⊲ Splash247 ⊳ Canadian developers are creating a robotic system that scans ship hulls underwater during routine port calls, producing detailed 3D digital twins. Led by Voyis Imaging with MarineNav,...
Tag: robotics
Virtual Worlds Accelerate Robot Learning
⊲ BBC News ⊳ UK start-up Vsim, founded in 2022 by Lu and Storey after early work on Nvidia's Isaac Sim, uses high-speed GPU-optimised simulation to train robots in minutes rather than days. Its...
Immersive Tech Reshapes Nuclear Decommissioning
⊲ Energy Live News ⊳ AtkinsRéalis, Sellafield Ltd and Igloo Vision have developed an immersive environment at the RAICo1 facility in West Cumbria to enhance nuclear decommissioning operations....
3D Scanner’s Tiny Size & Power
⊲ Tech Briefs ⊳ MIT researchers have built a low-power chip, named Gleanmer, that lets tiny drones and other battery-limited robots construct real-time 3D maps of their surroundings using around 6...
A Decade On: Revisiting the Simulation Singularity
Spotlight by Andy Fawkes "Will there be a world where the simulation may be just as good as the real world?" That's the rather grand question I put to a lunchtime crowd at London's Digital...
Workers Film Themselves Training Robots
⊲ eWeek ⊳ Some Indian factories are requiring assembly line workers to wear forehead cameras and smart glasses, capturing footage used to train humanoid robots. India has become a major source for...
Simulation Accelerates Real World Robotics
⊲ The Hindu BusinessLine ⊳ At Computex 2026 in Taipei, technology leaders described how simulation and digital twin tools are speeding up robot deployment. Nvidia's Deepu Tala said simulated...
Self-Driving Veterans Build AI Simulations
⊲ TechCrunch ⊳ Odyssey, a world model AI startup founded by self-driving vehicle veterans Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, has secured a $310 million Series B at a $1.45 billion valuation. Led by...
XR in Support of Human-Machine Teaming
⊲ Tech Xplore ⊳ Researchers at Bowling Green State University and NYU Tandon have found that augmented reality can help people better anticipate robot behaviour in shared spaces. By displaying a...
A New Dimension in 3D World Capture
⊲ Digital Camera World ⊳ Ouster's REV8 Color LiDAR chip captures colour and depth simultaneously using a single lens and chip, abandoning the traditional pixel grid in favour of a point cloud of up...
Dextrous Robots Train in Simulation
⊲ WIRED ⊳ Eka Robotics in Cambridge have developed a robot that demonstrates unusually fluid, tactile manipulation, from grasping keys to screwing in a light bulb. Cofounders Pulkit Agrawal and...
Sony AI Serves Robotics Milestone
⊲ The Guardian ⊳ Sony AI's robot Ace has beaten elite table tennis players in matches played under official competition rules, winning three out of five against elite amateurs but losing both...