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Physics Student Develops Insect-Inspired Drone for Disaster Times

An algorithm inspired by insects has led to the development of a drone that can navigate around obstacles. The drone, designed by Darius Merk, could help in times of natural disaster.

19 Jul 2016

PARC Develops Vanishing Autonomous Air Vehicles through Funds from DARPA

PARC is a Xerox company that has received funds from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) through its Inbound, Controlled, Air-Releasable, Unrecoverable Systems (ICARUS) program.

12 Jul 2016

Universal Robots Launches Showroom of Plug & Play Applications

Universal Robots, the Danish pioneer of human-robot collaboration, has announced the launch of Universal Robots+, a showroom of plug & play applications, offering a new level of simplicity for Universal Robot custome...

From Universal Robotics, Inc. 22 Jun 2016

New Muscle-Inspired Actuators Hold Potential to Build Safer, Soft-Bodied Robots

Robots should be safer and softer in order to make them more cooperative and execute tasks in close contact with humans. George Whitesides, Ph.D., a Core Faculty member at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), along with his team, has created a new actuator that moves like human skeletal muscles by using vacuum power for automating soft, rubber beams.

3 Jun 2016

Researchers Demonstrate Articulated Robot Motion for SLAM Using Small Depth Camera

Before a robot arm can reach into a tight space or pick up a delicate object, the robot needs to know precisely where its hand is. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have shown that a camera attached to the robot's hand can rapidly create a 3-D model of its environment and also locate the hand within that 3-D world.

17 May 2016

Autonomous Machines Could Respond to Unfamiliar Objects Like Human Beings

Researchers from KU Leuven have analyzed how a self-driving car’s image-recognition technology reacts to a blurred shape appearing unexpectedly on the road. The team have pointed out that machines, just like human beings, are capable of learning to react to unfamiliar objects.

3 May 2016

MIT Researchers Launch a New Decentralized Planning Algorithm for Groups of Robots

There are two categories for planning algorithms for teams of robots: decentralized and centralized algorithms. In decentralized algorithms, each robot makes individual decisions based on local observations. In centralized algorithms, a single computer is capable of making decisions for the entire team.

25 Apr 2016

REMUS SharkCam AUV Helps Better Understand Fine-Scale Behavior of Marine Animals

A study on the efficiency of the "REMUS SharkCam" autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), which was conducted in 2014, brought high ratings to Discovery Channel's Shark Week and then went viral on the internet as a result of the video footage of a white shark attacking the SharkCam.

13 Jan 2016

'Drone Catchers' to Bring Down Suspicious Drones

Mo Rastgaar, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Michigan Technological University, has commenced working on a drone catcher which will have the ability to follow and capture rogue drones that could be a threat to sporting events, air traffic, military installations, and even the White House.

12 Jan 2016

FABTECH 2015: Praxair to Introduce ProStar PRS900 Robotic Cutting System

Praxair, Inc. announced today that it will debut a first-of-its-kind Robotic Cutting System, the Praxair ProStar™ PRS900, at the FABTECH show in Chicago, November 9-12.

6 Nov 2015