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June 30, 2021

Parrot Announces A Bug-Inspired 4G Drone

by inspectAR in Engineering, Engineering News

Parrot released the Anafi drone almost exactly four years ago. I’m still a fan of the little consumer drone—the design is elegant, it’s exceptionally portable, the camera is great, and it’s easy to fly. But the biggest problem with the Anafi (especially four years later) is that it’s very much not the cleverest of drones, […]

June 29, 2021

SoftBank Stops Making Pepper Robots, Will Cut 165 Robotics Jobs in France

by joanna goodrich in Engineering, Engineering News

Reuters is reporting that SoftBank stopped manufacturing Pepper robots at some point last year due to low demand, and by September, will cut about half of the 330 positions at SoftBank Robotics Europe in France. Most of the positions will be in Q&A, sales, and service, which hopefully leaves SoftBank Robotics’ research and development group […]

June 28, 2021

Legged Robots Do Surprisingly Well in Low Gravity

by evan ackerman in Engineering, Engineering News

Here on Earth, we’re getting good enough at legged robots that we’re starting to see a transition from wheels to legs for challenging environments, especially environments with some uncertainty as to exactly what kind of terrain your robot might encounter. Beyond Earth, we’re still heavily reliant on wheeled vehicles, but even that might be starting […]

June 26, 2021

Why Robots Can’t Be Counted On to Find Survivors in the Florida Building Collapse

by evan ackerman in Engineering, Engineering News

On Thursday, a portion of the 12-story Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside, Florida (just outside of Miami) suffered a catastrophic partial collapse. As of Saturday morning, according to the Miami Herald, 159 people are still missing, and rescuers are removing debris with careful urgency while using dogs and microphones to search for survivors still trapped […]

June 25, 2021

Video Friday: Household Skills

by tekla s. perry in Engineering, Engineering News

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here’s what we have so far (send us your events!): RoboCup 2021 – June 22-28, 2021 – [Online Event] RSS 2021 – July 12-16, 2021 – [Online Event] […]

June 25, 2021

To Fly a Drone in the U.S., You Now Must Pass FAA's TRUST Test

by tekla s. perry in Engineering, Engineering News

For years, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been shuffling its way towards some semblance of regulation of the enormous number of drones now in the hands of recreational pilots in the United States. The fact that anyone can run out and buy a cheap drone at a nearby store, charge the battery, and […]

June 23, 2021

What’s Going on With Amazon’s “High-Tech” Warehouse Robots?

by vaclav smil in Engineering, Engineering News

Amazon’s innovation blog recently published a post entitled “New technologies to improve Amazon employee safety,” which highlighted four different robotic systems that Amazon’s Robotics and Advanced Technology teams have been working on. Three of these robotic systems are mobile robots, which have been making huge contributions to the warehouse space over the past decade. Amazon […]

June 18, 2021

Video Friday: Telexistence

by david c. brock in Engineering, Engineering News

June 18, 2021

Rocket Mining System Could Blast Ice from Lunar Craters

by david c. brock in Engineering, Engineering News

Realistically, in-situ resource utilization seems like the only way of sustaining human presence outside of low Earth orbit. This is certainly the case for Mars, and it’s likely also the case for the Moon—even though the Moon is not all that far away (in the context of the solar system). It’s stupendously inefficient to send stuff […]

June 18, 2021

Two Natural-Language AI Algorithms Walk Into A Bar…

by david c. brock in Engineering, Engineering News

“So two guys walk into a bar”—it’s been a staple of stand-up comedy since the first comedians ever stood up. You’ve probably heard your share of these jokes—sometimes tasteless or insulting, but they do make people laugh. “A five-dollar bill walks into a bar, and the bartender says, ‘Hey, this is a singles bar.’” Or: “A […]

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