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- 1A visitor tours CoRIS robotics lab at Oregon State University●I spent yesterday at CoRIS at Oregon State University. I got to see robots for assisting seniors with physical therapy,
A visitor spent the day at the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute at Oregon State University, seeing robots designed to assist seniors with physical therapy, maintain wave energy installations autonomously, and study how spiders detect movement through their webs. The visitor described the range of work as amazing, highlighting the institute's breadth from elder care to marine energy to bio-inspired sensing research.
- 2Diden's Spider robot climbs steel walls inside ships●How Diden’s Spider robot walks up steel walls inside ships
Diden's Spider robot can walk up vertical steel walls inside ships, a task that is difficult and dangerous for human workers. The climbing robot is aimed at inspecting or working on hulls and other steel surfaces in confined maritime environments. Coverage is drawing attention to how magnetic or adhesive climbing robots could take over hazardous maintenance work in shipbuilding and shipping.