Rethink Robotics, in collaboration with Epoch Foundation, is expanding its operations in Asia and opening an office at Garage+ Incubation Center in Taipei. As a pioneer in the collaborative robotics market, Rethink Robotics develops robots specifically designed to operate in variable manufacturing environments alongside humans, without the need for traditional safety cages.
The Network will bring together the UK’s core academic capabilities in robotics innovation under national coordination for the first time and encourage academic and industry collaborations that will accelerate the development and adoption of robotics and autonomous systems.
From a robot’s perspective, humans are normally a nuisance: when robots and humans have to work together, it often leads to problems. Researchers on CogIMon, a new project starting at Bielefeld University, want to teach robots how to interact with humans and work together to accomplish tasks. CogIMon stands for “cognitive compliant interaction in motion.” This research group is working on humanoid as well as industrial robots.
SoftBank Corp., Alibaba Group Holding Limited and Foxconn Technology Group today announced an agreement under which Alibaba and Foxconn will each invest JPY 14.5 billion in SoftBank Robotics Holdings Corp., the SoftBank Group’s intermediate holding company responsible for its robotics business.
The aim of the research carried out by the Computational Cognitive Robotics Group from the Department of Artificial Intelligence of the School of Computing Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) is the development of a Spanish pioneering robot that can establish visual and linguistic interaction with a human interlocutor.
The future of disaster response, as envisioned by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is in the electro-mechanical hands of robots. Guided by sophisticated computer software, they will be able to carry out complex, dangerous tasks, like disabling a nuclear power plant during a radiation-spewing meltdown, without putting human lives at risk.
After an exciting few months of trials and competition, the NAO Challenge finals are just around the corner with 13 teams competing on June 27th, 2015 at the Longmont Museum in Colorado.
A year ago, when her son Bobby, now 10, was first diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Jamie Lee wasn’t surprised. “By age 2, he didn’t crawl,” she recalls. “And there were other developmental issues.”
Matei Ciocarlie, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has been awarded a three-year $637,000 Young Investigator Program (YIP) grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) for his work on human-in-the-loop systems in which humans and robotic manipulators work together, side by side, on the same task. He is one of 36 college and university faculty to win a 2015 grant from YIP, one of the oldest and most selective scientific research advancement programs in the country.
In a rolling, outdoor field, full of lumps, bumps and uneven terrain, researchers at Oregon State University last week successfully field-tested for the first time the locomotion abilities of a two-legged robot with technology that they believe heralds the running robots of the future.
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