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2017: The year of the stock-taking robot
In the face of growing competition from e-commerce, brick-and-mortar stores are having to innovate. With lower costs, speed and ease-of-use…

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The definitive intern guide to SLAM: place recognition & loop closure
SLAM – simultaneous localisation and mapping – is a technique robots use to build a map of their environment, ascertain…

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ICRA 2017: reflections on the world’s largest robotics event
A PAL Robotics presentation The PAL Robotics team have just returned from yet another fantastically organised ICRA – the IEEE’s…

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TIAGo to the rescue: how robots can help an ageing society
TIAGo helping the elderlies This May, for a period of three weeks, we’ve had the pleasure of hosting two fellow…

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ERL tournament: TIAGo Steel robots for loan
What is the ERL Service Robots tournament? We’re incredibly excited to announce the call for loan of three TIAGo Steel…

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Five minutes with NASA Space Robotics Challenge finalists, Team Olympus Mons
PAL Robotics and the NASA In a galaxy far, far away (PAL Robotics’ office), a team of engineers have been…

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Letting TIAGo loose in The Hague for RoboBusiness
Factory in a Day From kilts to clogs, TIAGo certainly seems to be living it large in 2017! We had…

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Ethics in robotics: an interview with Dr. Michael Anderson
Ethics and Robotics with Dr Anderson Dr. Michael Anderson, from the University of Hartford, researches the principles and practices that…