The European Space Agency (ESA) is an intergovernmental agency composed of 20 European countries dedicated to the exploration of space. ESA projects include human spaceflight, unmanned exploration missions to the moon and other planets, designing launch…
JPL, NASA’s lab for developing projects for space exploration, is a pioneer in robotics equipment suited for outer space. Along with the first U.S. satellite ever launched, the Explorer 1, JPL sent the first robotic craft to the moon and to the solar…
Zoe is an autonomous, solar powered robot developed by The Carnegy Mellon University. This robotic rover is used to test surface exploration on other planets like Mars. It has been succesfully tested in the Atacama desert of Chili in 2005.
The FSR conference is a three day event that will be dedicated to the service applications and field of robotics technology and will be held at the main University of Toronto campus.
Robocon India is the latest in a series of international robotics competitions sponsored and organized by the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU). The goal of the contest is to inspire innovation and improve young engineers’ creative thinking skills.…
Asian Robotics Review is an online publication offering news, analysis, research and opinion on the global technology and business issues of robotics, robotics-driven automation, and artificial
Utah State University’s CSOIS works on the design and development of robotics. The Center has been developing robotic vehicles for TACOM. Another large project, automating two different tractors capable of spraying an orchard autonomously, was done for…
NASA JPL Robotics focuses on projects for robotics space exploration and other terrestrial uses. They have developed autonomy software and sampling arms for the Mars rovers, allowing them to travel independently and record data. The lab has worked on…
Serving as the Dutch agency for space research, SRON is the national institute of expertise for the exploitation and development of satellite instruments for earth-oriented and astrophysical research.
The SUNRISE project has developed a team of aquatic robots that are able to work together to scan the sea floor and communicate via the 'Internet of underwater things'
The CamCopter S-100 drone is being used in Eastern Ukraine to ensure proper involvement of pro-Russian separatists and Russia in accordance with the Minsk Protocol
PLANTOID is a robotics project with the aim to design and build a new generation of robotics hardware and software technologies inspired by plants.
Sandia National Laboratories’ newest emergency responder robots will address problems with degraded physical environments and energy efficiencies.
ARAMIES, in development since 2004 at the University of Bremen, is a Mars explorer that uses four legs and PCR-based software for improved locomotion over wheeled robots.
The Cheetah Robot was unveiled at the 2011 IRCA. These hind limbs showed impressive force and speed when they kicked from a crouched position. Hybrid and pneumatic actuators provide the energy for fire positioning. The developers plan to develop upper…
