‘SensorTile’ is a sensing and connectivity hub ideal for developing products such as wearables, gaming accessories, smart-home and IoT devices.

'SensorTile' is a sensing and connectivity hub ideal for developing products such as wearables, gaming accessories, smart-home and IoT devices. It has small sensor board with MEMS accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, pressure sensor, and a MEMS microphone STMicroelectronics’ 13.5mm x 13.5mm 'SensorTile'  is currently the smallest turnkey sensor board of its type, containing a MEMS accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, pressure sensor, and a MEMS microphone. With the on-board low-power ST...
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Segway’s new Human Transporter and Personal Robot

Ninebot by Segway miniPRO Hands-Free, Self-Balancing Personal Transporter The miniPRO is not a hoverboard—it’s the next step in the evolution of personal transportation. Powered by Ninebot technology, the miniPRO is a hands-free,two-wheel electric scooter with safer features, higher speeds, and longer battery life. The miniPRO is built to easily traverse a variety of indoor and outdoor terrains. Some transporters, including hoverboards, have earned a reputation as fire hazards...
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‘Creative Technologies’ is a new fast growing field that integrates creative arts and technology

  The Creative Technologies Research Theme integrates creative arts and technology, creating a unique and dynamic combination in areas of multimedia, gaming, content and production. Creative Technologies researchers in Trinity look at technologies which are creative in themselves, including computer animation, computer graphics, and signal processing, while also carrying out research into how these technologies can be utilised in other wider research areas such as Education and Traini...
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LEGO launched ‘Boost’, an easy to build and program ‘robot kit’ that can operate using iphone

LEGO Group announced LEGO® BOOST, a supercharged building and coding set that lets children bring their LEGO creations to life by adding movement, sound and personality. Lego Boost is a programmable set of motors to bring your bricked creations to life. LEGO® BOOST combines the endless play opportunities of a traditional LEGO set with an endless variety of movement and sound capabilities made possible through an easy-to-use, app-based coding environment. LEGO BOOST has been developed for chil...
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UK based ‘Cambridge Medical Robotics’ is developing a next-generation robotic system for universal minimal access surgery.

Cambridge Medical Robotics is developing a next-generation robotic system for universal minimal access surgery. It has developed a robot 'Versius' to perform upper GI, gynaecological, colorectal and renal surgery in cadaveric trials.  The system has already demonstrated the ability to visualise and access all these surgical workspaces and to perform tissue manipulation, suturing, needle driving and electro-surgery. CMR has now built 20 proprietary robotic arms, built and tested nine different...
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‘LUKE’ arm is a modular advanced robotic prostheses with high level of dexterity and flexibility

"Luke Arm," whose official name is DEKA Arm System, is one of the most advanced robotic prostheses ever built. FDA approved this robotic arm for amputees after extensive research. LUKE arm is a modular prosthetic arm that is configurable for different levels of amputation including transradial, transhumeral, and shoulder disarticulation. DEKA Arm was created by famed inventor Dean Kamen and his team at DEKA Research and Development Corp., in Manchester, N.H., as part of DARPA's Revolutioni...
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Honda’s new ‘NeuV ‘autonomous car that uses artificial intelligence to generate emotions that will help stronger connection between the car and human passenger.

Honda's new 'NeuV 'autonomous car that uses artificial intelligence to generate emotions that will help stronger connection between the car and human passenger. Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, robotics, and big data to transform the mobility experience, Honda today announced that “Cooperative Mobility Ecosystem” will be the theme for its participation at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.  Honda will kick off its CES presence with an 11:00 am PST press con...
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Automatic Car Wash now for Airplanes

Aviator NORDIC DINO robot is a computerised and self-contained system purpose built for washing aircraft exteriors. The system consists of a mobile power unit, spray nozzles and rotating cleaning brushes powered by a lightweight remote control that permits safe and simple one-man operation. NORDIC DINO meets the requirements for washing aircraft exteriors and incorporates safety features designed to prevent accidental personal injury and aircraft damage. NORDIC DINO II The NORDIC DIN...
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e-government – Allow people to interact more naturally with digital government services

Since the earliest days of the Internet, most government agencies have eagerly explored how to use technology to better deliver services to citizens, businesses and other public-sector organizations. Early on, observers recognized that these efforts often varied widely in their implementation, and so researchers developed various frameworks to describe the different stages of growth and development of e-government. While each model is different, they all identify the same general progression fro...
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IBM Multi-Purpose Elder Care Robot Assistant (IBM MERA)

