More efficient actuator technologies would benefit, not only robotics systems, but all actuated systems, such as prosthetic limbs.

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Especially as the military looks into more remote controlled and autonomous robotics systems.

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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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The folks at the Georgia Robotics and InTelligent Systems (Grits) Lab at Georgia Tech have been hard at work for some time now researching swarm robots.

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He discussed and showed pictures and videos of his experience as one of the 3 drivers of R2-D2, re-creating the Energizer bunny, various robotics and automated systems for Mythbusters as well as making the robot skeleton, Geoff Peterson, for the Late Late Show.

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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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What makes this more than just a robotics exercise, though, is that the application is robust in different systems requiring sensor control.

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