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Scooters Join the List of Autonomous Vehicles of Cars and Golf Carts

Over 100 visitors who attended MIT’s 2016 Open House rode on an autonomous mobility scooter.

8 Nov 2016

Researchers Use Robots to Measure Environmental Variables of Greenhouses

Researchers from UPM use a multi-robot team to measure environmental variables of greenhouses and to ease the continuous monitoring of crop conditions.

8 Nov 2016

Disney Research’s 360-Degree VR Application Helps Users Customize Haptic Effects

Disney Research has developed a 360-degree virtual reality application that enables users to enhance their experience by adding customized haptic effects that can be triggered by user movements, biofeedback or timelines.

7 Nov 2016

Drones May Help Create Accurate 3D Model of Urban Environments and Design Wireless Networks

New technique provides an accurate 3D model, which improves the prediction of the propagation of radio waves at millimetre-wave frequencies.

7 Nov 2016

ASU Assistant Professor Creates Algorithms that Reduce Robots' Learning Time to a Matter of Hours

Engineering professor Heni Ben Amor creates algorithms that allow the device to program itself far faster than a human could

4 Nov 2016

KVH Launches Webinar Series Focusing on Advantages of Sensor Fusions for Autonomous and Unmanned Systems

KVH Industries, Inc., announced today that it is launching a webinar series focusing on the advantages and benefits of sensor fusion as used in specific real-world unmanned and autonomous systems.

4 Nov 2016

Hyve-3D System Provides Unique Virtual Reality Experience

Professor Tomás Dorta compared the virtual reality experience with two different systems: the one with VR headsets versus one with an immersive projection system using a concave-spherical screen, developed by his research team and called Hybrid Virtual Environment 3D (Hyve-3D).

3 Nov 2016

Artificially Intelligent Computer Software Could Help Combat Climate Change

Artificially intelligent computer software that can learn, adapt and rebuild itself in real-time could help combat climate change.

2 Nov 2016

Research Shows Total Sanitation of Robotic Surgical Tools is Virtually Impossible

According to a research paper published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, it is virtually not possible to eliminate all contamination from robotic surgical instruments, even if a number of cleanings are performed.

1 Nov 2016

Researchers Speed up, Scale up Plant Research with Aerial Robotics

Although long-term, broad-scale ecological data are vital for plant research, they are most often not easy to collect manually.

1 Nov 2016

igus Introduces Its Largest Energy Chain For Light Robotic Applications

igus, the motion plastics specialist, has launched triflex TRLF.125, extending the TRLF family to include its largest 125mm nominal diameter e-chain, in addition to existing 65, 87.5 and 100mm internal diameter sizes. These TRLF energy chains are ideally suited for robotics and other applications that require electrical power cables, data cables and hoses to remain secure and protected during multi-axis movement.

28 Oct 2016

Pedestrian-Oriented Streets Possible with Self-Driving Cars

There is a possibility that an urban neighborhood could be filled with self-driving cars. How would pedestrian behavior change in relation to this? Adam Millard-Ball, assistant professor of environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz, answers that it will be good. In fact, pedestrians would get to enjoy the streets.

27 Oct 2016

Digital, Autonomous Search Engines Help Review Huge Volumes of Literature

A recent report on artificial intelligence highlights that researchers could soon acquire help from digital assistants in order to review huge volumes of literature.

27 Oct 2016

New Early Detection System Uses Drones to Detect Forest Fire

UPM researchers are now involved in the development of a technique to detect forest fires with the help using a new color index. This color index has been chosen to detect the tonalities of smoke and flames, and is based on the methods used for vegetation classification.

26 Oct 2016

Wearable Robotic Exoskeleton for Human Gait Rehabilitation

Gait rehabilitation is frequently required by spinal cord injury and stroke patients to help them regain their ability to walk or to strengthen their muscles. Wearable “robot-assisted training” is fast emerging as a technique that helps to enhance this rehabilitation process.

26 Oct 2016

Robotics News

Scooters Join the List of Autonomous Vehicles of Cars and Golf Carts

Researchers Use Robots to Measure Environmental Variables of Greenhouses

Disney Research’s 360-Degree VR Application Helps Users Customize Haptic Effects

Drones May Help Create Accurate 3D Model of Urban Environments and Design Wireless Networks

ASU Assistant Professor Creates Algorithms that Reduce Robots' Learning Time to a Matter of Hours

KVH Launches Webinar Series Focusing on Advantages of Sensor Fusions for Autonomous and Unmanned Systems

Hyve-3D System Provides Unique Virtual Reality Experience

Artificially Intelligent Computer Software Could Help Combat Climate Change

Research Shows Total Sanitation of Robotic Surgical Tools is Virtually Impossible

Researchers Speed up, Scale up Plant Research with Aerial Robotics

igus Introduces Its Largest Energy Chain For Light Robotic Applications

Pedestrian-Oriented Streets Possible with Self-Driving Cars

Digital, Autonomous Search Engines Help Review Huge Volumes of Literature

New Early Detection System Uses Drones to Detect Forest Fire

Wearable Robotic Exoskeleton for Human Gait Rehabilitation

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