Autonomous agricultural robot supported by composite components
3D-printed carbon fiber-filled composite components enable a robotic weeding system prototype intended to replace use of chemical herbicides. Source | Scheurer Swiss GmbH A team of engineering students at ETH Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland) is working to develop an autonomous agricultural robot to serve as a sustainable alternative for the use of herbicides in agriculture. The project began in September […]
REVOLUTIONIZING DISASTER RELIEF: A TALE OF CONVERGENCE
From Peter Diamandis blog this week: Between 2005 and 2014, natural disasters have claimed the lives of over 700,000 people and resulted in total damage of more than US$1.4 trillion. During the past 50 years, the frequency of recorded natural disasters has surged nearly five-fold. In this blog, I’ll be exploring how converging exponential technologies (AI, […]
It Takes a Swarm: These Robots Talk to Each Other, Make Decisions as a Group
From Robotic Tomorrow: That power in numbers is how Michael Otte, an engineer at the University of Maryland, approaches robot decision making. In his research, he wirelessly connects a large number of robots—or, artificial “brains”—into a single, complex computational entity; roboticists call it a swarm. He trains them to [1] connect, [2] communicate, sharing data to […]