Oct 8, 2016 @ 21:34 | The year 1988 is considered as birth year of IROS and IROS 2016 is the 29th conference in the series. IROS is an annual IEEE/RSJ International conference covering latest advancements in fast growing field of robotics The second week of October 2016 is full of excitement for robotics community […]
Oct 7, 2016 @ 20:33 | Rethink Robotics offer a high performance robotic platform, Sawyer robot with open source SDK for research, engineering, education and development. Rethink Robotics unveiled its high performance Sawyer robot for the global research and education markets. Built on the open source Robot Operating System (ROS) and equipped with a software […]
Oct 7, 2016 @ 19:58 | By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL | MIT News | MIT researchers outfitted their cube robot with shock-absorbing skins that transfer less than half of the energy that would normally be transferred to the ground. Anyone who’s watched drone videos or an episode of “BattleBots” knows that robots can break — […]
Sep 19, 2016 @ 19:19 | The SMORES modules can connect to one another using four electro-permanent (EP) magnets on each face to Accomplishing Tasks. SMORES (Self-assembling Modular Robot for Extreme Shape-shifting) is a modular robot developed at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. Each module has four degrees of freedom (pan, tilt, and left/right wheels). […]