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Greenvale Invests in Robots for Automating Food Packaging Unit

Greenvale has turned to robotics to upgrade its packaging unit at the Cambridgeshire and Berwickshire sites. It has deployed four robots from FANUC Robotics in order to keep up with the packaging and volume demands from customers.

9 Jun 2011

Robotic Hockey Stick Delivers 110 MPH Slap Shot

At the University of Waterloo in Ontario engineering design professor John McPhee has created a hockey robot that can send pucks flying at the speed of 110 miles per hour.

7 Jun 2011

Fijit Robot Ranked as Top Toy for the Year

Tesco has created the Fijit Robot, which is expected to become the top toy for the year 2011. This toy is a squishy robot that entertains children by dancing and telling jokes.

7 Jun 2011

Swinburne’s Students Design World's Fastest Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot

A team of six students from the Swinburne University of Technology have designed a robot, called Ruby, which can solve the Rubik's Cube puzzle within time duration of just over 10 seconds.

31 May 2011

MIT Researchers Design Robots that Respond to Changing Environments

MIT Researchers have formulated an algorithm, which enables robots to procrastinate planning of tasks and to react to variations in environments.

31 May 2011

Japan to Develop Robots for Use in Nuclear Accidents

Japan is developing a robotic suit for aged farmers to assist them in laborious activities such as harvesting and tending crops.

31 May 2011

Cornell University Students Present Array of Small Personalized Robots

Cornell University students are developing personal robots that are capable of performing various household tasks.

31 May 2011

Dr. Mark W. Spong Receives Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society have awarded the 2011 Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award to Dr. Mark W. Spong for his innovative contribution to the field of robotics.

31 May 2011

University of Leeds Develops Robot for Exploration Purposes

The mystery of the pyramids could be unveiled by a robot designed by Rob Richardson, an engineer at the University of Leeds.

31 May 2011

Researchers Design Supersonic Grippers for Climbing Robots

A research team from New Zealand’s University of Canterbury has designed a supersonic model of the Bernoulli gripper to enable a robot to climb on various surfaces. This robot’s gripper does not touch the wall.

30 May 2011