Robot Can Pick and Sort Fruit
A robotics breakthrough by product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants is set to boost productivity across the food chain – from the field to the warehouse. It paves the way for robots to take on complex picking and sorting tasks involving irregular organic items – sorting fruit and vegetables, for example, or locating and removing specific weeds among crops in a field.
“Traditional robots struggle when it comes to adapting to deal with uncertainty,” said Chris Roberts, head of industrial robotics at Cambridge Consultants. “Our innovative blend of existing technologies and novel signal processing techniques has resulted in a radical new system design that is poised to disrupt the industry.”
Dash Robotics Unveils Kamigami, its First Line of Animal-Inspired Robots
Controlled with a mobile app and easy for kids to build, Kamigami programmable robots are affordable and fun
Cannybots Partners with KIPP to Bring Technical Education to Underserved Communities
Cannybots, makers of their revolutionary Robot Smart Toys that allow kids to design, build, program and race their own custom cars, will donate one kit per every 100 kits sold to KIPP schools to introduce kids to the world of robotics.
Leading US Indoor Agriculture Conference Hosts Sold Out New York Event, Announces Robotics White Paper, New Technologies from Sponsors & Global 2016 Line Up
At its inaugural New York event, leading indoor agriculture conference Indoor Ag-Con unveils the industry's first robotics & automation white paper and a global event line up for 2016. Event sponsors Illumitex and PodPonics announce new multinational partnerships and new Internet of Things and "big data" technologies.
Robots Learning Judo Techniques to Fall Down Without Exploding
By Evan Ackerman for IEEE Spectrum: The best and worst part of the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals waswatching all of those huge expensive humanoids topple over in a series of epic faceplants. Faceplants are called faceplants because you’re planting your face into the ground as a means of breaking your fall, which usually also breaks your face, among other things. This tends to happen when you’re unprepared for falling, which with most robots, is 100 percent of the time. Now researchers at Georgia Tech want to teach humanoid robots to fall more safely with techniques adapted from judo, which might protect them enough to actually be able to get up again.
Falling safely (or, as safely as you can), assuming that you have very little control over the nature of your fall, is all about controlling exactly when and how your body crashes down. During a fall, your body is busy converting potential energy to kinetic energy, all of which has to go somewhere when you hit the ground. If your face hits the ground first, then that’s where all the energy goes at once, but if you can manage to contact the ground with a bunch of different parts of your body at different times on the way down, the energy will be spread out. Ideally, the energy gets spread out to the point where each individual impact doesn’t do enough damage to hurt you in a permanent sort of way. Cont'd...
FIRST Reveals 2016 FIRST Robotics Competition Game Name: FIRST STRONGHOLD
Video Teaser Offers Game Hints; Urges Students to Join Competition by Starting FIRST Robotics Competition Team
Cyberworks Robotics Wins Prestigious Federal Research Grant for New Robotic Technology
Collaborates With University of Waterloo
Five Bomb Disposal Robots
Bomb disposal robots will have immeasurable impact on saving innocent lives.
Cyberworks Robotics Announces Re-Entry into Industry it Created 30 Years Earlier
Great Rock Development's (OTC: GROC) wholly owned subsidiary Cyberworks Robotics announces a return to the Robotic Industrial Cleaning market.
As the world's oldest autonomous mobile robotics engineering company, with over 30 years of pioneering experience, Cyberworks has again revolutionized autonomous robotic vision and guidance systems, this time redefining the way industrial space will be cleaned.
"We were the pioneers in this massive market decades ago" explained Vivek Burhanpurkar, President of Great Rock. "Some 25 years ago Cyberworks worked with major companies in this industry to manufacture and sell Autonomous Robots for Industrial cleaning" added Burhanpukar. In the United States alone, commercial cleaning is a $25 billion dollar a year "invisible niche industry" where 50% of costs are attributable to labor. Said Burhanpurkar, "We are not interested in the consumer market where products like Roomba dominate. The industrial market is a totally different animal and we know the major multinational players within it."
"We created this market, in partnership with leading industrial companies, when we developed the world's first industrial robotic sweeper and the technology we have today is once again years ahead of the competition. Industry participants will now be able to retro-fit the Cyberworks Guidance System into existing fielded equipment, creating an inexpensive robotics machine" explained Burhanpurkar. Full Press Release:
Cyberworks Robotics Announces Re-Entry into Industry it Created 30 Years Earlier
Cyberworks has again revolutionized autonomous robotic vision and guidance systems, this time redefining the way industrial space will be cleaned.
Call 911 For A Rescue Robot Near You
Whether there is a necessity to pull someone from a collapsed building, find a survivor trapped in a pile of debris, locate a lost child, or save victims by putting out a fire, robots will be an intrinsic member of the first responders in the future.
MecklerMedia's RoboUniverse Conference & Expo in San Diego to Explore Robotics Applications in Agriculture, Cognitive Science, Drones, and Manufacturing & Logistics
RoboUniverse San Diego will take place at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California on December 14-16, 2015.
Rhoeby Dynamics 2D LiDAR set to dramatically reduce the cost of robotics navigation
The new Rhoeby Dynamics R2D LiDAR is the smallest, lightest, lowest-cost device on
the market today. It's proven capable of performing mapping, navigation and dynamic obstacle
avoidance in the indoor setting, and comes complete with its open-source ROS driver for rapid
integration into any robotics platform.
Bigger, Better, Stronger 6DOF Platforms Using AMC1280USB Controller
From Thanos 6DOF Motion Simulator Electronics blog :
Lately we see more and better DIY 6DOF platforms being build. The community is growing strong and the interest in 6DOF systems is bigger than ever. Its the only way to provide full immersion for motion simulation at the moment, that combined with other new technologies like the oculus rift or fully enclosed detailed cockpits can really make the difference. The times that desktop racers or flight enthusiasts were enjoying their simulation games or training for the real thing is past without return. Even older motion systems that provide 2DOF (seat movers) or 3DOF platforms are now the past, offering too little to the immersion of gaming... ( more projects )
ULC Robotics, Inc. Wins Game Changer Award for CISBOT Robotic System
ULCs Robotic Technology for the Repair and Rehabilitation of Cast Iron Gas Mains is Recognized as a Leading Robotics System in Construction, Mining and Energy by Robotics Business Review
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