The Robot Report

Collaborative robots pioneer Universal Robots unveiled at Automatica 2018 its e-Series 6-axis cobot arms, the next generation of its flagship line. The company says the UR3e, UR5e, and UR10e offer more precision and sensitivity, enabling a wider range of applications, faster set up times and new safety features. Universal Robots, which has seen strong growth…

Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the University of Toronto are developing a 3D simulator that could eventually teach robots how to complete household tasks like making coffee or setting the table. “VirtualHome” is a system that simulates detailed household tasks and has artificial “agents” execute them. Using crowdsourcing, the team tested VirtualHome…

Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI) technology will be used in two pilot programs with large scale commercial growers in California. A partnership agreement has been announced between ASI, New Holland Agriculture, and E. & J. Gallo Winery, the largest family-owned winery in the world, to operate the autonomous vehicles in their vineyard operations. Similarly, there has…

UC Berkeley has released to the public its BDD100K self-driving dataset. The BDD100K self-driving dataset is quite vast with 100,000 videos that can be used to further technologies for autonomous vehicles. The dataset is part of the university’s DeepDrive project that is investigating state-of-the-art technologies in computer vision and machine learning for automotive applications. Developers…

A new system spearheaded by researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) allows users to control robots using hand gestures and brainwaves. The researchers say this allows users to instantly correct a robot’s mistakes with nothing more than brain signals and the flick of a finger. Building off the team’s past work…