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Heartland Robotics and Automation Conference unveils speaking lineup

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…Nebraska to the Moon and Mars.” Derek Kowalski, Nucor Vulcraft Nebraska; Doug Rood, Collins Aerospace; Travis Turek, Bruckman Rubber; and Mike Boyle, Kawasaki The panel will focus on attracting and keeping talent in the robotics industry. Eric Abrahamson and Jim Harvey The duo will co-host a session featuring the intersection of national security and cinematic storytelling. Abrahamson and Harvey will…


Automatica 2025: NVIDIA, partners highlight humanoids, automation and AI technologies

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…debuting two collaborative robots: D-Bot Mar and D-Bot 2 in 1 - both trained using Omniverse and Isaac Sim technologies and libraries. NVIDIA and Delta Electronics said these cobots are engineered to transform intralogistics and optimize production flows. Wandelbots, the creator of the Wandelbots NOVA software platform for industrial robotics, is partnering with SoftServe, a global IT consulting and digital…


AI, sensor developer Forcen closes CA$8.35 million funding round

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…participation by Garage Capital and MaRS IAF, and returning investors including EmergingVC. Forcen said it will use this investment to scale up prototype production facilities to support more customers and continue developing its force/torque sensing technology and edge AI. Founded in 2015, the company said it creates force/torque sensing components and edge AI software systems designed to enable robot companies…


Caltech Aims All Terrain M4 Morphobot at NASA Mars Mission

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…be part of future NASA Mars Rover missions. The M4 Morphobot is powered by the NVIDIA Jetson platform for artificial intelligence at the edge and robotics. The institute called the robot the M4 because it can fly, drive, walk, and do eight permutations of motion through a combination of its skills. “It grew in the number of functions that we…


InOrbit Education Edition Seeks to Empower Future Robotics Innovators

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…designing robots to go to Mars.” InOrbit offers RobOps to educators Mountain View, Calif.-based InOrbit said its RobOps platform empowers developers and end users to maximize the potential of every robot at scale. The company said its multi-cloud platform enables efficient robot operations. It also provides observability through secure, real-time analytics and data collection, robot performance monitoring, incident response, and…


MIT Develops AI Technique Enabling Robots to Manipulate Objects With Their Whole Bodies

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…sent on exploration missions to Mars or other solar system bodies, since they could adapt to the environment quickly using only an onboard computer, said the institute. “Rather than thinking about this as a 'black-box' system, if we can leverage the structure of these kinds of robotic systems using models, there is an opportunity to accelerate the whole procedure of…


Strengthening the Alliance With Robots for Deeper Space Exploration

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…send 1 million people to Mars by 2050 in January 2020, many space exploration pundits and scholars have tried to identify the achievability of that statement. From collecting samples from the moon's surface to setting up a colony on Mars, it turns out that humans alone aren't enough because of adaptability and risk factors. Not only is choosing a robot…


Advanced Navigation to Provide NASA with Sensor Technology as Part of Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program

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…been awarded a Moon to Mars Initiative: Demonstrator Mission Grant by the Australian Space Agency to support NASA’s endeavor to explore the Moon and beyond to Mars. The grant will accelerate the development and production of the company’s light detection, altimetry and velocimetry (LiDAV) technology, the Sydney, Australia-based Advanced Navigation said. Supported by this award, Advanced Navigation said it will…


igus Shows Offerings and Support for Low Cost Automation at Hannover Messe

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…robot in a simulation of Mars exploration. igus also offered a VR tour with its igus:bike, which is largely made of recycled plastic and is designed to avoid corrosion. The bicycle will be available for order in August, and igus' Chainge program recycles its materials with minimal performance degradation. Editor's note: igus paid for media travel to Hannover Messe.


maxon Partners With MassRobotics to Support Advances in Drive Technology for Robotics

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…stringent, such as in NASA's Mars rovers, surgical power tools, humanoid robots, and industrial automation applications. To maintain its more than 60 years of leadership, maxon said it invests a “considerable” share of its annual revenue in research and development. The company has more than 3,500 employees at nine production sites and is represented by sales companies in more than…


PickNik Robotics and Motiv Space Systems Partner to Develop Advanced Robot Arm Capabilities

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…including Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Among its contracts was the xLink robot arm, which is designed for extravehicular activity (EVA) and intravehicular activity (IVA) applications. In collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Pasadena, Calif.-based company has also been developing the COLDArm robotic system for operation in cryogenic temperatures down to -180°C for operations in the…


Surgical Robotics Innovation Worldwide to Accelerate With New Investments

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…of its Magnetic-Assisted Robotic Surgery (MARS) platform. The MARS platform adds various clinical benefits to the Levita Magnetic Surgical System, it said. Levita Magnetics added that the MARS platform will provide surgeons with increased visualization and control over equipment. The company said funding will also help it advance robotics innovation and usage for surgeries. Dr. Alberto Rodriguez-Navarro, the founder and…


Nauticus Robotics Expands Fleet of Oceangoing Systems to Improve Sustainable Resource Use

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…rising within the century, the solution is not to go to Mars.” “Venture capital firms should spend more on the oceans,” asserted Radford. “The past 40 years have been invested in the digital world, but the next 100 years will be identified by the ubiquitous manipulation of the physical world.”


Robots Assemble: Why Do Scientists Want to Create Self-Building Modular Robots?

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…even autonomously build structures in orbit or on the Moon or Mars one day. MIT’s self-building, autonomously scaling modular robotics system is a vital step forward in engineering technology. About the author Emily Newton. Emily Newton is a tech writer who enjoys writing about the latest innovations changing our world. Read more of her articles online at Revolutionized Magazine.


IFR Report ‘World Robotics R &D Programs’ Looks at How Asia, Europe, and the U.S. Invest

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…For example, NASA's “Moon to Mars” project highlights objectives to establish a long-term presence in the vicinity of and on the moon. NASA plans on developing robotics as part of the Artemis Program. Click image to enlarge. Source: International Federation of Robotics The project targets technology R&D to “significantly increase the performance of robots to collaboratively support deep space human…


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