[ad_1] If nothing else, a year of COVID-19 has taught us to expect the unexpected. Of course, manufacturers have always been highly attuned to change, but the COVID-19 pandemic hit the manufacturing industry seemingly overnight, causing deep and long-lasting impacts. A year later, we can look back and see what manufacturers have learned about how…
[ad_1] What’s new for collaborative robotics systems, enabling technologies and applications? What’s next? Attend this online session on April 20th to find out. By RBR Staff | April 4, 2022 Listen to this article Wednesday, Apr 20, 20222 PM ET / 11AM PT There is no charge to attend RBR Educational Webinars. The introduction of…
[ad_1] This relatively general post focuses on robotics-related PhD programs in the American educational system. Much of this will not apply to universities in other countries, or to other departments in American universities. This post will take you through the overall life cycle of a PhD and is intended as a basic overview for anyone…
[ad_1] Listen to this article Percepto recently received BVLOS approval at two US refineries. | Source: Percepto Unless you were watching for it, the recently announced industry report, solicited by the Federal Aviation Administration and titled Unmanned Aircraft Systems Beyond Visual Line of Sight Aviation Rulemaking Committee, might have slipped past you. Yet hidden in…
[ad_1] By Dora Miller. Robots are exciting to play tools for children and young adults. What if students learned how to make robots? Would robotics make it easy to handle STEM? Would the robots make other concepts easier to understand?
[ad_1] Quantum and neuromorphic approaches both hold the promise of fundamentally rewriting the way we do computing. And now they have been merged after researchers developed a “quantum memristor” that could form the basis of quantum neural networks. While Moore’s Law still seems to have life in it, the limits of conventional computing are becoming…
[ad_1] We first heard about the child-like iCub humanoid robot back in 2011, when it was nominated to take part in the Olympic Torch Relay. The latest and greatest version, the iCub 3, was the star of a recently-announced (and pretty impressive) telepresence demonstration. Developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology,…
[ad_1] According to a new study, the spam filtering algorithms (SFAs) from three of the world’s largest major email providers exhibited political bias during the United States’ 2020 elections, with Google’s Gmail skewing to the left, and Microsoft Outlook and Yahoo Mail favoring emails from right-wing candidates. The paper states: ‘Our [observations] revealed that all…
[ad_1] Chipotle We love our robots, and the quirkier the better. Doesn’t get much more smile-inducing than a new model from food service robotics pioneer Miso Robotics, which is designed to cook and freshly season tortilla chips to order. Miso is a growing tech company to watch, an early leader in the push to automate fast…
[ad_1] Creality has lifted the veil over its latest 3D scanner. In an effort to further diversify its 3D cosmos, Creality, the well-known manufacturer of 3D printing-community-favorites such as the Ender 3, has announced its new and improved 3D scanner: the CR-Scan Lizard. This entry-level 3D scanner for consumers follows the company’s CR-Scan 01 —…
[ad_1] You know that you need to start palletizing… it’s getting bad… product boxes are piling up on your line and your workers can’t palletize them fast enough. Every day, you see your people rushing around to complete the palletizing tasks, trying to fit it in between their other tasks. But it doesn’t matter how…
[ad_1] When KOYO ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIES CO., LTD. experienced a surge in demand for its in-car touch panels, the manufacturer responded by reallocating workers away from manual post-production inspection tasks to address bottlenecks elsewhere. It was a decision that eventually led to skilled labor shortages on repetitive, end of line touch panel testing processes. KOYO needed…
[ad_1] Leo Medrano, a PhD student in the Neurobionics Lab at the University of Michigan, tests out an ankle exoskeleton on a two-track treadmill. Researchers were able to give the exoskeleton user direct control to tune its behavior, allowing them to find the right torque and timing settings for themselves. By Dan Newman To transform…
[ad_1] Listen to this article Oceaneering’s new AMRs include the UniMover D 100, UniMover O 600 and MaxMover CB D 2000. | Source: Oceaneering Oceaneering International launched at MODEX 2022 three autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in the North American market. The UniMover D 100, UniMover O 600 and MaxMover CB D 2000 all use BlueBotics’…
[ad_1] By Dan Matthews Solid STEM education is perhaps one of the best gifts parents and teachers can give students, equipping them today with the tools they will need to fill some of the most lucrative and in-demand jobs of tomorrow. But although STEM learning has so much to offer, many children, teens, and college…
