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…computer science and AI from MIT. Her publications cover a wide range of topics, including distributed robotics, machine learning, human-robot interaction, and socially assistive robotics, and are highly cited. Matarić is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AMACAD), and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association for the Advancement of…
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…because of actuation problems. The MIT-PITT-RW team suffered a crash, and the AI Racing Tech team from University of Hawai'i's car spun out into grass and had to be towed away. TUM takes shootout After a 131.148 average speed during the first round, the top three teams participated in the “shootout.” After hitting 158 mph in its practice raps, PoliMOVE…
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…shipping in a talk at MIT Technology Review’s Future Compute event yesterday. About the author Tony Paikeday is the director of product marketing for the NVIDIA DGX portfolio of AI supercomputers and NVIDIA accelerated data science platform. Previously, he worked at VMware, where he was responsible for bringing desktop and application virtualization solutions to market, as well as key enabling…
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…of what Jim Rice at MIT calls “the dominant design” - just another tool in the tool kit. I’m going to go out on a limb, but I’m now convinced that robotic materials handling is at a tipping point in materials handling, and it feels as if the adoption rate is about to take off. Over the last two years,…
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…for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, and MIT Lincoln Lab. Other sponsors included 6K, Synagex, Quabbin Wire & Cable, Tooling U-SME, GBMP, Equinor, the Massachusetts Manufacturing Energy Collaborative, Skylitics, Hybrid CNC Parts, Spark Photonics, Mack Prototype, AB Corp, MRSI Myronic, Modern Mold and Tool, MassDevelopment, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, and Associated Industries of Massachusetts. Organizing partners for the event included CAM, the…
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…Science and Technology (South Korea) MIT-PITT-RW—Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts), University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), Rochester Institute of Technology (New York), University of Waterloo (Canada) PoliMOVE—Politecnico di Milano (Italy), University of Alabama, which won last January's challlenge at CES. It also won the Indy Autonomous Challenge Powered by Cisco at the Texas Motor Speedway in November (see full video below). TII…
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…local investor with ties to MIT, Safar Partners was already familiar with Veo Robotics' culture as a “startup for grownups,” with values of responsibility and respect, as well as three months of parental leave, noted Vu. “Veo's innovative technology, which allows for safe and seamless collaboration between humans and robots, has the potential to revolutionize a wide range of industries,”…
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…is to begin with educational excellence—MIT and Harvard—and wait 200 years.' Innovation and enrepreneurship are part of our DNA and have helped us get through many an economic cycle.” With more than 350 robotics and related technology companies in the region, the Massachusetts robotics hub is one of the biggest in the world. Local companies range from best-in-class component makers…
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…computer can understand. Researchers at MIT are already hard at work on developing what’s being called brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). They’re even claiming they’ve been able to achieve up to 20% robotic performance improvement by enabling robots to adapt to users’ thought commands. While these claims feel more like something from a Sci-Fi movie, it’s nice to know that even if…
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The state of investment and funding in the robotics industry in 2026
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…add value. I'm not an MIT-trained engineer, but I was a Navy officer. Vecna has added a couple of new executives, including a chief marketing officer, a senior vice president of product management, and a chief people officer. We're building on the foundation of the strong engineering culture to move the company forward. This allows Daniel to focus on innovation,…
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…with experts from institutions including MIT, Cornell University, and the University of Michigan. Backed by multiple venture capital firms, Dextrous Robotics received a competitive grant from the National Science Foundation in 2021. Dextrous Robotics designs for precision The job of loading and unloading trucks is one of the most challenging to fill in the logistics industry, according to Dextrous Robotics.…
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…likes of both OpenAI and MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). While the former is better known today for ChatGPT, in 2018, it made headlines by training a human-like robot hand to manipulate physical objects with unprecedented dexterity by using a reinforcement learning algorithm and code. CSAIL also relied on advances in deep learning to reorient a robotic…
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…Winkenbach, Ph.D., director of the MIT Megacity Logistics Lab. Podcast: How Final Mile Logistics & White Glove Services are Impacting Shipping To gain a competitive advantage in last-mile logistics, shippers need to understand the top seven trends in last mile logistics. 1. Last Mile Logistics Gets Faster Fulfillment Fulfillment timetables are changing. Consumers want faster fulfillment, and shippers need to…
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…Jim Rice, a professor at MIT, calls “sustaining innovation.” This type of innovation represents “the combining and application of a mix of inventions, existing processes, and technologies in a new way to create improvements in cost, quality, cash, and/or service.” A great example of this recommended to me by several fellow MODEX attendees was the new goods-to-person system from OPEX,…
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Software-based GripperAI manages mixed picking through basic geometry
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North America’s largest robotics and automation event winds down
