In this revealing interview with Robotics Trends, Kiva Systems’ CEO Mick Mountz describes how his order fulfillment experience with Web 1.0 poster child Webvan resulted in a unique take on the labor intensive pick-pack-and-ship’ process – a solution based on scores of cooperative, mobile robots.
Joe Jones, co-inventor of the Roomba vacuum cleaning robot while he was at iRobot, talks with Robotics Trends about his new effort: using robots to automate the labor-intensive task of shifting, placing and managing thousands of plants for commercial Decorative plant growers
OC Robotics awarded a contract from Ontario Power Generation for a snake-arm robot to inspect pipes in nuclear reactors.
Honda’s second ‘Walking Assist’ device is not designed for the infirmed, but as a ‘Lifestyle Enhancement’ product that provides additional load support for the legs and body.
University of North Dakota’s Aerospace school researchers envision a place for UAS activities away from the world’s battlefields and smack dab in the mix of commercial aviation. They and researchers from several other UND departments imagine skies where unmanned aircraft co-exist seamlessly with jumbo airliners, crop dusters, parachutists, and birds. So they’ve begun working closely with the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Federal Aviation Administration on the many questions pervading unmanned flight.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has partnered with the Waitt Institute for Discovery. The first expedition of the collaboration, termed the CATALYST Program, will map vulnerable deep coral reefs.
Google Lunar X Prize competitor that plans return to Apollo 11 site adds four new members to its Board of Directors.
Precarn, an independent, non-profit company that supports the pre-commercial development of leading-edge technologies, announces funding for six first-of-their-kind innovations.