[ad_1] Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? This eternally-confounding question now has an answer—that is, if just the egg white counts. In a continued expansion of the list of animal products now being made without animals (such as salmon, bacon, steak, and milk, to name a few), San Francisco-based Every Company just released…
[ad_1] Kawasaki Heavy Industries has plenty of experience mass-producing industrial robots, and now we get to see some of its early progress into service robots, multi-purpose humanoids, and, for some reason, a very silly-looking ride-on robot ibex. While the brand is known mainly as a motorcycle company in the West, Kawasaki is a 125-year old…
[ad_1] A group of researchers at the University of the Basque Country has developed a prototype for VIGICOVID, which is an automatic information extraction system for COVID-19 scientific articles. The system relies on natural language questions to get answers regarding COVID-19. The project involving VIGICOVID was run by the UPV/EHU’s HiTZ Centre, the UNED’s NLP…
[ad_1] OTTO Lifter smart autonomous forklift. OTTO Motors A new robot forklift with some serious smarts is debuting at MODEX, the largest supply chain conference in the Americas. The conference is getting a lot more attention than usual amid ongoing global logistics pressures, and so is the case for a major automation overhaul in the…
[ad_1] Robotics experts obode, just announced the launch of a next-generation smart robot vacuum/mop for automated floor cleaning for the entire home. Featuring voice control, customizable app, and LDS intelligent navigation, this innovative new cleaning robot adds powerful cleaning and modern convenience to any home. The obode P8 is available now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obodep8/obode-p8-2-in-1-smart-self-cleaning-cleaner obode P8 is…
[ad_1] Dear Robothon® Community! We, the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), in collaboration with Messe München and automatica have launched successfully a new high-tech platform calledmunich_i in 2021, an event bringing together the world’s leading thought leaders and personalities from AI and robotics. munich_i will…
[ad_1] Screw assemblies are extremely common in an assembly line. Over the course of a single shift, for example, operators can easily be fastening over 5,000 screws even when the number of screws per part is less than a dozen. You might feel like you could just “throw” some automation at the problem. Maybe a…
[ad_1] In a world where the number of people who need healthcare is growing faster than the number of people who can provide their care, the adoption of new technology is more imperative than ever. This bodes well for the robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) industry, which remains largely underpenetrated, with significant investment upside.
[ad_1] The argument for adopting cobots for palletizing applications is compelling. In the United States alone, overexertion and repetitive motion account for 24% and 8% of workplace injuries. Manual palletizing is not just unergonomic though. It is costly. And it limits palletizing throughput and quality. Palletizing remains one of the most popular applications for Universal…
[ad_1] Matt Johnson (right) and Laura Brattain (left) test a new medical device on an artificial model of human tissue and blood vessels. The device helps users to insert a needle and guidewire quickly and accurately into a vessel, a crucial first step to halting rapid blood loss. Photo: Nicole Fandel. By Anne McGovern |…
[ad_1] Listen to this article Sarcos plans to ship its Guardian XO and XT to customers in 2023. | Source: Sarcos Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corporation earned $1 million in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2021, a drop from the $3.4 million it made in Q4 2020. Sarcos suffered a net loss of $34.1…
[ad_1] By Dan Matthews All children deserve the right to be set up for success, and one of the ways children are prepared to do their best in school is based on their access to technology. Technology is a great equalizer for all children, and all children can become better learners through the use of…
[ad_1] Champion bridge player Sharon Osberg once wrote, “Playing bridge is like running a business. It’s about hunting, chasing, nuance, deception, reward, danger, cooperation and, on a good day, victory.” While it’s little surprise chess fell to number-crunching supercomputers long ago, you’d expect humans to maintain a more unassailable advantage in bridge, a game of…
[ad_1] MIT’s mini cheetah robot has broken its own personal best (PB) speed, hitting 8.72 mph (14.04 km/h) thanks to a new model-free reinforcement learning system that allows the robot to figure out on its own the best way to run and allows it to adapt to different terrain, without relying on human analysis. The…