Sentences with phrase «of robotics engineering»

All of these projects fit into a stepwise continuum of robotics engineering learning, but the BlueBot is a fan favorite for robotics enthusiasts of all ages.

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Enter MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, the Vancouver - based robotic and engineering firm, and makers of the famed Canadarm.

Jun - Ho Oh, a professor in the department of mechanical engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, says most homes already incorporate robotics.

A team of biomedical engineers have developed a robotic limb that can be controlled by the wearer's mind.

Uber poached swaths of engineers from Carnegie Mellon's robotics institute in early 2015 to create its own self - driving tech.

In September, Peter Rander, an engineering lead who specializes in the commercialization of robotics, also left the company.

Within months of the company acquiring Levandowki's startup, a wave of the group's top engineers — many of whom had been poached from Carnegie Mellon University's famed robotics institute — left.

Our team of engineers hailing from MIT, Stanford, and Harvard University work together to break ground on new and relevant surgical robotics technology.

A leading mind in creating functional, beautiful, and simple wearable technology, and a visionary for the future of human - computer interaction, Matthew studied mechatronics engineering at the University of Waterloo and robotics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich).

The evolutionary principles of natural selection, variation, and recombination are the basis for genetic algorithms, an engineering technique that has many practical applications, including aerospace engineering, architecture, astrophysics, data mining, drug discovery and design, electrical engineering, finance, geophysics, materials engineering, military strategy, pattern recognition, robotics, scheduling, and systems engineering.

Building on a strong history of designing customized packaging solutions, our case packers and robotic case packing systems are engineered to help solve your specific packaging challenges.

Designed and engineered for seamless downstream integration with existing Delkor packaging equipment lines, the Delkor robotic palletizing system can be engineered with an array of options.

The Polaris 9550 is a one of a kind 4 - wheel driven robotic pool cleaner with an aquadynamic design that combines innovative engineering, intelligence and command styling to deliver an impressive and robust pool cleaner.

The school received $ 570,000 to build a state - of - the - art STEAM lab to help teach 3D printing, robotics and other engineering applications.

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«Freehand should be of potential interest in an emerging robotics market that supports the work, technique and role of surgeons,» says Edge, now a professor of engineering and mathematical sciences at City University, London and an early investor in Freehand.

But in 2011, weeks before launch, JPL engineers decided that Curiosity should launch with one of its drill bits mounted on its robotic arm.

«Taranis looks set to put the UK ahead of the game in UCAVs,» says Noel Sharkey, a robotics engineer specialising in the autonomous military systems at the University of Sheffield in the UK.

Because Iowa's engineering department had a close relationship with the College of Medicine, he was able to receive grants in excess of $ 1 million dollars from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, as well as Microsoft, for his work in AI, specifically robotics and bioinformatics.

There is a hum of activity as engineers ready their hyperadvanced robots for the final run in the world's most important robotics competition: the DARPA Robotics Challenge, which ran over Friday and Saturday last week at this former horse - racing track in Pomona, California.

As a founder of iRobot Corporation, based in Bedford, Massachusetts, and CEO of robotics start - up CyPhy Works, it's clear to me that merely engineering «cool» robots does little to advance the field.

The team's findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today, suggest new applications in areas such as tissue engineering and soft robotics where hydrogel is commonly used.

Engineers are planning to entomb the site of the worst nuclear accident in history, using robotics to dismantle the ruins and permanently seal the wreckage

But concerns about the safety of autonomous cars are misplaced in a world where 1.2 million people die every year in road accidents due to human error, says Paul Newman, a robotics engineer at the University of Oxford, whose team is developing autonomous cars.

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In a technology first, a team of NASA engineers has demonstrated fully autonomous X-ray navigation in space — a capability that could revolutionize NASA's ability in the future to pilot robotic spacecraft to the far reaches of the solar system and beyond.

