What’s next for military unmanned ground vehicles? According to Bob Quinn, General Manager, TALON Operations, Foster-Miller, a variety of form factors, increased autonomy and a single point of control for multiple robots. Oh, and one other thing - there will be many, many more of them.
The venture capital community has mixed feelings about the robotics industry, the result of few applications and fewer success stories. But can the same the same yardstick used to gauge success for say, Web 2.0 startups (or Web Bubble 1.0), be applied to robotics?
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is joining forces with the Association pour la Recherche et le Development des Methodes et Processus Industriels (ARMINES) of France to enhance the state of the art in the field of road automation. The collaboration will address sensors, vehicle controls, robotics and pathway generation. This collaboration follows an agreement between SwRI and the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) of France signed last year.
Fuel cell power system provider Protonex Technology Corporation announces that it will integrate a Protonex fuel cell power system into Foster-Miller’s TALON Unmanned Ground Vehicle.
Robosoft delivers the first units of a set of 16 robotized machines to the “City of Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution (ESPCI)”
ASTM International, a voluntary technical standards development organization for materials, products, systems, and services, as part of a National Institute of Standards and Technology urban search and rescue robot performance standards project, has developed a new standard that describes specific ways to describe requirements for the storage, shipping and deployment of urban search and rescue robots.
NIST engineers have created a software program to help avoid the network timing glitches called ‘cyclic jitters’ that can cause real jitters, making production line machines jump or shake, damaging products, even shutting down assembly lines.
Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have created a robot, designed to help users with limited mobility with everyday tasks, that moves autonomously to an item selected with a green laser pointer, picks up the item and then delivers it to the user, another person or a selected location such as a table. The new robotic communication method may help robots find their way into the home sooner.
Innova Robotics & Automation reports strong revenue growth and operational improvements from 2006 to 2007.
Parasoft Embedded now delivers support for ARM RVDS to help deliver greater productivity and significantly fewer software defects.
Applied Manufacturing Technologies sponsors Lake Superior State University project where seniors develop a vision-based robotic workcell that identifies and robotically packages consumer products from a moving conveyor.
Pharmacy Automation Leader Emphasizes Problem-Solving Over Market Making
The University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science has received the largest single award in the School’s 156-year history to help create the fundamental networks and technologies that will put unmanned machines on the front lines of battle.