Oct 26, 2023 | Featured, Robots, Work
It’s not uncommon for people to take their foot off the pedal at work if they know others will cover for them. And it turns out, the same might be true when people think robots have got their backs. While robots have been a fixture in the workplace for decades,...
Oct 26, 2023 | Environment, Marine, Oceanography, Robots
If you’ve ever spent time on a beach in the Gulf of Mexico or the Caribbean, there is a solid chance you stumbled across a slimy mass of stinky, sulfurous-smelling seaweed. The specific marine plant in question during those gross encounters is...
Oct 19, 2023 | Robots, Work
Amazon has announced a new “set of integrated robotics systems” set to be deployed across its warehouses in a bid to improve worker efficiency and health, as well as hopefully leading to higher customer satisfaction. Adding to the growing list of more than 750,000...
Oct 19, 2023 | Featured, Robots
Some things come easy to humans but are vexing problems for machines. You can probably stack groceries in a trunk or set a table with little trouble, but a robot stumbles over the numerous constraints we process without hesitation. A team at MIT has created a...
Oct 11, 2023 | Defense, Drones, Robots
On the second floor of the Walter E. Washington convention center in the District of Columbia sits a robot tanklet, designed to hunt drones. The uncrewed vehicle is the TRX SHORAD, and it is part of the display from defense giant General Dynamics Land Systems,...
Oct 11, 2023 | Agriculture, Featured, Robots
Autonomous farm robots guided by GPS can plant and harvest multiple crops in close proximity, enabling beneficial interactions between different plants and potentially boosting biodiversity. Strip cropping, which involves partitioning fields into narrow bands...
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