Bicycle riders may soon find themselves to a sharing bike lanes with autonomous delivery robots. Robotic delivery startup Refraction to the AI recently revealed plans for a lightweight delivery robot that can use bicycle lanes. The company, a brainchild of University of Michigan professors Ram Vasudevan and Matthew Johnson-Roberson, is pitching its five-foot-tall REV-1 as a lightweight, low-cost, autonomous delivery robot that can be zip around at up to 15 miles per hour in both bicycle lanes and roadways, making for more efficient last-mile deliveries. “We have created the Goldilocks of autonomous…
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Robotics startup Genrobotics raises Rs 2.5 crore in pre-series A round funding !!
New Delhi : Robotics startup Genrobotics on Wednesday said it has raised Rs 2.5 crore in pre-series A round funding from existing investors led by Unicorn India Ventures, along with industrialist Anand Mahindra and SEA Fund. The Kerala-based firm, Genrobotics has been working with the Centre and state governments with a mission to eradicate manual scavenging from the entire country and has deployed its Bandicoot robots across 11 states. “The funds raised will be used for the further scaling up production of Bandicoot to meet the growing demand in light…
Read MoreA framework to increase the safety of robots operating in crowded environments !!
Humans are innately able to adapt their behavior and actions according to the movements of other humans in their surroundings. For instance, human drivers may suddenly stop, slow down, steer or start their car based on the actions of other drivers, pedestrians or cyclists, as they have a sense of which maneuvers are risky in specific scenarios. However, developing robots and autonomous vehicles that can similarly predict human movements and assess the risk of performing different actions in a given scenario has so far proved highly challenging. This has resulted in…
Read MoreRobotics startup Miko raises ₹23 crore led by Stride Ventures !!
New Delhi: Robotics start-up Miko raised ₹23 crore in a pre-series B round led by Stride Ventures. Existing investors is including Chiratae Ventures, YourNest Venture Capital and a group of angel investors, led by former Nasscom chairman Keshav Murugesh, also participated in the round. Stride aims to be a strategic partner in the company’ through its customized offerings and relationships across banks and corporates. Founded five years back, Miko was created by three IIT Bombay graduates, Sneh R Vaswani, Prashant Iyengar and Chintan Raikar. After the success of their first…
Read MoreCovid-sniffing robots offer testing alternative !!
A biotechnology startup called Koniku is trying to develop robots that could sniff out Covid-19. infections faster than conventional testing. The technology fuses neurons with a silicon chip to create a “smell cyborg” capable of detecting scents ranging from that explosives to pathogens. Koniku’s first clinical trial began three weeks ago and will examine samples from patients tested for Covid-19 to compare how well the smell-bot is detects the virus compared with traditional methods. Small internal trials have already demonstrated that it can accurately detect the presence of influenza A….
Read MorePM Modi to launch property cards under SVAMITVA scheme on Oct 11 !!
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Sunday launch the physical distribution of property cards is under the SVAMITVA (Survey of Villages And Mapping With Improvised Technology In Village Areas) scheme that enables rural masses to use the property as a financial asset, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on Friday. The launch event will begin at 11am on Sunday where PM Modi will also interact with some of the beneficiaries. Union minister for panchayati raj Narendra Singh Tomar will also join the programme. The property cards…
Read MoreRat called Magawa awarded prestigious gold medal for Cambodia landmine detection !!
London: They get a bad rep, especially for being dirty. But one the rat redeemed his species on Friday becoming the first rodent to receive a gold medal for his work in sniffing out unexploded landmines and saving countless lives in Cambodia. Magawa, a so-called “hero rat” was presented with a small blue collar and mini-gold medal by the British of veterinary charity the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) on Friday. “Magawa’s work directly saves and changes the lives of men, women and children who are impacted by these landmines. Every…
Read MoreNASA launches SS Kalpana Chawla Cygnus spacecraft to International Space station !!
The International Space Station (ISS) is gearing up to receive the flight which will be supply thousands of kilograms essential space supplies and related-equipments to the astronauts. Northrop Grumman launched to another flight to the International Space Station, this time named after late astronaut ‘Kalpana Chawla’. The Cygnus vehicle S.S Kalpana Chawla along with Antares rocket for NG-14 mission was launched on October 2nd, at 21.16 EDT (6.46 am IST). Northrop Grumman further affirmed that they wanted to name their next Cygnus vehicle after someone who has played an instrumental…
Read MoreA Curved New World: Mind and Space Bending Physics on a Convenient Chip !!
Thanks to Einstein, we know that our three-dimensional space is warped and curved. And in curved space, normal ideas of geometry and straight lines break down, creating a chance to explore an unfamiliar landscape governed by new rules. But studying that how physics plays out in a curved space is challenging: Just like in real estate, location is everything. “We know from general relativity that the universe itself is curved in various places,” says JQI Fellow Alicia Kollár, who is also a professor of physics at the University of Maryland…
Read MoreResearchers find 24 planets more liveable than Earth !!
Two dozen planets have been identified by the researchers that it may have conditions more suitable for life than Earth. A study led by Washington State University scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch recently published in the journal of Astrobiology details characteristics of these potential “superhabitable” planets. As per the report in Astrobiology Web, these more ‘liveable’ planets are older, a little larger, slightly warmer and possibly wetter than Earth. Some of these orbit stars that may be better than even our sun. Life could also be more easily thrive on planets that…
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