More than a decade ago, Ted Adelson set out to create tactile sensors for robots that would give them a sense of touch. The result? A handheld imaging system powerful enough to visualize the raised print on a dollar bill.
An expert in both human and machine vision, Adelson was pleased to have created something useful. But he never lost sight of his original dream: to endow robots with a sense of touch. In a new Science Hub project with Amazon, he's back on the case.
Flexiv raises more than $100 million for its general-purpose robots
Flexiv , which describes itself as a general-purpose robotics company, has closed its Series B funding round, raising more than $100 million.
Major investors which took part in the round include Meituan, Meta Capital, New Hope Group, Longwood, YF Capital, Gaorong Capital, GSR Ventures and Plug and Play, marking the largest single-round fundraising ever in the field of general-purpose robotics.
McDonalds CEO: Robots won't take over our kitchens
The McDonalds President and CEO was swiftly reading between the lines of a question from JPMorgan's John Ivankoe about whether McDonalds had "any capital or technology investments [planned] in coming years that could allow you to reduce your demand for labor while increasing overall customer ...
Industrial Robots (Warehousing and Storage Robots) Global Market Report 2022 - ...
The global industrial robots (warehousing and storage robots) market is expected to grow from $4.65 billion in 2021 to $4.98 billion in 2022 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.1%. The market is expected to grow to $6.55 billion in 2026 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.1%.
NASA's cute space robots just hit another milestone | ZDNet
NASA's trio of robots known as Astrobee have completed the first phase of a project to test whether an autonomous system can provide spacecraft monitoring, maintenance and incident response.
NASA's 12-inch wide cube-shaped robots are more like a flying Roomba than a Boston Dynamics dog or humanoid; more like Weebo , the flying assistant in the 90s' Robin Williams sci-fi/comedy Flubber, than Terminator.
What can we do about robots gone rogue? | Mint
Since machines currently cannot be held responsible for their actions, their programmers and owners certainly can.
Let Robots Bring You Coffee At The Airport
When it comes to airline travel, nothing is easy. You have to arrive hours early to fight long lines for just about everything and throngs of people moving in every direction (and normally staring at their phones instead of where their rollaboard is pointed). Even getting a coffee is complicated.
New Mobile Robots for Safe and Effective Collaboration - ELE Times
Teams of mobile robots could be highly effective in helping humans to complete straining manual tasks, such as manufacturing processes or the transportation of heavy objects.
Researchers at Northwestern University’s Center for Robotics and Biosystems have recently developed new collaborative mobile robots, dubbed Omnid Mocobots.
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