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An algorithm for optimizing the cost and efficiency of human-robot collaborative assembly lines

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Jan 15, 2021 | 14:30 pm

Robots are rapidly making their way into a variety of settings, including industrial and manufacturing facilities. So far, they have shown great potential for speeding up and automating a number of manufacturing processes by substituting or assisting human workers on assembly lines. To be adopted on a large scale, however, robots for manufacturing should be both efficient and relatively affordable.

Wielding a laser beam deep inside the body

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Jan 13, 2021 | 19:00 pm

Minimally invasive surgeries in which surgeons gain access to internal tissues through natural orifices or small external excisions are common practice in medicine. They are performed for problems as diverse as delivering stents through catheters, treating abdominal complications, and performing transnasal operations at the skull base in patients with neurological conditions.

Fish-inspired robots coordinate movements without any outside control

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Jan 13, 2021 | 19:00 pm

Schools of fish exhibit complex, synchronized behaviors that help them find food, migrate and evade predators. No one fish or team of fish coordinates these movements nor do fish communicate with each other about what to do next. Rather, these collective behaviors emerge from so-called implicit coordination—individual fish making decisions based on what they see their neighbors doing.

Taking the lab into the ocean: A fleet of robots tracks and monitors microbial communities

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Jan 13, 2021 | 19:00 pm

Researchers from MBARI, the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa), and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, after years of development and testing, have successfully demonstrated that a fleet of autonomous robots can track and study a moving microbial community in an open-ocean eddy. The results of this research effort were recently published in Science Robotics.

How to keep drones flying when a motor fails

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Jan 13, 2021 | 17:52 pm

Robotics researchers at the University of Zurich show how onboard cameras can be used to keep damaged quadcopters in the air and flying stably—even without GPS.

Robot Gift Guide 2019

Automaton Nov 28, 2019 | 03:30 am

Over a dozen robots that we promise will make fantastic holiday gifts

Video Friday: Robotic Endoscope Travels Through the Colon

Automaton Nov 23, 2019 | 01:46 am

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

Caltech and JPL Firing Quadrotors Out of Cannons

Automaton Nov 20, 2019 | 16:50 pm

The fastest, safest, and most exciting way to launch a quadrotor may be ballistically

Bipedal Robot Cassie Cal Learns to Juggle

Automaton Nov 18, 2019 | 19:22 pm

Cassie may not have any arms to work with, but that doesn’t keep it from juggling a ball on its head