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ICRA 2016: Consequential Robotics to Launch Programmable Companion Robot, MiRO

Consequential Robotics has been co-founded by the award-winning designer Sebastian Conran, together with Professor Tony Prescott and Dr Ben Mitchinson from the University of Sheffield.

18 May 2016

OpenConnect Launches Latest Generation of Robotic Process Automation Solution, AutoiQ

OpenConnect,, a leader in software solutions that deliver efficiencies derived from objective workforce intelligence, analytics, and robotic process automation (RPA), has announced the introduction of AutoiQ™, the latest generation of its RPA solution.

18 May 2016

Universal Robots’ New Infographic Illustrates Rapid Rise of Cobots

Universal Robots has published a new infographic illustrating the rapid rise of collaborative robots – or cobots. In 2008 the Danish robot manufacturer sold the first industrial robot able to operate safely alongside employees.

18 May 2016

Wyss Institute Enters Collaboration with ReWalk Robotics

The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has entered into a collaboration with ReWalk Robotics Ltd., to accelerate the development of the Institute’s lightweight, wearable soft exosuit technologies for assisting people with lower limb disabilities.

18 May 2016

Robotics and Game Design Enhances Rock Springs Students’ Interest in STEM Careers

It is hard for Kait Quinton to imagine, but some of the careers her Rock Springs students may be interested in once they graduate have not yet been invented.

18 May 2016

Maker Faire Bay Area 2016: Makeblock to Debut DIY Robotics for Makers & Stem Learners

Makeblock (Shenzhen Maker Works Technology Co., Ltd), a leading DIY robotics construction platform founded in 2012, was largely recognized as "Lego for adults" after first launched its robot kits on Kickstarter.

18 May 2016

Researchers Demonstrate Cubimorph at International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016

A prototype for an interactive mobile device, called Cubimorph, which can change shape on-demand will be presented this week at one of the leading international forums for robotics researchers, ICRA 2016, in Stockholm, Sweden [16-21 May].

18 May 2016

Saab Presents Innovative Remotely Operated Vehicle at Navy League's Sea-Air-Space Exposition

Defense and security company Saab presented its remotely operated vehicle (ROV), Sea Wasp, at the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space Exposition in National Harbor, Maryland. Sea Wasp, which relocates, identifies and neutralizes underwater improvised explosive devices (IEDs), is designed to combat below-the-surface terrorism.

17 May 2016

ANU Physicists Use Artificial Intelligence to Demonstrate Complex Experiments

Physicists are putting themselves out of a job, using artificial intelligence to run a complex experiment.

17 May 2016

Researchers Demonstrate Articulated Robot Motion for SLAM Using Small Depth Camera

Before a robot arm can reach into a tight space or pick up a delicate object, the robot needs to know precisely where its hand is. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have shown that a camera attached to the robot's hand can rapidly create a 3-D model of its environment and also locate the hand within that 3-D world.

17 May 2016

Researchers Help Non-Expert Users to Teach Robots Using Animal Training Techniques

Researchers at Washington State University are using ideas from animal training to help non-expert users teach robots how to do desired tasks.

17 May 2016

Flexible Exosuit Reduces Energy Cost during Loaded Walking

Harvard University researchers have invented a new flexible exosuit, which lowered the energy expenditure of walking while carrying heavy weight, according to the proof-of-principle study featured in the open access Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation.

16 May 2016

New Robotic Legs Could Help Patients Move Hands-Free

These legs are the only design available that allow people to move about ‘hands-free’. This means they can use their hands for the activities of daily life, like making a cup of tea while upright. The Kent study in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts (EDA), will examine the impact of these simple freedoms on the patient, both physically and mentally.

13 May 2016

Georgia Tech Professor Uses Artificial Intelligence to Offer Online Teaching Assistance

College of Computing Professor Ashok Goel teaches Knowledge Based Artificial Intelligence (KBAI) every semester. It’s a core requirement of Georgia Tech’s online master’s of science in computer science program.

10 May 2016

UW Scientists Develop Five-Fingered Robot Hand that Can Learn from Its Own Experience

Robots today can perform space missions, solve a Rubik’s cube, sort hospital medication and even make pancakes. But most can’t manage the simple act of grasping a pencil and spinning it around to get a solid grip.

10 May 2016

Robotics News

ICRA 2016: Consequential Robotics to Launch Programmable Companion Robot, MiRO

OpenConnect Launches Latest Generation of Robotic Process Automation Solution, AutoiQ

Universal Robots’ New Infographic Illustrates Rapid Rise of Cobots

Wyss Institute Enters Collaboration with ReWalk Robotics

Robotics and Game Design Enhances Rock Springs Students’ Interest in STEM Careers

Maker Faire Bay Area 2016: Makeblock to Debut DIY Robotics for Makers & Stem Learners

Researchers Demonstrate Cubimorph at International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016

Saab Presents Innovative Remotely Operated Vehicle at Navy League's Sea-Air-Space Exposition

ANU Physicists Use Artificial Intelligence to Demonstrate Complex Experiments

Researchers Demonstrate Articulated Robot Motion for SLAM Using Small Depth Camera

Researchers Help Non-Expert Users to Teach Robots Using Animal Training Techniques

Flexible Exosuit Reduces Energy Cost during Loaded Walking

New Robotic Legs Could Help Patients Move Hands-Free

Georgia Tech Professor Uses Artificial Intelligence to Offer Online Teaching Assistance

UW Scientists Develop Five-Fingered Robot Hand that Can Learn from Its Own Experience

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