A fleet of driverless cars working together to keep traffic moving smoothly can improve overall traffic flow by at least 35%, researchers have shown. Source: Science Daily – Robotics

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here’s what we have so far (send us your events!): Nîmes Robotics Festival – May 17-19, 2019 – Nîmes, France Isolierband Robotics Competition – May 19, 2019 – Israel ICRA 2019 – May 20-24, 2019 – Montreal, Canada URC 2019 – May 30-1, 2019 – Hanksville, Utah Dynamic Walking 2019 […]

Researchers create a remote-controlled soft robot that can transform itself to conduct targeted drug delivery against cancer cells. Source: Science Daily – Robotics

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This article will look at the top-end solution in terms of accuracy and repeatability, and the applications that benefit from a motion control solution that has achieved quantum-sized improvements in the precision achievable across numerous applications. Source: Robotics Tomorrow