Category: Industrial
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Diverse teams survive longer when facing environmental changes — ScienceDaily
As business ventures grow, they must navigate the opportunities and challenges presented by environmental changes. In a new study, researchers examined the interplay of environmental change and the internal and external conditions governing a venture’s founding. For businesses founded in dynamic environments, they found that assembling more functionally diverse founding teams lead to longer survival…
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Robotic Flea Leaps 87x Its Own Length
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Although fleas are annoying pests, credit must be given where it’s due. These tiny creatures that are just 3 millimeters long can leap as far as 330 millimeters in a single hop—a distance that is close to 100 times…
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What Flight 50 Means for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
JPL’s Ingenuity helicopter is preparing for the 50th flight of its 5-flight mission to Mars. Flight 49, which took place last weekend, was its fastest and highest yet—the little helicopter flew 282 meters at an altitude of 16 meters, reaching a top speed of 6.50 meters per second. Not a bad performance for a tech…
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Video Friday: Peep Handling – IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Robotics Summit & Expo: 10–11 May 2023, BOSTON ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON…
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Once More, With Feeling: Exploring Relatable Robotics at Disney
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. Most robotics projects focus on the output: What does this robot do? Is it reliable, is it precise, and can it achieve its goals? But at Disney, our focus…
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Dry EEG Sensors Control Army Robots
Brain-machine interface (BMI) technology, for all its decades of development, still awaits widespread use. Reasons include hardware and software not yet up to the task in non-invasive approaches that use electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors placed on the scalp, and because surgery is required in approaches relying on brain implants. Now, researchers at, the University of Technology…
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Learn From the Best Minds in Commercial Robotics Development
This sponsored article is brought to you by Robotics Summit & Expo. The Robotics Summit & Expo, taking place May 10-11 at the Boston Convention Center, will bring together the brightest minds in robotics to share their commercial robotics development experiences. Learn from industry-leading speakers, build new relationships by networking, see demos from 150+ exhibitors…
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Robo-Honeycomb Reveals the Secret Lives of Bees
Interactive robotics is a relatively new field of study, but in a short time has moved on from just performing pre-programmed repetitive tasks to more complex activities, including interactions with living creatures. Biocompatible and biomimetic robots, for example, are being increasingly used to study animals and plants. Animal-in-the-loop robotic systems are especially effective for studying…
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Video Friday: Grain Weevil – IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Robotics Summit & Expo: 10–11 May 2023, BOSTON ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON…
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Robots Using Legs as Arms to Climb and Push Buttons
We’ve gotten used to thinking of quadrupedal robots as robotic versions of dogs. And, to be fair, it’s right there in the word “quadrupedal.” But if we can just get past the Latin, there’s absolutely no reason why quadrupedal robots have to restrict themselves to using all four of their limbs as legs all of…