Boston Dynamics is best known for its robot dog Spot, a machine designed to work in a range of environments, from offshore oil rigs to deep underground mines. But in recent years, the company has increasingly focused attention on the logistics space, and today is unveiling a new robot with just one application in mind: moving boxes in warehouses.
The robot is called Stretch and looks relatively dull for a Boston Dynamics creation. It's not modeled after humans or animals, and instead aims to be as practical as possible. It has a square mobile base containing a set of wheels, a "perception mast" with cameras and other sensors, and a huge robotic arm with seven degrees of freedom and a suction pad array on the end that can grab and move boxes up to 23 kilograms (50 lbs) in weight.
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Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
NFT Artwork by Sophia the Robot Sells for Nearly $700,000 - The New York Times
HONG KONG — Sophia the robot has interviewed Germany's chancellor, appeared at New York Fashion Week and performed on "The Tonight Show."
The sale was the latest twist in the frenzied market for ownership rights to digital art, ephemera and media called NFTs , or " nonfungible tokens ." A company affiliated with the robot's manufacturer said the sale — which took place on Nifty Gateway, a site for buying and selling NFTs that was founded in 2018 — may also have been the first NFT sale of an artwork produced in part by artificial intelligence.
UVD Robots Deploys Largest Fleet of Autonomous Disinfection Robots to a U.S.
GMCS covers a community with many rural areas facing infrastructure issues that make virtual learning a challenge, approximately 1,500 students have no internet at home. The district also educates many special education students who learn better in the classroom.
"We selected UVD Robots after rigorous review of numerous disinfecting robots," said Hyatt. "UVD Robots delivered on all of our requirements including technical excellence, maturity and track record, quality of deployment, technical support and maintenance, and overall value."
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Cerescon takes 6 asparagus harvesting robots to the fields - FutureFarming
In addition to these two machines another Sparter will be operational in the Netherlands and one in Germany during the coming season. The fifth will be harvesting in both the Netherlands in Germany on a rental basis, and the sixth will be going on a roadshow through Italy and Germany.
Cerescon sees the deployment of their Sparter robots as the beginning of a new era when it comes to asparagus harvesting. Not only because of the robotised, selective harvesting method in combination with underground detection with moisture sensors, but also because the software will be collecting a lot of data that can provide valuable information about for example production and quality per plot and per variety.
AI And Robotics Are Finally Ready For Your Home (and I Don't Mean The Roomba)
Don't believe me? The Greeks developed the Amphora, the ubiquitous jar powering the ancient seaborne trading economy, in large part to transport wine. Meanwhile, the wine bottle as we know it today has its roots in first century A.D. Roman glass innovations were designed to (you guessed it) protect wine while showing it off to the world. This means the smartphone screens and computer monitors we all rely on owe their existence in some part to wine.
But these are industrial applications like the familiar factory robotics and AI systems we all know. Crossing over to the home environment—like so many technical innovations throughout history—is the result of a special person being placed in special circumstances. The person in this case is automation expert Mark Chaney, and the circumstance was his housebound recuperation from a serious illness.
Tompkins Robotics Introduces xChange - A Revolution in Automation Sortation Fulfillment
Tompkins Robotics can now deliver end-to-end fulfillment capabilities, including goods-to-person inventory delivery, pick-and-place induction robotics, t-Sort robotic sortation, the new xChange system, and automated packaging.
Mike Futch , CEO and President of Tompkins Robotics shared, "We are proud to unveil this breakthrough automation technology with our partner, IAM Robotics. This collaboration combines the strengths of both companies to put the final puzzle piece together to maximize fulfillment automation for our industry."
Meet the Choreographer Behind Those Dancing Robots - Dance Magazine
Almost a year later and...yep, we're still in a global pandemic. As COVID-19 drags on, your pre-pandemic footwear is probably on its last legs by now (if it was ever up to dancing all day on floors that aren't sprung). And even when we do finally return to the stage, dancing in non-traditional spaces is a trend that's likely to stick around. Sporting a new pair of kicks designed specially for dancers might be just the boost you need to meet the dance world's "new normal" head-on.
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