Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.36
October 11, 2021
…composed of controlled leg joints for aerial robots and other types of flying vehicles. The team envisions that future Mars rotorcraft could be equipped with legged landing gear so that the body balance of these aerial robots can be maintained as they land on sloped or uneven terrains, thereby reducing the risk of failure under challenging landing conditions. The paper is titled “A bipedal walking robot that can fly, slackline, and skateboard.” Coauthors also include Alireza Ramezani, former Caltech postdoctoral scholar and currently an assistant professor at Northeastern University. This research was supported by the Caltech Gary Clinard Innovation Fund…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.35
August 17, 2021
…2015, the Qualcomm Flight Platform became part of the Mars Ingenuity helicopter, which has completed 11 flights now,” Singh told Robotics 24/7. “It's now in operation, not just a technology demonstration. This shows the power of the Snapdragon processor, which is 100 times more powerful than what was on all the prior space missions.” “In December 2018, with ModalAI, the Qualcomm Flight Pro development kit was used by Uber Eats,” he recalled. “We're enabling more than 200 drone and robotics ecosystem members.” “In 2018, 5G was just starting to roll out, and we engaged with customers,” Singh said. “We started…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.33
August 27, 2023
…be useful in robots sent on exploration missions to Mars or other solar system bodies, since they could adapt to the environment quickly using only an onboard computer, said the institute. “Rather than thinking about this as a 'black-box' system, if we can leverage the structure of these kinds of robotic systems using models, there is an opportunity to accelerate the whole procedure of trying to make these decisions and come up with contact-rich plans,” said H.J. Terry Suh, an electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) graduate student and co-lead author of a paper on this technique. Joining Suh on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.30
May 27, 2021
…moon by 2024 and to prepare for missions to Mars beyond that. The program has a budget of $35 billion between 2020 and 2024. Artemis is a joint effort by NASA, U.S. commercial aerospace providers, and international partners. These include including the European Space Agency (which itself has 22 member countries), Canada, Japan, and Russia, said the IFR. There are plenty of other bright spots in the global robotics constellation, including AI research in France, customer-service robots in Singapore, drones and assistive systems in Israel, marine systems in the Netherlands, and collaborative robot arms and mobile robots from Denmark. And…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.30
November 08, 2021
…the market and could enable new applications. “At Amazon's re:MARS conference in 2019, Jeff Bezos said that people 40 years ago thought that the hardest challenges would be in artificial intelligence and machine learning,” recalled Zakareya Hussein, CEO of Touchlab. “Many of those have been addressed, but grasping is still hard.” “We were approached by clients trying to solve the grasping problem,” he told Robotics 24/7. “We're aware that physical robots are the future and looked the tiger in the eye. With electronic skin, we can enable robots to pick and place fresh produce.” Why touch matters Robotics designers have…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.28
October 04, 2022
…it has more than 5,000 customers worldwide, including Glossier, Mars, Universal Music Group, and Canadian Tire. It is also the official fulfillment network partner of Shopify and is rapidly scaling a network of warehouses across the U.S. to meet growing demand from online retailers. “Working with Shopify at the launch of its fulfillment network showed us we could scale with our WMS,” said Barnett. “It and other Fortune 100 companies pushed us to make our products better. Our mission is to drive the cost of fulfillment down.” “To get through this economy with lower-margin products, inVia can help merchants push…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.26
October 03, 2022
…Innovation, Scholarship, and Entrepreneurship (RISE) award for its robot to extract, melt, and purify water from subsurface ice on Mars. Editor's note: Cesareo Contreras contributed to this article.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.24
July 18, 2022
…merger with Whistle and a $117 million acquisition by Mars. David Pinn. Source: LinkedIn Prior to joining Brain Corp, Pinn was head of finance for Antenna79, a technology startup backed by L Catterton, where he helped raise $94.9 million in private equity funding. Since joining Brain Corp in 2017, Pinn has held a variety of executive positions including chief strategy officer, and most recently, chief financial officer. In these roles, he helped lead Brain Corp’s transformation from a robotics hardware company to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company. It said Pinn played a key role in securing over $100 million of capital…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.23
June 28, 2021
…area. It's a hard problem—harder than running robots on Mars.” “Going up or down in high tortosity or with slippery or wet surfaces, with gravel or sand—the geometry doesn't work,” she added. “What about when a robot loses odometry or contact with a surface?” Murphy, who is a member of the non-profit Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR), said the organization is on standby to assist in Florida. Autonomy and emergencies “With shared autonomy, having a human in the loop is non-trivial,” said Murphy. “It's like riding a horse—you need to give it a direction and trust that it…
