Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.14
June 28, 2022
…professor of mechanical engineering and chemical engineering at the University of Washington. The professors' teams designed the multimodal tactile sensor skin that enables the grippers’ sensorized fingertips to feel normal and shear forces. “When visual feedback is limited, complementary senses such as touch play a critical role in completing dexterous tasks,” explained Santos. “This is true for humans as well as for robots remotely controlled by humans. Tactile sensation will enhance the teleoperation and semi-autonomous control of underwater robot hands for difficult manual tasks.” The gripper uses an advanced array of visual and underwater sensors to orient itself to its…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.65
January 27, 2022
…is progressing. A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University yesterday announced that the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, or STAR, has performed laparoscopic surgery on the soft tissue of a pig without human guidance. The researchers described their work in Science Robotics. “Our findings show that we can automate one of the most intricate and delicate tasks in surgery: the reconnection of two ends of an intestine,” said Axel Krieger, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins' Whiting School of Engineering and senior author. “The STAR performed the procedure in four animals and it produced significantly better results…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.23
February 05, 2023
…Form Automation Source: Boeing Principal Investigator: Boeing Project Team: University of Southern California and 3M Project Description: This project seeks to develop adaptive path planning to ensure affordability of Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMC) components for hypersonic platforms, or an object that exceeds 5 the speed-of-sound (Mach 5 or greater). The project also seeks to integrate improvements to automated pick, place, and form for processing CMC fabric prepregs using 3D vision-based sensors to reduce the cost and variability for high-rate production of CMC structures. Benefits of this approach include having a cost-competitive alternative to titanium, higher processing efficiency, and applications for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.13
May 31, 2022
…the panel chair, a retired law enforcement officer from Washington state and now the director of law enforcement at the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. “It is a document written by law enforcement for law enforcement,” he added. “It provides recommendations to law enforcement agencies for developing protocols and policies to provide consistent direction to all officers [within a specific domain] on how to interact with an autonomous vehicle.” The discussion was led by Ursimo, with participants from the highway patrol and state police from Ohio and California. The discussion focused on setting law enforcement interaction plans (LEIP) and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.24
July 16, 2023
…and flexibility of robotics systems, which is accelerating deployments. University researchers, often working with NVIDIA Research and technical teams, are solving problems in simulation that have real-world impact. Their work is expanding the potential for commercialization of new robotics capabilities across numerous markets. Among them, robots are learning to cut squishy materials such as beef and chicken, fasten nuts and bolts for automotive assembly, as well as maneuver with collision-free motion planning for warehouses and manipulate objects with new levels of robotic dexterity. Such research has commercial promise across trillion-dollar industries. High-fidelity, physics-based simulation breakthroughs The ability to model physics,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.11
August 11, 2023
…e-commerce demand, said the IFR. A spinoff of the University of Washington, Olis Robotics claimed in a release that its Olis Connect system can significantly improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and address costly robot downtime. “Robot downtime can cost a large plant over $1 million per hour. When every minute counts, you need to leverage remote tools to react as quickly as possible, no matter where you are,” said Fredrik Ryden, CEO of Olis Robotics. “Our technology is ingeniously simple to use and intensely practical in terms of its impact.” Olis Connect designed to enable secure, remote management Olis Robotics…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.58
January 25, 2022
…a second unit in the Barnes-Jewish Hospital at the Washington University Medical Campus. It has been working with Stereotaxis since 2005 to develop the technology, said Fischel. “BJC's hospitals have remained part of our innovation efforts,” he said. “During the development of Genesis and our imaging system, we've incorporated practical feedback from various nurses and physicians. For example, the table needs to provide good access for nurses and anesthesiologists prior to the robotic procedure.” “I trained with the program because BJC was an early adopter,” said Steyers. “It's a bit easier to learn than manual procedures, but most hospitals don't…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.54
April 01, 2019
…director of the electromagnetics and photonics lab at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). “We are not doing as good as we could at innovating new things that 3D printing enables.” This is not to say that developers of the technology lack a vision of what 3D-printed electronics can be; far from it. Current printing technology and recent research developments offer a glimpse of what 3D electronics might look like. Two 3D Printed Electronics Visions A look at some of the advanced printing technologies reveals differing perspectives on the form factors and architectures of 3D-printed electronics. Researchers at…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.22
September 02, 2022
…Community Development, and Farnam Jahanian, president of Carnegie Mellon University. The Southwestern Pennsylvania New Economy Collaborative said its partners include labor groups, educational institutions, workforce and economic development organizations, businesses, and more. During the application process, the collaborative convened a coalition of more than 90 public and private organizations representing 11 counties in southwestern Pennsylvania. The counties were Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence, Washington, and Westmoreland. The Pittsburgh Robotics Network (PRN) is representing the robotics industry, and it will collaborate with Innovation Works on one of the projects. “The collaborative extends its sincere gratitude to the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.03
June 25, 2023
…Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where he has won several best paper awards. In 2015, Farhadi started AI2's Computer Vision team, and he co-founded Xnor.ai, an on-device deep learning startup that Apple Inc. acquired in 2020. Farhadi rejoined the Seattle-based AI2 from Apple, where he led its next-generation machine learning efforts. Allen Institute for AI presents Phone2Proc At last week's Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), held by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Computer Vision Foundation in Vancouver, Canada, AI2 presented a paper on Phone2Proc. The…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.89
July 30, 2023
…(EECS) and CSAIL members; and Dieter Fox, senior director of robotics research at NVIDIA and a professor at the University of Washington. The team was supported by AI Singapore and grants from National Science Foundation, the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the U.S. Army Research Office. This project was partially conducted while Yang was an intern at NVIDIA Research. Their research was presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems conference this month. About the author Rachel Gordon is communications manager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. This article reposted with permission.
