The Indiana VEX Robotics State Championship will be hosted virtually on March 6. The initiative, which is hosted by TechPoint Foundation for Youth in Indianapolis, will feature the top 245 Indiana tea
Stavros Vougioukas receives $1.6 million to develop innovative fruit-picking machines
Biological and agricultural engineering associate professor Stavros Vougioukas is leading two new research projects to mechanize the orchard and pick fruit more effectively.
The first project, which received $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation’s Robotics Initiative and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), aims to build a machine that can find and pick fruit quickly and effectively, especially when there is thick tree foliage in the way. The second project, which received $400,000 from NIFA, is focused on developing a shake-and-catch harvesting system for soft fruits to prevent fall damage.
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National Safety Council
Washington, DC The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is providing $1.5 million for research aimed at reducing occupational hazards in health care and manufacturing via the development and use of collaborative robots, or “cobots.”
According to a Nov. 16 press release, NIOSH and the National Science Foundation are funding separate research projects at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the University of Illinois at Chicago through the NSF National Robotics Initiative 2.0. The goal of the initiative is to accelerate the development and use of cobots – “an emerging robotic technology that complements, not replaces, human workers” – to enhance workplace safety.