Automation and Robotics

Robot Performs First Laparoscopic Surgery without Human Help

A robot has performed laparoscopic surgery on the soft tissue of a pig without the guiding hand of a human—a significant step in robotics...

Self-powered Stretchable Thermometer can be Integrated into Soft Robots

The next generation of soft robotics, smart clothing, and biocompatible medical devices are going to need integrated soft sensors that can stretch and twist...

Industry Megatrends for 2022 and Beyond: Mega Story

The year 2021 has been a tough year for everyone. Industries across the globe were shut, companies were barely floating above the economic ocean,...

A New Framework that Could Simplify Imitation Learning in Robots

Over the past few decades, computer scientists have been trying to train robots to tackle a variety of tasks, including house chores and manufacturing...

Machine Learning: Smart Manufacturing Tool, its Application and Challenges

Smart manufacturing aims to integrate big data, advanced analytics, high-performance computing, and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) into traditional manufacturing systems and processes to...

Role of Technology in the Logistics Industry to Improve Efficiency and Reduce Costs

In an increasingly complex environment, our urge to simplify our lives has risen considerably. It's practically impossible to imagine our existence without all of...

PITG – Outlook for 2022 – Key Technology Trends

As we are taking fast steps into 2022 on the road of digital transformation, Cyber threats are also following quickly.  It is for certain,...

Creating Human Robots with the Dream Team

Using autonomous vehicle guidelines, a team of UBC Okanagan researchers has developed a system to improve interactions between people and robots. The way people interact...

E-PEAS Joins the Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program

e-peas is announcing today that it has joined the Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program. As part of the Qualcomm Advantage Network, this accelerator program...

Human-like Brain helps Robot out of a Maze

Psychologists use mazes to assess the learning capacity of mice or rats. But how about robots? Can they learn to navigate the twists and...

Technique Speeds up Thermal Actuation for Soft Robot

Researchers from North Carolina State University have come up with a new design for thermal actuators, which can be used to create rapid movement...

The Autonomous Industrial Revolution

From the invention of the cotton gin and the steam engine during the first industrial revolution to the development of the assembly line during...

Algorithm for Designing and Training Intelligent Soft Robots

Let's say you wanted to build the world's best stair-climbing robots. You'd need to optimize for both the brain and the body, perhaps by...

SiMa.ai is Leading the Charge to scale ML at the Edge

Edge computing supplements the existing cloud paradigm by facilitating data processing closer to the data source, thereby enabling organizations to speed up decision-making. The...

Researchers Shrink Camera to the size of a Salt Grain

Micro-sized cameras have great potential to spot problems in the human body and enable sensing for super-small robots, but past approaches captured fuzzy, distorted...

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