Ingestible origami robot
MIT News via Larry Hardesty for RoboHub: In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach wall to remove a swallowed button battery or patch a wound.
The new work, which the researchers are presenting this week at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, builds on a long sequence of papers on origamirobots from the research group of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Cont'd...
Dorner Announces Acquisition of Geppert-Band
Dorner Holding Corp., the parent company of Dorner Mfg. Corp., has announced the acquisition of Jülich, Germany-based Geppert-Band (http://www.geppert-band.de), a leading European manufacturer of belt and modular belt conveyors.
Second Women in Drones Event Planned for InterDrone
Top women executives from UAV industry to lead panel discussion and luncheon at InterDrone fostering unique networking opportunity for women in the commercial drone market
Datakit imports assemblies from CAD formats into Rhino, and strengthens its plugins bundle
Datakit CAD import plug-ins for Rhino are now able to maintain the assembly structure of the original model.
Datakit also announces the addition of its CATIA V6 (.3dxml) files import plug-in to its bundle of Rhino plug-ins.
Slotless Zero Cogging Motor Kits from AppliMotion
Applimotion's UTS Series Slotless Direct Drive Frameless Motors are permanent magnet 3phase ring type, low profile, direct drive motors with large through hole available in 29-240mm diameters.
Sharp Electronics Corporation Announces Robolliance at PSA TEC 2016
Unmanned ground-based technology expertise for the security industry can be found in one program. Robolliance is "a forum for technology partners and industry experts in robotics, surveillance and security to advance the understanding and awareness of the Autonomous Robotics marketplace".
Artistic Style Transfer for Videos
From Manuel Ruder, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Thomas Brox of the University of Freiburg:
In the past, manually re-drawing an image in a certain artistic style required a professional artist and a long time. Doing this for a video sequence single-handed was beyond imagination. Nowadays computers provide new possibilities. We present an approach that transfers the style from one image (for example, a painting) to a whole video sequence. We make use of recent advances in style transfer in still images and propose new initializations and loss functions applicable to videos. This allows us to generate consistent and stable stylized video sequences, even in cases with large motion and strong occlusion. We show that the proposed method clearly outperforms simpler baselines both qualitatively and quantitatively... (pdf paper)
A 'pick-by-robot' solution using a perception-controlled logistic robot called TORU
Designed to navigate freely and dynamically amongst a human workforce, TORU operates between regular shelves, picking a wide range of objects.
Festo SBSI Vision Sensors Give OEMs New Solutions for Automated Code Reading and Quality Inspection
SBSI vision sensors are designed specifically to enhance the engineering productivity of OEMs. The sensors feature fast and easy set-up, integrated lighting, and are EtherNet/IP enabled for networking with Rockwell control architectures.
Intelligrated wins MHI Innovation Award for dynamic discharge compensation technology
Cross-belt sortation solution wins in best innovation of an existing product category
XPONENTIAL - Navio Systems CEO Urges FAA to Create 'Class H' Airspace for Drones
"The FAA needs to take meaningful outreach to local communities and their leadership."
Age of Drones Expo is coming: first time in Dortmund, Germany
The emergence of pilotless aircraft in Filming & Photography provides cutting-edge solutions for realization of creative ideas of film directors, saves money and does film-making process safer.
XPONENTIAL - Small, smaller, smallest: new ultra-miniature connector in Fischer MiniMax™ Series
The MiniMax 06 connector can include up to 12 power and signal contacts in a footprint of only 10 mm. This corresponds to a density factor* of 0.83 - a unique technological feature for a connector with standard 0.5 mm contacts.
CU-Boulder Team's Octopus-Inspired 'Soft' Robot Wins International Challenge
Lightweight, mobile pneumatic hand excels at grasping "mystery objects"
XPONENTIAL - Microdrones expands operations into North America
To serve these new markets, German UAV manufacturer, microdrones has merged with Avyon, the North American UAV solutions provider that brought the microdrones brand to North America three years ago.
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