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Diakont Wins Innovation Award for Robotic Buried Pipe Inspection

Diakont received an innovation award for robotic buried pipe inspection during this year's Nuclear Energy Assembly, hosted by the Nuclear Energy Institute in Atlanta, Georgia. The Nuclear Energy Institute is the nuclear energy industry's policy organization.

25 May 2018

Comprehensive Report on Growth of Global Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery Market

Medical Robots will enable the surgeons to perform surgeries with high precision. Medical robotics is a new and an emerging field of science.

25 May 2018

Teledyne e2v awarded second phase of €42M contract to provide custom image sensors for ESA PLATO mission

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Teledyne e2v, a division of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), with the second phase of a €42M ($47M) contract to produce high-end Charge Coupled Device (CCD) ...

24 May 2018

TIE Industrial Continues Expansion into Robotics Market through Acquisition of Master Robotics

TIE Industrial, a leader in the industrial automation aftermarket announced today that the company will acquire Master Robotics as it continues its expansion into the robotics market.

24 May 2018

MIT Researchers Develop New Lane-Change Algorithm for Self-Driving Cars

In the field of self-driving cars, algorithms for controlling lane changes are an important topic of study. But most existing lane-change algorithms have one of two drawbacks: Either they rely on detailed statistical models of the driving environment, which are difficult to assemble and too complex to analyze on the fly; or they're so simple that they can lead to impractically conservative decisions, such as never changing lanes at all.

23 May 2018

Combination of Wearable Technology and AI Can Predict Onset of Health Issues

Researchers from the University of Waterloo have discovered that applying artificial intelligence to the correct combination of data retrieved from wearable technology could detect whether a person’s health is deteriorating.

23 May 2018

AI Systems That Can Self-Design & Self-Assemble to Surpass Human-Built Systems

Scientists are designing artificially intelligent computer systems with the ability to self-design and self-assemble to work more efficiently when compared to the best human-developed systems.

23 May 2018

Devising Methods and Metrics for Machine Self-Assessment

As an analogy to the way “The Little Engine That Could” formerly chanted, researchers from the “I think I can, I think I can” university, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, have been striving to impart the potential of self-assessment to robots and other autonomous systems.

23 May 2018

MIT Engineers Build Albatross-Like Autonomous Glider

A team of MIT engineers have built a robotic glider that can skim along the surface of the water, riding the wind like an albatross and simultaneously surfing the waves like a sailboat.

23 May 2018

New Microrobotics System Pushes the Limits of Optical Nanotechnologies

A novel microrobotics system, assembled by a French nanorobotics team at the Femto-ST Institute in Besançon, France, pushes the limits of optical nanotechnologies.

23 May 2018

Sparrow Drone from Percepto Deployed at Enel’s Torrevaldaliga Nord Power Plant

On-site autonomous drone system developer Percepto announced that Enel has finished deploying Percepto’s Sparrow drone system for use at its Torrevaldaliga Nord power plant. Maintenance and operation activities at the site will be supported by this multipurpose drone platform.

23 May 2018

Faux-Rodent Artificial Intelligence Program for Simulating Mammal Navigation

A UK-based research team has achieved an a-MAZE-ing development—it has created an artificial intelligence (AI) program with the ability to learn to find shortcuts through a maze to attain its goal. As part of the process, structures similar to those in the human brain were developed by the program.

22 May 2018

Using Drones to Inspect Transmission Towers and Associated High-Voltage Lines

With its focus on its commitment to offer customers with dependable electric service, currently, CPS Energy has been using drone technology to carry out regular, safer, and more efficient inspections of overhead infrastructure.

22 May 2018

RoboFly - A Giant Leap Forward for Robot-Kind

Time-consuming tasks such as detection of gas leaks or monitoring crop growth on large farms can be performed with the help of insect-sized flying robots. Since they are too small to use propellers, they fly by fluttering their tiny wings.

22 May 2018

Testing Counter-UAS Systems in Urban Settings

Innovative technology can offer advances in the way people do things, expanding the scope of areas that were previously not explored and streamlining previously arduous tasks. This holds true with regards to developments in drones or unmanned aerial systems (UAS).

22 May 2018