Robotics

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How to assemble a DIY selfie drone with Arduino and ESP8266

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Have you ever thought of something that can take a photo from the air, or perhaps take a selfie from it? How about we...
What we learned at the ICRA 2018 conference for robotics & automation

What we learned at the ICRA 2018 conference for robotics & automation

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This year’s ICRA 2018 conference features interactive sessions, keynotes, exhibitions, workshops, and much more. Following are some of the interesting keynotes on machine learning,...
What we learned at the ICRA 2018 conference for robotics & automation

ROS Melodic Morenia released

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ROS is nothing but a middleware with a set of tools and software frameworks for building and stimulating robots. ROS follows a stable release...

Amazon Alexa and AWS helping NASA improve their efficiency

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While everyone is busy playing songs and giving voice commands to Amazon Alexa, the amazing voice assistant developed by Amazon is utilized by the...

Boston Dynamics’ ‘Android of robots’ vision starts with launching 1000 robot dogs in 2019

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A video went viral in February showcasing a dog like robot opening a door for another robot. These agile robots are the brainchild of Boston...

6 powerful microbots developed by researchers around the world

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When we hear  the word robot, we may think of large industry sized robots assembling cars or humanoid ones. However there are such tiny...
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Shadow Robot joins Avatar X program to bring real-world avatars into space

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Shadow Robots Company, experts at grasping and manipulation for robotic hands announced that they are joining a new space avatar program named AVATAR X....
robot using blackboard

Is ROS 2.0 good enough to build real-time robotic applications? Spanish researchers find out.

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Last Friday, a group of Spanish researchers have published a research paper titled ‘Towards a distributed and real-time framework for robots: evaluation of ROS...

The new Bolt robot from Sphero wants to teach kids programming

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Sphero, a robotic toy building company announced their latest Bolt robotic ball aimed at teaching kids basic programming. It has advanced sensors, an LED...

These robot jellyfish are on a mission to explore and guard the oceans

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Earlier last week, a team of US scientists, from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and the US Office of Naval Research published a paper on...