UVC robot built by MIT CSAIL disinfects Greater Boston Food Bank
Essential services such as healthcare and food distribution have been under sustained stress during the novel coronavirus pandemic. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has teamed up with […]
Series A, B, and C Funding: Guide to Raising Venture Capital
For startups, including hardware centric, robotics companies, securing outside financing is essential to reach their commercial potential and continue to expand. In this comprehensive review, a popular source of start-up […]
Robotic textiles developed at Wyss Institute could enable mechanotherapies
Soft robots can be useful because of their ability to interact with and conform to the human body in ways that stiff and rigid robots cannot. Wearable devices with specially […]
Yaskawa Compass intended as an intuitive interface for advanced manufacturing
Yaskawa America Inc. recently released Yaskawa Compass, a graphical user interface tool for advanced manufacturing. The software package can benefit multiple applications in 3D printing, shape cutting, machine tool and […]
BionicSwifts: Festo’s Agile Robotic Birds
Meet the BionicSwift: Festo’s robotic swallow that can fly loops and tight turns with agility. It can fly in an autonomous and coordinated fashion with 4 other artificial birds. The […]
Festo’s BionicMobileAssistant with Pneumatic Gripper Hand
Meet the Festo’s BionicMobileAssistant: a mobile robot with a pneumatic gripping hand that can move autonomously in space and independently recognize objects and adapt to them. It consists of a […]
Preparing to be Acquired: COVID-19 Has Inspired Small Manufacturers to Embrace Robotics
Every position is being assessed by small manufacturers. Jobs that can be replaced with robots make the company more attractive for a potential buyer. Source: RoboticsTomorrow – robotics
GoBe Robots Launches New Telepresence Robot to Reduce CO2 Emissions by Thousands of Tons
Blue Ocean Robotics’ subsidiary GoBe Robots announces a new generation of its climate-friendly telepresence robots with significant demand driven by COVID-19 pandemic. Source: RoboticsTomorrow – robotics
A Gait Pattern Generator for Closed-Loop Position Control of a Soft Walking Robot
This paper presents an approach to control the position of a gecko-inspired soft robot in Cartesian space. By formulating constraints under the assumption of constant curvature, the joint space of […]
Sparse Robot Swarms: Moving Swarms to Real-World Applications
Robot swarms are groups of robots that each act autonomously based on only local perception and coordination with neighboring robots. While current swarm implementations can be large in size (e.g., […]