The center at Northwestern aims to create robots capable of intelligent and versatile grasping, fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination.
WPI researchers win NSF grant to study human-robot interaction in the workplace
WPI’s projects are designed to immerse 120 graduate students in interdisciplinary research and training that will help tackle future workplace challenges.
A dilemma of high risk high reward
The following article by Frank Tobe, editor and publisher of The Robot Report, first appeared on Robohub.org in their special focus series: High-risk / High-reward. Often funding sources – the groups taking the risk – are not the beneficiaries of the rewards of the venture. Intuitive Surgical and Rethink Robotics are two examples. NSF, DARPA and…