Military / Medical / Vehicles

Modern militaries are steadily integrating ground robots—often called robotic combat vehicles (RCVs) or autonomous ground systems (AGS)—as force multipliers that enhance the reach, endurance, and situational awareness of human units. These platforms handle hazardous or burdensome tasks, allowing squads and platoons to operate more safely and focus on mission execution. Ukraine’s extensive use of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), including the delivery of more than 150 […] Read More

Servosila introduces a new member of the family of Servosila “Engineer” robots, a UGV called “Radio Engineer”. This new variant of the well-known backpack-transportable robot features a Software Defined Radio (SDR) payload module integrated into the robotic vehicle.   “Several of our key customers had asked us to enable an Electronic Warfare (EW) or Cognitive Radio applications in our robots”, – says a spokesman for […] Read More

Elmo’s standard, high-current, compact, rugged servo drives have proven high performance and utmost reliability in one of the world’s most advanced combat tanks NASHUA, N.H. – Aug. 24, 2017 – Elmo Motion Control (Elmo), a leading provider of innovative motion solutions designed to make intelligent machines smarter, announces that it is completing the upgrade of the turret control systems on the entire fleet of the […] Read More

SAN DIEGO — More than 300 students making up 44 teams and representing eight countries will compete in the 20th International RoboSub Competition to be held July 26–30 at the U.S. Navy’s research pool on Point Loma. Hosted by the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) in Point Loma, the competition challenges teams to design and build autonomous underwater vehicles capable […] Read More

New Robotherapy for children with autism could reduce patient supervision by therapists. 05.07.2017 Autism treatments and therapies routinely make headlines. With robot enhanced therapies on the rise, often overlooked though, is the mental stress and physical toll the procedures take on therapists. As autism treatments can be taxing on both patient and therapists, few realize the stress and workload of those working with autistic patients. […] Read More

BMW has said that they will be able to deliver level 5 Autonomous cars by 2021. A level 5 autonomy is the ultimate goal of autonomous driving and it means, the driver will completely be able to take his or her hands off the wheel, during the entire duration of the the trip. Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bmw-says-self-driving-car-135956879.html Read More

On October 20, 2016, Otto and Budweiser completed the world’s first shipment by a self driving truck. The truck drove itself for 120 miles in Colorado highways, where the driver was not at the driver seat. Given all the advancements, it looks like autonomous driving will also soon be just another automation that we take for granted today, just like computers playing chess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb0Kzb3haK8 Video […] Read More

Here is a good read about robots and AI slowly but surely replacing doctors in hospitals – not to say that we will not need doctors anytime soon. http://singularityhub.com/2016/02/10/robots-in-health-care-could-lead-to-a-doctorless-hospital/?utm_content=buffer0aa18&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Read More

According to a report appeared on fortune magazine, Tesla Cars will drive themselves in as soon as 2 years. Tesla Motors is a company based in California USA, that produces electric cars. Read More

In an effort to facilitate learning of its AI platform Watson, IBM has bought a medical imaging company, in order to show its Watson lots (billions) of medical images, to improve its diagnostics ability. The system could prove very helpful in assisting doctors to make diagnostics. See details here: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/540141/why-ibm-just-bought-billions-of-medical-images-for-watson-to-look-at/ Read More