Vision-based face detection and recognition is one of the most rapidly growing research areas in computer vision and robotics and is widely used in several human related applications. However, vision-based face detection and recognition has been shown to be effective only under normal illumination conditions. In developing an algorithm [...]
Researchers have developed a vision guided robotic inspection system that assists in manufacturing processes by providing automated inspection and computer-aided decision making. The system integrates an R12 articulated robot arm and an industrial camera that operates with software to calculate algorithms that work together to increase the quality of [...]
If precision technology has driven the farming revolution of recent years, monitoring crops from the sky will drive the next. With using drone or UAV technology, you can capture highly accurate images of your fields, covering up to hundreds of hectares/acres in a single flight, without the cost and [...]
It may not be a reality yet, but in the future caregivers may be able to rely on robotic technology to help care for their aging parents. This would be a technology that would come in especially handy if your aging parents don’t live close by. Robotic technology can [...]
As automation and robotic technology continues to be enhanced and improved, more patients may find themselves in the “hands” of a robotic device for their surgical procedure – assisted by the human surgeon, as well. Robots have been developed that can operate on soft tissue and have proven to [...]
Researchers in London have devised a robotic surgical system that emulates the anatomy of wood-boring wasps. This system is used in spectroscopy to detect cancerous and diseased tissue. The prototype needle, based on the wasp, is a bendable needle-like ovipositor that bores into wood to lay eggs and hides [...]
Northwestern University researchers have utilized a three dimensional printer in the creation of a terahertz lens. The lens was made from a metamaterial. The properties of the metamaterial are novel because they are not readily available in nature. Professors created the lens that uses a gradient index and a [...]
Adding hardware to a system typically means adding to the cost of energy to operate it, right? In most cases, yes, this is the conventional wisdom. In the case of an autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners or drones that are battery-operated, users operate the devices as long as possible between [...]
While we don’t currently live in homes as technologically advanced as the fictional “Jetsons” we are seeing more ways in which industrial robots are being used to ease various aspects of life in both home and business settings. Industrial robots have long been utilized in manufacturing settings such as [...]
To feed the world’s growing population, farmers are looking for new ways to automate agricultural processes which includes using robotics. In recent years, there has been an increase in the agriculture industry’s level of interest in the development and deployment of driverless tractors, aerial surveying of farmlands, data collection, field [...]
