Photos from ROSCon UK: BBC's robotic whale, da Vinci surgical robot, PR2 and Baxter
kamathsblog · x · 2026-10-27
The author shares photos from ROSCon UK in Edinburgh, where they also spoke: a bionic whale robot used by the BBC to record real whales, the da Vinci surgical robot, the classic PR2, and Baxter.
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