«A truly useful personal robot [must have] the ability to learn on its own from interactions with the physical and social environment,» says Stoytchev, whose field of developmental robotics combines developmental psychology and neuroscience with artificial intelligence and robotic engineering.

Tan's involvement in underwater robotics, like the activities of many engineers, began with an invention without a clear purpose: a flexible, artificial muscle - like material able to flap back and forth, like a fin.

The diverse nature of robotics requires expertise from engineers and scientists with a range of specialties.

«Our combination of high thermal conductivity and elasticity is especially critical for rapid heat dissipation in applications such as wearable computing and soft robotics, which require mechanical compliance and stretchable functionality,» said Majidi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering.

In a monotone that seemed to have trouble keeping up with the pace of his thoughts, Joy laid out a cautionary tale of futuristic technologies emerging at the interface of genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics that threaten our very existence.

So Domenico Prattichizzo, a robotics engineer at the University of Siena in Italy, and his collaborators designed two devices that enable users to feel virtual objects, which they put to the test in a paper to be published in IEEE Transactions on Haptics.

By stretching a silicone and fiberglass shell over a robotic skeleton, the artist / engineering team managed to create a stunningly realistic illusion of a living, breathing dinosaur.

Many of the main entertainment companies have their own in - house robotics engineering teams — Disney, for instance, has its Imagineering Studio — but other studios, such as Universal, contract out their robotics needs.

Any engineer with a traditional robotics background who wants to get involved in the entertainment industry also needs to be aware of current trends and interests.

On March 2, Expedition 34 commander Kevin Ford and Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA will grab the capsule with the station's robotic arm and attach it to the Harmony module, where it will stay for about three weeks.

«This work not only sheds new light on skeleton formation of animals, but also might inspire interdisciplinary studies in fields such as theoretical biology, bioengineering, robotics, and architectural engineering, utilizing mechanisms of self - constructing architectures that self - adjust to their environments, including remote environments such as the deep sea or space,» the researchers write.

«In addition to advancing the wireless charging of vehicles and personal devices like cellphones, our new technology may untether robotics in manufacturing, which also are on the move,» said Shanhui Fan, a professor of electrical engineering and senior author of the study.

But the concept could spawn a new generation of robotic rovers suited to all terrains, says Tim Lexen, an engineer in Cumberland, Wisconsin, who developed the idea and built a prototype in his spare time.

A team of engineering researchers has made a fundamental advance in controlling so - called soft robots, using magnetic fields to remotely manipulate microparticle chains embedded in soft robotic devices.

Japan's Kaiko robotic sub in March of 1995 and the Nereus, an autonomous sub built by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution engineers, made the trip in May 2009.

Science Robotics will publish original, peer - reviewed, science - or engineering - based research articles that advance the field of robotics.

It was his last year of electrical engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, and Lew started working on robotic systems with Cameron.

When inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen launched his FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics competition two decades ago, he hoped to turn engineering into a contact sport and engineering students into superstars.

«It paves the way for manufacturing advances in 4 - D printing of shape - shifting optical and mechanical elements, soft robotics as well as tissue engineering.»

Engineers in the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the University of California, San Diego, have developed new image processing techniques for rapid exploration and characterization of structural fires by small Segway - like robotic vehicles.

Yale robotics engineers Thomas Feix and Aaron Dollar collaborated on the research with anthropologist Tracy Kivell of the University of Kent and the Max Planck Institute for Human Anthropology, and primatologist Emmanuelle Pouydebat of the French National Centre for Scientific Research.

Grant funding has allowed Long to hire Porter as a postdoc and Nick Livingston, a master's degree level engineer (and Ken's son) to run the day - to - day operations of the Fish Fellows program and the robotics laboratory.

He adds that South University is currently searching for experts in the fields of neural and cognitive sciences, biology and gene engineering, physics, nanotechnology, environmental sciences, large - scale computational research, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

A new type of deep - sea robotic vehicle called Nereus has successfully reached the deepest part of the world's ocean, reports a team of U.S. engineers and scientists aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana.