Robotics

Research from North Carolina State University offers insights into how far and how fast cyborg cockroaches - or biobots - move when exploring new spaces. The work moves researchers closer to their goal of using biobots to explore collapsed buildings and other spaces in order to identify survivors. NC State researchers have developed cockroach biobots that can be remotely controlled and carry technology that may be used to map disaster areas ...

The winners of the world's most prestigious robotics honour, the Engelberger Robotics Awards, have been announced by the Robotic Industries Association (RIA). The 2017 Engelberger Robotics Award will be presented to Dr. Gill Pratt, Chief Executive Officer of the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), and Dr. Daniela Rus, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ...

Next-gen developer and manufacturer of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs), Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR), has seen a 500% growth in sales in 2016, with over 200 MiR100 robots and accessories installed in more than 30 countries. The ambitious company has recently expanded its global presence, establishing regional offices in New York and Shanghai.

Demonstrating a new compact ‘Direct Teach Pendant’ for small robots and a quality improving pick-to-light system for manual assembly tasks at the Med-Tech Innovation show this year is Mitsubishi Electric. Mitsubishi Electric is on Stand 54a for the Med-Tech Innovation show at the RICOH Arena, Coventry from 26th-27th April 2017.

Engineers and scientists of DLR (German aerospace centre) in Oberpfaffenhofen are engaged in the robotics of tomorrow, in particular 'the gentle hand'. The human hand is a wonder of nature: what seems apparent to us becomes, on closer inspection or under a technical simulation, a highly complex entity. The complex boards are produced on the Essemtec SMT assembler Paraquda in a highly flexible environment.

A recent announcement by the head of Dubai's Roads and Transportation Agency has claimed that the EHang 184 drone, which is capable of carrying a person, will be available from July this year.

EOS has announced its support of the Swiss society Devanthro and the Roboy project at the Technical University of Munich. The idea behind this project, Roboy, is to advance humanoid robotics to the capability of human bodies. The vision is to iteratively improve Roboy models until the performance is comparable to humans in dexterity, robustness and flexibility.

When vertebrates run, their legs exhibit minimal contact with the ground. But insects are different. These six-legged creatures run fastest using a three-legged, or "tripod" gait where they have three legs on the ground at all times -- two on one side of their body and one on the other. The tripod gait has long inspired engineers who design six-legged robots, but is it necessarily the fastest and most efficient way for bio-inspired robots to move...

A trio of researchers with Philips Innovative Technologies in Germany has developed a way to magnetically control individual members of a robot swarm. In their paper published in the journal Science Robotics, Jürgen Rahmer, Christian Stehning and Bernhard Gleich describe their approach and the ways they believe it could be used in practical applications.

Part-supported through the EU-funded SOMA project, robotics researchers have developed versatile robotic grippers to pick thousands of supermarket items. The grippers were designed to handle the full 48 000 items stocked at Ocado’s - the world’s largest online-only supermarket - highly-automated warehouses whilst ensuring limited damage to a whole shopping list of fragile food products.