Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.22
August 23, 2023
…development have gone into Apollo, coming out of the DARPA Robotics Challenge,” Cardenas told Robotics 24/7. “We've always believed that versatile, multipurpose robots were the future, but the technology wasn't there yet in 2016.” Modular machine the result of many lessons Apptronik added that Apollo is built on research with 10 previous “general-purpose” robots, including work on NASA Valkyrie. “Since the early days of Apptronik, we've been looking for performance,” recalled Cardenas. “We wanted electric actuators to do what hydraulics could do, and we wanted robustness and low cost.” Cardenas said his team learned about safety from its development of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.20
April 03, 2023
…quickly transporting diverse objects from place to place using the legs or arms. The research is supported by the DARPA Machine Common Sense Program, the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, and the U.S. Air Force Artificial Intelligence Accelerator. The paper will be presented at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.80
January 05, 2022
…venture-backed, while East Coast companies have academic, industrial, or DARPA grants,” replied Linnell. “There's a different mentality and more of a hardware focus on the East Coast.” “On the West Coast, the focus with RaaS is on getting robots out into the field and doing production work, and in Boston, companies are focused on getting the hardware engineering right, but they're not yet aware of what Formant can bring as they scale,” he added. “It's still a technical sale as we educate and support customers on the platform.” Collaborating for data, hardware “In 2021, the world figured out that fleet…
