The Robot Report

Copenhagen, Denmark-based startup Kassow Robots is having its coming out party at Automatica 2018, which takes place June 19-22 in Munich, Germany. Co-founded in 2014 by Kristian Kassow, the former co-founder of Universal Robots, the company is developing lightweight, 7-DOF collaborative robot arms that it hopes will penetrate an increasingly competitive market. Kassow Robots will…

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…

2019 will be the year of commercial class legged robots. That was the message delivered by Agility Robotics and Boston Dynamics during their respective opening and closing keynotes at the inaugural Robotics Summit & Showcase, produced by The Robot Report and WTWH Media in Boston. Agility Robotics CEO and co-founder Damion Shelton updated attendees on…