Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.18
June 25, 2020
…in the hospital, imagine a machine that is more humanoid in functionality. But the same technology may also drive vehicles that perform analogous functions to an individual robot but serve as internal transportation in the health care facilities. These buildings can be long, wide and spacious, stretching what seems like miles of hallways, floors, buildings and facilities, often nestled on a single campus we now call a hospital. One AIMBOT robot can help save labor force of 4 workers and reduce the workload of the nurse on duty by 80 percent. Image courtesy of UBTECH Robotics. Haewon Kim-LaBroad is the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.93
April 14, 2023
…developed by different competing companies building quadrupedal robots and humanoid robots as well. … It's going to be interesting to see the ways those begin to have an impact and get into places no wheeled robot was able to go before, maybe no winged robot was able to go before. I'm also excited to see what happens with these new generative AI tools that are coming out week by week. We're getting more powerful tools put into the public domain. And those tools can also have an impact in robotics. I'm really interested to see what robotics researchers can do…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.84
May 26, 2023
…engineering support group manager at Mitsubishi Electric Automation. While humanoid robots have made headlines lately, they were discussed but not seen at Automate. However, some of the biggest announcements of the week involved legged robots: Melonee Wise, founder of Fetch Robotics and a speaker, joined Agility Robotics, and startup Figure raised $70 million to join the race to “general-purpose” robots. Partnerships abound Ease of use, the ability to reach new markets, a dearth of venture capital, and the need to support users at scale are all factors driving the growing number of vendor and integrator partnerships. Many booths showed an…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.50
March 28, 2023
…the wow factor of robots like Agility Robotics' tote-moving humanoid Digit, the watchword was “integration”—how to get robots to work with one another, and for that matter, with everything else. Vision applications Smart piece-picking robots typically use vision technology, but vision also is cropping up in other types of systems that do things like count and spot problems with inventory in storage. At ProMat, I stopped by to check out Dexory, formerly called BotsAndUs. Its system puts vision and scanner technology on a mobile robot. The cameras and sensors are on a mechanism that can extend to 12 m (39.3…
