Mobile Robot Market Grew by 33% in 2022 – Over 120,000 AGVs and AMRs Sold
Despite weakness in the global economy, high interest rates and inflation, we predict shipments will grow by a further 45% in 2023 and more than 30% in 2024.
Plant-inspired liquid metal actuators unlock new potential for flexible robotics
A research team led by Prof. Tian Xingyou and Prof. Zhang Xian from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) have utilized liquid metal to construct Liquid metal/Polyimide/Polytetrafluoroethylene (LM/PI/PTFE) programmable photothermal actuators based on asymmetric thermal expansion.
Adding a flexible spine and tail makes mouse robot more nimble
A team of roboticists at Technical University of Munich, in Germany, working with a colleague from Sun Yat-sen University, in China, has improved the nimbleness of a quadruped robot by adding a flexible spine and tail. The group has reported on their project in the journal Science Robotics.
200 Times Faster Subsea Inspection
Precise motion control is helping a new subsea inspection device achieve highly accurate inspection with the fastest-yet speeds of data collection.
Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model
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Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model
Making AI more helpful for everyone
Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model
Making AI more helpful for everyone
Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model
Making AI more helpful for everyone
Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model
Making AI more helpful for everyone
Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model
Making AI more helpful for everyone
Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model
Making AI more helpful for everyone
Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model
Making AI more helpful for everyone
Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model
Making AI more helpful for everyone
Support for fruit farmers: mobile robots harvest apples
KUKA and the Upper Bavarian company digital workbench have launched a cooperation at Agritechnica. The aim of the cooperation is a concrete product: a mobile harvesting robot to support fruit farmers during the apple harvest.
Researchers develop reprogrammable bistable soft gripper for enhanced human-machine interaction
Soft grippers have advantages in human-machine interactions, but most of them suffer from low response time. Bistable structures could improve this characteristic, but the performance of current bistable grippers is limited by their predefined structural parameters and grasping modes.