Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.30
October 09, 2023
…for Advancing Automation (A3), in a press release. “The R15.08 Part 2 is much-needed guidance toward ensuring safe integration practices for IMRs and will be a solid foundation for future work in this area,” she added. Industrial mobile robot standard available R15.08-2 is titled “The American National Standard for Industrial Mobile Robots (IMRs)—Safety Requirements—Part 2: Requirements for IMR system(s) and IMR application(s).” It provides safety requirements for deploying mobile robots into industrial environments. The new standard specifies requirements for integrating, configuring, and customizing an IMR or a fleet of IMRs into a site. The American National Standard Institute (ANSI) accredited…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.35
March 08, 2023
…is evident in her involvement with the NIOSH/OSHA/RIA Alliance, R15.08, and many other standards committees, noted A3. Nelson Shea was also a past board of director member for ANSI and RIA. “My work in safety standards has been some of my most rewarding and also some of my most challenging in my career,” Nelson Shea said. “The robotics industry should be proud of our safety standards and the resulting low incident rate.” “Due to everyone’s contributions—robot manufacturers, integrators and robot users—we have made robotics great for the market and the people associated with their use,” she added. “Let’s celebrate all…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.34
October 25, 2022
…that Proteus is compliant with the voluntary safety standard R15.08. The hardware was designed to calculate “a safety bubble for mobile speed and separation monitoring,” she said. “It also has “’Safety-aware’ trajectory planning software.” “In effect, we know where our safety bubble is so when we have a choice of trajectories to take, we can choose to take the one that is least likely to trigger a bubble violation based on what we can see around us,” said Taylor. “If we really do our jobs right, the vast majority of time, our movement software should reroute us around an obstacle…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.72
October 04, 2022
…America) Industrial Mobile Robot Safety: A Look at the R15.08 Safety Standard and Risk Assessment (Melonee Wise, Zebra Technologies) Going Commercial: Functional safety for AMRs in Commercial Spaces (Pablo Molina, Avidbots) The ABCs about AMRs: What You Need to Know Before the Big Deployment (Mark Joppru, Mobile Industrial Robots) Experience AMRs in Action on the demo floor In addition to exhibitor booths and conference sessions, attendees can see the AMRs in action at the AMR Demo area of the show floor. Participating companies include Mobile Industrial Robots, Locus Robotics, MUL Technologies, Mass Robotics, InOrbit, OTTO Motors, and Bosch Rexroth Corp.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.22
May 01, 2022
…Automation (formerly the Robotic Industries Association) have issued ANSI/RIA R15.08, a safety standard for the use of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in industrial environments. It is based on the R15.06 standard for robotic arms. Compliance can help companies avoid liability, fines, and higher insurance costs, according to Zebra Technologies. “At MODEX, I saw a lot of vendors whose robots were not truly collaborative,” said Melonee Wise, formerly the CEO of Fetch Robotics and now vice president of robotics automation at Zebra. “Cobot arms are usually stationary, so the scope of risk is contained, but with AMRs, the whole warehouse is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.49
January 25, 2022
…perimeter breaches. Dexter is being designed to the evolving R15.08 standard for self-driving robots and is available with no upfront costs through a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) model. Electric Sheep to invest in staff Tiger Global led Electric Sheep Robotics' Series A round. The company has raised $25.7 million to date and claimed that it is currently the best-capitalized autonomous mowing start-up with the largest number of commercial customer deployments. “Automation of the $115 billion outdoor maintenance market is an enormous opportunity hiding in plain sight,” said Griffin Schroeder, a partner at Tiger Global. “Electric Sheep is leading the way with fully…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.48
October 21, 2021
…said. The AMRs also comply with the ANSI RIA R15.08 safety standard. In addition, an industry-first forklift detection feature enables the robots to avoid forklift blind spots, helping prevent damage to the AMRs, Zebra said. Businesses deploying the RollerTop Guide AMR can integrate each-picking workflows with existing fixed conveyance, sortation, and automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS), said the company. Fetch RollerTop Guide AMR. Source: Zebra Technologies Zebra enhances FetchCore software The FetchCore enterprise cloud software enables companies to quickly modify workflows on demand for warehouse operations. It can dynamically orchestrate labor and robots by integrating with leading warehouse management…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.87
October 20, 2021
…financing, and managing AMRs. The conference also featured discussions about interoperability among varied robots from multiple manufacturers, the new R15.08 industrial mobile robot safety standard, and scaling robotics deployments, among other topics. The addition of logistics also benefited the event, said Burnstein. “We added technologies besides AMRs,” he explained. “Some attendees wanted to know how these robots can work in automotive manufacturing. Logistics touches everyone, not just e-commerce and warehouses.” See the slideshow (right) for 10 insights from the AMR & Logistics conference.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.60
October 05, 2021
…industry’s latest safety standards, including ISO 3691-4 and ANSI/RIA R15.08-1-2020. Along with the MiR600 is the market’s first Ingress Protection52-rated AMR. The robot's components are protected against dust and water drops, ensuring an high performance level and reliable function at the end of production lines and in warehouses, said MiR. Partnership opens up AMRs for new applications CSi palletising, which successfully demonstrated its Taros offering built on the MIR1350 at Fachpack 2021 in Germany last week, has various levels of automation already deployed within its customers’ workflows. “CSi palletising already owns systems that connect directly into their customer’s manufacturing processes,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.32
September 27, 2021
…Standards Institute [ANSI] B56.5 and Robotics Industries Association [RIA/A3] R15.08 safety standards. The update enables more than 75% improvement in obstacle avoidance, without compromising on safety. With Free Space Reasoning, our next generation of navigation technology optimizes for free space without needing a line or path drawn for it. The real world is chaotic. Robots can “thread the needle” and keep moving through tight spaces as quickly as safety allows. How does the ability Mark 3 software update affect users of Vecna's hardware? Theobald: The Pivotal orchestration software is what made this possible. The system assigns work to robot fleets…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.31
August 12, 2021
…industry’s latest safety standards, including ISO 3691-4 and ANSI/RIA R15.08-1-2020. “Many companies now integrate our mobile robots as an alternative to manned forklifts, which can be expensive to staff and dangerous to operate,” Neilsen said. “The streamlined transport provided by AMRs frees employees to carry out more value-creating activities and support processes in production while they increase shop-floor safety.” The MiR1350 has the same speed as the MiR1000 at 1.2 m/sec. (2.6 mph), said Charles. The new robots also use a dense 48v battery pack that can charge in one hour and provide eight to 10 hours of runtime. New…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.42
June 24, 2021
…safety standards in Europe and the U.S., including ANSI/RIA R15.08, which it helped to define. “One of the things that sets OTTO Motors apart is our process-first approach to automating material handling,” stated Rick Baker, chief revenue officer of OTTO Motors. “It is how we’re able to achieve facility-scale transformation for our customers and why we’ve been very intentional about our growth.” OTTO Motors is a unit of Clearpath Robotics Inc. and provides autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and software for materials handling in factories and warehouses. The company said its easy-to-use products can not only provide a rapid return on…
