August 12, 2024

Listen to this article Wing said updated FAA exemptions for its detect-and-avoid approach open the door for it to safely scale in the U.S. | Source: Wing Aviation The Federal Aviation Administration has authorized multiple operators to fly commercial drones without visual observers in the same airspace. Leading the charge with the FAA are Zipline International and Wing Aviation LLC, the commercial drone-delivery segment of Alphabet Inc.  When you fly in a commercial airplane, your

New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst shows that programming robots to create their own teams and voluntarily wait for their teammates results in faster task completion, with the potential to improve manufacturing, agriculture and warehouse automation. This research was recognized as a finalist for Best Paper Award on Multi-Robot Systems at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2024. “There’s a long history of debate on whether we want to build a

Common push puppet toys in the shapes of animals and popular figures can move or collapse with the push of a button at the bottom of the toys’ base. Now, a team of UCLA engineers has created a new class of tunable dynamic material that mimics the inner workings of push puppets, with applications for soft robotics, reconfigurable architectures and space engineering. Inside a push puppet, there are connecting cords that, when pulled taught, will

Listen to this article The nonprofit ARM Institute said it intends to be an honest broker between robotics and manufacturing stakeholders. | Source: ARM Institute The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM, Institute today selected six new technology projects for funding. These projects came from the ARM Institute’s 24-01 Technology Project Call, which centered on the following topics: multi-modal inputs for AI robotics in manufacturing, rapid re-tasking and robot agility, multi-robot and multi-human collaboration, and