Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.31
April 29, 2024
…at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne (EPFL), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, was selected as a technology winner for his pioneering role in the invention of the Delta robot concept. Marc-Olivier Demaurex, was selected as a technology winner for his role in pioneering the Delta robot and bringing it to market. In the early 1980s, Clavel led the research team that invented the Delta robot, a type of parallel robot that consists of three arms connected to universal joints at the base designed to manipulate light and small objects at a very high speed, an industrial need at the time.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.31
January 03, 2022
…of robots. Examples include the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute's working group and Europe's VDA 5050 specification for autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs). InOrbit’s cloud platform supports the MassRobotics AMR-Sender protocol, which is designed to help connect robots from different vendors for basic functionality. It was first demonstrated at FedEx's DART center during the Association for Advancing Automation's (A3) AMR & Logistics Conference in October. “This allows companies that are developing robots to rely on a platform like InOrbit rather than building their own software stack,” said Pestoni. “That saves years of development work.” He cited Savioke as one company…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.30
October 15, 2021
…A3, MassRobotics, and ROG, the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute is working on an interoperability project with Siemens, FedEx, Yaskawa, Waypoint, and the University of Memphis. Since some of the participants are in multiple groups, they are able to coordinate efforts and focus on different aspects of the challenge. “Now that the MassRobotics standard is published, they can use it in their projects where it's applicable,” said Walker. “We've been talking with anyone who will listen about this, and customers should push for adoption. Because it's lightweight, there's no fear if they decide to follow it.” At the A3…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.29
March 26, 2021
…interoperability, we're working with groups like MassRobotics and the ARM [Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing] Institute,” he said. “The Pittsburgh Robotics Network is also a partner, and we've worked with Silicon Valley Robotics. “We're also very active internationally. A3 Mexico will roll up into A3,” Burnstein added. “We work with the VDMA [Germany's Mechanical Engeineering Industry Association], the IFR, and we have good relations with the Chinese Robotics Industry Alliance and the Chinese Machine Vision Industry Alliance.” Automate to return in 2022 “The pandemic forced us to postpone the live version of Automate to Detroit next June, rather than 2023, which…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.23
June 28, 2021
…the first wave of emergency responders.” Murphy is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) fellow, and director of the Humanitarian Robotics and AI Laboratory. She has spoken about the role of robotics in responding to emergencies and infectious diseases, as well as the importance of human-machine interaction. Economic incentive needed for development “While many drones are being used by firefighters and law enforcement, there's not a lot of economic incentive to develop the ground robots for emergency management,” Murphy told Robotics 24/7. “A drone can cost $1,000 to $3,000 and do everything…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.23
April 07, 2021
…It has become a much bigger issue, and the ARM Institute and MassRobotics are starting to think about it.” “It's not just the physical interface of contact chargers, but also some devices use 24- or 48-volt batteries, and others need charge fast or slow,” he said. “We need to deliver the right intelligence for a particular robot in the system to be able to scale up or down.” “Imagine a setup with just two different robots with a charging station each,” added Waters. “If a worker moves it for a box in a warehouse, for most systems, they then have…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.22
March 24, 2021
…very far.” Aaron Prather, FedEx senior technical advisor. Source: ARM Institute Many vendors wanted to be “one-stop shops” for robots, but that oversimplified the needs of manufacturers and logistics providers such as FedEx, he observed. “Early on, there was the image—'You'll only buy robots from us'—but you only have so many resources, so much time,” said Prather. “They didn't understand scale of where users want to take things. At FedEx, we need to take objects from small to big, and this may include two to four different robots.” “We also need to clean our facilities and maintain security,” he said.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.22
April 30, 2021
…Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a prototype collaborative robot with tactile sensor technology. The ability to grasp, lift, and place food items without damaging them also has implications for manufacturing, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, and ultimately home robots, according to MERL. Robotics 24/7 recently spoke with Daniel Nikovski, manager of the data analytics group; Allan Sullivan, group manager of the computer vision group; and Anthony Vetro, vice president at MERL. Each of them has years of experience in electronics, machine learning, and robotics. They explained their work in improving robotic perception for manipulation.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.18
May 14, 2021
…for Advancing Automation (A3), the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, and others. “Interoperability is important. It's a space we feel strongly about and are investing in,” said Fergal Glynn, vice president of marketing at 6 River Systems Inc. “We're a member and an active participant in the Materials Handling Industry's Robotics Group, and Chris Cacioppo, our chief technology officer, is working with MassRobotics and other local companies on a specification for robots to talk to one another.” “Our goal at ROG this year is to raise awareness about the issues and a realization that buying a robot is only…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.18
November 10, 2020
…now as chief scientist for advanced manufacturing at Florida Institute of Technology, Grieves says too many manufacturers have backward thinking about how a digital twin is developed and how it should be used. From the very beginning, “we were looking at usage in service, using both a physical version and a virtual one,” Grieves explains. The change requires “moving from functional-centric to product-centric engineering,” he says, and populating the product digitally in the model first. “It is clear—at least, it is clear to me—the digital twin precedes the physical,” instead of creating a digital twin after the fact. “It was…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.16
May 01, 2019
…sensor models and traffic models. Recently, the Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development, the R&D arm of the Japanese carmaker, has announced it will use NVIDIA DRIVE Constellation to test and validate its autonomous vehicle systems. Role of Simulation Modern passenger cars benefit from the cumulative experience of an industry that has been crash-testing for decades. To achieve a comparable type of reliability, the connected autonomous cars must be road-tested for millions of miles. This is something that is highly challenging to do in the congested physical world, but could be accomplished in a much shorter time in the virtual world. “The…
