Top news of the week: 16.03.2022.
Robotics
Kawasaki’s Robot Ibex: Can It Be Tamed?
Kawasaki has been working on a "Robust Humanoid Platform" (RHP) called Kaleido since 2015, and Bex is a "friend" of that program. Add it all up, and Bex has wheels, legs, horns, ...
To Catch a Falling Satellite
The TumbleDock/ROAM team has just finished a series of tests in the cabin of the International Space Station, using NASA robots called Astrobee to stand in for a tumbling satellite and a ...
After Yang Will Make You Grieve For a Robot
The beautiful and strange new movie from South Korean filmmaker Kogonada presents a very different view of an AI-enhanced future.
Robot centenary – 100 years since ‘robot’ made its debut
by euRobotics AISBL Robotics remained at the leading edge of technology development in 2021, yet it was one hundred years earlier in 1921 that the word robot (in its modern sense) …
Social Robots in Applied Settings: A Long-Term Study on Adaptive Robotic Tutors in Higher Education
Learning in higher education scenarios requires self-directed learning and the challenging task of self-motivation while individual support is rare. The integration of social robots to ...
Now boarding: Startup airline uses robots to sanitize planes
Start-up Avelo Airlines, which has established its East Coast hub at Tweed-New Haven Airport, said Thursday it has begun using autonomous robots to disinfect aircraft cabins to guard ...
What’s New in Robotics? 11.03.2022
StartUs Insights is out with a list of over 1300 robotics companies with AI/ML offerings. News briefs for the week take a look at the sudden expansion by robot/cobot developers in “joining ...