Robotic Mic Swarm Helps Pull Voices Out of Crowded Room of Multiple Speakers

One of the persistent challenges in audio technology has been distinguishing individual voices in a room full of chatter. In virtual meeting settings, the moderator can simply hit the mute …read more Continue reading Robotic Mic Swarm Helps Pull Voices Out of Crowded Room of Multiple Speakers

US military plans to thwart China with 1,000s of autonomous war drones

The US Deputy Secretary of Defense has officially kicked off the AI drone wars, announcing a radical “Replicator” plan to put many thousands of intelligent autonomous war drones into service within 18-24 months, to deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.Co… Continue reading US military plans to thwart China with 1,000s of autonomous war drones

FORMIC system uses a swarm of robots to transport heavy loads

While forklifts do work well for lifting and moving heavy loads indoors, they’re bulky (in close quarters), expensive, and can’t lift loads over a certain footprint size. That’s where the FORMIC modular robotic transportation system is designed to come… Continue reading FORMIC system uses a swarm of robots to transport heavy loads

FORMIC system uses a swarm of robots to transport heavy loads

While forklifts do work well for lifting and moving heavy loads indoors, they’re bulky (in close quarters), expensive, and can’t lift loads over a certain footprint size. That’s where the FORMIC modular robotic transportation system is designed to come… Continue reading FORMIC system uses a swarm of robots to transport heavy loads

Scientists copy krill to develop swarms of aquatic robots

While most of us may just think of krill as baleen whale food, the tiny crustaceans are also very adept swimmers … enough so that scientists have now developed a krill-inspired robotic platform in hopes of one day creating swarms of ocean-exploring swi… Continue reading Scientists copy krill to develop swarms of aquatic robots

Sea-creature-inspired linked robots could explore alien oceans

If you’re designing robots for the exploration of oceans on other planets, you want something that’s tough, versatile and easy to store in a spacecraft. It turns out that soft-bodied robots inspired by a marine organism may be the perfect choice.Contin… Continue reading Sea-creature-inspired linked robots could explore alien oceans

Ant-inspired quadruped robots link together to overcome obstacles

If a foraging ant encounters a gap too wide for it to cross on its own, the insect will sometimes signal other ants to form a bridge of their linked bodies. Such behaviour has now been copied in a small four-legged robot, that may someday inspire bette… Continue reading Ant-inspired quadruped robots link together to overcome obstacles

“LoadRunners” designed to autonomously speed goods through warehouses

Due to the current pandemic, people are shopping online like never before. This means that distribution warehouses have become very busy places, where goods need to be transported quickly but safely – and that’s where the LoadRunner comes in.Continue R… Continue reading “LoadRunners” designed to autonomously speed goods through warehouses