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Curling robot able to beat some professional players

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Sep 24, 2020 | 13:25 pm

A combined team of researchers from Korea and Germany has built an AI-based curling robot that is able to compete at a professional level. In their paper published in the journal Science Robotics, the group describes how their robot was built, how it was trained and how well it performed when matched against professional human players. Johannes Stork with Örebro University has published a Focus piece discussing the work by the team in the same journal issue.

Robotics firm expands autonomous data collection drones from sea to air

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Sep 24, 2020 | 13:01 pm

Back in 2013, local Brooklyn papers were excitedly reporting on a new initiative aimed at getting residents involved in cleaning up the highly polluted Gowanus Canal. Brooklyn Atlantis, as the project was known, was the brainchild of NYU Tandon Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Maurizio Porfiri, who envisioned building and launching robotic boats to collect water-quality data and capture images of the infamous canal, which citizen scientists would then view and help classify. Those robotic boats ultimately led to[…]

H-E-B will deploy robots to handle online orders for curbside pickup, delivery

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Sep 23, 2020 | 20:29 pm

Robots will help H-E-B grocery stores keep up with the growing demand for online grocery services amid the pandemic.

Researchers develop biomimetic hand prosthesis uniquely similar to a human hand

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Sep 23, 2020 | 18:00 pm

In the current issue of Science Robotics, researchers from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT- Italian Institute of Technology) and Centro Protesi INAIL in Italy reported on their ability to replicate the key biological properties of the human hand: natural synergistic and adaptable movement, biomimetic levels of force and speed, high anthropomorphism and grasp robustness. Developed by a collaborative of researchers, orthopaedists, industrial designers and patients, the prostetic hand called Hannes is able to restore over 90% of functionality to people[…]

Guiding light: New technology puts a light-painting drone at your fingertips

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Sep 23, 2020 | 15:59 pm

Skoltech researchers have designed and developed an interface that allows a user to direct a small drone to light-paint patterns or letters through hand gestures. The new interface, DroneLight, can be used in distant communications, entertainment, and even search and rescue. The paper was published on the preprint server arXiv.org and presented at IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication.

Robot Gift Guide 2019

Automaton Nov 28, 2019 | 03:30 am

Over a dozen robots that we promise will make fantastic holiday gifts

Video Friday: Robotic Endoscope Travels Through the Colon

Automaton Nov 23, 2019 | 01:46 am

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

Caltech and JPL Firing Quadrotors Out of Cannons

Automaton Nov 20, 2019 | 16:50 pm

The fastest, safest, and most exciting way to launch a quadrotor may be ballistically

Bipedal Robot Cassie Cal Learns to Juggle

Automaton Nov 18, 2019 | 19:22 pm

Cassie may not have any arms to work with, but that doesn’t keep it from juggling a ball on its head