Robotics

This premium article explores thermal management for robotcs, including thermal management approaches for batteries and motors, liquid cooling, immersion, phase change materials, and heat sinks.

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Introduction to the IDTechEx quantum commercial readiness level (QCRL)

An overview of key 6G activities and future roadmap.

This premium article aims to give an overview of different sensors for various robotic applications.

Collaborative robots, also commonly known as cobots, refer to robots that work side-by-side with human operators. Unlike industrial robots that are separated from human operators, cobots share the same working space as humans. As a relatively new definition, cooperative robots sound like collaborative robots but represents a different nature of the operation.

They may not be ubiquitous yet, and the day-to-day advantages that they will start to provide may not be noticeable, but automated technologies across the automotive industry are starting to come of age.

This premium article explores materials informatics (MI) with computational materials science.

The market for service, collaborative, and mobile robots is expected to exceed US$90 billion by 2032. Robotics and automation have significantly revolutionized how people work and live across a number of industries

This IDTechEx premium article gives an overview of typical sensors used in robotics based on tasks and applications.

Lidar, which refers to light detection and ranging, is a technology that has been adopted in various applications such as mapping, surveying, military, archaeology, agriculture, geology, industry, etc.

Forecasts from the IDTechEx report "Sensors for Robotics 2023-2043: Technologies, Markets, and Forecasts"

This premium article explores gathering physical data for materials informatics (MI), including MI with physical experiments and characterization as well as autonomous labs.

Headquartered in Italy, FlyingBasket is a start-up specializing in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for cargo delivery.

Aquatic Drones is a Dutch company specializing in electric unmanned surface vehicles (USV) for autonomous inspection, small footprint, and low power consumption.

As an important natural resource, water plays an irreplaceable role in people's daily life. Nowadays, water consumption in many regions is under "high stress". Many countries are already experiencing water scarcity, and it is expected that more countries will face a reduced availability of surface water resources by 2050.

International Hellenic University has recently developed an integrated autonomous robot for grape (ARG) harvesting.

Materials informatics (MI) involves using data-centric approaches, including AI and machine learning, to assist scientists and engineers in materials R&D.

This premium article explores algorithms in materials informatics, including types of MI algorithms, policies in MI, supervised and unsupervised learning, and more.