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Amazon challenges robotics’ hot topic: Perception

Frank Tobe 02 Jun 2015

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...

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Sensors for Autonomous Driving, with Christoph Stiller

Audrow Nash 20 Feb 2015

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...

Berlin hardware startup Skysense launches drone range

Ben Fisher 15 Dec 2014

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...

25% of KUKA shares trade hands

Frank Tobe 08 Dec 2014

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 ...

DHL UAS parcel delivery gets first test

Frank Tobe 24 Sep 2014

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....