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What Caused Rethink Robotics to Shut Down?

12/06/18, 07:57 AM | Mobile Robots | Business Development | Kayla Mathews - Contributing Author

The outcome for Rethink Robotics demonstrates that even when companies are in a popular sector, they still face challenges that could make it hard to thrive. As such, the company's closing should not be viewed as a sign of a struggling robotics industry.

Fauna Robotica

12/06/18, 07:54 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | Research and Reports | maxon group

In millions of years of evolution, nature has produced many sophisticated locomotor systems that engineers use as inspiration for creating better robots. We show some current technical developments that are highly advanced.

Brain Corp to Provide AI Services to Walmart

12/03/18, 05:41 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | retail

Walmart's BrainOS-powered floor scrubbers allow store associates to quickly map a route during an initial training ride and then activate autonomous floor cleaning with the press of a single button.

Morphological Approaches in Medical Technology

11/29/18, 08:11 AM | Mobile Robots | Medical and Service | maxon group

Robotic devices for clinical rehabilitation of patients with neurological impairments come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and employ different kinds of actuators.

Stanford Develops an Electronic Glove That Gives Robots a Sense of Touch

11/29/18, 08:10 AM | Mobile Robots | Research and Reports

Stanford researchers have developed an electronic glove that bestows robotic hands with some of the manual dexterity humans enjoy.

Amazon AWS RoboMaker

11/26/18, 05:49 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | amazon, ros

RoboMaker extends the most widely used open-source robotics software framework, Robot Operating System (ROS), with connectivity to cloud services.

University of Texas "opens Doors" to Safer Nuclear Waste Retrieval

11/22/18, 10:39 AM | Mobile Robots | nuclear reactors, Safety and Standards | Clearpath Robotics

The Nuclear and Applied Robotics Group, based in the University of Texas at Austin, has a mission to "develop and deploy advanced robotics in hazardous environments to minimize risk for the human operator."

WPI and Albany Medical College Developing Robotic System to Treat Brain Tumors

11/20/18, 08:01 AM | Mobile Robots | Analysis and Trends, Medical and Service

Funded by a five-year, $3.5 million NIH grant, the academic-industry partnership aims to develop an MRI-compatible robotic technology to provide minimally invasive brain tumor therapy that is ready for clinical trials.

Google parent to pull plug on bipedal robot development

11/15/18, 11:29 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | cobots, Investment, service robots, Startups

The company is expected to dissolve the project later this year and relocate employees involved in development to other departments within Alphabet or help them find jobs elsewhere.

Interview with Michael ImObersteg, Future Robotix

11/13/18, 07:32 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile Robots | Medical and Service, The Parts Department

We are targeting those industries that require precise, small, high-torque motors and complementary components such as high precision planetary gearboxes, slip rings, sensors and encoders.

How Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Improve Patient Care

11/08/18, 07:15 AM | Mobile Robots | ai, heathcare, Medical and Service

By working in tandem with AI and robotics in healthcare, humans can deliver a higher quality of care for patients in very measurable ways.

LG to develop smart shopping cart robot with E-mart

11/05/18, 01:11 PM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | mobile, retail, service robots

The South Korean tech giant said the robot will be developed by its research lab, which has been releasing various robots under the CLOi brand.

It Will Be Possible to Integrate Exoskeletons Into Clothes

11/01/18, 07:52 AM | Mobile Robots | Exoskeleton | maxon group

A stable wheelchair is automatically heavier. The same thing applies to exoskeletons. For a wearer to move about freely for an entire day, the battery has to be very powerful. But this means that it is also large and heavy.

The ROBO Global Robotics & Automation Index ETF (ROBO) Turns 5

10/17/18, 11:59 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile Robots | Investment

Team behind first-ever robotics, automation and AI index to ring NYSE Closing Bell with robot in Honor of Fifth Anniversary.

Boston Dynamics Parkour Atlas

10/11/18, 02:00 PM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics

Atlas does parkour. The control software uses the whole body including legs, arms and torso, to marshal the energy and strength for jumping over the log and leaping up the steps without breaking its pace.

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