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One robot on Mars is robotics, ten robots are automation
In this illustration, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter stands on the Red Planet’s surface as NASA’s Perseverance rover (partially visible on the left) rolls away. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech The...
View ArticleExhibits at ICRA 2012
The above video, posted to IEEE Spectrum’s YouTube channel, shows a sampling of the exhibits that were there to be seen at ICRA 2012 (May 14-18), with a few scenes taken from the robot’s point of...
View ArticleCatching up with robots
The above video, by Erico Guizzo and Evan Ackerman of IEEE Spectrum, and shows Patrick Rowe, of RE2 (RE-squared), the firm hired by DARPA to build the standard platform for their ARM program, putting...
View ArticleAggressive flight using laser scanner, IMU, & 3D map
Evan Ackerman, writing for IEEE Spectrum’s Automaton blog, says Researchers at MIT CSAIL have decided that slow and obstacle-free flight is boring, so they’ve come up with a way to get MAVs navigating...
View ArticleJuggling two balls with one hand & fast vision
Also presented recently at ICRA, Takahiro Kizaki and Akio Namiki from the Graduate School of Engineering at Chiba University in Japan demonstrated a system comprised of a fast vision system (500 fps)...
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Happy New Year! | IEEE Spectrum
“Welcome to 2013. This is the year when everything is going to happen. We can confidently predict that just about every single day (weekday, at least), we’ll have something new and amazing and...
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Team RBO from Berlin wins Amazon Picking Challenge convincingly
The Amazon Picking Challenge is over and two things stood out. One: how many different arm gripper solutions were possible; and two: just how difficult the challenge still is. The gap between the top...
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ICRA 2017 Company Showcase
Image: ICRA 2017 In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several companies at the International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA). ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s biggest...
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A newcomer’s guide to #ICRA2022: A primer
Dear robotics graduate students and newcomers to robotics, If you are what I imagine delving into robotics to be like today, the majority of your time is spent as follows: navigating Slack channels...
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