Robotics

The excitement has been building up in Las Vegas over the past few days with media days and press conferences, expectations have been riding high and the opening day of CES did not disappoint. Dr Harry Zervos reports from Las Vegas, Nevada.

Kestrel is a full end-to-end system including flight planning tools, a ground control station, flexible payload options, and data analysis tools to serve the rapidly-expanding commercial and industrial UAS market.

Dr Zervos, Principal Analyst with IDTechEx, will be reporting daily from Las Vegas, Nevada this week, where he is attending CES 2017.

Researchers have developed a process enabling the production of a two millimeter flat camera.

Pepper is a human-shaped robot designed to be a genuine day-to-day companion, whose number one quality is his ability to perceive emotions.

Electronic-skin prototypes are stretchy, thin films that can sense temperature, pressure and even monitor blood oxygen or alcohol levels.

The Gyeonggi-do Europe Business Center has been established in Korea to help European companies enter the Korean market.

Unlike you or me, robots actually have to learn things like: chairs change positions from hour to hour, or that a book resting on a table is not part of the table.

Video Interview with Cooper Gray Roboticsat the IDTechEx Show! in Santa Clara, USA (November 16-17 2016)

Scientists have developed a transparent, self-healing, highly stretchable conductive material that can be electrically activated to power artificial muscles and could be used to improve batteries, electronic devices, and robots.

Researchers are looking into how a snake robot might carry out maintenance work on the International Space Station, study comets, and explore the possibility of living and working in lava tunnels on the Moon.

With an external body the size of a drinks can and instruments only 1.8 millimetres in diameter, Axsis provides a glimpse into the future of surgical robotics.

Designing a soft robot to move organically — to bend like a finger or twist like a wrist — has always been a process of trial and error.

It could be used for tracking robots in underground tunnels, caves or under ice. They need to be able to navigate themselves, and we don't have sensors today that would be able to track them.

Sanbot features a variety of technologies and capabilities, like 3D vision, sensors for collision avoidance, voice control, a built-in holographic HD projector, seven microphones, touch sensors for interaction, and has a voice command responsive system.

It started with Julius Caesar banning vehicles from rattling along the cobbles after 8pm so people could get to sleep. Things went backwards in the ensuing two thousand years but now it is coming center stage again.

n the not so distant future, first responders to a disaster zone may include four-legged, dog-like robots that can bound through a fire or pick their way through a minefield, rising up on their hind legs to turn a hot door handle or punch through a wall.

Researchers have joined forces to develop the Aerial Robotic Infrastructure Analyst. This tabletop-sized drone uses photo and video capture techniques, as well as state-of-the-art laser scanners, to create a high-resolution 3-D model of the bridge, which can then be safely analyzed by an inspector on the ground.

A group of researchers developed a prototype construction robot for disaster relief situations. This prototype has drastically improved operability and mobility compared to conventional construction machines.

The prototype strawberry picker can - in an actual working strawberry field - identify, select and pick only ripe strawberries while leaving unripe strawberries and plants unharmed.