Robotics

Listen to this article The TCP Calibration Sensors, now available in the Universal Robots marketplace, are designed for high repeatability and accuracy. Source: CAPTRON CAPTRON has announced its official UR+ partnership with Universal Robots A/S. The global sensor provider said its TCP Calibration Sensors, now available on the Universal Robots marketplace, deliver high precision and are integrated with UR collaborative robot arms. “Our UR+ certified products are designed to deliver maximum precision and reliability to

Listen to this article A ‘humanoid for hospitals,’ Moxi has an arm for opening doors and operating elevators. Source: Diligent Robotics As development continues on humanoid robots, one mobile robot is already at work in hospitals. Diligent Robotics Inc. today announced that its Moxi robot has completed 110,000 autonomous elevator rides at health systems across the U.S. The mobile manipulator has a single arm for opening doors and pushing buttons to operate elevators. Moxi’s achievement

Researchers at ETH Zurich are utilising artificial intelligence to analyse the behaviour of laboratory mice more efficiently and reduce the number of animals in experiments. There is one specific task that stress researchers who conduct animal experiments need to be particularly skilled at. This also applies to researchers who want to improve the conditions in which laboratory animals are kept. They need to be able to assess the wellbeing of their animals based on behavioural

Listen to this article [embedded content] Organization: Locus Robotics Corp.Country: U.S.Website: https://locusrobotics.com/Year Founded: 2014Number of Employees: 51-100Innovation Class: Application & Market In August 2023, autonomous mobile robot (AMR) developer Locus Robotics surpassed 2 billion picks for its warehouse fulfillment customers. The milestone came just 11 months after it surpassed the 1 billion pick mark in 2022, for which the company also won an RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award. “Achieving the 2 billion picks milestone is an

Mobile phones could be the key to a cheaper and more reliable way of tracking animals for ecology and conservation research, according to a new study from The Australian National University (ANU). Traditional animal tracking methods are often expensive and require the tagged animals to be close to the tracking technology. Now, ANU researchers have developed a cheap, lightweight Bluetooth beacon that can provide regular updates through our network of mobile phones in areas used

Listen to this article Silicon Sensing’s miniature CRM200 PinPoint gyro. | Source: Silicon Sensing Systems Robotic missions to Earth’s moon are challenging enough, but motion control on the moons of Mars requires precision technology. Silicon Sensing Systems Ltd. has been contracted by the German Aerospace Centre to supply two miniature PinPoint gyros for use in the Martian Moons eXploration mission. The mission aims to send rovers to survey Deimos and Phobos.  The German Aerospace Centre

Listen to this article [embedded content] In the field of robotics, vision-based learning systems are a promising strategy for enabling machines to interpret and interact with their environment, said the AI Institute today. It introduced the Theia vision foundation model to facilitate robot training. Vision-based learning systems must provide robust representations of the world, allowing robots to understand and respond to their surroundings, said the AI Institute. Traditional approaches typically focus on single-task models—such as

Researchers in China have developed a robot that identifies different plant species at various stages of growth by “touching” their leaves with an electrode. The robot can measure properties such as surface texture and water content that cannot be determined using existing visual approaches, according to the study, published November 13 in the journal Device. The robot identified ten different plant species with an average accuracy of 97.7% and identified leaves of the flowering bauhinia

Listen to this article ZAP Surgical developed ZAP-X for the streamlined treatment of brain tumors, lesions, and other conditions of the head and neck. | Source: ZAP Surgical Systems ZAP Surgical Systems Inc. this week said it has successfully closed a $78 million Series E funding round. The developer of non-invasive, robotic brain-surgery tools said the new financing will advance the commercialization of its ZAP-X Gyroscopic Radiosurgery platform. Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is a well-established procedure