Personal & Service Robots - Articles, Stories & Interviews
The ROBO Global Robotics & Automation Index ETF (ROBO) Turns 5
Team behind first-ever robotics, automation and AI index to ring NYSE Closing Bell with robot in Honor of Fifth Anniversary
From Robot Farm to Table: Iron Ox Unveils the First Fully Autonomous Indoor Farm
Robotics startup with deep roots in plant science aims to feed the world through intelligent farming
The Next NBA Star Could Be a Robot
Human employees at Toyota decided to build a basketball-shooting robot inspired by a manga character. The artificial intelligence is named CUE, an articulated humanoid robot that can balance the ball, squat and throw with perfect accuracy.
Choosing the Best Machine Vision Technique for Robot Guidance
There are numerous approaches to robot guidance using machine vision techniques, such as stereo vision and photogrammetry, time of flight, structured light, light coding, and laser triangulation.
AI Could Beat Humans at Everything by 2030
Specialized AI applications will become both progressively ordinary and more useful by 2030, improving our economy and quality of life.
IDC Develops World’s First Web-Browsing Robot
IDC was briefed to develop a humanoid robot that was capable of typing with fingers like a human to mimic the typing of a user, at a typing speed of 3-4 keys/second.
Soft Multi-functional Robots Get Really Small
A new approach for fabricating soft materials at the millimeter scale paves the way to a new generation of flexible microrobots for medical and environmental tasks.
Personal & Service Robots - Featured Stories
Boston Dynamics Parkour Atlas
Atlas does parkour. The control software uses the whole body including legs, arms and torso, to marshal the energy and strength for jumping over the log and leaping up the steps without breaking its pace.
Toyota AI Ventures Goes on the Road to Meet Robotics Entrepreneurs
Calling robotics innovators in Silicon Valley, Austin, Boston, and Pittsburgh
"Robotics Skins" turn everyday objects into robots
Developed in the lab of Yale's Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, NASA-inspired robotic skins enable users to turn soft objects - a stuffed animal or a foam tube, for instance - into robots.
Personal & Service Robots - News Headlines
FLIR Systems Announces Industry-First Deep Learning-Enabled Camera Family
FLIR Firefly Integrates Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ 2 VPU to Enable Deep Neural Networks for On-Camera Inference
Schindler Debuts Breakthrough Robotic System for Elevators
Schindler forms robotics research collaboration with Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
Robot Bartender Yanu Reaches $1M Soft Cap During the First Week of ICO Pre-sale
ICO for bartending robot by seeing early success
Personal & Service Robots - Featured Product
BitFlow Introduces 6th Generation Camera Link Frame Grabber: The Axion
BitFlow has offered a Camera Link frame grabbers for almost 15 years. This latest offering, our 6th generation combines the power of CoaXPress with the requirements of Camera Link 2.0. Enabling a single or two camera system to operate at up to 850 MB/S per camera, the Axion-CL family is the best choice for CL frame grabber. Like the Cyton-CXP frame grabber, the Axion-CL leverages features such as the new StreamSync system, a highly optimized DMA engine, and expanded I/O capabilities that provide unprecedented flexibility in routing. There are two options available; Axion 1xE & Axion 2xE.
The Axion 1xE is compatible with one base, medium, full or 80-bit camera offering PoCL, Power over Camera Link, on both connectors. The Axion 2xE is compatible with two base, medium, full or 80-bit cameras offering PoCL on both connectors for both cameras.
The Axion-CL is a culmination of the continuous improvements and updates BitFlow has made to Camera Link frame grabbers.
Personal & Service Robots - Featured Company
Harmonic Drive LLC
Harmonic Drive LLC (HDLLC) designs and manufactures precision servo actuators, gearheads and gear components. Harmonic Drive® gears play critical roles in robotics, medical diagnostics and surgical robotics. We work with industry-leading customers and companies of all sizes to provide both standard product and custom-engineered solutions. The majority of the products sold by HDLLC are proudly made at our US headquarters and manufacturing facility in Massachusetts.
