Barrett Technology, a designer and manufacturer of advanced robotic manipulators, has entered into a strategic partnership with Leeman China, a supplier of mobile platforms. The partnership will cover China and Hong Kong.
National Metal Fabricators (NMF), a provider of custom sheet metal fabrication services for the industrial and manufacturing sectors, is offering robotic welding services.
Mechanical engineers from Virginia Tech won the world cup for robotic soccer this Sunday. They were the only team to enter from the United States and they won first place in the adult sized and child sized robots categories at the RoboCup 2011.
The Thirty Meter telescope (TMT) Project is contributing towards encouraging fun and learning in science and technology by sponsoring a number of robotics clubs in Hawaii. TMT had begun the effort two years ago, and has been successful in bringing together students across the state.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF has come up with a safety solution for preventing robots and humans from colliding with each other in the work environment.
Biomimicry seems to be the best strategy for top designers in robotics. The “Snail-Wave Omnidirectional Mobile Robot” seems to be inspired by the humble snail’s movement pattern. The snail’s galloping technique has been studied and improved upon in the robot by the Biomechatronics Lab at Chuo University in Japan.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has hosted a trio of robotics competitions during the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in May 2011, in China.
Drexel University hosted a Philadelphia Robotics Expo for the first time in the region. Youngmoo Kim, the assistant dean at the University, mentioned that Philadelphia takes a lot of interest in robotics.
Jordan Boyle from the University of Leeds has developed a robotic worm, which is capable of wriggling through obstacles.
OC Robotics has signed a new contract with Sellafied Ltd to provide a snake arm robot capability demonstration. This will include two snake arms deployed using the OC Robotics’ Rail&Rotate platform. The two will be variants of the OC Robotics Explorer Range. Each arm will have 22° of freedom, will measure 2.5m long and 100mm in diameter, and will be remotely operated by joystick.
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