As underwater operation equipment, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have received widespread attention in the trend of unmanned and intelligent operations. They play an increasingly important role in offshore oil exploration, underwater rescue, military reconnaissance, seabed salvage, and marine scientific research. The research and application of AUVs is a systematic … [Read more...] about An Unmanned Surface Vehicle for the Launch and Recovery of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: A Novel Design
Automation
The $10 Million ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition: How It Advanced Immersive Telepresence Systems
Imagine how your life would change if you could instantly transport yourself anywhere in the world. Transcending the barriers of distance and travel time would enable many activities that are impossible today, including being present at remote events, connecting with family, friends, or colleagues, and efficiently distributing skills and hands-on expertise to locations wherever … [Read more...] about The $10 Million ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition: How It Advanced Immersive Telepresence Systems
Robotic Assessment of a Crop’s Need for Watering: Automating a Time-Consuming Task to Support Sustainable Agriculture
Agricultural robotics and automation technology plays an increasingly critical role across several crop production stages to improve sustainability (e.g., water use optimization). Robotics has been applied for remote and proximal sensing as well as physical sampling. The procedure of physical sampling and follow-on analysis of plant specimens, such as leaves or shoots, which is … [Read more...] about Robotic Assessment of a Crop’s Need for Watering: Automating a Time-Consuming Task to Support Sustainable Agriculture
Opinion– Autonomous Robotic Surgical Systems
While executing a surgical procedure, surgeons not only rely on their specific medical knowledge but also on a set of skills that are “obvious” to them and allow for intuitively evaluating and reacting to the intervention evolution. Such skills belong to what is usually called common sense , which is essential to carry out an intervention. Although general common sense refers … [Read more...] about Opinion– Autonomous Robotic Surgical Systems
Next-Generation Furniture Assembly by AI and Robots: Team SK2Y: A Winner of the Furniture Assembly Competition at AI–Robot Challenge 2021
The “Furniture Assembly AI–Robot Challenge 2021” is a competition that evaluates the performance of the robot for an assigned furniture assembly task by combining both artificial intelligence (AI) and robot technology. To generate commands such that a robot can execute the assembly instructions, it is essential to develop an AI-based algorithm that can recognize and interpret … [Read more...] about Next-Generation Furniture Assembly by AI and Robots: Team SK2Y: A Winner of the Furniture Assembly Competition at AI–Robot Challenge 2021