Police robots are now a reality in some corners of the world — but we're still a far cry from high-octane RoboCops patrolling the streets.
As some police departments and private companies have begun to experiment with security robots built for surveillance, the robots have repeatedly hit obstacles (or, in some cases, fallen into them ).
The most prominent security robot maker is Knightscope , which sells a fleet of egg-shaped robots that are already patrolling the streets of Silicon Valley.
In case you are keeping track:
Naio Technologies closes Series A, readies weeding robots for production
Earlier this month, Naio Technologies SAS closed a €14 million ($15.53 million U.S.) Series A funding round. The French agricultural robotics company has been developing field robots for weeding. They are intended to reduce physical strain on farmers and reduce reliance on chemical herbicides, which can harm the environment.
Engineers Aymeric Barthes and Gaëtan Séverac founded Naio Technologies in Toulouse, France, in 2011. They have worked closely with farmers, mostly in France, to design, manufacture, and market systems to help them in their daily work. The company had previously raised €3.2 million ($3.55 million) in 2015.
'PigeonBot' Brings Robots Closer To Birdlike Flight : NPR
A team of Stanford University researchers designed the PigeonBot. Lentink Lab/Stanford University hide caption
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For decades, scientists have been trying to create machines that mimic the way birds fly. A team from Stanford University has gotten one big step closer.
The team created the PigeonBot — a winged robot that it says approximates the graceful complexities of bird flight better than any other robot to date.
Companies take baby steps toward home robots at CES – TechCrunch
"I think there are fewer fake robots this year." I spoke to a lot of roboticists and robot-adjacent folks at this year's CES, but that comment from Labrador Systems co-funder/CEO Mike Dooley summed up the situation nicely. The show is slowly, but steadily, starting to take robotics more seriously.
It's true that words like "fake" and "seriously" are quite subjective; surely all of those classified by one of us as the former would take great issue with the tag.
I believe the reason for this shift is two-fold. First, the world of consumer robotics hasn't caught on as quickly as many had planned/hoped. Second, enterprise and industrial robotics actually have. Let's tackle those points in order.
This may worth something:
It's 2020: Where Are All The Robots?
At the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, one of the world's largest trade shows for ... [+] industrial and service robots.
Imagine the future. In your home, you have robots that take your dirty clothes and clean them for you, automatically managing all the details like detergent, water temperature, and drying time. There is another robot that knows when you leave, turning down the heat to save energy while you're gone, then turning it on again right before you get home. At work, you use a robot to safely climb hundreds of feet into the air in seconds.
Robots face off in student competition
Fifty-three teams of middle and high school students participated in the FIRST ( F or I nspiration and R ecognition of S cience and T echnology) technical challenge at the South Central Pennsylvania Regional Qualifier.
The goal was to win what is called, The Skystone Game. The game requires robot teams of two to work together to move as many interlocking plastic blocks as possible into properly stacked piles in 2 1/2 minutes. The team that stacks the most blocks wins.
Happening on Twitter
Police robots keep malfunctioning, with mishaps ranging from running over a toddler's foot to ignoring people in di… https://t.co/7z5XkhOmoY businessinsider (from New York, NY) Sun Jan 19 14:08:03 +0000 2020
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