Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire have developed a prototype of a social robot which supports independent living for the elderly, working in partnership with their relatives or carers.
Some industrial robots are hulking, highly specialized pieces of machinery that are cordoned off by cages from human factory workers.
In 2012, Zhou Jian decided to sell all the shares he held in existing companies and to mortgage his luxurious house in order to launch a new venture. Then he travelled around looking for partners congenial to his ambition before finally inviting leading figures in the industry to join him.
Rethink Robotics today announced $26.6 million in Series D financing, led by GE Ventures, with additional participation from Goldman Sachs, both new investors. All of Rethink Robotics' earlier investors are also participating in the round, including Bezos Expeditions, CRV, Highland Capital Partners, Sigma Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Two Sigma Ventures.
The ‘2015 Texas A&M Robotics Symposium’ will be held in College Station on Wednesday and Thursday January 21-22, 2015. The symposium will bring together 20 world-renowned thought leaders in robotics and automation.
Travelling from Los Angeles to Frankfurt onboard of Lufthansa flight LH 457, the passenger arrived on December 16, at 11.05 a.m. with no signs of jet lag: this was no ordinary holidaymaker, after all, but the first humanoid robot to take up a seat on a commercial flight.
Sandia National Laboratories is tackling one of the biggest barriers to the use of robots in emergency response: energy efficiency.
Breakthroughs in technological capabilities have accelerated the arrival of mobile robots as practical solutions for increased productivity in business and in the home. The future will see widespread adoption of mobile robots in smart factories, unmanned vehicles and connected homes.
A Tainan-based research team of student and staff from the aiRobots Laboratory at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) won 2 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze medals, including the All-round Championship in the 2014 FIRA RoboWorld Cup on adult-sized humanoid robotics, the university announced recently.
Professor Ruth Aylett and Professor Nick Taylor, on behalf of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, hosted a visit by the renowned roboticist Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University and the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute of Japan on Tuesday 18 November.
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