The machines, heralded as "3D printers for the garden", automatically plant seeds, water, detect and remove weeds, and measure soil properties.
Read MoreThe New API Robot Measurement Solution (RMS) provides the complete toolkit necessary to verify robot accuracy to the ISO 9283 standard, allowing on-sit, in-situ, robot performance verification and enhanced robot calibration to be performed.
Read MoreA team of North Dakota State University students competed, for the first time in the university's and state's history, in the International Aerial Robotics Competition and won an award recognizing their technical design. NDSU's team was recognized for excellence in the design of the air vehicle, payload, operations and risk reduction.
Read MoreNorth Dakota will be competing, for the first time ever, in the world's oldest aerial robotics competition for colleges and universities. A team of North Dakota State University students will travel to Atlanta, Georgia to compete in the competition, which runs from July 25th to July 27th.
Read MorePublic Voting for first of five annual $100,000 RobotArt.org contests opens today. Over a dozen artist/robot teams from around the world have submitted artwork created entirely by robots. The styles vary from abstract, to painterly, to representational. Multiple robots attempted portraiture with varying results. The only major rule was that all marks on each canvas be entirely made by a robot.
Read MoreWashington DC Artist Pindar Van Arman to speak at TEDxFoggyBottom April 23rd. His talk will describe how he has attempted to capture his creativity in algorithms and teach those algorithms to his painting robots.
Read MoreThe IBEX project today announced the start of fully autonomous trials of their extreme mobility agricultural robot, which will drive itself around steep grassland dairy and sheep farms identifying and destroying weeds. Co-funded by the UK's innovation agency, Innovate UK, IBEX robots aim to be precise, like human sprayers. They reduce fuel costs and labour usage for farmers while massively reducing the environmental impact caused by bulk herbicide spraying. www.ibexautomation.co.uk
Read MoreMusio, the artificial intelligence robot, will hold a press conference in Tokyo, Japan on November 18th.
Musio has received spotlights from Softbank, Japan's Ministry of Education (MEXT), KDDI in Japan, and other major corporations and media outlets.
AKA has formed a Japanese corporation as an opening strategy in order to enter into the Japanese market.