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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'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: 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: 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: POLICE STOPS AUTONOMOUS CAR

SFPD stops driverless autonomous Cruise, which promptly takes off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w66NvmrlJ0

Robotics NEWS: ABB ROBOT SOFTWARE

Software uses vision technology to deliver 70% increase in speed and 50% increase in accuracy for select ABB industrial robots.

https://www.therobotreport.com/abb-software-increases-indusrial-robot-speed-70/

Robotics NEWS: STRETCH ROBOTS SOLD OUT

Boston Dynamics’s “Stretch” robot hits production, and it’s already sold out.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/04/boston-dynamics-stretch-robot-hits-production-and-its-already-sold-out/

Robotics NEWS: BANANA PEELING ROBOTS

This is a robot researched in a lab in Japan. Even though this robot is still under testing and just only get an accuracy of 57%, it shows a potential of robots undertaking the subtle tasks and could help more in different fields and alleviate the labour's shortage in Japan.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/japanese-robots-newest-skill-peeling-banana-rcna23206

Robotics NEWS: A NEW TYPE OF JOINT

Robotics NEWS: ROBOTIC SLIME

Scientists developed a magnetic slime that can be controlled to perform different tasks, like manipulating wires or marbles.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/01/magnetic-turd-scientists-invent-moving-slime-that-could-be-used-in-human-digestive-systems