Interesting things in robotics this week - Issue #16

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Autonomous robots hold great promise for the agricultural sector, but it's vital that the public gets a say in their creation.

New reports written at the direction of President Biden review supply-chain vulnerabilities in semiconductors, high-capacity batteries, critical minerals and materials, and pharmaceuticals. They stress that support for innovation should be coupled strongly to domestic manufacturing incentives in order to bolster U.S. industry.

As always you can't beat IEEE RAS and Spectrum with news about Unitree's $2700 robot dog, MIT's new acrobatic humanoid robot, and TenCent's wheeled backflipping robot unveiled at ICRA2021.

Unikie to Introduce Its Automated Parking Solution Developed in Collaboration with Leading Car Manufacturers at IAA Mobility 2021

These robots are on a mission - to make sidewalk tasks more efficient, sustainable

Airport Autonomous Vehicle Startup looking for ROS Developers in San Francisco

OTTO Motors’ autonomous mobile robots now available worldwide

How to Do Multi-Task Learning Intelligently

What’s coming up at RoboCup 2021?

The Machine Ethics Podcast: What is AI?

Ford exec discusses the future of self-driving cars and autonomous ridesharing services

How Perseverance landed on Mars with its terrain nav system

May Mobility's Autonomous Vehicle Shuttle Service to be Launched in October

The new wave of robotic automation

Automated versus autonomous driving: Is that truck behind me a robot?

U.S. push for self-driving cars faces union, lawyers opposition

FedEx partners with AI robotics company, Nuro to test autonomous delivery

Backers say Smart City Challenge has put Columbus ahead of its peers

ROS Discourse General: Announcing Virtual RobotX Competition 2022

Meet the robots of the Tokyo Olympics | E&T Magazine

Beep launches Yellowstone’s first autonomous shuttles in partnership with Local Motors

Foodpanda partners startups to trial food delivery via autonomous robots in NUS, NTU, Punggol

NASA selects two robotic missions to Venus for launch in late 2020s – Spaceflight Now

Autonomous & Self-Driving Vehicle News: DeepMap, Robotic Research, Verizon, Local Motors, Keysight, Stantec, UL, Aurora & Embark

The 3D time-of-flight depth sensor for AMRs and cobots offers a 360° x 60° field of view at 30fps.

The post Jabil developing omnidirectional sensor for AMRs & cobots appeared first on The Robot Report.

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Results from the DOTS competition were released yesterday, after an intense month with teams from around the world designing new algorithms for robot swarms tasked with delivering emergency food parcels. The Scenario Increases in the number of emergency food parcels distributed by food banks have accelerated over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, particularly in […]

Siddharth Mayya (University of Pennsylvania), Gennaro Notomista (CNRS Rennes), Roderich Gross (The University of Sheffield) and Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania) were the organisers of this IEEE ICRA 2021 workshop aiming to identify and accelerate developments that help swarm robotics technology transition into the real world. Here we bring you the recordings of the session […]