Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.96
July 27, 2021
…million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). OSU students funded by the National Science Foundation have been exploring machine learning options for the robot since 2017. “The Dynamic Robotics Laboratory students in the OSU College of Engineering combined expertise from biomechanics and existing robot control approaches with new machine learning tools,” said Hurst, who co-founded Agility Robotics. “This type of holistic approach will enable animal-like levels of performance. It’s incredibly exciting.” Cassie uses dynamic balancing Legged robotic locomotion has been limited to date, but Oregon State said its research has enabled multiple breakthroughs. ATRIAS, developed in the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.90
July 20, 2021
…prototype phase, and today's videos of dancing humanoids only came after years of failures such as those in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. Over the past year, many companies laid off staffers, but relatively few shut down. Here are some recent failures and possible lessons to be drawn from them.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.46
June 28, 2021
…real world, Murphy told IEEE Spectrum. “Things like the DARPA Robotics Challenge or the DARPA Subterranean Challenge are great, but they're not asking the right questions for search and rescue,” she asserted. “A parking garage or the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where the structure is mostly intact but you don't want people, is not the same as a mine or building collapse.” “When we've worked with bomb squads, the spaces were cluttered, and dirty clothes got stuck in the treads,” said Murphy. “Texas A&M has resources for technology transfer for emergency management. It's not the same as military robots but…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.41
June 11, 2021
…fashion with our autonomy since 2005, including the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge,” stated Paul Perrone, founder and CEO of Perrone Robotics. “It's great to see our pioneering research take hold as a reliable commercial solution that's deployable now.” Perrone Autonomy scales across vehicles, applications Perrone Robotics said its Autonomy system is built around the MAX patented full-stack platform, the TONY retrofit kit, and the Safety Watchdog safety-certifiable framework. The company said it has developed TONY, short for “TO Navigate You,” is a vehicle-independent kit “to provide a complete 'artificial driver' solution.” The result is an AV retrofit kit that can…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.48
May 24, 2021
…with the University of Pennsylvania's Team PLUTO for the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) challenge. What do you anticipate for its final challenge in September? Williams: The DARPA Sub-T Challenge has been going for two and a half years. During that time, the industry has matured rapidly, so you're finding areas where people are pulling ahead of the challenge. [Program Manager] Tim Chung is clever at putting in traps and tricks beyond just building a textbook environment. That's where this challenge is still fascinating—there's a difference between an ideal environment and “What will they throw at us?” I'm most looking forward to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.23
May 18, 2021
…Mass.-based RightHand Robotics was founded in 2015 by a DARPA challenge-winning team from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT. The company is intended to bring grasping intelligence powered by computer vision and applied machine learning to bear on real-world problems. Source: RightHand Robotics PickCenter gives European users hands-on opportunities At the PickCenter, prospective customers will have the opportunity to experience RightHand's item-handling system firsthand to assess performance and suitability for their business needs. The center will also services such as initial item-set evaluation, pre-service process and workflow audit, project scoping and management, and training. “We’ve very…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.90
May 18, 2021
…past funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the National Science Foundation, and the McDermott family, who are the co-founders of Texas Instruments. The company said its printable materials are optimized for high-throughput manufacturing of functional, complex 3D plastic and rubber parts. Adaptive3D's flagship resin is Elastic ToughRubber 90, a durable, printable photopolymer elastomer. The company said it serves high-throughput manufacturing, while maintaining low cost of production and superior material performance. Adaptive3D has received strategic capital from leading materials companies including Covestro, Arkema Group, West Pharmaceuticals, Applied Ventures, and Royal DSM. It noted…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.19
April 12, 2021
…order fulfillment. RHR was founded in 2015 by a DARPA challenge-winning team from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT with the intention of applying computer vision and machine learning to real-world grasping problems. “We relaunched our site in January,” noted Vince Martinelli, head of product and marketing at RightHand Robotics. “It now has a stronger product focus to serve our customers. We're also partnering with companies such as SVT Robotics on software.” “The pandemic accelerated the shift from the older model of shoppers picking items to remote fulfillment centers and has put pressure on retail productivity,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.80
May 22, 2020
…working on a project to do autonomous manipulation for DARPA – think a robot that would combine the mobility of an AMR with the picking capability of a robotic arm. “I was excited about the commercialization prospects for the technology and started thinking about simple material handling,” he recalled. Around that time, Kiva was acquired by Amazon. That acquisition validated the business opportunity for both roboticists like Galluzzo and the venture capitalists that were funding them. IAM Robotics raised $3 million in angel funding. Initially, Galluzzo says, IAM Robotics was going to focus on modular, low-cost robotic arms, but Galluzzo…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.33
May 07, 2020
…Challenge builds upon the successful impact of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, which led to expanded R&D in the field of autonomous vehicles. Sebastian Thrun, who led the winning team for the 2005 Challenge, is serving as a key advisor for the IAC. Hackathons and Simulations by ANSYS Key to the success of preparing the university competitors for the October 2021 IAC race will be a series of hackathons and workshops organized by ESN, its sponsors and collaborators. The first hackathon will be supported by ANSYS, IAC’s exclusive Simulation Sponsor and global leader in engineering simulation software. ANSYS is providing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.06
May 22, 2019
…PrintRite3D Version 5.0 comes shortly after news of a DARPA-funded research project at Honeywell Aerospace on the use of Sigma Labs technology as available in PrintRite3D. The study (“LPBF [Laser Powder Bed Fusion] Right the First Time—the Right Mix Between Modeling and Experiments” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40192-019-00133-8) was published in the journal Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation. It describes the validation involved in manufacturing a challenging metal component. Sensors were used to develop a new in-process quality metric called thermal emission density (TED), used to monitor component quality with respect to porosity as the part was being built. The research paper concludes: “This…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.97
May 22, 2019
…a hardware/software platform usable with most metal 3D printers. DARPA study confirms use for certification and compliance testing. Offers a graphical user interface for real-time display of live part quality. Uses Co-Axial Planck Thermometry and other specialized metrics. Learn more here. PrintRite3D gives manufacturers the ability to monitor and analyze key metal AM processes and to identify melt pool disturbances and other discontinuities as they happen. A recent DARPA study says PrintRite3D technology “has been shown to ensure process consistency and product quality in metal additive manufacturing.” The final project for the study was validation of a challenging metal component…
