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01/16/13 — Industrial Perception, Inc. (IPI) is one Silicon Valley startup with its eyes on the demands of tomorrow’s commerce. The company is set to seriously alter robotics across the supply chain by pushing the limits of today’s vision-guided machinery. Their more human-like perception technology is ready for use in such industrial…
01/10/13 — Carnegie Mellon University has signed a five-year master agreement with one of the world’s largest mining companies, London-based Anglo American PLC, to develop robotic technologies for mining. CMU’s Robotics Institute (RI), through its National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) and Field Robotics Center (FRC), will design, build and deploy mining robots,…
01/03/13 — Stanford researchers, in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have designed a robotic platform that could take space exploration to new heights. The mission proposed for the platform involves a mother spacecraft deploying one or several spiked, roughly spherical rovers to the Martian moon…
12/26/12 — Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley, have developed an elegant and powerful new microscale actuator that can flex like a tiny beckoning finger. Based on an oxide material that expands and contracts dramatically in response to…
12/19/12 — Robots have been doing our work for years now. As scientists make advancements in the field of robotics, they’ve been able to make these robots smarter and smaller, giving them even more jobs to do. Robots have even been made to break land speed records and run like speedy jungle…
12/13/12 — Russian space officials are rekindling their plans for Moon exploration, and some say a rebirth of that country’s robotic space endeavors beyond low-Earth orbit is on the horizon. Work is already underway on the Luna-Glob and Luna-Resource missions, to be launched in the coming years. These orbiters and landers are…
12/05/12 — Over 10 years of research yielded the Koule (“cool”) smart ball, a new robotic toy designed to encourage active play and to aid autistic children in learning emotional skills, among other aims. The Que Innovations team, headed up by Dr. Tamie Salter, has placed the toy on Indiegogo in hopes…
11/28/12 — Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) and Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) of Johnstown, Pa., are working with the Air Force Research Laboratory and Ogden Air Logistics Center 309 AMXG to develop and demonstrate a robotic system that uses high-powered lasers to remove coatings from fighter and cargo aircraft.…
11/21/12 — The R2D2 of window cleaners rolled its way up the side of Dubai’s Dusit Thani Hotel yesterday to show off its polishing prowess for an audience of investors and municipality officials. And the audience – apart from window cleaning companies that rely more on flesh and blood to get the…
11/14/12 — NASA and the European Space Agency say they have successfully tested an interplanetary communications protocol, with astronauts on the International Space Station using it to control a Lego robot in Germany. The protocol is called Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN), and one of its creators is Vint Cerf, who helped come…
11/05/12 — Robotdalen, the Swedish innovation cluster, is on a mission to enable commercial success of new ideas and research within robotics and automation. The Robotdalen initiative is currently accepting submissions for the 2013 Robotdalen Innovation Award. The winners of the international robotics competition will receive hands-on help from the Swedish robotics…
10/31/12 — Cornell researchers have created an autonomous flying robot that is as smart as a bird when it comes to maneuvering around obstacles. Able to guide itself through forests, tunnels or damaged buildings, the machine could have tremendous value in search-and-rescue operations. Small flying machines are already common, and GPS technology…
10/19/12 — Researchers have built a new and more nimble camera-carrying robot to climb stairs inside the Fukushima No. 1 plant and deliver images from areas where radiation levels remain dangerously high. The robot, named "Sakura," is the work of the Chiba Institute of Technology, which adapted an earlier model at the…
10/16/12 — NASA has developed a new exoskeleton that may help astronauts stay healthier in space and aid paraplegics in walking here on Earth. NASA and The Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) of Pensacola, with the help of engineers from Oceaneering Space Systems of Houston, have jointly developed a…
10/10/12 — A Carnegie Mellon University spinoff — Astrobotic Technology Inc. — completed assembly of a full-size prototype of Polaris.Polaris is a first of its kind solar-powered robot that will search for potentially rich deposits of water ice on the moon.Observations by NASA and Indian spacecraft suggest that a substantial amount of water ice could…
10/02/12 — The Canadian-built robotic arms built for NASA's space shuttle fleet and the International Space Station are about to get two new siblings. Last week, the Canadian Space Agency showed off the Next-Generation Canadarm (NGC) prototypes, which were unveiled after three years of development at Canadian company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates. The mechanical…
10/02/12 — The fish we eat for dinner may soon be fit and healthy, not because they spend their lives swimming out in the open ocean, but because a robot of sorts gave them a daily workout in an aquaculture pen. Fish farms are far from perfect. Some research has shown, for…
09/25/12 — A new vineyard worker is looking for a job in France. White with red trim, 50 centimetres (20 inches) tall and 60 wide, he has four wheels, two arms and six cameras, prunes 600 vines per day, and never calls in sick. The Wall-Ye V.I.N. robot, brainchild of Burgundy-based inventor…
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