STANFORD, Calif.--When I walked onto the Stanford University campus this week and into the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab, I was greeted by a short, gray robot waving his two long arms -- he was looking for a high-five.
All around me robots of all sizes were roaming the floor. I was trapped -- in the future. … Read more
If you think you're fast with a Wiimote, a recent event at National Robotics Week was designed to take you--and humanity--down a notch or two.
The event at Adept Technology's open house pitted Adept's Quattro, touted as the fastest pick-and-place industrial robot in the world, against all human comers. The challenge was to try to move a sliding platform with a Wiimote faster than the robot could pick and place parts off and on it.
The Quattro is a high-speed packaging and assembly robot that can move at blinding speed. Check out this vid of one model … Read more
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