Robotics

The nonprofit ARM Institute said it intends to be a broker between robotics and manufacturing stakeholders. | Source: ARM Institute The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM, Institute made two announcements today. The institute opened its latest project call, and it added employer capabilities to RoboticsCareer.org. The latest project call supports the ARM Institute’s effort to build a national repository for artificial intelligence-based manufacturing resources. For now, the ARM Institute is calling this national repository

Walking into your favorite restaurant and seeing a robot chef in the kitchen may seem far-fetched, but a University of Mississippi professor’s research says bots could be a solution to persistent labor shortages in the industry. Jeffrey Pittman II, instructional assistant professor in nutrition and hospitality management, is researching the potential benefits — and numerous doubts — that surround robots invading the kitchen. “We have to look at this from the standpoint of, ‘What benefits

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds. The system’s hybrid design is a first for robotic hands, which have typically been too rigid or too soft to replicate a human’s touch when handling objects of varying textures and materials. The innovation offers a promising

After once being rivals, Uber and Waymo first partnered in late 2023. | Source: Uber Waymo robotaxis are now available in Austin exclusively through Uber. Waymo said riders who request an UberX, Uber Green, Comfort, or Comfort Electric could be matched with a Waymo fully autonomous all-electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicle. Uber riders will be able to opt for a human-driven vehicle if they prefer. Both services will be priced the same, the companies said. Previously,

Amazon’s warehouse robots include Sparrow, which sorts individual items for employees to package; Cardinal, which lifts packages and puts them in carts; and Robin, which lifts and sorts packages before they’re brought to the outbound dock. | Source: Amazon Amazon currently operates more than 750,000 robots that sort, lift, and carry packages across its facilities. Now the world’s largest robot operator, the company has come a long way since it acquired Kiva Systems in 2012.

CaPow’s Power-in-Motion charging system has a double-boost effect, so when a robot moves over the charging antennas, it both powers the robot and charges its energy source. | Source: CaPow CaPow Technologies Ltd. today said it has raised $15 million in Series A funding. The Power-in-Motion systems provider said it plans to use the funding to accelerate its global growth. “We are pushing the boundaries of energy management technology with the goal of completely transforming

The Magnetic Interventional Ablation Catheter is a robotically navigated catheter for minimally invasive cardiac ablation procedures. | Source: Stereotaxis Stereotaxis Inc. yesterday said it has submitted its EMAGIN 5F catheter and its MAGiC catheter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for clearance. EMAGIN 5F, short for Endovascular Magnetic Intervention, is a 5-French diameter that navigates tortuous venous and arterial vasculature. Stereotaxis designed it to enable efficient and safe navigation to access difficult-to-reach vascular anatomy.

Soilless growing systems inside greenhouses, known as controlled environment agriculture, promise to advance the year-round production of high-quality specialty crops, according to an interdisciplinary research team at Penn State. But to be competitive and sustainable, this advanced farming method will require the development and implementation of precision agriculture techniques. To meet that demand, the team developed an automated crop-monitoring system capable of providing continuous and frequent data about plant growth and needs, allowing for informed

A group of researchers at New York University have developed and launched AnySense, an iOS app optimized for gathering visual training data for generalizable robotics models. Raunaq Bhirangi, Zeyu Bian, Venkatesh Pattabiraman, Haritheja Etukuru, Mehmet Enes Erciyes, Nur Muhammad Mahi Shafiullah, and Prof. Lerrel Pinto developed the AnySense app. Late last year, Prof. Pinto and his team launched an open-source research project called Robot Utility Models (RUM) that attempts to generalize training for robots so