Most Read: Robotic Dog With Wheels Climbs Steps, Speeds Down Mountains; Quantum Computing Studies to Manage Drones, Self-Driving Cars

Here are the most-read stories on IoT World Today this week.

Robotic Dog With Wheels Climbs Steps, Speeds Down Mountains

Deep Robotics has officially launched its new robot dog, the Lynx, an all-terrain robot that uses a combination of wheels and legs to navigate a variety of rough topographies.

The wheeled-leg hybrid design combines the speed of wheels and the agility of legs, giving it the ability to travel to hard-to-reach wilderness areas on search-and-rescue missions, for example. It is powered by Deep Robotics’ proprietary motion-control algorithms, giving the robot multi-terrain adaptability. 

The unique means of locomotion means it can roll across flatter surfaces on all four legs or go bipedal to climb steps almost nine inches high and slopes as steep as 45 degrees. Videos show it speeding down rough mountain roads and clambering rock walls.

The Lynx is designed to be protected from external elements and has a three-hour battery life. The robot batteries can be quickly swapped out and it has a high-performance image/video transmission. It also runs on the Deep Robotics AI platform and can be customized for different use cases. 

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Quantum Computing Studies to Manage Drones, Self-Driving Cars

Future fleets of autonomous devices, such as drones and self-driving cars, could use quantum entanglement to coordinate their movements more efficiently and reduce communication overhead.

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A study by researchers at the University of Kent in the U.K. investigated whether quantum computers could solve the “rendezvous problem.”

This problem looks at how two or more moving objects or “agents” could meet in a shared space despite starting from unknown, random or separate locations. It has real-world applications in coordinating autonomous systems.

Mathematicians often study the rendezvous problem in the context of graph theory, where the “space” is represented as a graph and the agents move along its edges.

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Autonomous Robosweepers Begin Work in the Heart of Singapore

One of the world’s most recognizable backdrops for holiday pictures now has an added attraction – autonomous road cleaners.

Marina Bay in the Asian city-state of Singapore is playing host to electric Robosweepers from Chinese company WeRide, which has commenced operations there following the recent granting of licenses from Singapore’s Land Transport Authority.

And that’s no mean feat given the Garden City’s legendary pursuit of cleanliness, which even extends to banning chewing gum to prevent it from making a mess of sidewalks and roads when spat out.

Related:Quantum Computing Studies to Manage Drones, Self-Driving Cars

The deployment of the Robosweeper S6 and Robosweeper S1 constitutes Singapore’s first commercialized autonomous sanitation project, and according to WeRide it will pave the way for “the broader adoption of smart sanitation technologies in the country.”

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Tesla Self-Driving Parking Tech Launches in Europe to Mixed Reception

The Tesla feature designed to take the strain out of parking is now being introduced outside of the United States.

Actually Smart Summon (or ASS) allows Tesla models to autonomously navigate parking scenarios without owners actually being in the car, and was released in America in September.

Now the automaker has confirmed on X that ASS is being launched in Europe and the Middle East.

But the supposed breakthrough isn’t really much of a step forward at all, because of regulatory difficulties – and has been poorly received by some owners on social media.

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Former iRobot Founders Creating AI-Powered Home Robots

The former CEO and co-founder of iRobot has teamed with two other iRobot alumni to create a new robot startup relating to health and wellness.

Colin Angle stepped down from iRobot nine months ago after leading the company for 33 years. He co-founded iRobot while an MIT graduate student. At the time of his announcement, he hinted at his future.

“iRobot has an exciting future ahead of it. I am not done either,” he said in a LinkedIn post at the time. 

Now we know what he is up to next. 

Co-founded with iRobot’s former chief technology officer Chris Jones and iRobot alumni Ira Renfrew, the startup, Familiar Machines and Magic, plans to work in the home-robot space, according to a recent LinkedIn post by Jones. 

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