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

06/01/17, 05:44 AM | 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 | Mobile Robots, 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.

Visible Flight: Drones Raise Filmmaking Opportunities

05/30/17, 08:34 AM | Other Topics | drones

Despite all of the new tools, drones are still only used in about 10 percent of film productions where a camera drone and crew can cost less than $3,000 compared to $25,000 for a helicopter shoot.

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 wont be so lucky, Moodys 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.

Machines and Robots Driven by Muscle Like Acting NiTi Alloys

05/25/17, 08:14 AM | Mobile Robots | Shape Memory Alloys

The biomechanically inspired machine that is discussed in this paper refers to the antagonistic muscles pairs, which belongs to the Skeletal Muscles and are normally arranged in opposition so that as one group of muscles contract another group relaxes or lengthens.

DARPA taps Boeing for unmanned reusable spaceplane

05/25/17, 05:45 AM | Mobile Robots, 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.

Collaborative robotics at the Automate and ProMat trade shows

05/24/17, 08:29 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | automate, Automate 2017, event, Tradeshows and Conferences

Collaborative robots need safe, sensitive and flexible end-of-arm-tooling (EOAT) and there were many vendors - and some breakthrough technologies - demonstrated at the two shows.

Robotics Ignite Agricultural Revolution

05/24/17, 08:26 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | Agriculture

Advanced robotics will make jobs such as harvesting easier for farmers. In time, when robots finally learn how to harvest each individual crop, farms will be able to produce more yields for human consumption.

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

05/24/17, 05:39 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | soft robotics

David Gianatasio for AdWeek: Unless youve been lost at sea, youve 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 | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | autonomous vehicles, drones, Financing

Matt Day for Seattle Times: Echodynes 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 | Other Topics | drones, regulations

April Glaser for Recode: The court ruled that the FAAs 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, Mobile 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.

Report: Cyberattacks on Industrial Robots

05/18/17, 07:38 AM | Industrial Robotics | cloud, Cybersecurity, security

Trend Micro recently released the first in-depth, hands-on research that demonstrates the extent to which industrial robots can be compromised.

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

05/18/17, 05:38 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile Robots | ros

Ellen Huet for Bloomberg: A Silicon Valley startup is the guardian of the building blocks of robot life.

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