Advanced Navigation used the data gathered from Hydrus to generate a 3D digital twin of the Hall Bank seabed. | Source: Advanced Navigation Last month, Advanced Navigation deployed three of its underwater Hydrus drones in the Hall Bank reef in Western Australia. During the mission, the robots helped marine scientists discover devastating coral loss and … Read more
Claire chatted to Simone Schuerle from ETH Zürich all about microrobots, medicine and science. Simone Schuerle is Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, where she heads the Responsive Biomedical System Lab. With her team, she develops diagnostic and therapeutic systems at the nano- and microscale with the aim of tackling a range of challenging … Read more
XTEND’s Drone Hive is an example of its autonomous defense technology. Source: XTEND XTEND Reality Inc. today announced that Aliya Capital Partners and Protego Ventures have co-led a strategic $30 million extension to its $70 million Series B funding round. The developer of tactical autonomous robots said it plans to use the financing to scale … Read more
Robotics is helping to rehabilitate and increase human abilities in areas like mobility and stamina. Innovations in robotic devices, exoskeletons, and wearable tech aim to offer disabled people different perspectives and new experiences, as well as supporting humans more widely to access, inhabit and work safely in dangerous and extreme conditions. What does the future … Read more
The main soccer arena. RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots. As part of this initiative, a series of competitions and events are held throughout the year. The main showcase event is an international affair with teams travelling from far and wide to … Read more
In the race toward smarter factories, metal cutting and bending machines aren’t just keeping up – they’re leading the charge. As industrial robotics evolves under the banner of Industry 4.0, manufacturers are rethinking how human-machine collaboration should look on the factory floor. Increasing demand for high-mix, low-volume production has pushed traditional systems to their limits. … Read more
The Standard Platform Soccer League in action. This is the second of our daily digests from RoboCup2024 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. If you missed the first digest, which gives some background to RoboCup, you can find it here. Competitions continued across all the leagues today, with participants vying for a place in Sunday’s finals. The … Read more
By Mike Kappes, founder and CSO of NEXT Semiconductor Technologies The universal law of competitive engineering rewards any design that moves more data with less energy and cost. Every advancement in computing hardware has followed that path, and the next innovation now depends on application-specific silicon. While general-purpose processors were sufficient for computing in the … Read more
A break in play during a Small Size League match. Today, 21 July, saw the competitions draw to a close in a thrilling finale. In the third and final of our round-up articles, we provide a flavour of the action from this last day. If you missed them, you can find our first two digests … Read more
Mujin, the pioneer of intelligent robotics, has established a “Global Leadership Cabinet” (GLC) to unify its operations worldwide and drive the commercial expansion of its flagship platform, MujinOS. The GLC will align technology, product, sales, and governance functions across all regions, positioning the company for its next phase of growth and long-term strategic plans. At … Read more
