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In this Jan. 16, 2019, file photo, Cruise AV, General Motor's autonomous electric Bolt EV is displayed in Detroit. California regulators on Thursday, June 2, 2022 gave a robotic taxi service the green light to begin charging passengers for driverless rides in San Francisco, a first in a state where dozens of companies have been trying to train vehicles to steer themselves on increasingly congested roads.Credit: AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File…

California regulators gave a robotic taxi service the green light to begin charging passengers for driverless rides in San Francisco, a first in a state where dozens of companies have been trying to train vehicles to steer themselves on increasingly congested roads. The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously granted Cruise, a company controlled by automaker General Motors, approval to launch its driverless ride-hailing service. The regulators issued the permit despite safety concerns arising from Cruise's…

After struggling to find staff during the pandemic, businesses in Singapore have increasingly turned to deploying robots to help carry out a range of tasks, from surveying construction sites to scanning library bookshelves.The city-state relies on foreign workers, but their number fell by 235,700 between December 2019 and September 2021, according to the manpower ministry, which notes how COVID-19 curbs have sped up "the pace of technology adoption and automation" by companies.At a Singapore construction site, a…

Robotic drones have existed for a long known by the name UAVs, but the inventions that have been happening in the recent times are epic Robotic drones have evolved from being a rare technological marvel to being adopted in everyday lives. Robotic drones have existed for a long, known by the name UAVs, but the inventions that have been happening in recent times are epic. On the one hand, while the leading countries like the USA are preparing for using robotic drones as weapons in their war strategies, on the other…

Robotic skeletons designed to look and move like real humans are being investigated for growing tendons strong enough to actually transplant.If the proof-of-concept can be perfected with further research, tissue grown on humanoid robots could one day be grafted onto a real person, fixing tears in their tendons.  Today, surgeons can try their hands at repairing tendons, often transplanting a graft from another tendon in the body, but the outcomes are mixed. For more than two decades, scientists have been looking into…

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But growing usable human tendon cells—which need to stretch and twist—has proved trickier. Over the past two decades, scientists have encouraged engineered tendon cells and tissue to grow and mature by repeatedly stretching them in one direction. However, this approach has so far failed to produce fully functional tissue grafts that could be used clinically, in human bodies.    A new study, published in Nature Communications Engineering today, shows how humanoid robots could be used to make engineered tendon tissue that…

REE Automotive, an automotive technology company planning to make electric vehicle (EV) platforms, has announced progress towards commercial production. REE plans to implement cloud-based robotic assembly lines at its network of highly-digitalized global manufacturing plants with the first in its European Integration Center in Coventry, UK.  REE’s Coventry Integration Center will serve customer demand in Europe with an initial focus on…

Electric vehicle technology company and platform provider REE Automotive has offered two updates to its progress in the commercial EV segment. First, REE has proven its cloud-based robotic assembly approach and is on schedule to implement it in the UK followed by the US. Additionally, REE has teased its first commercial EV developed alongside JB Poindexter subsidiary, EAVX. REE Automotive’s walk-in van prototype will begin customer evaluations this summer. Background REE Automotive ($REE) is an e-mobility…

Back in November 2020, startup Open Ocean Engineering launched an autonomous trash collector aimed at clearing plastic waste from harbors, lakes and canals. After partnering with games titan Razer last year for a radical redesign, a sleeker Clearbot has now started patrolling Hong Kong waters.As we've noted many times in the past, plastic waste is an enormous problem – not only for the environment at large but also for our health. Just recently, global leaders from 175 nations signed a resolution aimed at tackling the…