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Drone vs. truck deliveries: Which creates less carbon pollution?

06/01/17, 05:44 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | drones
Science Daily: A new study finds that drone deliveries emit less climate-warming carbon dioxide pollution than truck deliveries in some -- but not all -- scenarios.

CMU's interactive tool helps novices and experts make custom robots

05/31/17, 05:39 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | 3D Printing, Training and Education
Phys.org: A new interactive design tool developed by CMU's Robotics Institute enables both novices and experts to build customized legged or wheeled robots using 3D-printed components and off-the-shelf actuators.

Robots May Help Defuse Demographic Time Bomb in Japan, Germany

05/30/17, 05:59 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Jobs / Employment
Anirban Nag for Bloomberg: Robots to offset negative impact of slower labor force growth. Emerging markets won't be so lucky, Moody's report says

Dual-Arm Collaborative Robots Increase Flexibility and Accuracy

05/26/17, 05:49 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Collaborative Robots, robot arms
James Anderton for Engineering.com: Robotics are an ideal technology for fine assembly tasks, such as those in the electronics industry.

DARPA taps Boeing for unmanned reusable spaceplane

05/25/17, 05:45 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Darpa, nasa, space, unmanned
Ross Wilkers for Washington Technology: Boeing has emerged as the winner of a DARPAcompetition to design and test an unmanned reusable spaceplane.

Meet the Robotics Wiz Behind Old Spice's Giant Mechanical Sea Creature

05/24/17, 05:39 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | soft robotics
David Gianatasio for AdWeek: Unless you've been lost at sea, you've probably heard about the giant robotic squid that Old Spice deployed last weekend for a wacky, high-profile internet game on Twitch.

Drones, autonomous vehicles on Echodyne's radar as it pulls in $29M from investors

05/23/17, 05:37 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | autonomous vehicles, drones, Financing
Matt Day for Seattle Times: Echodyne's radar arrays are designed to bring some of the power and precision of massive, heavy, military-grade radars to a tablet-sized device.

Americans no longer have to register non-commercial drones with the FAA

05/22/17, 05:34 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | drones, regulations
April Glaser for Recode: The court ruled that the FAA's drone registration rules, which have been in place since 2015, were in violation of a law passed by Congress in 2012.

How Robotics Will Change the Food Industry

05/19/17, 05:33 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | food
Quora via Forbes: I think we'll see this across industries where basic tasks that can be easily automated eventually will be, and it will pave the way for a workforce that is more productive and efficient.

The Not-So-Secret Code That Powers Robots Around the Globe

05/18/17, 05:38 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | ros
Ellen Huet for Bloomberg: A Silicon Valley startup is the guardian of the building blocks of robot life.

The tech giants of Silicon Valley are starting to rely on crime-fighting robots for security

05/17/17, 05:44 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Military and Security
Melia Robinson for Business Insider: On a recent night outside the offices of Knightscope, a robotics startup in the heart of Silicon Valley, a middle-aged man allegedly toppled a five-foot tall, 300-pound robot to the ground.

ELLIQ: Intuition Robotics Bridges Uncanny Valley To Cure Loneliness Epidemic

05/16/17, 05:50 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Artificial Intelligence, Personal and Recreational
Red Herring: ELLIQ comprises a tablet screen and a small, bobble-headed assistant, which looks like two bell jars glommed together, that interacts with elderly users, the device and humans on the other end of communication.

Teaching robots to teach other robots

05/15/17, 05:33 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | Artificial Intelligence, deep learning
Adam Conner-Simons, CSAIL via MIT News: CSAIL approach allows robots to learn a wider range of tasks using some basic knowledge and a single demo.

The US coast guard is deploying drones to catch increasingly tech-savvy drug traffickers

05/12/17, 05:36 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | drones, Military and Security
Neha Thirani Bagri for Quartz: The drone takes into account things like a vessel's size, cargo, and movement, to determine if it might be a security threat. When a "target of interest" is detected, a go-fast boat is launched, and the chase begins.

Amazon Selects Finalists to Compete at the Amazon Robotics Challenge Event in Japan This Summer

05/11/17, 06:01 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | amazon, Pick and place
The Amazon Robotics Challenge will award up to $250,000 in prizes and encourages idea sharing and innovation within the robotics and automation community

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