In our recent conversation with Sam Park, vice president and chief technology officer at South Korea’s Yujin Robot, Park emphasized that his company is looking for ways to remove complexity from its robots by replacing it with technology that is already available in most homes. The most obvious example of this idea is using a
The new — somewhat confusingly named — Xbox One was announced today by Microsoft, but more importantly for the world of robotics, a new Kinect motion-sensing camera was also confirmed. The original Kinect made it affordable for both professional roboticists and enterprising hobbyists to endow their robots with powerful 3-D motion capture, depth sensing, facial recognition and voice
South Korea-based Yujin Robot popped onto the radars of many robot enthusiasts recently thanks to its contribution to the TurtleBot 2: a new mobile base called Kobuki that replaces the iRobot Create used in the original TurtleBot. For those who aren’t familiar with the TurtleBot, it looks like a dorm-room TV stand on wheels, but
The history of The University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute goes back 25 years, but its current name and mission only date back to last summer. That’s when the organization, formerly known as the Automation and Robotics Research Institute, rebranded as “UTARI” and refocused its efforts on bridging the gap between academic research and
During the last six months, there’s been a lot of debate about whether robots will eliminate the middle class as we know it by automating nearly every job that doesn’t require an advanced degree — and then, a few years later, start stealing our white collar jobs as well. The piece that got the most
Hello and welcome to The Business of Robotics! If you have even a passing interest in robotics, you know the field is exploding, having reached a technological tipping point that is bringing self-driving cars and robot co-workers out of the realm of science fiction and into reality. Just last week, a new $100 million dollar
