Designed for the irregular warfare environment, Northrop Grumman’s “Bat” UAS offers real-time intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, communications relay, and future capabilities in a modular system that is fully autonomous.
Robotics Trends’ Robotics Summit Virtual Conference and Exposition to feature keynotes and general sessions by world class speakers, as well as a virtual exposition floor packed with cutting-edge technologies.
Peratech’s Quantum Tunnelling Composites technology, composed of electro-active polymeric materials made from metallic or non-metallic filler particles combined in an elastomeric binder, is already employed in NASA’s Robonaut and Shadow Robot’s Shadow Dexterous Hand. A new research project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is designed to enable a human to tactically interact with a robot much as they would with another human.
Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology and the University of Missouri-Columbia partner to develop a remote-controlled robot that is equipped with an infrared camera and LIDAR technology capable of providing detailed images of room interiors even when peering through a window.
RoweBots’ ultra-tiny, embedded Linux- and POSIX-compatible RTOSs open Renesas Technology Corp.’s SH-2A microcontroller (MCU) family to Linux and POSIX compatible development for the first time.
The new IRB 6620LX system, a 5-axis overhead robot arm mounted on a linear axis, increases robot utilization and reduce costs for machine tending, material handling, assembly and many other industrial applications.
Capable of building mixed-case pallets from an inventory of over 10,000 SKUs, the latest evolution in order assembly systems — Automated Mixed-Case Palletizing (AMCAP) — represents a paradigm shift in high SKU-count case palletizing.
Energy-recycling artificial foot significantly reduces effort to walk compared to traditional prosthetic devices.
Home furnishings retailer Crate and Barrel selects Kiva Systems to automate its Tracy, Calif. Distribution Complex (DC), the largest industrial facility in the country to achieve Gold designation from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification program.
Massachusetts producer of COTS based, modular tactical mobile robot systems delivers its 3,000th unit since 2002 and vows it will continue to enhance capabilities.
FUJISOFT Releases “PALRO”, a compact humanoid robot with integrated intelligence systems, supporting spontaneous conversation with humans and mobile intelligence for autonomous locomotion.
AAI Corp.’s Shadow tactical unmanned aircraft systems, Orbiter miniature unmanned aircraft system and Aerosonde class of small unmanned aircraft systems are now available to military, civilian and scientific organizations on a fee-for-service basis.
Using funding from the US Office of Naval Research, Autonomous Systems Laboratory of the University of Hawaii and its spin-off company, MASE, Inc., have developed SAUVIM, an underwater robot capable of performing autonomous navigation and manipulation.
QinetiQ North America partners with Brewer Science and Applied Systems Intelligence to develop a mobile chemical and biological sensor for the military and for homeland defense.
Developer of subsea systems is receives an order for two of its next generation heavy duty Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) for remote inspection.
ABB Robotics to provide A123 Systems with 15 robots for the assembly and manufacturing of high-power lithium-ion battery modules and packs.
Robotic Industries Association reports a sharp decline for new robot orders over 2009, but levels off during the 4th quarter. Moreover, life sciences/pharmaceutical/biomedical orders rose 43% in units while food and consumer goods orders rose 7%.
National Instruments’ LabVIEW Robotics 2009 graphical programming environment to contain an evaluation version of TORC Technologies’ JAUS Toolkit, which supports the DoD-mandated Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems (JAUS) SAE standard for messaging between elements of unmanned systems.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awards “Big Dog” developer Boston Dynamics with a $30M contract to develop a walking quadruped under DARPA’s Legged Squad Support System (LS3) program.
CCS Robotics to manufacture SpeciMinder and RoboCourier for Swisslog, a provider of integrated logistics solutions for warehouses, distribution centers and hospitals. SpeciMinder and RoboCourier are both built on MobileRobots’ MT400 running on MobileRobots’ Motivity autonomous robot operating system.
Developer of Big Dog and other advanced robotics systems awarded a $30M DARPA contract to develop LS3, the first Legged Squad Support System, legged robots that can travel off-road on sand, rocks, mud, snow and other kinds of difficult terrain, while carrying loads.