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Robotics NEWS: VIDEO oN ROBOT TOUCH SENSING

Cool video from the science communication folks at Maya's alma mater (Middle East Technical University), featuring recent work on making robots move naturally and communicate intent through movement.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9484175

Robotics NEWS: NORTHWEST ROBOTICS SYMPOSIUM

UW hosted the first Northwest Robotics Symposium last week with participants from UW, OSU, Simon Frasier, MSR, NVidia, Amazon, and others from the region. One highlight of the event was the live demonstration of the bipedal Cassie robot on the Bradley terrace.

https://nwrsymposium.github.io/

Robotics NEWS: Wearable Hand Exoskeleton

Thanks for sharing: Linden Gan

This video is about a wearable robotic device that can assist humans with grasping. Basically, the "fingers" are made from pressure-sensitive fibers, so it can feel an objects and automatically form a desirable shape to grasp it. This recent technology can help injured/impaired individuals to accomplish manipulation tasks.

Robotics NEWS: A HEALTHY AGING COMPANION ROBOT

The robot ElliQ made an appearance on the Today show this past week! (see first 18 seconds of video below)

https://elliq.com/

Robotics NEWS: NATURE ARTICLE ON ROBOTS FOR ELDERCARE

Robots rise to meet the challenge of caring for old people. Robotics technology is improving, but its routine use in the home, hospital and care settings could be a long way off.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00072-z

Robotics NEWS: AMAZON INVESTS $1B IN ROBOTS

Amazon is investing $1 billion to spur supply chain, fulfillment, and logistics innovation and further improve the customer and employee experience.

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/innovation-at-amazon/introducing-the-1-billion-amazon-industrial-innovation-fund

Robotics NEWS: AMAZON'S ROBIN

An advanced perception system, that detects and learns from its own mistakes, enables Robin robots to select individual objects from jumbled packages — at production scale.

https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/robin-deals-with-a-world-where-things-are-changing-all-around-it

Robotics NEWS: AGILITY ROBOTICS

Agility Robotics raises $150M from Amazon and others to build human-like robots used in warehouses.

https://www.geekwire.com/2022/agility-robotics-raises-150m-from-amazon-and-others-to-build-robots-used-in-the-workplace/

Robotics NEWS: BIONICHIVE GETS INVESTMENT FROM AMAZON

The startup's SqUID robotics solution is deployed in a wide range of supply chain facilities utilizing existing shelving racks and boxes and is capable of pick and put-away from floor to ceiling.

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/r1qg2lkbq

Robotics NEWS: DILIGENT ROBOTICS RAISES $30M

Diligent Robotics, the nurse assisting robotics firm from Austin, TX recently raised $30M in Series B funding.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/12/nurse-assisting-robotics-firm-diligent-raises-30m/

Robotics NEWS: NEW DESKTOP SOCIAL ROBOT

Looks cute.. but will it survive?

https://energizelab.com/

Robotics NEWS: FENCING ROBOT

Thanks for sharing: Linden Gan

"Basically, it applies reinforcement learning to train robot. I think it's difficult for robot to win because robot must have a very agile arm. But this technology would have great application in HRI, where arm's agility is highly required." Research from a UW CSE/ECE lab.

https://youtu.be/RK3-Ar29I6w

Robotics NEWS: FLIPPY ROBOT

A local celebrity.

https://www.king5.com/article/tech/flippy-miso-robotics-robot-cooking-caliburger-shoreline-washington/281-099d85c4-efb0-43cb-a7d0-f7cd33e157bc

Robotics NEWS: UPDATE ON TESLA'S HUMANOID

Elon Musk says people might download their personalities onto a humanoid robot Tesla is making, which he says could be in 'moderate volume production' next year.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-people-may-download-memory-personality-onto-tesla-robot-2022-3

Robotics NEWS: The Return of FIRST Robotics

After a 2 year hiatus due to the COVID pandemic, FRC is back for most students. This article covers the LA regionals.

https://makezine.com/2022/04/07/the-return-of-first-robotics-la-regional-2022/

Robotics NEWS: CO-PARENTING THROUGH ROBOTS

An IEEE spectrum article describes a case study of a remote parents interacting with their kids through a telepresence robot.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/co-parenting-with-telepresence-robots

Robotics NEWS: MR TRASH WHEEL

The water "robot" that goggles garbage in a Baltimore bay.

"There has been a great renaissance in garbage collection technology in the past 10 years and Mr. Trash Wheel is one of the pioneers, collecting over 3 million pounds of trash in Baltimore, Maryland. An old technology becomes new again and is changing the landscape of the beautiful inner harbor."