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Humanoids and other robots can benefit from training in ‘virtual gyms.’ Source: SoftServe The challenge for today’s robots is no longer limited to automating a task. It is adapting to ever-changing environments — and that variability remains one of the hardest problems. This distinction matters more and more as the industry moves from programmed automation…

For the past few months, I've been trying to build a DIY Pirani Gauge to test out a vacuum pump I built. After many trials, tribulations, and a whole lot of broken lightbulb filaments, I've gotten basically everything to work, but it's not actually measuring any changes in vacuum pressure. It runs on 1.5-3 V…

Asylon will bring its autonomous aircraft inspection technology to one of the U.S. Air Force’s largest sustainment centers after securing a Phase Three contract from the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex. The project moves the company’s Multi-modal Autonomous Robotics for Inspection of Aircraft (MARIA) system from development toward operational use, giving maintainers a new way…

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Warehouse robotics vendor Symbotic has acquired ARMS Innovations Ltd., a UK-based software company specializing in real-time operational intelligence solutions for complex automated warehouse environments. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the firms said that ARMS’s software introduces a layer of AI-driven warehouse operations orchestration that coordinates people, robotics, and workflows. The solution dynamically…

Water covers most of Earth’s surface, yet it behaves in ways that set it apart from nearly every other liquid. One of its most unusual traits is that it expands instead of contracts when it freezes. Scientists have long linked these odd behaviors to changes in water’s microscopic structure as temperature and pressure vary, but…