Robotics news

Americans will build robotic stingrays of two types. On December 21, the press service of the Agency for Advanced Defense Projects (DARPA) of the US Department of Defense announced the signing of a contract with Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation and Martin Defense Group to develop prototypes of underwater drones.

A comprehensive bill on the legal regulation of relations in the sphere of robot turnover, which, in particular, defines the concept of "robot", divides robots into classes, and also fixes the principles of robot-human relations, was developed in the Federation Council and sent for review to the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Finance, TASS reports, quoting the document profusely.

Human rights activists advocate a ban on the use of artificial intelligence in some military developments. In this discussion, it is formulated in detail how combat technologies that have gone out of control can harm humanity. What exactly is proposed to be banned? And what do these conversations lead to?

The chemical current source has a long service life - up to 2.7 thousand or more charge-discharge cycles, depending on the operating conditions, Rostec noted

Frost-resistant lithium-ion batteries for robots and military equipment were developed in the holding company "Roselectronics" of the Rostec State Corporation. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of the state corporation.

The Minister noted that the exercises demonstrated the ability of the created interspecific groups to effectively carry out tasks to ensure regional security

Serial attack robots were used on a large scale for the first time during the Zapad-2021 strategic exercises. This was announced on Tuesday by Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu at an expanded meeting of the board of the military department.

Japanese engineers have developed a snake robot with magnets in the wheels. They showed how magnets hold the robot even on vertical surfaces, and the design of several segments allows it to move over obstacles. A video of the tests was published on the YouTube channel of the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun newspaper.

With the help of an onboard sonar station and magnetometers, they will independently detect and identify sea mines

The universal landing helicopter carriers (UDC) of the project 23900 "Ivan Rogov" and "Mitrofan Moskalenko", which are being built at JSC "B. E. Butoma Shipbuilding Plant" (Kerch), will be equipped with mine-free unmanned boats (BEC) of Russian design. This was reported to TASS by a source in the shipbuilding industry.

Sony has introduced a wheeled robot with an unusual design: it has two pairs of conventional wheels at the corners and two omnidirectional front and rear. This allows the robot to turn around on the spot and climb the ledges, almost without changing its angle of inclination. The company will test it as an observer on the construction of a building in Tokyo, according to a Sony press release.

Hyundai has introduced the MobED robot, a four—wheel platform with independent suspension that allows it to keep its balance even on inclined and uneven surfaces. The use of MobED can be very diverse. For example, in the video, he carries a champagne tower and a stroller with a baby, and also works with a tripod.

It is expected that the development will become the basis for the interaction of ground robots, unmanned aircraft and special forces

Specialists of the Foundation for Advanced Research (FPI) are working on the autonomous movement of the Marker group of robotic platforms coordinated in time and space. Robots during the movement along the route must go around obstacles themselves and interact with each other, the press service of the foundation told TASS.

Rheinmetall and BAE Systems' joint venture, Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL), founded in 2019, heads a consortium of British companies engaged in the research of concepts of new, economical and high-performance uninhabited ground robotic systems (Unmanned Ground Vehicles, UGV) for the British Army.

The African startup Phractyl showed a concept unlike anything we have seen before. This is an avant-garde and absurd aircraft with the likeness of "bird paws" on a caterpillar track, a tilted cabin, rotating wings and the possibility of vertical takeoff.

The German company Rheinmetall has introduced a tracked robot based on the Wiesel platform. It can be used to solve a wide range of tasks.

Otkritie Bank survey: 18% of Russians believe that robot judges will make sentences more honest

Slightly more than a third of Russians (37 percent) reacted positively to the appearance of robot judges, but in most cases citizens would like their sentence to be considered by a person, not a digital algorithm. Such data are provided in the survey of the Otkritie Bank, RIA Novosti reports.

So, the cosmonauts took part in the discussion of the readiness of the multipurpose laboratory module "Science" for flight tests, the preliminary design of Soyuz-5, Angara

Russian cosmonauts, within the framework of scientific and technical Councils (NTS), take part in discussing the problems of creating a Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS), robotic systems and other projects.

The robot from the Russian resident of Skolkovo successfully passed a probationary period in the Abu Dhabi police, after which it was decided to officially include it in the work. Also, similar robots will appear in other regions of the UAE in the near future, Oleg Kivokurtsev, Development Director of Promobot, told TASS.

Swiss company Swiss-Mile has taught a four-legged wheeled robot ANYmal to stand on the rear wheels. How сообщает New Atlas, this version of ANYmal is designed to work in delivery. Standing on the rear wheels, the robot will be able to pick up parcels from customers and put them in its cargo compartment.

The magazine "Military Thought" published an image of the new radar complex "Island". Its use is described in an article on the development of artillery reconnaissance using an intelligent network control system, published in the journal "Military Thought".

Nature continues to share with us its "know-how" with great generosity, the stock of which is unlikely to ever run out, and does it completely free of charge. This time, engineers from Stanford "borrowed" from her, or rather from the falcon, its unique claws, with which it confidently sits on a variety of surfaces and deftly grabs prey.

The British company Engineered Arts has reached impressive heights in the field of robotics, to demonstrate which it has released a video with a new Ameca robot. The android machine differs in two aspects. Firstly, she has very realistic movements, including facial expressions. Secondly, Ameca is a good actress and has already managed to impress observers with her performance.