Category: Industrial
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Video Friday: Such a Showoff
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrumrobotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE CLAWAR…
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Apptronik Developing General-Purpose Humanoid Robot
There’s a handful of robotics companies currently working on what could be called general-purpose humanoid robots. That is, human-size, human-shaped robots with legs for mobility and arms for manipulation that can (or, may one day be able to) perform useful tasks in environments designed primarily for humans. The value proposition is obvious—drop-in replacement of humans…
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New study suggests that when forecasting trends, reading a bar chart versus a line graph biases our judgement — ScienceDaily
A new study suggests that the format in which graphs are presented may be biasing people into being too optimistic or pessimistic about the trends the graphs display. Academics from City, University of London and University College London found that when people made predictions about how a trend would develop over time, they made lower…
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New Video “Just Scratching the Surface” of What Atlas Can Do
With Boston Dynamics’ recent(ish) emphasis on making robots that can do things that are commercially useful, it’s always good to be gently reminded that the company is still at the cutting edge of dynamic humanoid robotics. Or in this case, forcefully reminded. In its latest video, Boston Dynamics demonstrates some spectacular new capabilities with Atlas…
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Video Friday: Drones in Trees
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrumrobotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE CLAWAR…
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Video Friday: Robots at Night
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrumrobotics. 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 RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023:…
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How supervisors can create a better work environment for deaf or hard-of-hearing employees — ScienceDaily
Hearing loss cases are climbing globally — 1 in 5 adults are affected — along with a growing number of older workers who are more likely to experience hearing loss. A new study from researchers at Portland State, Oregon State and York universities sheds light on how the severity of an employee’s hearing loss can…
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Relativity Space: 3D Printed Rockets Compete with SpaceX
Three days before astronauts left on Apollo 8, the first-ever flight around the moon, NASA’s safety chief, Jerome Lederer, gave a speech that was at once reassuring and chilling. Yes, he said, the United States’ moon program was safe and well-planned—but even so, “Apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and one and one half million systems,…
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Video Friday: Dog-E – IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrumrobotics. 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 RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023:…
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Stowing Is a “Beautiful Problem” That Amazon Is Solving With Robots
When we hear about manipulation robots in warehouses, it’s almost always in the context of picking. That is, about grasping a single item from a bin of items, and then dropping that item into a different bin, where it may go toward building a customer order. Picking a single item from a jumble of items…