An updated version of our OutdoorNAV autonomy software is now available! OutdoorNav users can update their software to access exciting new features and changes. What’s New? Mission Logging Mission logging empowers the user to record general metadata about... read more
As Clearpath Robotics grows, we’ve continued to work with a number of distributors across the globe – each of them entrenched in the local robotics culture of their communities. Having local, boots on the ground partners all over the world has helped Clearpath... read more
In a recent study, University of Manchester Post-Doctoral Research Assistant Andrew West is focusing on total characterisation for remote observation in nuclear environments. In other words, West is putting lasers on robots to find out what objects are made of in... read more
Graz University, in partnership with the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) and international research organisations including Oman Astronomical Society, conducted a four-week Mars simulation mission in the Arabian desert in Oman. The study was about the execution of a... read more
Every day, researchers are finding ways to mitigate problems throughout the developing world. At the recent Social Robots in the Wild workshop at HRI 2018, Amol Deshmukh of the University of Glasgow presented a new human-robot interaction study. In the study, a team... read more
Martin Cooney and a team of social robotics researchers at Halmstad University are using the Baxter and Ridgeback omnidirectional platform to make improvements in people’s everyday lives. The project is called Action and Intention Recognition in Human Interaction with... read more
Demine Robotics Growing up in Cambodia, the world’s most heavily landmined country, demining is a cause that is very important to Richard Yim. This prompted Yim and four fellow mechnical engineering students at the University of Waterloo to develop a demining robot... read more
Taggart Bonham, a Computer Science Major at Dartmouth College, has worked for several years in Corporate R&D at Magna International focusing on the application of computer vision and mapping in manufacturing. In a recent project, Taggart has used the Turtlebot 2... read more
As covered in our previous post on lasers there are many different factors that need to be considered when choosing a laser sensor for use in robots. In this post, we will further explore the options for a modern roboticist. Use case The first aspect to consider when... read more