IBM (NYSE: IBM) Research today announced the creation of the prototype IBM Multi-Purpose Eldercare Robot Assistant (IBM MERA) done in collaboration with Rice University. IBM MERA is a first of a kind Watson-enabled application designed to help assist the elderly and their caregivers. IBM Research also has plans to work with Sole Cooperativa, an independent healthcare provider in Italy, to instrument senior housing with sensors to monitor day-to-day activities of its residents.   Accor...
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University of Minnesota has developed a prototype that allows people to control a robotic arm using only their brain.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have made a major breakthrough that allows people to control a robotic arm using only their minds. The research has the potential to help millions of people who are paralyzed or have neurodegenerative diseases. The study is published online today in Scientific Reports, a Nature research journal. View a University of Minnesota video of the research subjects in action. “This is the first time in the world that people can operate a robotic arm t...
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Mint Automatic Floor Cleaner is designed exclusively for sweeping and mopping hard surface floors. Using dry and pre-moistened cleaning cloths

The Mint Automatic Floor Cleaner from Evolution Robotics is designed exclusively for sweeping and mopping hard surface floors for you. Using dry and pre-moistened cleaning cloths, Mint picks up the dust, dirt and pet hair that constantly accumulate on floors. Mint's compact design gets into tight spaces, under furniture and into other areas that are hard to reach with traditional mops and sweepers. Evolution Robotics 'Mint' is a floor cleaning robot with mopping (wet) and sweeping (dry) modes...
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Dobot M1. First Industrial Robotic Arm for Small Business and Home

Dobot M1 is a Professional SCARA based robotic arm with interchangeable heads for small business, educators and Innovators. You can program the arm to do various automated function in a manufacturing plant, it can enhance your efficiency in production line with picking and placing feature, visual system and more.   Innovators can use it for 3d printing, double color 3d print, 3d print on rail, laser engrave on wood, plastic, paper, leather, soldering, drawing, painting, picking...
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Create tomorrow’s innovators and idea-makers with littleBits electronic building blocks, a platform for large and small inventions for kids

'LittleBits' is a platform for large and small inventions for kids. The kit includes electronic building blocks that snap-on with magnet and allow kids to build projects in minutes. We spend more than eleven hours a day with technology, but most people don’t know how it works, and spend the majority of their time consuming media. We believe people are born creative, and our electronic building blocks help to unleash the inventor within by engaging them in an incredibly powerful, exhilarating ...
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NaviPack navigation module for autonomous control of drones, robots, and other devices

NaviPack has announced the release of a LiDAR navigation module for autonomous control of drones, robots, and other devices. The NaviPack system is being introduced via its Indiegogo page. The NaviPack module features a built-in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithm chip. By integrating the control chip and LiDAR together, NaviPack becomes a true plug-and-play LiDAR solution that instantly powers drones and robots with 360 degree sensing capabilities, reducing integration tim...
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Collaborative Robots

A cobot or co-robot (from collaborative robot) is a robot intended to physically interact with humans in a shared workspace.[3] This is in contrast with other robots, designed to operate autonomously or with limited guidance, which is what most industrial robots were up until the decade No area of industrial robotics has attracted more fanfare than human-robot collaboration. You can’t deny the compelling nature of collaborative robots. They have an innate ability to both fascinate and empower...
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Shape-programmable miniscule robots

One day, microrobots may be able to swim through the human body like sperm or paramecia to carry out medical functions in specific locations. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have developed functional elastomers, which can be activated by magnetic fields to imitate the swimming gaits of natural flagella, cilia and jellyfish. Using a specially developed computer algorithm, the researchers can now automatically generate the optimal magnetic conditions ...
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Bristol robotics lab has created soft robot to assist with emergency rescue

Robots have traditionally been made from hard materials such as metal and plastic. They have been driven by motors and other heavy electro-mechanical actuators. These robots are more like machines than biological organisms. Soft robotics on the other hand seeks to make robots that are soft, flexible and compliant, just like biological organisms. The ‘body’ of a soft robot is soft like natural tissue. A soft robot is driven not by heavy motors but by soft artificial muscles. The energy stor...
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ROBOTS TO HELP IMMIGRANT CHILDREN LEARN GERMAN

With hundreds of thousands of refugee children entering the German school system, teachers face unprecedented challenges. Teaching a child a second language individually is something that most classrooms cannot do. However, language acquisition is imperative to integration. Could technical assistants be used to help prepare immigrant children for school and teach them a new language? L2TOR, pronounced 'el tutor' which stands for 'Second Language Tutoring Using Social Robots,' is a new project...
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‘WINBOT’ – window cleaning Robot

Ecovacs robotics is changing the home robotics category by moving from floors to windows with WINBOT W830 - the window cleaning Robot. Thanks to its smart suction fan, W830 cleans more surfaces including vertical glass, framed or frameless glass, frosted, filmed or colored glass, horizontal surfaces and more.W830 is smart and simple to use with one touch operation and automatic "n" or "Z" cleaning paths. It also has sensors to stop WINBOT W830 from moving across window frames, intelligently iden...
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HorseFly UAV Delivery Concept By Workhorse Group

