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…image to enlarge. Source: AWS AWS can improve robot ease of use SEQSENSE aims to solve a shortage of labor in the security space by developing intelligent robots. By using AWS services, the company can make its service reliable and durable, as well as easy to maintain, scale, and extend, according to AWS. Especially, AWS IoT Core and Amazon Kinesis Video Streams help them easily develop and operate their core features like autonomous patrol and remote monitoring. AWS Robotics discusses more robotics use cases on its site. To learn more about AWS IoT services and systems, visit AWS IoT or…
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…in short supply.” Flexibility built into flowbot ONE “The ease of use and being able to retask the system for a new setup are differentiators for flowbot ONE,” Isaksson said. “We've had success with organizations doing tests with an array of robots rather than one big robot.” “The flowbot ONE can have multiple heads—a single, four-, or eight-channel head—with different volume ranges,” Cardella said. “The lab worker can reconfigure it to do a sample transfer with a single head and put a reagent into microplates or four or eight vials. Plate dispensing is not so difficult to do with our…
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…real-time monitoring and troubleshooting. Source: Exotec Balancing innovation and ease of use “Instead of starting with hardware and then doing a little software development, they go hand in hand for us,” Bellamy said. “Including something as traditional as a conveyor, we bring a modern, robotics view to it.” “For manipulation and grasping, we looked at what the market was doing, and we developed our systems and software to do that,” he added. “Exotec's Deepsky software comes with regular updates, so there's one version across our installed base around the world. Wherever Skypod is running, performance optimization is included, so customers…
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…in which Inpeco is used to operating,” he said. Ease of use was also a determining factor. With an intuitive user interface, even less experienced operators can use the robot, always having the opportunity to monitor and manage missions, said MiR. With the AMR, warehouse operators could devote more time to activities such as picking and loading materials in automated storage areas. According to Tolomeo, another reason for choosing MiR's mobile robot is its ability to safely move along corridors where it shares space with factory personnel or other means of goods handling. “The robot is able to detect obstacles,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.62
…users or developers,” Cross said. “We want to improve ease of use and enable integrators to rapidly add devices without having to hack subpar systems or build them from scratch.” “We want to create a drop-in replacement board for Blue Robotics ROVs that would create space and improve processing performance,” he said. “It's designed for ROVs, but is adaptable to AUVs [autonomous underwater vehicles], ASVs [autonomous surface vehicles], and UUVs [unmanned underwater vehicles].” “The motherboard supports NVIDIA Jetson and STM332 MCU [microcontroller units] for real-time control and I/O,” said Cross. “For example, to upgrade a camera for low-light sensitivity, we…
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The presence of robots in the electronics industry is not new. What is new, however, is the rate at which manufacturers in this sector are deploying robotics and the applications in which they are using the technology. “We’re seeing accelerated adoption by manufacturers thanks to increased demand for semiconductor products, rising labor costs, and innovations that allow robotics to address new problems,” said Adrian Choy, product manager-robotics at Omron Adept Technologies. Innovations open the door to new applications The recent improvements have helped robots to adapt to the changing manufacturing environments. “As the automation community has evolved, robots have become…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.62
…interact with them. Which natural navigation technology should you choose? Each business has its own unique challenges. But for ease of use, accuracy and the robustness in operation, we believe ANT® navigation is the clear choice for any vehicle type. Related Resource Comparing Autonomous Navigation Technologies If you are looking to develop a new automated guided vehicle or mobile robot (or even upgrade an existing model), choosing the right autonomous navigation technology will be key to its success. Watch our recent webinar to take a deeper dive into more navigation technologies (including line following and tag following) View Now.
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…it must be avoided even if cycle time suffers Ease of use: Counting relaxed gripper control, mounting, and maintenance Job customization: The ability to configure and apply targeted control settings and strategies on both a deployment and single cycle level to optimize performance Just as hand-eye coordination is critical for human manipulation, so too must robot designers understand the key capabilities to maximize robotic gripper performance, he said. MAXXgrip is designed for dexterity The new gripper combines flexible fingers, a suction cup, and fast-mounting interfaces for safe handling, said The Gripper Co. “The inherited self-compliance capability will not just ease…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.62
…in tasks that call for less lift capacity.” Such limitations are valid concerns, but cobots still offer value and ease of use. “It’s important to note that the challenges involved in deploying cobots are orders of magnitude smaller than the challenges involved with traditional industrial automation,” said Campbell.
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…panel at FabTech last month. “We're striving for iPhone-level ease of use. The strength of the MassRobotics standard is that it is easy to adopt.” Any company can self-certify to adopt the open-source standard, which is available through MassRobotics' Web site and on GitHub. “FedEx wants everyone onboard,” said Aaron Prather, senior technical advisor at FedEx, which handles much of the world's shipping. “The efforts at MassRobotics and A3 will benefit both Fortune 500 and small companies. We want to help small and midsize manufacturers because they ship stuff.” The tour of FedEx's 110,000-sq.-ft. R&D facility included a virtual tour…
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…applications in manufacturing as well. I think because of ease of use and a specific lack of people to do certain tasks, you're going to see continued growth in manufacturing. On the collaborative front, one of our conversations at Automate went into how cobots right now are in the “Wild West” because there isn’t an industry standard for what makes a “collaborative” robot. What are your thoughts on the definition of collaborative robots and how cobots are involved in the robotics industry? Burnstein: I suppose we can call it more of collaborative applications. There's no such thing as a collaborative…
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…are constantly innovating to improve their robots’ performance and ease of use, allowing more robots to move efficiently and safely through complex traffic situations. Five rapidly changing technologies are worth watching as they drive advancements and deployments of AMRs. 1. AI goes beyond the buzz to make AMRs smarter, safer “Artificial intelligence” remains a confusing buzzword, inconsistently defined across industries and applications. But for AMRs, the technology means smarter robots that can teach themselves how to perform tasks that were previously difficult or impossible without expensive and time-intensive coding. AI requires a significant amount of computational power, which is becoming…