All Robotics and Automation Articles & Interviews

May Fundings, Acquisitions, IPOs and New Funds

06/23/15, 08:05 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile Robots | Funding and Deals

May was another big month of money flowing into robotic ventures. But May was even bigger in launching new robotics-focused venture funding groups.

AgBot 2016 Powers $50,000 Grant for Grizzly RUV

06/22/15, 12:49 PM | Other Topics | Agriculture, event | Clearpath Robotics

Although farming has become mechanized, the evolution of agricultural techniques to include unmanned robots provides a unique opportunity.

Vision Guided Robotics Advances

06/19/15, 07:08 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | integrators, machine vision | Axium

The recent developments in algorithms and sensor technologies make it possible to efficiently implement vision guided robotics tasks for manufacturers.

Sealed Air Revolutionizes Cleaning Industry with Robotics Technology

06/19/15, 07:08 AM | Mobile Robots | cleaning

The most immediate benefit of cleaning robots is what is called "Daytime cleaning": the fact that there is no need to keep the facility lights on at night for cleaning purposes.

Optimizing Barcode Reading and Inspection Capability for the Life of Your System

06/18/15, 07:21 AM | Factory Automation | integrators, machine vision | Omron Automation

Understanding an applications requirements is critical in choosing the best device for successful data acquisition.

Robots Help with Lean Manufacturing

06/16/15, 05:07 AM | Industrial Robotics, Other Topics | integrators, lean manufacturing

Lean manufacturing is thinking "out of the box". Removing time, effort, and cost from the manufacturing processes is the solution to Lean manufacturing and competitiveness.

Amazon Challenges Robotics' Hot Topic: Perception

06/15/15, 04:02 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | amazon

Capturing and processing camera and sensor data and recognizing various shapes to determine a set of robotic actions is conceptually easy. Yet Amazon challenged the industry to do a selecting and picking task robotically and 28 teams from around the world rose to the competition.

RoboticsTomorrow Related Kickstarter Projects - June 2015

06/12/15, 04:32 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile Robots | Crowd Funding

Here are some crowd funding projects of interest.

The Line Between Hype And Reality For Robotic Process Automation

06/11/15, 03:06 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Robotic Process Automation

RPA can bring about a "virtual integration" of multiple systems while executing repetitive work more accurately and reliably than humans can.

Disasters Are Good For Unmanned Systems

06/11/15, 03:02 AM | Other Topics | UAV, usar

Essentially, USAR robots act as the eyes and ears in environments that that are too difficult or too dangerous for humans to go.

ROS101: Creating Your Own Rqt Dashboard

06/09/15, 03:40 AM | Industrial Robotics, Other Topics | ros | Clearpath Robotics

A dashboard is a single rqt window with one or more plugins displayed in movable, re-sizable frames.

DARPA Robotics Challenge Results

06/08/15, 12:40 PM | Mobile Robots | Darpa

Taking first place and the $2 million in prize money that goes with it is Team Kaist of Daejeon, Republic of Korea, and its robot DRC-Hubo

The Trillion Dollar Drone

06/03/15, 04:23 AM | Other Topics | drones

Drones will eventually be "as ubiquitous as pigeons", London-based futurist Liam Young recently predicted. They will be used for a lot of different tasks. One overlooked drone application even has the potential to become a trillion dollar business. And to save the world.

Unmanned Systems Markets: Present & Future

06/02/15, 04:30 AM | Other Topics | UAV

Overall, the reports that I surveyed were upbeat, predicting exponential growth for all unmanned vehicles.

MIT Cheetah Robot Lands the Running Jump

06/01/15, 10:55 AM | Mobile Robots | mit

In a leap for robotic development, the MIT researchers who built a robotic cheetah have now trained it to see and jump over hurdles as it runs - making this the first four-legged robot to run and jump over obstacles autonomously...

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