Tag: Robots
MIT’s NanoMap helps drones to navigate safely at high speed
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a sophisticated computer vision system for flying robots.
NanoMap allows drones to navigate through...
Hancock’s half hour at Hermes: good, but not good enough
Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and (as the BBC satire W1A put it) “for some reason also Sport”, praised delivery...
Robots to transform Japan’s social care by 2020
As a global leader in all things autonomous, it's no surprise that Japan is looking to robotics to revolutionise social care. But in such...
Montego Resources hopes IoT will help uncover silver bounty in Nevada
The mining firm is using drones, sensors and robo-drills to hunt for treasure in the Nevada desert.
For more than one hundred years, Taylor Mine...
Exotec Solutions unveils ‘3D’ robotic retail order system
French start-up Exotec Solutions is working with e-commerce giant Cdiscount to test a scalable, speedy autonomous robot network that could take order fulfilment to...
Brussels researchers develop ‘mergeable nervous system’ robots
Researchers at the Université Libre de Bruxelles have developed a robotic system capable of morphing to suit the task at hand. The 'mergeable nervous system'...
Robot tax could ease drawbacks of automation
San Francisco politician Jane Kim is pushing for a robot tax on companies gaining an advantage from automation. The move could raise funds for retraining...
Ford, Domino’s Pizza to trial self-driving delivery service in US
Ford Motor Company and Domino's Pizza are to trial self-driving vehicles as a way to deliver orders to customers in Michigan, America.
As of September...
Ecommerce giant Alibaba opens ‘China’s smartest warehouse’
Cainiao, the logistics arm of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba, has announced the official launch of operations at its new smart warehouse in Huiyang, Guongdong...
Tennplasco recruits collaborative robot to fill human labor gap
Plastic injection molding company Tennplasco was struggling to hire enough workers to operate machines in its factory – but Sawyer from Rethink Robotics has...
Scientists find that humans prefer awkward robots that make mistakes
Robots haven’t taken over the world just yet and may still be a product of sci-fi movies, but there’s no denying the fact that...
Connected tech adoption in manufacturing set to double
Despite the promises the IoT makes for more efficiency and cost reductions, many manufacturers have yet to get the message, according to a new study...