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Compiler is a weekly article that gathers the best stories on robots and drones from the past week. From stories on our blog to other popular sites, here are the week’s best stories you don’t want to miss.
Dispatch Ground Delivery Robots
The race to deliver by robot is on. A San Francisco-based startup, Dispatch, has joined the ground delivery trend with their robot, Carry. The startup, founded by a team of roboticists from MIT, UPenn, Princeton, and Stanford, plans on offering a simple, affordable on-demand delivery through a fleet of autonomous robots.
Sharp’s Robot Phone
Last year, Sharp unveiled their ludicrous reinvention of the smartphone dubbed RoBoHoN. It’s a robot melded in the shape of a humanoid but offering the same functionality of a smartphone and then some. Sharp wasn’t kidding when it debuted RoBoHoN. The Japanese company is putting a few thousand models up for grabs each featuring a fat price tag of $1,800.
ESPN To Air Drone Racing
From Gizmodo:
ESPN and the International Drone Racing Association have inked a multi-year deal to broadcast the best of drone racing. The first instalment will be the U.S. National Drone Racing Championships, to be hosted on Governor’s Island in New York at the beginning of August. ESPN will stream all three days live online, and wrap up the highlights into a one-hour TV spot.
MIT 3D-Printed Robot
From WIRED:
BUILDING A ROBOT is hard work. It’s expensive. It requires expertise in a number of disciplines, and a willingness to make certain trade-offs for practical reasons. But many of those obstacles melt away when you can 3-D print a robot with liquids and solids simultaneously.
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