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A robotics company hoping to free industrial robots from their cages has teamed up with Siemens to simulate and validate the way industrial automation is deployed on the line. It’s another step toward what could be the next major revolution in industrial automation. Some context: Big robots have traditionally been kept behind cages and well […] More
You probably haven’t used a delivery robot yet. Few have, but it’s looking increasingly like that may change — at least for city dwellers in dense urban environments. The footprints of companies offering autonomous mobile robots to deliver food and groceries, while still small, continues to expand thanks to pandemic-related restrictions on dining in and […] More
How do you test your mettle if you’re a fighter pilot? You pull some gnarly acrobatics that push your hardware (and body) to the limit, such as the Matty flip or the power loop. But it’s not all about ego. Aerospace engineers have long relied on test pilots to push the limits of manned aircraft […] More
Introduction One kind of robot has endured for the last half-century: the hulking one-armed Goliaths that dominate industrial assembly lines. These industrial robots have been task-specific — built to spot weld, say, or add threads to the end of a pipe. They aren’t sexy, but in the latter half of the 20th century they transformed […] More
The adoption of game-changing technologies usually comes to niche sectors that aren’t the most visible before hitting the mainstream, and robotics is no different. So while self-driving cars grab headlines, for a more realistic market adoption forecast of autonomous mobile technologies you might want to look at forklifts. Automation has already come to forklifts in […] More
A commercial space exploration company has been tapped to conduct a study into the possibility of providing early detection for solar events that can disrupt power grids and communications on earth. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded the study to Seattle-based Xplore Inc. Solar storms can wreak havoc on earth. In 2003, a […] More
As questions fly about whether scooter-share companies like Bird and Lime can survive COVID-19 shutdowns, is there really room for another scooter company to enter the fray? If investors in a new player on the scene are any indication, the answer is a firm yes. The company is Superpedestrian, a Boston-based mobility, engineering, and technology […] More
Robotics firm Boston Dynamics has made an art of releasing viral-ready videos of its robots that are once captivating and terrifying. Now Spot, the robotic quadruped that’s starred in recent videos, is available for sale commercially. Spot made headlines recently enforcing social distancing at a park in Singapore, which was widely decried as a hair-raising […] More
