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ERF 2021: humanoids, robots for agri-food, adapting to pandemic situations and more, e-meet us there!

By |2022-07-21T15:38:05+00:00March 29th, 2021|Categories: Categories, EU projects, Events, News, Research|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The PAL Robotics team will host these workshops at the ERF 2021 This year’s ERF (European Robotics Forum) virtual event takes place very soon, from 13-15 April 2021 and we are delighted once again to actively be taking part, this

Humanoid robot navigating autonomously over rough terrain; spotlight on TALOS

By |2022-08-18T14:22:52+00:00March 5th, 2021|Categories: Categories, News, Research|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Humanoid robots and autonomous navigation In popular culture and media, humanoid biped robots are often portrayed as walking and behaving similarly to humans. In reality, this implies that these robots are completely autonomous and fully adapted to our human environment.

“Get started with TIAGo” in our free webinar

By |2022-07-21T16:08:30+00:00February 19th, 2021|Categories: Categories, Learn how to, News, Research|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Who is the TIAGo webinar for? Our webinar “Get started with TIAGo” on Tuesday 2nd March 2021 at 12pm (CET), is the introduction you’re looking for to find out how to use our most popular research platform and mobile manipulator,

Your Guide to Autonomous Mobile Robots

By |2022-08-18T14:24:48+00:00February 12th, 2021|Categories: Categories, Logistics, News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR): all you need to know A number of developments in transportation of goods in industry have been transforming operations in recent years. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are one of these. AMRs are Mobile Robots that navigate

New research projects in Agri-Food, 5G and personal robotics

By |2022-08-24T10:19:17+00:00December 18th, 2020|Categories: Categories, EU projects, News, Research|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

New investigations into agri-food, personal robots and manufacturing Robotics research is constantly evolving to bring advancements that can be applied in real-life scenarios, including fields such as Agri-Food, personal robots and factories of the future, for which 5G connection will

TIAGo at the University of Leeds in RoboCup and simulations

By |2022-06-22T09:19:26+00:00December 11th, 2020|Categories: Categories, Customer stories, News, Research|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

RoboCup@Home Education Challenge and benefits of robotics competitions   Our TIAGo robot is an important member of the LASR team (which stands for Leeds Autonomous Service Robots) recently formed at the University of Leeds to compete in robotics challenges.  We managed

Developing the ROS2 Control project for robots supporting ROS2 software

By |2022-08-18T14:29:51+00:00November 27th, 2020|Categories: Categories, EU projects, News, Research|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Re-creating and improving on the original ROS Control software package within ROS2 PAL Robotics is taking part in the ros2_control project, which has the aim of delivering a complete version of ros_control for ROS2, which is essential for having a

Successful launch of ROS Play Motion Builder tool for easy creation of robot motions

By |2022-08-24T11:00:50+00:00November 20th, 2020|Categories: Categories, EU projects, Learn how to, News, Research|Tags: , , , , , , |

ROS Motion Builder project PAL Robotics has created ROS Play Motion Builder to make it easy to create motions in robots. This successful launch has been one of the results of work in a series of ROSIN EU projects that

Insights on research in HRI and robotics for healthcare by Sara Cooper

By |2022-08-18T14:47:18+00:00October 27th, 2020|Categories: Categories, News, Research|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Assistive robotics expert Sarah Cooper on healthcare robotics PAL Robotics’ software engineer, Sara Cooper, recently won the best paper award at Heriot-Watt University with her master thesis, “An EEG investigation on planning human-robot handover tasks". We spoke with Sara to

RO-MAN 2020 virtual event: workshops on socially assistive robotics, HRI, manipulation and more

By |2022-05-24T09:01:57+00:00September 15th, 2020|Categories: Categories, Events, News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This year’s RO-MAN event (the 29th RO-MAN!) was as diverse and interactive as ever, despite taking place virtually, with presentations, workshops, Q&A sessions, live demos and more. The PAL Robotics team were delighted to participate once again, and joined workshops

TALOS joins the robotics family at the University of Edinburgh

By |2022-08-24T15:50:37+00:00September 4th, 2020|Categories: Categories, Customer stories, News, Research|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The SLMC research working with fixed base, wheeled and legged robots TALOS, our biped humanoid research robot, has been introduced into the team at the Statistical Learning and Motor Control Group (SLMC) as part of the University of Edinburgh Centre

COVID-19 and our robots: ready to help fight coronavirus in hospitals

By |2022-08-25T07:53:52+00:00April 8th, 2020|Categories: Categories, News, Research|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Robots can help humans with high-risk jobs To fight the spread of COVID-19, a scale of pandemic the world hasn’t seen in a long time, new and innovative solutions are urgently needed - and robots can offer just that. They

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