Top news of the week: 28.01.2023.
Vulcano: A new robotic challenge for legged robots
The Vulcano challenge is a new and innovative robotic challenge for legged robots in a physical and simulated scenario of a volcanic eruption. In this scenario, robots must climb a ...
What’s New in Robotics? 27.01.2023
News briefs for the week take a look at AMRs readying to take on Antarctic cold, John Deere’s move into precision farming with ExactShot autonomous planter, Cobalt Robotics fielding ...
Fast and optimal branch-and-bound planner for the grid-based coverage path planning problem based on an admissible heuristic function
This paper introduces an optimal algorithm for solving the discrete grid-based coverage path planning (CPP) problem. This problem consists in finding a path that covers a given region ...
Socio-cultural perception of robot backchannels
Introduction: Backchannels, i.e., short interjections by an interlocutor to indicate attention, understanding or agreement regarding utterances by another conversation participant, are ...
A squishy new robot uses syringes and physics to mosey along
Because of the flexibility of these rubber joints, the robot is also able to switch its gait, or walking style.
Energetic optimization of an autonomous mobile socially assistive robot for autism spectrum disorder
The usage of socially assistive robots for autism therapies has increased in recent years. This novel therapeutic tool allows the specialist to keep track of the improvement in socially ...
Robotics research: How Asia, Europe and America invest – Global Report 2023
by International Federation of Robotics (IFR) Countries around the world invest in robotics to support developments in industry and society. The overview shows that the most …
The Robots of CES 2023
The very first robot I saw was Eve from Halodi Robotics, exhibiting in the ADT Commercial booth. Another robot company (and robot) that I’m a big fan of is Labrador Robotics, and …