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MIT complains that designing a robot hand is time-consuming and takes a lot of iterations. They want to improve that using a unique approach by giving a modular hand tactile …read more Continue reading Design Your Next Robot Hand in Minutes
Engineers at MIT have added a new ability to existing flying robots – they can now glow when they flap their wings. Inspired by fireflies, this fluorescence could help with communication or tracking of the tiny, lightweight robots.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading Robotic fireflies light up with every flap of their wings
Milrem Robotics and Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace teamed up for the first live-fire exercise of a medium-sized robotic tank based on Milrem’s Type-X Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV), fitted with a Kongsberg Protector Remote Turret (RT-40) that includes a B… Continue reading Robotic tank proves itself in successful live-fire test
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: Robots can now be covered in living skin grown from real human cells to make them look more like us. As robots increasingly take on roles as nurses, care workers, teachers and other jobs that invo… Continue reading Scientists Covered a Robot Finger In Living Human Skin
An anonymous reader shares a report: Kim Yong-rae is the CEO of Speefox, South Korea’s biggest manufacturer of capacitors, and he thinks robots are key to the company’s survival. On his factory floor, free-standing machines squeal as they spit out glea… Continue reading Fearing Lawsuits, Factories Rush To Replace Humans With Robots in South Korea
The Dutch consumer technology firm TomTom announced on Wednesday that it is “resetting” the organization as a result of improvements in its mapmaking technology. The firm said: Engineering investments have resulted in an advanced automated mapmaking pl… Continue reading TomTom To Cut 500 Jobs Because of Automation Advancements
As labor shortages continue, “robot orders increased 40% in the first quarter of 2022,” reports Business Insider (citing a report from the Wall Street Journal citing the Association for Advancing Automation).
“People want to remove labor,” Ametek Inc. … Continue reading Robot Orders Jumped 40% in 2022’s First Three Months
Northwestern University engineers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot — and it comes in the form of a tiny, adorable peekytoe crab. From the report: Just a half-millimeter wide, the tiny crabs can bend, twist, crawl, walk,… Continue reading Tiny Robotic Crab Is Smallest-Ever Remote-Controlled Walking Robot
Dyson has revealed that it has an entire division that’s secretly been developing robot prototypes that do household chores. Engadget reports: The company didn’t detail any of the models in particularly, but many look like regular robot arms adapted to… Continue reading Dyson’s Been Secretly Working On Robots That Do Household Chores
Ball and socket joints are useful, but making a part slide over the surface of a sphere, held by magnets, requires a lot of fiddling to get right. We admire …read more Continue reading Practice Makes Perfect for this Ball and Socket Robot