s booth showcases the T-HR3 humanoid partner robot. The robot is controlled by a human driver, whose movements dictate the robot's action. GPU maker NVIDIA plays a role in the development of T-HR3. Its Isaac software development kit for AI-driven robotics—a technology for training and simulating robots—is part of the project. AMD with mobile processors Another GPU maker, AMD, promoted its processors, targeting mobile computers. The company unveiled what it calls “the world’s first 7nm high-performance CPUs and GPUs.” The product line includes the Ryzen 4000 mobile processors with Zen 2 architecture. The U series is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 26.59
July 20, 2021
…speakers overtook several social robots, most agricultural systems are still in the prototype phase, and today's videos of dancing humanoids only came after years of failures such as those in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. Over the past year, many companies laid off staffers, but relatively few shut down. Here are some recent failures and possible lessons to be drawn from them.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 25.69
June 30, 2022
…Texas-based Apptronik is one of several companies designing general-purpose humanoid robots it hopes will be capable of completing a whole swath of them. Apptronik last week raised $14.6 million in seed round funding. It said it will use the money to fulfill customer orders and accelerate “the commercialization of one of the industry’s first mass-produced humanoid robots capable of working alongside humans.” It was founded in 2016 and spun out of the Human Centered Robotics Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. The company’s latest humanoid robot is called Astro, but it also makes wearable exoskeleton suits and several…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.83
September 03, 2022
…students learn about next generations technologies such as drones, humanoid robots, warehouse automation, and autonomous systems used in space. San Francisco-based RobotLAB said the lab was designed to facilitate hands-on activities to help students have “a unique and rich learning experience to ensure that they are ready for their careers in the 2030s.” Here is a breakdown of each session: Smart Transportation This program uses smart and programmable cars and drones with fully loaded sensors for students to develop an understanding of autonomous transportation. Humanoid Robotics Students are introduced to humanoid robots, soccer-playing robots, human robot interface, visual perception (face…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.62
May 17, 2023
…Phoenix to be the most sensor-rich and physically capable humanoid ever built and to enable Carbon’s rapidly growing intelligence to perform the broadest set of work tasks possible,” stated Geordie Rose, co-founder and CEO of Sanctuary AI, on the company's website. “We see a future where general-purpose robots are as ubiquitous as cars, helping people to do work that needs doing, in cases where there simply aren’t enough people to do that work,” Rose said. Humanoid robot includes advanced AI Sanctuary AI said that Phoenix is intended to help address the labor challenges affecting many organizations today. The company claimed…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.49
November 08, 2022
…it claimed were smarter than other robots. Its 4NE-1 humanoid robot—pronounced “for anyone”—is intended to free people from tedious tasks in any industry, said David Reger, founder and CEO of the Metzingen, Germany-based company. “4NE-1 is more than a research study,” he said in a blog post last month. “4NE-1 is a robust robot based on verified, cognitive NEURA technology, plus an ingrained ability to fit perfectly into humanity’s everyday world.” The new robot is designed to provide assistance in industries ranging from education and healthcare to emergency response and space exploration, Reger said. “Most industrial, collaborative, and even surgical…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.48
May 13, 2022
…coverings, which include sensors to provide tactile awareness for humanoid robots and prosthetics. At less than 1 mm thick, RoboSkin fits robotic fingers, limbs, feet, heads, or torsos, to make robots “feel” better, said BeBop Sensors. RoboSkin’s advanced fabric-based sensor skin can be shaped to any surface, allowing quick tailoring to fit any robot, claimed the Berkeley, Calif.-based company. BeBob said its spatial resolution and sensitivity exceeds human abilities for collaborative applications. “I have been working with roboticists refining our RoboSkin for 10 years,” said Keith McMillen, founder and chief technology officer of BeBop Sensors. “We are pleased we can…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.51
February 14, 2022
…sensors can be integrated onto the fingertips of a humanoid sensing robot. The research was published in the journal npj Flexible Electronics from Nature Publishing Group. “Our origami-inspired dry electrode has unique characteristics such as suction for grasping and foldability inspired by nature,” said Kim, a professor and associate director of SFU's School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering. “In keeping with nature, we saw that in addition to the complex mechanisms of a leech's adhesive feature, these creatures have an expandable posterior sucker and body, while its organs expand and shrink appropriately to maintain better adhesion to its victim,” he explained.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.14
June 20, 2021
…America last week announced that SoftBank' Pepper and NAO humanoid robots are now available in North America exclusively through RobotLAB. The partnership also expands Pepper's educational and industrial focus areas to a broader range of applications, and it marks RobotLAB's debut as a integrator for SoftBank's Whiz cleaning robots. The companies said their collaboration builds on their long-standing partnership in advancing automation and bringing SoftBank Robotics America's (SBRA) business-to-business systems to market. San Francisco-based RobotLAB has already deployed and supported thousands of robots in the field, including Pepper and NAO. “We are pleased to expand our partnership with SBRA to…
