Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.49
September 12, 2023
…with exciting technology, including drones, autonomous vehicles, collaborative robots, humanoids, robot dogs and flying bionic birds. There will be opportunities to fly through a drone obstacle course, sit in an unmanned vehicle, and drive a legged robot. “The world looks to our cluster for innovations and advances in robotics,” said Tom Ryden, executive director of MassRobotics. “RoboBoston is a chance to celebrate, recognize and share our robust community.” “We are thrilled to grow our Robot Block Party of years past into a robotics celebration that is larger than ever and engage the community in this showcase of cutting-edge technology,” he…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.44
June 26, 2024
…are becoming increasingly common, such as with surgical, logistics, humanoid, quadrupedal, aerospace, agriculture, food and beverage, and underwater robotics. Forcen said its full stack force/torque sensing systems are designed for these complex and less-structured applications using three core proprietary technologies: ForceFilm - A monolithic thin-film transducer enabling sensing systems that are light, thin, stable across both drift and temperature, and scalable, especially for multi-dimensional sensing. DedicatedOverload - A dedicated overload protection structure that acts as a six DOF hard stop. This dedicated protection structure provides sensitivity and overload protection to be designed separately and enables durable use of the overload…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.27
April 06, 2021
…Robotics, which includes the former Aldebaran, makes the Pepper humanoid service robot and BrainOS-powered commercial cleaning and disinfection robots. SoftBank supports cube storage approach AutoStore said its automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) can provide supply chains with high throughput, enhanced configurability, and high levels of flexibility. The company added that its cube storage can enable customers to store four times the inventory in the same space or all of their existing inventory in 25% of the space. AutoStore systems serve markets including e-commerce, grocery, industrial, and healthcare in warehouse, retail locations, or micro-fulfillment centers. It recently unveiled an innovation…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.05
November 19, 2022
…various applications. From robotic arms used in manufacturing to humanoid robots in customer service, there's no question that these machines are here to stay. Another application these robots can have lies in property security. While video surveillance systems are commonly used methods of security in property complexes, they require access to electrical power and often need cables to operate. Solar-powered security robots, on the other hand, dispense with the need for electrical wires. They can work under a high level of autonomy as they patrol your area through thermal cameras, check for intruders using motion activity, and wirelessly alert you…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.02
April 21, 2021
…more than 35,000 robots, including the Pepper and NAO humanoid service robots and the Whiz cleaning robot, which are used in more than 70 countries. SB Logistics provides pay-per-use, third-party logistics (3PL) services, starting with e-commerce business-to-consumer (B2C) fulfillment and expanding to offline merges online (business-to-business) and direct-to-consumer (D2C) fulfillment. Bedford, Mass.-based Berkshire Grey combines AI and robotics to support fulfillment, supply chain, and logistics operations. Its customers include Global 100 retailers and 3PLs. In February, the company announced its intention to merge with a special purpose acquisition company and to be publicly listed. SB Logistics to fully automate DC…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.42
October 03, 2022
…Inc. had revealed the latest version of its Optimus humanoid last week, Digit is already available for research and warehouse use. Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid, displayed in UMass Lowell's area, is designed for handling boxes and parcels. Credit: Eugene Dematire UMass Lowell is home to the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Lab and the New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) Center. The center is an interdisciplinary facility that evaluates robot capabilities across domains including industrial automation, exoskeletons, and disaster response, explained Holly Yanco, founder of the HRI Lab and director of the NERVE Center. The Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.36
July 23, 2021
…years. Expectations are sky-high, but we've been talking about humanoid robots for decades. Nobody really dreamed about touchscreens. This has created a level of unsustainable hype, like what has hurt self-driving cars. It might have helped raise money, but expectations for robots are unrealistic. With AMRs, humans are needed to teach and train robots. If a programmer has to go to a site and write unique code because every site is different, this makes maturing robotics hard. Businesses could get Ph.D.s from leading universities to program an 80% solution using ROS [the open-source Robot Operating System], but they need things…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.29
March 11, 2024
…and robotic form factors = such as consumer and humanoid robots. RFM-1 capabilities Specific RFM-1 capabilities include: Physics world model: RFM-1’s understanding of physics emerges from learning to generate videos. RFM-1 can predict via AI-generated videos how objects will react to robotic actions. This physics world model, powered by Covariant’s multimodal robotics dataset, improves speed and reliability by enabling robots to simulate the result of future scenarios and select the best course of action. Language-guided programming: By making robots taskable and giving them an understanding of the English language, RFM-1 enables robots and humans to collaborate and problem-solve by simply…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.22
June 11, 2022
…The Newark, N.J.-based company’s flagship product is a plush humanoid service robot named MARCo. People can interact with the robot in several ways designed to, among other things, brighten their mood, reduce their anxiety, and clear their heads. Robot to give users more control of their mental health The robot companion was programmed with what Boyle calls “five objectives of care.” Those include companionship, guided meditation and relaxation, talk support, biofeedback, and high-alert outreach. “Mental health is not a one-size-fits-all approach,” he told Robotics 24/7. “Everyone is different and reacts differently to different types of care. We try to make…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.13
November 05, 2021
…(meaning “finger” from the Greek word daktylos), using its humanoid robot hand to solve a Rubik’s cube with software that’s a step towards more general AI, and a step away from the common single-task mentality. DeepMind created “RGB-Stacking,” a vision-based system that challenges a robot to learn how to grab items and stack them. In the ongoing quest to get machines to replicate human abilities, scientists at the MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) created a framework that’s more scaled up. They built system that can reorient over 2,000 different objects, with the robotic hand facing both…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.97
August 10, 2022
…of robots, including robotic arms, floating assistive systems, and humanoid models. Robots could enable surgery near and far In addition, MIRA has potential for field use here on Earth, said Farritor. “We believe the small size of MIRA simplifies its use on Earth because it is portable and easy to set up,” he noted. “Use on the ISS will dramatically demonstrate MIRA’s portability and that it really can be used anywhere, any time.” “Our research inside the University of Nebraska has had long-standing sponsorship from both the [U.S.] Army and NASA because both want to do surgery in forward and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.85
September 13, 2021
…has also created the DIANA force-controlled robot, medical systems, humanoid dexterous five-finger hands, and its Flexible Intelligent Platform (FIP). The company said its research and development capabilities allowed it to launch a “robotic worker” that can be a smart assistant to all kinds of workers and take over mundane or dangerous tasks. Agile Robots noted that its could open new market opportunities for intelligent robot applications. In China, Agile Robots has made strategic partnerships with companies producing orthopedic surgical robots, neurosurgicial robots, and general and specialist hospitals. Now in mass production, Agile Robots' systems are in use in industries including…
