On the other hand, the company is working to offer cloud-based robotics systems now, which is consistent with the purpose of the site.

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Robotics: Six presenting firms offer robotic and software systems to maximize yield and productivity including Energid Technologies that has developed a robotic citrus harvesting system that automatically finds and removes fruit at a lower cost than manual harvesting, and Vision Robotics that will use stereo vision-based robots to pick, prune and other tasks on specialty crops.

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The Scalar i6000 HD provides high performance and availability with active-active dual robotics for fast data access times, its Active Vault technology (that includes policy-based integrity checking) and providing big data archives on tape.

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Recent developments for a robotics programming language include Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS), a Windows-based environment for robot control and simulation.

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Beaming combines both robotics and virtual reality and tries to improve on flatscreen display-based video conferencing techniques.

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What's more, the tech has use outside of robotics and can even be levereged for more secure e-signature verification based on speed and pressure of a user's handwriting.

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The Pittsburgh-based company was spun out of Carnegie Mellon University and its Robotics Institute.

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Vision Robotics, a company based in San Diego, has demonstrated a prototype vine-pruning robot.

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