Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has selected Objective Interface’s CORBA-based ORBexpress as the core communications architecture for AIST’s new advanced robotics platform, OpenRTM-AIST.
Applied Robotics moves into news markets with a new pneumatic meat gripper adheres that to all food production cleaning requirements and is manufactured with extremely light weight materials approved by the FDA and USDA.
3-D simulation simplifies workcell layout, allows offline programming of robots and remote monitoring of operations.
VIA EPIA-P710 utilizes new SUMIT connectors for the modular addition of advanced serial connectivity including PCI Express, offering developers more flexible and cost effective design options for compact embedded systems.
Colin Angle succeeds Helen Greiner as Chairman of the Board of iRobot. Greiner to remain on Board of Directors.
Provider of intelligent robots for industrial applications has released the Adept Cobra s850 SCARA robot, designed to handle heavier packaged goods, and Adept Quattro s650H Parallel Robot, designed for stringent hygienic environments including food handling.
The NCDR has awarded a grant to four companies to perform research and development of advanced robotic systems as well as to conduct research and development on small to mid-sized unmanned vehicles.
Award for the US Army and Marine Corps. comes as Shadow achieves 350,000 total flight hours. Some systems come with new capabilities including a laser designator and a tactical common data link.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have engineered a biologically inspired robot that mirrors the actions of sought-after service dogs. Users verbally command the robot to complete a task and the robot responds once a basic laser pointer illuminates the location of the desired action.
Developer of vision guided robotic (VGR) solutions has released a vision guidance library that simplifies the development of vision based systems. Additional industry specific ‘technology packages’ are also available with more to come in the future.
Innovative new algorithm for real-time pattern matching applicable for processing and computer vision applications enables rapid pattern recognition.
Roboticists typically employ both a modeling/mapping and a perception/action approach to delivering autonomy to their robots. In an effort to develop robots that can navigate autonomously more naturally without the use of maps, Arizona State University researchers have developed a robot that fields ground balls relying only visual, perception-based algorithms.
With the announcement of their dedicated educational division, Trossen Robotics provides a ‘one stop shop’ for educators incorporating robotics into classrooms.
A robot developed by FATRONIK-Tecnalia’s Industrial Systems Unit for the aeronautical company Airbus España has been declared the winner, out of more than 100 companies from all over the world, of the prestigious international Strategic Manufacturing Awards 2008, within the Innovation category. In its decision, the jury highlighted the robot’s innovative conception and, in particular, its mobility for working with large-sized elements, such as those to be found in the aeronautical industry, although it can be applied within other sectors.
Olin partners with Aurora Flight Sciences on the development of multi-vehicle coordination algorithms for teams of actual Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) and Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs).
NASA’s Scarab rover, developed by Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute, is designed to traverse the lunar surface taking core samples for use in NASA’s Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar Volatile Extraction (RESOLVE) experiment. The robot, which weighs approximately 880 pounds, can operate on just 100 watts of power.
Another win for Kiva. Diapers.com, an Internet retailer offering a variety of products for families with young children, with over 200,000 customers, has selected Kiva’s Mobile Fulfillment System for use in the company’s three distribution centers. Diaper.som cites growth in order volume and merchandise selection as key selection drivers.
Siam UAV Industries relies on Skilligent’s Fault-Tolerant Control Framework and Operator Control Unit for distributed, redundant vehicle control for their remotely piloted vehicles. A recently completed flight testing program confirms the mission criticality of Skilligent’s software solutions for building mission critical control systems.
A Texas Tech University curator and an aeronautical engineer from the University of Florida have developed a 30-inch robotic spy plane modeled after a 225 million-year-old pterodactyl.