Dextre, the mechanical robot from space
It is equipped with sensors and socket wrenches. His mission: to work on the outer part of the International Space Station. In a perfect autonomy. Dextre is the work of the Canadian Space Agency. Behind his small name, which speaks volumes about his dexterity, lies a more technical name: Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator. The robot is part of the trip that must be carried out, this week, the American shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station (ISS). Read more »
The company is a leader in the field of domestic and military robot. It relies on its model vacuum to invest European homes. robot is not one of these start-ups that surfing the past few years alone on the new wave of robots. As explained in the preamble to Expansion in an interview with the CEO and co-founder Colin Angle, robot has become in 18 years the first global robotics company with 450 employees and an annual turnover of nearly 250 million dollars. ” His weapon of conquest, or rather its weapons? On the one hand, robots developed for military purposes, including for demeaning operations of the U.S. military in Iraq. On the other hand, domestic models capable of performing the tasks of daily less favorable. Roomba, its best-selling product, aspires dust in full autonomy, also using an algorithm originally developed for robots mine detectors. 
Last October, Sony accused of hacking those programs changed its Aibo robot dog. Today, the Japanese giant announced it will enter the public domain software who run the head of its creature. The Japanese group has made a big decision about his famous cyber pet, Aibo: June 3 next year, it will publish on its website Aibo.com details of the software Open-R, which allows you to program the robot’s behavior.