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In China, a robot has started delivering packages to people

06/20/17, 05:33 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | drones
Echo Huang for Quartz: Designed by JD, the white, four-wheeled droid can carry five packages at once and travel 20 km (12.4 miles) if fully charged.

Please and Thank You: How DARPA Is Teaching Robots Manners

06/19/17, 05:22 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Artificial Intelligence, Darpa, Technology Discussions
Kacey Deamer for Live Science: Researchers created a machine-learning algorithm that allowed robots to "intuit" how to behave like humans in certain situations, like being quiet in a library.

How to Be a Winner in the Consumer Robotics Revolution

06/16/17, 05:30 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Investing, service robots, Technology Discussions
Entrepreneur: These devices are coming to a home near you, maybe your home. And that's not science fiction. How can your business get in on this?

GE Aviation acquires OC Robotics

06/14/17, 05:51 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Business Development, Mergers
Acquisition of snake arm robotics manufacturer will expand jet engine repair capabilities.

Embedded Vision

06/13/17, 08:50 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | machine vision | MVTec LLC
The use of compact devices that run embedded software is becoming increasingly popular in industrial environments. From smart cameras and vision sensors to smart phones, tablets, and handheld devices, it is almost impossible to imagine connected and highly automated Industry 4.0 processes without these small devices.

Hamburger-Making Robotics Firm Secures $18 Million

06/13/17, 05:47 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | Investing, restaurant
Daniel Liberto for Investopedia: San Francisco-based Momentum Machines debuted its prototype burger-making machine in 2012, eliciting awe from tech geeks and criticism from employment activists.

Honda to focus on self-driving cars, robotics, EVs through 2030

06/12/17, 05:42 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | autonomous vehicles, self driving, Technology Discussions
Naomi Tajitsu for Reuters: Unveiling its mid-term Vision 2030 strategy plan, Honda said it would boost coordination between R&D, procurement and manufacturing to tame development costs.

SoftBank Announces Agreement to Acquire Boston Dynamics

06/09/17, 05:30 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | business, Mergers
Companies to Collaborate in Advancing the Development of Smart Robotics Technologies

The Three Laws of Robotics need to be overhauled if AI is to power our homes, cars and lives

06/08/17, 05:39 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Artificial Intelligence
Liat Clark for Wired: Driverless cars will pander to our every whim, predicts Audi's CEO, but none of that will be possible until the public trusts artificial intelligence

The No. 1 industry being threatened by robots

06/02/17, 05:43 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | Jobs / Employment
Kari Paul for MarketWatch: The robot revolution may not have replaced us yet, but automation is undoubtedly creeping its way into many careers.

Nvidia's Robotic Platform

06/01/17, 08:23 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | ai, research
By continuing to add more computing capabilities for AI on edge devices with NVIDIA Jetson, and more tools and platforms to accelerate robotics development, like Isaac and the Jetson robotics reference platforms, we can help researchers and companies build robots that are more capable, less expensive, and safer to deploy.

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.

Machines and Robots Driven by Muscle Like Acting NiTi Alloys

05/25/17, 08:14 AM | Personal & Service 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 | 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.

Robotics Ignite Agricultural Revolution

05/24/17, 08:26 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & 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.

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