Robotics

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Finally we will be starting to see humanoid robots in our daily lives more and more… A good example is the M1 robot by Meka Robotics, a humanoid robot on wheels that is able to manipulate its environment. The robot runs with ROS (Robot operating system) extensions. The builders say that the robot is designed to run in human environments, not industrial settings. This presents […] Read More

IBM’s Watson computer, which became famous last month by beating human champions in Jeopardy, will be commercialized in Healthcare industry, according to a recent research and development agreement between IBM and Nuance Communications. The development project will combine Watson’s abilities in Language and Machine Learning and Nuance’s speech recognition and Clinical Language understanding abilities. The forecast for the first available commercial version is around 18-24 […] Read More

BEDFORD, Mass. The second annual National Robotics Week will be held from April 9-17 with a weeklong series of regional events and activities aimed at increasing public awareness of the growing importance of “robo-technology” and the tremendous social and cultural impact that it will have on the future of how people will live, work and play worldwide. National Robotics Week occurs annually on the second […] Read More

A research project in Europe called the Roboearth aims to make data sharing between the robots universal. It will be a new version of the internet, just for robots, such that once a task is learned and completed by a robot, the same skill will be available to all robots via downloading. The project which started a year ago and performed under the funding of […] Read More

Swiss researchers were able improve a robots balancing abilities by implementing a new type of visual processor. The problem of balancing objects have been known in robotics and large objects such as poles was known to be balanced before. However, an object as small as a pen needs a different type of processing system. Researchers were able to solve this problem by implementing silicon retinas, […] Read More

In order to improve the effectiveness and safety of ground surveillance missions, a recent project called Mind’s eye and funded by DARPA seeks to improve the visual intelligence of automated surveillance systems. The press release provided by DARPA states: DARPA has contracted with 12 research teams to develop fundamental machine-based visual intelligence: Carnegie Mellon University, Co57 Systems, Inc., Colorado State University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/CALTECH, Massachusetts […] Read More

Open source robotics software ROS has marked it 3rd birthday as the number of code packages reached to 1600, and the number of participants keeps growing exponentially. The main advantage of an open source robotics platform is that once a robotics problem is solved, the rest of the coders are able to use that code without starting from scratch. For original story, please visit here. […] Read More

Researchers have developed a new type of robot griping system, which is able to handle objects of any shape, by utilizing a complete different system than usual robot grippers. The system is based on a totally new concept of filling a flexible container, such as a party balloon, with granular material and removing the air in the balloon after the object is contacted. The researchers […] Read More