Robotics Archives

Amazon Australia’s new Robotic Fulfilment Centre is absolutely massive, still requires 1,500 humans

Jason Cartwright

June 30, 2020

Amazon Australia is clearly going well with the company announcing a new fulfilment centre in Sydney. This is absolutely massive, in its scale and ambition, with at 200,000 sqm, it’ll be around the same land size as Taronga Zoo or 22 rugby fields. The first Amazon Robotics Fulfilment Centre...
MIT’s EV-powered Cheetah learns to jump obstacles

techau

May 31, 2015

MIT researchers have developed an algorithm for jumping over obstacles with their robotic cheetah. With the security of tethers from above, the Cheetah runs on a treadmill as objects of different sizes are placed in front of it. Running at 2.4 meters per second, first it faces a 27cm...