(CNN) MIT has designed a robot that is capable of disinfecting the floor of a 4,000-square foot warehouse in only half an hour, and it could one day be used to clean your local grocery store or school.
Many things are taking place:
These Robots Are The Key To Reopening After The Pandemic
Imagine walking into a room wearing an N95 mask, unsure whether the cleaning crew has thoroughly cleaned the next piece of sensitive equipment that you are planning to use. Suddenly, you notice a robot in the room. This robot is moving around you to disinfect the surfaces and the air all around you.
It introduces itself as Violet. You have the urge to shake its hand. Instead, it moves to turn its light away from you. You are not in a sci-fi movie. This robot disinfects the surfaces and the air that you breathe.
Softbank Hawks Japanese baseball team put Pepper robots in the stands - Business Insider
Fans aren't allowed to watch games in person until at least July 10, so teams have been putting different symbols in the stands instead. For the SoftBank Hawks, owned by Japanese tech giant SoftBank, Pepper robot seems like the obvious choice. The robots wore team jerseys and looked like cheering fans.
Elementary Robotics is making its quality assurance robots commercially available –
Two years and more than $17 million after it first began working on its robots for quality assurance, the Los Angeles-based Elementary Robotics has finally made its products commercially available.
The company’s robots look like a large box with a gantry system providing three degrees of freedom, with vertical and horizontal movement as well as a gimbal-mounted camera that can visualize products.
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As objects are scanned by the robots they’re compared against a taxonomy of objects provided by the companies that Elementary works with to determine whether or not there’s a defect.
While you're here, how about this:
Check out this sloth robot | Earth | EarthSky
SlothBot is a slow-moving and energy-efficient robot that can linger in the trees to monitor animals, plants, and the environment below.
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For the next several months, SlothBot will be hanging out in the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s 30-acre (12-hectare) midtown forest. That’s where the new high-tech tool is being tested for use in the battle to save some of the world's most endangered species.
SlothBot demonstrates how being slow can be ideal for certain applications. Georgia Institute of Technology roboticist Magnus Egerstedt led the team. He said in a statement :
Survey: Robotics usage on the rise - TechRepublic
Robots don't play a significant role in industries -- yet -- but respondents expect that to change soon.
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The image of robots working on a factory floor is being replaced with the reality of robots working in a myriad of industries ranging from healthcare and logistics to retail and telecommunications.
How are these robotic systems affecting these industries? This past June TechRepublic Premium surveyed 234 professionals to find out.
A New Approach to Lunar Robots | SIGNAL Magazine
The current development of particular robots for NASA represents a methodical shift in how some Lunar or Martian vehicles are designed and how the related components or systems are included to support vehicle operation.
The more affordable yet dynamic approach of constructing the so-called MoonRanger is a shift from past rovers that were behemoth in size, protected from radiation and very slow, says William "Red" Whittaker , director of Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU's) Field Robotics Center , who is leading the technical development and construction of the MoonRanger. The rover will have fully autonomous operations and will provide high-fidelity 3D maps of the ice fields on the moon's south pole.
Vicarious Breeds New Version Of Robots | PYMNTS.com
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Benioff and Mark Zuckerberg all have something in common other than being billionaires. They all invest in a company called Vicarious , which is taking robotics to a higher, yet more democratic, level.
It's making robotics a service industry, just like software, with a touch of artificial intelligence (AI).
Phoenix calls the Vicarious business model "Robots-as-a-Service," a play on Software-as-a-Service or SaaS. It works to scale for both sides of the equation.
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