HorseFly is an eight-rotor “octocopter,” designed to be used in tandem with WorkhorseGroup's EPA-approved electric work trucks. AMP Holding Inc. announced that its AMP Trucks subsidiary has successfully designed and flown a prototype of its new HorseFly™ battery-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Steve Burns, AMP CEO said, “HorseFly is the logical extension of our mission to help companies better manage their logistics operations. Whether a company wants to deliver its packages by truc...
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‘Botiful’ Skype based telepresence robot

Botiful is an Android powered robot revolutionizing the way you communicate with distant people. The telepresence robot was created by Claire Delaunay, an engineer working for SRI, a non-profit research and development company in southern California. Botiful Lets You Remotely Keep Your Skype Pal's Face in Frame. Delaunay plans to release a software development kit to expand the applications of the robot even further once it hits the consumer market. The Skype remote control interface al...
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Robot dog by Google’s Boston Dynamics that can do home chores

SpotMini is a new smaller version of the Spot robot, weighing 55 lbs dripping wet (65 lbs if you include its arm.) SpotMini is all-electric (no hydraulics) and runs for about 90 minutes on a charge, depending on what it is doing. SpotMini is one of the quietest robots we have ever built. It has a variety of sensors, including depth cameras, a solid state gyro (IMU) and proprioception sensors in the limbs. These sensors help with navigation and mobile manipulation. SpotMini performs some tasks au...
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Elon Musk’s Vision To Build Domestic Robots.

OpenAI — the artificial-intelligence research non-profit, San Francisco-based company co-chaired by Tesla Motors CEO Musk and Y Combinator President Sam Altman — wants to build a robot for your home. Building a robot, OpenAI's leadership explains in a blog entry on Monday, is a good way to test and refine a machine's ability to learn how to perform common tasks. By "build," the company means taking a current off-the-shelf robot and customising it to do housework. The idea behind the non-pr...
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Friendly Robot Walker -high-tech mobility aid

A team of European researchers, supported by the European Commission and Siemens, is developing a smart walker that will bring sensor and tablet technology to bear helping improve mobility in older adults. The "FriWalk" (short for Friendly Robot Walker) includes cameras and sensors for detailed gait analysis, a heart rate sensor, and a tablet interface that can provide activity coaching. FriWalk is a high-tech mobility aid that contains depth sensors and cameras to help support the user and m...
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MIT ‘Holosuite’ Project – An Exploration into Interactive Holographic Telepresence

Holosuite is an optimized, multi-threaded implementation of end-to-end 3D telepresence operating on two remote PCs via internet. It can render visual output to holographic displays, as well as advanced 3D displays with motion parallax reprojection. There is a temptation to label Holosuite as “3D Skype” or “3D Videoconferencing”, but this fails to distinguish what is important about Holosuite, as it neglects the collaborative and interactive aspects of Holosuite. The Holosuite software proj...
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Japanese firm developing robot farmers

Kubota, Japan's largest maker of agricultural machinery, has already developed its first prototype autonomous tractor for use in rice paddies. Equipped with a global positioning system, the vehicle cultivates fields and fertilises after checking soil conditions. Iseki & Co and Yanmar are also developing autonomous tractors and harvesters with Hitachi developing systems for farm machinery. Kubota is also developing and marketing a suit-like device to help farmers harvest and carry fruit an...
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Double Robotics Telepresence Robot for iPad Tablet

Ever wish you could send a robot to work for you? Double Robotics has created Double, a telepresence robot that lets you go to work, school, and almost anywhere you want without leaving home. Double Robotics Telepresence Robot for iPad Tablet. Having your own Double in the office means you can be free to roam around anywhere without having to schedule a meeting. Place an iPad tablet in this mobile robotic base and control it via a remote iOS device or computer (Chrome browser preferred) from ...
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MIT – Ingestible origami robot

Robot unfolds from ingestible capsule, removes button battery stuck to wall of simulated stomach In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach wall to remove a swallowed button battery or patch a wound. The new work, which the ...
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Artificially Intelligent Robot Lawyer “Ross” Has Been Hired By Its First Official Law Firm

Built on top of Watson, IBM's cognitive computer, ROSS is a digital legal expert that helps you power through your legal research. ROSS is an artificially intelligent attorney to help you power through legal research. ROSS improves upon existing alternatives by actually understanding your questions in natural sentences like - "Can a bankrupt company still conduct business?" Law firm Baker & Hostetler has announced that they are employing IBM’s AI Ross to handle their bankruptcy practic...
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