Category: Industrial
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Sanctuary’s Humanoid Robot Is for General Purpose Autonomy
We’ve been keeping track of Sanctuary AI for quite a while, mainly through the company’s YouTube videos that show the upper half of a dexterous humanoid performing a huge variety of complicated manipulation tasks thanks to the teleoperation skills of a remote human pilot. Despite a recent successful commercial deployment of the teleoperated system at…
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A Soft Robot That Can Unfurl Inside the Skull
An octopus-like soft robot can unfurl itself inside the skull on top of the brain, a new study finds. The novel gadget may lead to minimally invasive ways to investigate the brain and implant brain-computer interfaces, researchers say. In order to analyze the brain after traumatic injuries, help treat disorders such as seizures, and embed…
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Intrinsic’s Flowstate Seeks to Simplify Industrial Robotics
The conventional way of adding a robot to your business is to pay someone else a lot of money to do it for you. While robots are a heck of a lot easier to program than they once were, they’re still kind of scary for nonroboticists, and efforts to make robotics more accessible to folks…
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Video Friday: AcroMonk – 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. ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 10–12 June 2023,…
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Argonne’s Polybot Joins the Self-Driving Lab Club
New materials are urgently needed to make better components used for sustainable energy. Technologies like nuclear fusion and quantum computing need materials that can tolerate high levels of radiation or support quantum computing while being safe, cost-effective, and sustainable. But those materials don’t yet exist, and discovering them is a Herculean task that involves synthesizing…
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Matician Brings a Service Model to Home Cleaning Robots
In industry, it’s pretty common for robots to be sold as a service. That is, rather than buying the robot and managing it yourself, you instead rent the service that the robot provides. This service includes renting the robot itself, but it also includes stuff like installation, maintenance, repairs, tech support, software updates, and all…
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Video Friday: May the Fourth be With You
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos 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…
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Space Tech Is Soaring into New Frontiers. Here's Your Roadmap.
The space technology industry is defying gravity both literally and figuratively — driving innovation that pushes into new frontiers. Keysight’s new in-depth survey of the latest trends in this fast-paced industry can help you identify: Top satellite applications driving market growth Top enabling technologies, technology trends, and novel solutions What space technology leaders consider to…
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Robot Hand Manipulates Complex Objects By Touch Alone
In terms of human features that robots are probably the most jealous of, fingers have to be right up there with eyeballs and brains. Our fleshy little digits have a crazy amount of dexterity relative to their size, and so many sensors packed into them that allow you to manipulate complex objects sight unseen. Obviously,…
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Neato Robotics, a Robotic Vacuum Pioneer, Shuts Down
The parent company of robot vacuum maker Neato Robotics, Germany’s Vorwerk Group, announced late last week that a broad restructuring of its robotics division will result in the closure of Neato and the end of the Neato product line. Vorwerk is promising five years of parts and service availability, along with enough software support to…