Robotics

Drone swarms have been growing in popularity alongside the rise of drone technology itself, now, motion capture technology is being utilised to further this research.

Earlier this year researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Boston University Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Services tested a soft, wearable robot to assist a person living with Parkinson’s walk without freezing.   

DRA829 processors, based on the Armv8 64-bit architecture, provide advanced system integration to enable lower system costs of automotive and industrial applications. The integrated diagnostics and functional safety features are targeted to ASIL-B/C or SIL-2 certification/requirements

The AM68 scalable processor family is based on the evolutionary Jacinto 7 architecture, targeted at Smart Vision Camera and General Compute applications and built on extensive market knowledge accumulated over a decade of TI’s leadership in the Vision processor market.

Researchers at the University of Michigan developed a knee exoskeleton, using readily available knee braces and drone motors, to alleviate fatigue in lifting and carrying tasks.

The National Robotarium is supporting the development of new artificial intelligence and control systems that could allow underwater robots to operate autonomously and with high precision in turbulent seas, potentially revolutionising maintenance and repair tasks for offshore wind turbines.

Opteran’s neuromorphic software will be tested in Airbus space rovers, with support from the European Space Agency (ESA) and the UK Space Agency.

The SK-AM62A-LP starter kit (SK) evaluation module (EVM) is built around our AM62A AI vision processor, which includes an image signal processor (ISP) supporting up to 5 MP at 60 fps, a 2 teraoperations per second (TOPS) AI accelerator, a quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A53 microprocessor, a single-core Arm Cortex-R5F and an H.264/H.265 video encode/decode.

SYSGO, specialist European provider of safety and security-critical systems, and NexCOBOT, a division of NexCom specialising in intelligent robotic control solutions, have entered into a joint technology partnership to provide the industrial robotics market with innovative and functional safety-certifiable solutions focused on Collaborative Robots (Cobots).

A team from the University of Oxford have been investigating the decline in insect populations and the impact this is having on our ecosystem. Biotracking technology is a system of tracking insect movements and behaviours on a large scale by using a combination of radar, optical systems, and miniature chips to monitor insects like bees.