BLUE OCEAN ROBOTICS, APS EXPANDS OPERATIONS INTO THE UNITED STATES
New U.S. Based Blue Ocean Robotics, LLC Opens Office in Cincinnati
24 of the World's Best Robots in Los Angeles Area to Compete in DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals
DARPA Robotics Challenge June 5-6, 2015 at The Fairplex, Pomona, California
SRI International to Showcase High-Impact Platform Technologies at DARPA Robotics Challenge Expo
Demos to Include High-Efficiency Humanoid, Micro-Robots, Low-Cost Robotic Hand, and Wearable Robotics
Humanistic Robotics Teams up with DARPA to Elevate Safety at the Robotics Challenge Finals
Wireless Emergency Stop Technology Now Required for all Challenge Entries
5 things to know about the DARPA Robotics Competition
From Lyndsey Gilpin for TechRepublic: The DARPA Finals will be held in Pomona, California from June 5-6, and the robots that come out of it could make some big impacts (or take over the world). Here's a summary of what you should know.
1. It began with the desire to improve humanitarian assistance and disaster relief
The Fukushima disaster in Japan in 2011 was an inspiration for the competition, according to Dr. Gill Pratt, the DRC program manager. The team realized we never know what the next disaster will be, but we need technology to help us better address these types of disasters with better tools and techniques. And robots have massive potential.
"The particular part that we've chosen to focus on, here, is technology for responding during the emergency part of the disaster during the first day or two," Pratt said in a media briefing several weeks before the competition. "So this is not about, for instance, robotics for doing the restoration of the environment many, many weeks, years after the disaster, but rather the emergency response at the beginning." Cont'd..
Robotmaster now supporting Nachi brand of robots
Nachi is one of the major robot manufacturers in Japan and supporting them will allow Robotmaster to continue contributing to better productivity for programming welding as well as a variety of robotic applications.
MEMSIC to Showcase its Latest Sensing Solutions at Sensors Expo and Conference 2015
June 10-11 2015 at the Long Beach Convention Center, CA
Adept Technology Adds New Distributor
Applied Controls Will Market and Support Adept Robots in U.S. Mid-Atlantic Region
AgTechTalk Owner Chad Colby Joins 2015 Commercial UAV Expo Advisory Board
Colby to provide insight on UAV technology as a tool for agriculture industry as an Advisory Board member for SPAR Point Group's 2015 Commercial UAV Expo
PI's New Sophisticated Hexapod Motion Controller
The new smaller and more powerful C-887.52 hexapod controller, just released by PI, makes hexapod 6-D positioning easy.
The Amazon Robotics Challenge. And, the winner is...
Of 25 teams from around the world, the winner of the Amazon Robotic Bin-Picking Challenge is the Technische Universität Berlin using Barrett's WAM robotic arm.
Amazon Picking Challenge aimed at improving warehouse robotics
By David Szondy for Gizmag: One of the biggest events at the recent 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Seattle was the first Amazon Picking Challenge, in which 31 teams from around the world competed for US$26,000 in prizes. The challenge set entrants with the real-world task of building a robot that can do the same job as an Amazon stock picker.According to Amazon Chief Technology Officer Peter Wurman, who initiated the challenge, the task of picking items off the shelf may seem simple, but it involves all domains of robotics. The robot has to capable of object and pose recognition. It must be able to plan its grasps, adjust manipulations, plan how to move, and be able to execute tasks while noticing and correcting any errors.
This might suggest that the robots would need to be of a new, specialized design, but for the Picking Challenge, Amazon made no such requirement. According to one participant we talked to, the more important factors were sensors and computer modelling, so ICRA 2015 saw all sorts of robots competing, such as the general purpose Baxter and PR2, industrial arms of various sizes, and even special-built frames that move up, down, left or right to position the arm. Even the manipulators used by the various teams ranged from hooks, to hand-like graspers, and vacuum pickups. Continue reading for competition results:
DJI and Accel Launch SkyFund to Seed Innovation Across the UAV Ecosystem
SkyFund aims to accelerate entrepreneurship throughout the aerial economy
Qualcomm Announces 10 Companies Selected to Participate in the Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
Qualcomm is Jumpstarting the Next Wave of Innovation in Robotics with its Accelerator program
Schunk - High-speed picker with safety functionality
Compared with electrically operated small component grippers that are available on the market the SCHUNK EGP features high speed with simultaneous high gripping force, which can be adjusted in two or four steps, depending on the model.
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