Robotics
GITA: Piaggio’s cargo robot that follows you everywhere
Piaggio Fast Forward has developed a cargo robot equipped with Artificial Intelligence: it recognizes its “master” and follows him wherever he goes.
Giovanni Sapere
robot
News
Curly, the champion curling robot
The machine is programmed to learn from previous launches and has managed to defeat two professional Korean champions
Mario Vincenzo La Rocca
Robotics
xPizza One: the “3D printer” for the pizza
xPizza One is an automatic robot that uses a technology very similar to that of a 3D printer to produce pizza: you can choose from 23 different toppings.
Giovanni Sapere
Robotics
In Milan the robot barman who prepares cocktails in 30 seconds
A club in Piazza Duomo in Milan has “hired” the first robot barman in Italy: his name is Toni and he is able to create all kinds of cocktails.
Giovanni Sapere
Environment
Silver 2: the robot crab that will clean up the sea from the plastic
Silver 2 is a “crab robot” that removes plastic from the sea: it was born from the partnership between the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa and the Anton Dohrn Station in Naples.
Giovanni Sapere
Gadget
Scribit: the Italian robot that “brings” art to the walls of the house
Time has chosen Scribit as one of the best inventions of 2019: it is a robot artist (Italian) able to reproduce great works of art on the walls of the house.
Giovanni Sapere
Environment
Odd.Bot removes weeds and replaces herbicides
The Dutch company has invented a robot that recognizes weeds and removes them from the ground automatically, eliminating the use of chemicals Robotics is influencing all aspects of everyday life. Technological development is making autonomous devices widely present in several fields of work and…
Mario Vincenzo La Rocca
Gadget
Y-Brush: the smart toothbrush to brush your teeth in 5 seconds
The French company FasTeesH presented a revolutionary toothbrush at CES 2020: Y-Brush is able to thoroughly clean all teeth in less than 5 seconds.
Giovanni Sapere
News
Utah: robot neurosurgeon arrives in the operating room
A team of researchers at the University of Utah developed a fully autonomous neurosurgeon robot 50 times faster than their flesh-and-bone “colleagues”.
Giovanni Sapere
Entertainment
Herculaneum: Pepper, the first “robot guide”, arrives at the MAV
From November, visitors to the Virtual Archaeological Museum (MAV) of Herculaneum will be welcomed and guided by Pepper, the first robot museum guide.
Giovanni Sapere
AI
Nao, the ENEA’s robot to save energy at home
Enea’s researchers have developed a robot and a software interface that suggests how to save energy thanks to Big Data analysis and AI
Giovanni Sapere
AI
Was born Dactyl, the robot that solves Rubik’s cube with one hand
Invented by OpenAI, Dactyl represents a major step forward in the development of even more agile machines. Who hasn’t kept a Rubik’s cube in their hands? This fun three-dimensional cube puzzle was created by Erno Rubik (a Hungarian) in 1974, and is considered the most popular game in the world.…
Ilaria Cuomo
News
HIRO VS4: the industrial robot that “sees” as a man
Hiro VS4 is the “father” of a new generation of industrial robots capable of seeing and interacting with objects just like human beings.
Giovanni Sapere
News
“Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition” returns from 18 to 20 October
“Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition” returns from 18 to 20 October
Letizia Giugliano
AI
Robotization is coming. The novelties of MIT
It sounds like science fiction, but there are robots that build other robots! Published on the MIT blog, the news is going around the world, making us understand how now the robots are “invading” our civilization.
Giovanni Sapere
AI
Music RoDyMan! A robot conductor orchestra
Born from the brilliant minds of the guys at PrismaLab, the tech workshop of Federico II in Naples, RoDyMan has become the conductor of the Conservatory “Martucci” in Salerno, a preview of what we will see at MakerFaire in Rome.
Giovanni Sapere
News
From an IIT team in Genoa comes an “extra hand” for the workers
Need some help? How many times have you heard this sentence? From Genoa now this offer of help comes in concrete thanks to the project of two teams of researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).
Giovanni Sapere
News
Colossus, the first robotic firefighter who fought in the flames of Notre-Dame
In these days of the tragedy of the burning of Notre-Dame, one of the most active participants in the rescue of the historic Parisian cathedral was he: Colossus.
Giovanni Sapere