If you walk into the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex on Northeastern's Boston campus, and climb the helical staircase to the collaborative areas on the fifth floor, you'll find flying drones, kayaks converted into ocean robots, and several other robotic gadgets. They belong to Hanumanth Singh , a professor of electrical and computer engineering who's dead set on building the next generation of autonomous robots.
A field roboticist, Singh designs, tests, and builds machines that other researchers can deploy during scientific expeditions to remote environments such as the bottom of the ocean.
While you're here, how about this:
Robot that can perform colonoscopies aims to make it less unpleasant | New Scientist
Pietro Valdastri at the University of Leeds in the UK and his colleagues have developed a robotic arm that uses a machine learning algorithm to move a flexible probe along the colon.
The probe is a magnetic endoscope, a tube with a camera lens at the tip, that the robot controls via a magnet external to the body.
The system can either work autonomously or be controlled by a human operator using a joystick, which pushes the endoscope tip further along the colon. Valdastri likens the movement to the intuitive motion of playing a video game. The system also keeps track of the location and orientation of the endoscope inside the colon.
Treeswift's autonomous robots take flight to save forests
Chen founded Treeswift as a spin-off company from Penn Engineering's GRASP Lab. The idea behind it is simple: use robotic tools to automate forestry and reduce risk for human workers. Treeswift uses swarms of autonomous, flying robots equipped with LiDAR sensors to monitor, inventory, and map timberland. The drones collect images of the land and render them into 3-D maps that can be analyzed for precise, quantifiable measurements of a given forest's biomass.
Of the variety of applications this data has, Treeswift is focused on three main targets: calculating inventory for the timber industry, mapping forests for preservation, and measuring forest biomass and fuel to prevent the spread of wildfires. The collected data can be used by researchers in a variety of industries to assess the health of forests and build predictive models that can aid in climate change action initiatives.
AI: Which countries use robots the most in their workforce? | World Economic Forum
Quite a lot has been going on:
L.A. Fire Department's robot goes where firefighters can't - Los Angeles Times
With its bright-yellow armored body, grippy tank-like treads, plow nose and water cannon, the Los Angeles Fire Department's latest piece of equipment looks more like a Star Wars sidekick than a firefighting assistant.
But this mini robot tanker is an inferno buster that packs a powerful punch of water or foam and can go where firefighters otherwise can't. The LAFD on Tuesday became the first fire department in the nation to acquire the Robotics Systems 3, a droid on steroids.
Top Robotics Stocks for Q4 2020
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The number of robotics and automation companies has increased dramatically in recent decades as corporations seek to produce goods and services more efficiently, often replacing more expensive human employees in the process. These ranks of these companies are likely to increase as they disrupt more industries.
Here are the top 3 robotics stocks with the best value, the fastest earnings growth, and the most momentum.
Smith+Nephew is taking the road less traveled with its ortho surgical robotics - MassDevice
British medtech giant Smith+Nephew chose a different path in the ortho surgical robotics space. One of its top robotics program leaders explains how it could make all the difference.
As the director of robotics program management at S+N, Schneider faced the challenge of making the design and engineering choices behind the company's next-gen surgical robot.
The Cori robot is a big deal for Smith+Nephew because ortho surgical robotics is a hot area for medtech, even as the COVID-19 pandemic causes health systems to scale back elective procedures.
One of These Advanced Robots May Take Over the World | IE
Remember, in 2017, when Elon Musk said that in a few years, robots would move so fast that you will need a strobe light to see them? Good. So do we. The modern age of robotics embodies some of the highest levels of engineering and human ingenuity. However, when people talk about these machines, they can be very opinionated. There sometimes seems to be no middle ground when people discuss robotics.
Robots will continue to become more advanced. Over the past few years, we have seen established companies and start-up-made debut machines that can move like us, and even talk like us. Sophisticated manufacturing processes and increasingly powerful artificial intelligence has opened the gates to a new age in the field, moving far beyond their ancestors, which were mostly immobile and focused on one task. So, of course, this makes things a bit scarier.
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