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Amazon challenges robotics’ hot topic: Perception

Capturing and processing camera and sensor data and recognizing various shapes to determine a set of robotic actions is conceptually easy. Yet Amazon challenged the industry to do a selecting and pick...

02 June 2015, by Frank Tobe

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Sensors for Autonomous Driving, with Christoph Stiller

In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Christoph Stiller from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Stiller speaks about the sensors required for various level of autonomous driving, as well as the...

20 February 2015, by Audrow Nash

Berlin hardware startup Skysense launches drone range

Skysense is a Berlin-based start up designing and manufacturing a range of products to enable the remote operation of drones. Their first two products are the Skysense Charging pad and Skysense Hanga...

15 December 2014, by Ben Fisher

25% of KUKA shares trade hands

Voith GmbH, among the biggest family-owned businesses in Europe, acquired 25% of robot maker Kuka AG by buying the shares held by Grenzebach GmbH. The transaction was valued at €555 million ...

08 December 2014, by Frank Tobe

DHL UAS parcel delivery gets first test

DHL launches first authorized autonomous delivery flights by "parcelcopter" to and from the North Sea island of Juist, 7.5 miles off the coast of Northern Germany....

24 September 2014, by Frank Tobe