Research Highlights: Interactive continual learning for robots: a neuromorphicapproach

In this regular column we take a look at highlights for breaking research topics of the day in the areas of big data, data science, machine learning, AI and deep learning. For data scientists, it’s important to keep connected with the research arm of the field in order to understand where the technology is headed. Enjoy!

Cogniteam and AAEON Announce Robotics Partnership

Tel Aviv, Aug. 1, 2022 — Cogniteam, the developers of a drag n’ drop robotics operating system, called Nimbus, is partnering with a designer and manufacturer of industrial IoT and Edge AI solutions, AAEON, to develop what the companies call “ready-to-build” robotic hardware. Companies who recognize a new market demand can immediately choose the AAEON […]

EV Company REE Announces Progress Toward Commercial Robotic Production Capabilities

NUNEATON, UK, May 16, 2022 – REE Automotive Ltd. (NASDAQ: REE), an automotive technology company and provider of electric vehicle (EV) platforms, announced today progress towards commercial production, having proven its robotic assembly capabilities, the core of its CapEx-light and highly-automated integration center manufacturing approach. REE’s plans to implement the cloud-based robotic assembly lines at its […]

Intel Wins DARPA R&D Contract for Off-Road AV R&D

April 26, 2022 — DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has awarded Intel Federal LLC a contract to develop advanced simulation solutions for off-road autonomous ground vehicles. The company said Intel Labs will work in partnership with its collaborators, the Computer Vision Center Barcelona, and the University of Texas at Austin. The RACER-Sim (Robotic […]

AI and Robotics Uncover Hidden Signatures of Parkinson’s Disease

A study published in Nature Communications unveils a new platform for discovering cellular signatures of disease that integrates robotic systems for studying  patient cells with artificial intelligence methods for image analysis. Using their automated cell culture  platform, scientists at the NYSCF Research Institute collaborated with Google Research to  successfully identify new cellular hallmarks of Parkinson’s disease by creating and profiling over a  million images of skin cells from a cohort of 91 patients and healthy controls. 

Cogniteam’s Nimbus Supports Cloud-Enabled Robot Deployment Powered by NVIDIA Jetson Edge AI Platform

Cogniteam today announced it is supporting the NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform into its cloud-based robotics development and deployment platform, allowing cloud-enabled deployments to use NVIDIA technology for the first time. More customers are moving over to NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated technologies that can be developed and deployed through the cloud.

Cogniteam’s Nimbus Supports Cloud-Enabled Robot Deployment Powered by NVIDIA Jetson Edge AI Platform

Jan. 11, 2022 — Robotics company Cogniteam today announced it is supporting the NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform into its cloud-based robotics development and deployment platform, allowing cloud-enabled deployments to use NVIDIA technology for the first time. More customers are moving over to NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated technologies that can be developed and deployed through the cloud. […]

MIT: Blockchain Could Secure Robot Team Communications

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 5, 2021 — Imagine a team of autonomous drones equipped with advanced sensing equipment, searching for smoke as they fly high above the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once they spot a wildfire, these leader robots relay directions to a swarm of firefighting drones that speed to the site of the blaze. But what […]

DARPA Announces Teams Qualifying for Subterranean Challenge Virtual Competition Finals

Twelve teams have qualified for the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge Virtual Competition Final Event, to be held September 21-24, where $1.5-million of prizes are at stake. Their algorithms will guide virtual versions of real robots as they drive or fly through unfamiliar simulated underground courses and locate items of interest such as injured survivors, cell phones, backpacks, […]

AI Will Take Construction Robotics from Hype to Reality

The general awareness AI and deep learning can bring to the table are the first steps to make robotics useful in construction. Building the first steps to unite these technologies, Buildots, an AI startup, attaches 360 cameras onto project managers’ hardhats to collect footage inside the construction site and analyze the data to deliver comprehensible results.