Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 31.50
November 21, 2024
MassRobotics, in collaboration with Chewy, a trusted destination for pet parents and partners everywhere, announced the launch of the CHAMP (Chewy Autonomous Mobile Picking) Challenge. This innovation challenge invites robotics developers and innovators to tackle a pressing issue in warehouse automation: designing a system that efficiently grasps, lifts and places heavy, awkwardly shaped items in confined warehouse spaces. CHAMP Challenge details The CHAMP Challenge focuses specifically on the challenges of grasping and picking large, bulky items, such as bags, boxes and pails of dog food and cat litter. The goal is to improve operational efficiency, support worker safety, and advance…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 35.96
September 21, 2024
ABB Robotics has announced its sponsorship of MassRobotics, an innovation hub and startup accelerator for robotics in the United States. As part of this sponsorship, ABB Robotics will donate several of its GoFa 5kg collaborative robots (cobots), and licenses to its RobotStudio simulation programming software to MassRobotics, providing emerging companies access to cutting-edge technology to drive innovation and development. MassRobotics promotes talent development The sponsorship also enables ABB to engage with the next wave of robotics talent and to contribute to the development of cutting-edge technologies. “By providing our cobots and software to some of the brightest and most innovative…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.49
August 12, 2024
…Inc., Apparel Robotics, Southwest Research Institute, Interface Technologies, and MassRobotics Description: The apparel industry is a manufacturing sector that is ripe for automation and a keen strategic focus for ARM. The Institute has funded several robotics projects centered on apparel manufacturing with each building on prior outputs and lessons learned. This project will design, develop, and test a robotic system that automates six operations involved in T-shirt manufacturing to demonstrate sewn garment automation feasibility in a manufacturing environment. Demonstration of rapid TPC welding at scale Principal investigator: RTX Technology Research Center Project Team: Carnegie Mellon University, Wason Technology LLC., Collins…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.65
March 26, 2024
…Technology Collaborative (MassTech) and Boston University, with support of MassRobotics, and industry partners AETLabs, Ava Robotics, Boston Scientific, GreenSight, Intel and Ubiros. At the inaugural celebration, Boston University Provost Ad Interim Kenneth Lutchen led opening remarks and introduced Commonwealth of Massachusetts Secretary of Economic Development Yvonne Hao who initiated the ribbon cutting. Speakers also included: MassTech Collaborative executive director Carolyn Kirk Amazon Robotics Chief Technologist Tye Brady ASML senior director of US Development & Engineering Spencer Farland BU College of Engineering Dean Ad Interim Elise Morgan; and RASTIC director Kenneth Sebesta. Introductions were led by Ioannis (Yannis) Paschalidis, RASTIC principal…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 47.06
February 12, 2024
Nonprofit robotics innovation hub MassRobotics recently announced the first cohort of its MassRobotics Accelerator, which is funded through support from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech). The inaugural cohort was announced at MassRobotics annual partner’s celebration. The three month accelerator program began on February 5, 2024. $5 million initiative to support R&D, commercialization The MassRobotics Accelerator is funded by a recently-announced $5 million state initiative managed by MassTech to boost the robotics sector in Massachusetts. The initiative includes a focus on expansion of research and development (R&D), testing, commercialization, and workforce development throughout Massachusetts. Through the equity-free accelerator program, each participating…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.67
February 05, 2024
…that we stay ahead of the competition.” MassTech & MassRobotics partnership expands The first program funded under the initiative is the new accelerator program launched in early November 2023 by Boston-based MassRobotics. The inaugural MassRobotics Accelerator powered by MassTech will support 10 robotics companies by providing “programming, individual mentorship, and immersion in the world-class robotics network” that exists across the state, including the robotics and autonomy startups housed at MassRobotics’ headquarters in Boston’s Seaport district. The first accelerator cohort, which will be announced in early 2024, will participate in a 13-week program that will provide direct mentorship, access to technology…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 38.91
January 17, 2024
MassRobotics has annnounced the dates, prizes and entry information for its second annual Form and Function Robotics Challenge. The challenge calls for university teams to create any type of robotics or automation project that delivers a compelling form factor specific to its task while accomplishing a useful function. The grand prize is $10,000 and there are $1,000 prizes for second and third place, along with a $1,000 Audience Choice Award. This challenge encourages cross collaboration between MassRobotics partners' software and hardware providers including AMD, Analog Devices, Danfoss, Festo, Lattice Semiconductor, Mitsubishi Electric, Novanta, Solidworks and igus. Why college students should…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.10
September 24, 2023
…Partnership (MassMEP), FORGE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), MassHire, and MassRobotics. The third annual Massachusetts Manufacturing Mash-Up included networking and educational opportunities. Source: CAM Mash-Up includes student activities This year's Massachusetts Manufacturing Mash-Up activities included an “on-deck” STEM Challenge. It brought together 300 students from Innovation Pathways, a workforce development program that connects students with career opportunities in high-demand industries. There was also a “speed networking” session for diverse community college students participating in the state’s MassBridge training program. They spoke with company representatives and saw exhibits of additive manufacturing, robotics, and photonics projects that promise to reshape multiple industries, from…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.04
September 19, 2023
…the de facto standard in robotics.” From BattleBots and MassRobotics Innovation Challenge winners to sensor fusion for patient care and ROS 2-based autonomous vehicles, Kria enables new users to adopt adaptive computing, he said. “With the REV Robotics' DC brushless motor, like a Lego 2-in-1 kit, there's a connector to a simple robot arm and a foam ball shooter,” said Khona. “They're inherently unstable systems with lots of calculations on the back end. Dropping a ball into the chute shouldn't affect its trajectory.” “We're also looking to integrate a vision camera for shooting balls,” he said. “We hope it will…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 28.40
September 12, 2023
…that involve both commercial technologies and the general public. MassRobotics yesterday announced that it will host RoboBoston in the Boston Seaport neighborhood on Friday, Sept. 29, and Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. The organization claimed that it is “one of the world's largest celebrations of robots and robotics,” with more than 50 companies, several universities, and student robotics teams. They will showcase cutting-edge robotics and technology in a series of professional and family-oriented STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) events. “Massachusetts has long been a leading area for robotics companies to establish themselves, innovate and grow,” stated Colin Angle, CEO of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.36
September 04, 2023
…Clusters has also set onshoring as a priority. Its members—MassRobotics, Silicon Valley Robotics, and the Pittsburgh Robotics Network—have all pursued their own workforce development initiatives. Reshoring and nearshoring After trade conflicts with China, the COVID-19 pandemic, and other supply chain challenges, the U.S. and other countries have encouraged the production of automobiles, processors, and other goods closer to home. The CHIPS Act and Build Back Better Act have directed federal funds to reshoring for the computer and infrastructure industries, respectively. More than half of U.S. manufacturing CEOs said they intended to reshore some production, found a survey conducted by Xometry…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.08
August 25, 2023
…Pick-and-Place Operations Project team: Apparel Robotics Corp. (principal investigator), MassRobotics Topic areas addressed: Automated robotic task planning and AI in robotics for manufacturing Description: Clothing manufacturing is a very labor-intensive process, with 80% of the total labor cost attributed to material handling, and most labor manufacturing is completed offshore. For the garment manufacturing industry to progress meaningfully towards automation, several effective fabric-handling technologies must arise. This project will develop new flexible robotic material handling capabilities required to unload a cutting table or a conveyor that has a number of cut nested fabric pieces of varying sizes and geometries on it.…
