One of the things that we love about the UC Berkeley’s Salto jumping robot is just how much better it gets, year after year. And these changes aren’t just incremental—the little robot’s capabilities seem to improve by leaps and bounds, as it were. The latest upgrade, presented at Virtual ICRA 2020 this week, it is particularly impressive, since Salto has learned how to very precisely stop jumping exactly where you want it to. As far as we know, the best way of getting Salto to stop jumping without destroying itself has been for someone with exceptional…

Stereotaxis , is a developer of  Robotic technologies for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, says it has reached a significant milestone of over 400 scientific publications now on documenting the clinical benefits of Stereotaxis robotic technology. David Fischel, chairman and CEO of  Stereotaxis, says: “The clinical benefits of Robotic Magnetic Navigation have been extensively validated in high-quality clinical literature and in the real-world treatment of over one-hundred-thousand arrhythmia patients”. “We are proud to the depth and breadth of clinical data demonstrating the benefits of robotics to patients and healthcare to…

A team of engineers have trained a Chef robot to prepare an omelette, all the way from cracking the eggs to plating the finished dish, and refined the ‘chef’s’ culinary skills to produce a reliable dish that actually tastes good. The researchers, from the “University of Cambridge”  in collaboration with the domestic appliance company Beko, used  “Machine learning” to train the robot to account for highly subjective matters of taste. The results are reported in the journal “IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters”, and will be available online as part of the…