#gombert

Nathan Gombert

Nicolas Gombert isn’t exactly a household name. He was a composer who lived in the 16th century, worked in the court of Charles V and was dead by 1561. A minor figure, perhaps, but one who comes alive on G O M B E R T, a new interpretation of his work on Another Timbre.

New Post has been published on http://www.trendzulu.com/2015/05/17/at-ces-last-week-irobot-introduced-a-redesigned-version-of-the-scooba-floor-cleaning-robot/

At CES last week, iRobot introduced a redesigned version of the Scooba floor-cleaning robot

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Key Talking Points: Robots on May 17, 2015 @ 22:19 ET

Ms de 200 modelos de robots podrn armar los chicos de las escuelas secundarias sanjuaninas gracias a los kits de RobotGroup que gestion la Direccin de Innovacin Tecnolgica, que depende de la Secretara de Ciencia, Tecnologa e Innovacin.

At CES last week, iRobot introduced a redesigned version of the Scooba floor-cleaning robot.

Both civilian and military bomb squad teams gathered with their robot companions in New Mexico this week to compete in the Western National Robot Rodeo and Capability Exercise at Sandia National Laboratories.

But seriously, gimbals are expensive: 3D Robotics, for example, sells a gimbal for its Solo drone that (at US $400) isnearly half the cost of the entire drone itself.

Yesterday, DARPA held a media briefing detailing what we have to look forward to at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals next month at Fairplex in Pomona, Calif., on June 5 and 6.

Robots can teach us a lot about feelings.#ILearnedItOnTV http://t.co/ClpkZoqhor

— Rick G. Rosner (dumbassgenius) Mon May 18 01:42:48 +0000 2015

Topics Being Discussed…

June

IHMC’s robotics experts head to Pomona, California to challenge 25 teams from around the world in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Robotics Challenge from June 5-6. (Source: Local robotics team getting ready for challenge)

Hololens

But, via the HoloLens, a holographic robot appeared to pop right out of the Pi-bot, resulting in a cool- and friendly-looking, augmented reality robot. (Source: Microsoft Unveils New HoloLens Features, Partnerships, Robots at Build 2015)

Own Weight

A piezoelectric robot showed that the adhesive can be made to cycle quickly (up to 16 times a second) between its sticky and unsticky states, while other robots were able to pull impressive payloads vertically a tiny 20-milligram robot, powered by an external heat source, was able to hoist a clipboard 25 times its own weight up a vertical wall. (Source: Tiny MicroTug robots pull 1800 times their own weight)

Jeff

In terms of practical applications, one possible scenario includes underwater search, where Jeff robots spread out to locate a target, signal each other when its found, and then call Lily robots over for help communicating with the surface: (Source: Robotics World’s Largest Swarm of Miniature Robot Submarines A fleet of little robot submarines is learning to cooperatively perform tasks underwater5May)

Freight

Today, Fetch Robotics is announcing Fetch and Freight, a beefy mobile manipulator and zippy mobile base designed to automate logistics in places like warehouses. (Source: Robotics Fetch Robotics Introduces Fetch and Freight: Your Warehouse Is Now Automated This pair of robots is ready to take over in warehouses, autonomously picking and delivering goods29Apr)

Gombert

In November 2011, AVRA Surgical Robotics, a U.S. company that wanted to develop a surgical robotics system, approached Gombert. (Source: Robotics Who Is Gomtec, the Collaborative Robotics Company Acquired by ABB? Here’s why Swiss automation giant ABB is buying a small robot arm company14Apr)

Stanford

Stanford University professor Sebastian Thrun, who guides the project, and Google engineer Chris Urmson discussed these and other details in a keynote speech at the IEEEInternational Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in San Francisco last month. (Source: Robotics How Google’s Self-Driving Car Works Google engineers explain the technology behind their autonomous vehicle and show videos of the road tests18Oct2011)

Automation

To get you excited, as if you werent already excited, theIEEE Robotics & Automation Society has put together a video of some of the coolest research that will be presented this year, with versions available in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Arabic, French, and Italian. (Source: Robotics Video Friday: Sphero Droid, Drone Jogging, and Robot Feeds You Marshmallows Your weekly dose of robot videos is here24Apr)

Lily

When he got back to California, he contacted Bradlow, with whom hed worked on several of those collegiate robotics projects, and they started developing Lily. (Source: Robotics Is Lily a Drone? Or Is It a Camera? Startup Lily Robotics comes out of stealth this week with an autonomous flying videographer12May)