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Tantalus Partners with Georgia Municipal Utility to Implement Fully-Automated, Two-Way Smart Grid Solution

Tantalus, provider of TUNet®, an award-winning smart grid enterprise communications and applications platform, announced today that it is partnering with Marietta Power and Water, Georgia’s largest municipal utility serving more than 45,000 electric and 17,000 water and wastewater customers, for the implementation of a fully-automated, two-way smart grid solution.

27 Aug 2015

Robotics Takes Center Stage at RoboBusiness 2015

As drones buzz, robots glide and entrepreneurs connect, the rise of robotics will take center stage during RoboBusiness at the San Jose Convention Center September 23-24.

19 Aug 2015

Savioke Makes Intel RealSense Camera More Accessible to Robot Operating System Developers

During Intel CEO Brian Krzanich’s opening keynote at the Intel Developer Forum today, Savioke announced it is making the Intel® RealSense™ Camera more accessible to the worldwide robotics community by developing a wrapper for the Robot Operating System (ROS).

19 Aug 2015

Michigan 4-H Tech Wizards Program Uses Mazes to Teach Youth About Robotics

Robotics is a popular project area for youth to try out, but it doesn’t come without its challenges. Robotics involves a lot of content and learning around the topics of building, engineering and programming which takes a lot of initial time investment with youth.

18 Aug 2015

KUKA Robot Helps Construct Lightweight and Stable Research Pavilion at University of Stuttgart

Simultaneously lightweight and stable like a spider’s thread: that is the hallmark of the University of Stuttgart’s 2014/2015 research pavilion. The employees of the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) actually got the inspiration for the design from nature. The manner in which the water spider builds its nests under water served as the example.

13 Aug 2015

Scientists Find Robots Evolve Quickly and Efficiently after Virtual Mass Extinction

A computer science team at The University of Texas at Austin has found that robots evolve more quickly and efficiently after a virtual mass extinction modeled after real-life disasters such as the one that killed off the dinosaurs. Beyond its implications for artificial intelligence, the research supports the idea that mass extinctions actually speed up evolution by unleashing new creativity in adaptations.

13 Aug 2015

University of Houston Researchers Working on Development of Child-Size Exoskeletons to Boost Mobility

A University of Houston engineer has received funding to create a pediatric exoskeleton, designed to help children with spinal cord injuries and other mobility disorders walk.

13 Aug 2015

New Robot Prototype Can Separate, Stretch, Smooth Wrinkles and Fold Clothes

A Mexican in Europe has helped design the prototype of a robot that is able to separate, stretch, smooth wrinkles and fold clothes. This technology participates in almost all the washing process, but introducing the clothes into the washing machine.

13 Aug 2015

2015 Annual Meeting of HFES to Feature Over 400 Presentations Including Human-Robot Interaction

The program for the 2015 International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society features more than 400 presentations from leading HF/E experts across multiple domains on topics including patient safety, product design, driver distraction, emergency response, human-robot interaction, and more.

6 Aug 2015

MIT Engineers Use Environment to Give More Dexterity to Simple Robotic Grippers

Most robots on a factory floor are fairly ham-handed: Equipped with large pincers or claws, they are designed to perform simple maneuvers, such as grabbing an object, and placing it somewhere else in an assembly line. More complex movements, such as adjusting the grasp on an object, are still out of reach for many industrial robots.

5 Aug 2015