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Neato Robotics Introduces Wi-Fi Enabled Neato Botvac Connected Robot Vacuum

Neato Robotics today announced the Neato Botvac™ Connected robot vacuum, calling the new Wi-Fi enabled model the best cleaning robot the company has ever designed.

2 Sep 2015

Smart Robots Market to Witness Prominent Growth Due to Increased Demands

The collaborative smart robots market size is expected to reach USD 1.07 Billion by 2020 whereas the software market size for smart robots is expected to grow at a CAGR of 30.24% from 2015 to2020 says this new 2015 research on robots that are getting 'smart'.

29 Aug 2015

Innovation Video on Robotics Wins Telly Award

Mouser Electronics, Inc. is pleased to announce that its Empowering Innovation TogetherTM Spotlight video on Robotics has been recognized with a Telly Award for outstanding achievement.

28 Aug 2015

KUKA to Showcase Advanced Robotic Solutions at IROS 2015

“Only those who push back the frontiers can develop new ideas”: This is the slogan KUKA has selected for its participation in this year’s IROS, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, in Hamburg.

27 Aug 2015

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