Bay area based robotics startup, SeaDrone Inc., announces the launch of Inspector 2.0, the latest innovation in underwater robotics. Inspector 1.0 was launched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2016 and was the first sub-6 kg underwater vehicle capable of tackling 1.5 knot ocean currents using its omnidirectional drag design and high thruster to weight ratio. Since the pre-order launch at TechCrunch, SeaDrone has sold hundreds of units of Inspector 1.0 units all over the world with primary markets being Japan, Chile, Norway, with aquaculture as the primary use case. Based on customer feedback, SeaDrone i ..read more

– The high-tech robot has been designed to fit effortlessly into the home while providing its users with a cutting-edge technological experience.  San Francisco, USA, 19 September 2017: Leading product design consultancy HUGE Design today reveal details of their work on Aire: the cutting edge, self-flying robot for the home from US-based technology company Aevena – launched today with a Kickstarter campaign. HUGE Design’s challenge was to help bring to life Aevena’s vision of a premium and intelligent robot that fi ..read more

SMP Robotics S5 Security Robot lineup enhanced with NVIDIA Jetson TX2 platform was presented at NVIDIA GTC Conference in San Jose. SMP Robotics, a manufacturer of autonomous mobile robots, unveiled its new product line at NVIDIA GTC Technology Conference earlier this month alongside its distributor Robotic Assistance Devices. The new generation of S5 Security Robots is enhanced with NVIDIA JetsonTX2 platform. Jetson TX2 is an embedded supercomputer designed to deliver AI computing at the edge. This credit card-sized platform puts AI computing to work in the world all around us. The technology ..read more

Robot Online thanks Tom Atwood of the National Robotics Eduation Foundation and Lucien Miller of  Innov8tive Designs for this exclusive look at some of the engines that keep large UAVs in the air: The latest engines used in the most sophisticated RC aircraft on the planet were out in force at the recent Xponential 2017 national conference, held May 8-11 by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, TX. The unmanned flying machines these power are used by the military, for traffic control, in support ..read more

The robot revolution isn’t happening fast enough, according to the team at Canadian company, Genesis Robotics, which unveiled its LiveDrive, a next-generation robotic actuator, yesterday at Hannover Messe in Germany. According to the company, LiveDrive is three times faster and  times more precise than conventional actuators. In addition to excelling in speed, precision and power, the device is also intended to contribute to a safer working and living environment in a world where robots and humans increasingly exist side by side. LiveDrive boasts a thin and flexible design that repla ..read more

If we asked you to describe your current lawn care arrangements, you might respond, “I mow.” Starting this summer, however, the folks at Honda are hoping to change your response to Miimo, the name of their new robotic lawn mower. This sleek little yard bot is capable of cutting lawns of up to half an acre and will handle slopes up to 25 degrees. Miimo has been available in Europe since 2013 but is only now being unleashed on American lawns. In a world has long enjoyed the benefits of robotic vacuuming, there’s nothing all that earth-shattering about Miimo. There are two models available. Each ..read more

By, Mitch Anderson How I Started Building Robots with My Kids Mitch and his daughter working on Andros. Photo credit: Mitch Anderson When my son was 12 he told me how much he envies my childhood. I said “What? There was communism, shortages, no human rights…”  “Yes, but you’d go to your dad’s shop and make things. In the summer you send me to those camps where boys only care about exchanging ringtones.” His words really got to me and we started our garage workshop and led me to building a robot with my children. We made a lots of WW2 1/6-scale vehicles, and even won a couple of model ..read more

Jeffrey Siskind, associate professor in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, poses with Darth Vader, a language-learning robot that has shown the ability to create its own path of movement based on numerous previous experiences. (Purdue Research Foundation photo/Curt Slyder) It’s a familiar scenario to most of us, navigating your way through unfamiliar territory by following the verbal prompts provided by your trusty GPS device. “Turn right on Main Street and then get in the left lane,” says the electronic voice. You activate your signal light, scan the right-hand side of th ..read more

Robots have been proving themselves everywhere from the assembly line to outer space, yet one important job remained beyond their mechanical grasp until last week. On March 7, 2017 a robot named Flippy took up its post in front of the grill at a fast-food eatery in Pasadena, California and began doing the important, and previously human-only work of grilling delicious burgers. The story has been widely covered, owing both to the novelty of a sophisticated machine flipping burgers and to concern over the looming prospect of job losses in the fast food industry as robots displace human workers ..read more

ODENSE, Denmark–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Learning how to set up and program a collaborative robot – or cobot – no longer depends on real life access to a robot or a training class. Now everybody with a desire to learn the concepts of cobots can log in to the Universal Robots Academy and get the introduction necessary to master basic programming skills. CTO and founder of Universal Robots, Esben Østergaard, explains that it is unusual in the industry to make robot training curriculum of this kind available for free. “But this is a long-term investment for us. We want to raise the robot literacy and the ..read more