Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.07
May 14, 2021
…of Industry 4.0. It's also part of the Irish government's COVID-19 reconstruction plan. New possibilities with additive manufacturing When it comes to arc welding with robots, scientists and engineers are developing technogies that promise to improve production. 3D printing is no longer just for prototyping and has made its debut in the aerospace manufacturing and construction industries. Suppose we combined arc welding with additive manufacturing? It’s already happening around the globe. Doctoral students at University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, are working on the production of heavy parts using additive manufacturing and robotic welding. TiDA Ltd. is working with…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.44
May 10, 2021
…route. How closely has AutoX worked with the local government in Shenzhen? AutoX has been working very closely with the local authorities in order to get the permission to operate fully driverless cars on city roads for the general public. Are there plans to work with other municipalities or the national authorities? Certainly, our goal is to run our RoboTaxi service everywhere in China. AutoX rolling out to China and beyond What is the next step for AutoX—do you have plans to roll out this offering in other cities in the near future? Yes. We already have fleets testing in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.53
May 06, 2021
…the legislative framework for fully self-driving cars.” The city's government announced recently that it will pass legislation permitting SAE Level 4 self-driving cars on its streets, making Shenzhen the first city in China to do so. To mark this news, AutoX also released a two-hour video of its fully driverless RoboTaxi continuously driving (see below). The video shows how AutoX’s vehicles can drive near other vehicles and cyclists moving in the opposite direction, nudge around illegally parked vehicles and oversized trucks, and handle aggressive cut-ins by other vehicles. The video also demonstrates the RoboTaxi changing lanes and even driving on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.75
May 05, 2021
…unmanned ground vehicles and other mobile systems. The German government approved the acquisition, which includes the payoff of about €7.8 million ($9.4 million) in Telerob’s debt. “Our acquisition of Telerob marks a significant expansion to our portfolio of intelligent, multi-domain robotic systems, from small and medium unmanned aircraft systems, to tactical missile systems, and now unmanned ground vehicles,” stated Wahid Nawabi, president and CEO of AeroVironment. “We welcome the talented Telerob team and look forward to delivering even more capability to our customers in the United States and more than 50 allied countries around the world.” AeroVironment said it provides…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.41
May 03, 2021
…and networking equipment and systems for U.S. military and government agencies. In 2018, the company founded Drone Express to integrate its state-of-the-art, wireless mesh network with U.S.-made technologies for drone delivery services. Partners to pilot drone delivery of groceries Drone Express recently established a facility in the southwest Ohio community of Monroe as a hub for manufacturing, testing, and piloting of autonomous drones for commercial package delivery. It said the pilot will offer customers flexibility because its technology can enable packages to be delivered to a smartphone user's location rather than simply to a street address. Customers will thus be…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.18
April 28, 2021
…boiler controls, valves, and gauges, for both industrial and government applications. The company moves a single UR5 cobot between an ActiNav automated bin picking application for machine tending and TIG welding applications to drive productivity and help the company compete nationally and globally. “The only way that made sense for us to put a robot on a machine-tending application was to be able to do randomized bin picking,” explained Zach Northway, co-owner and lead project engineer at Flywheel Supply. “The cycle times on the machine are so short that if an operator has to stand there and line parts up…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.05
April 26, 2021
…its use, as well as the state and local governments considering whether to encourage drone deliveries. In addition, such estimates are useful to the companies developing these services and hoping to scale their businesses. Until now, data has been limited and usually not encouraging. The handful of surveys on this topic have pegged public support for drone delivery at around 50% in the U.S. and lower in Europe and the U.K. But several factors suggest that those anemic results might not be definitive. First, crucially, these surveys polled people who had almost certainly never received a delivery by drone, and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.53
April 23, 2021
…exoskeletons are designed to meet the needs of both government and commercial customers in logistics, maintenance, and repair. Building better robots Can you give an example of the technical developments so far? Wolff: We're working with a customer on stacking boxes on shelves in a warehouse. The shelves are a little more than 5 ft. high, and the exoskeleton's wrists didn't rotate enough for that use case. We try to limit degrees of freedom for weight; we want our systems to be efficient and cost-effective. We looked at that use case and decided to modify the wrists to lift and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.38
April 23, 2021
…fill up, international shipping of such materials decreases, and governments and citizens focus on sustainability initiatives. Just in time for Earth Day 2021, AMP Robotics Corp. yesterday announced that it has deployed six robotic sorting systems with recycler Evergreen. Founded in 1998, Clyde, Ohio-based Evergreen supplies polyester resin and said it is one of the largest polyethylene terephthalate (PET or PETE) bottle recyclers in the U.S., processing more than 1 billion bottles, or 100 million pounds of post-consumer PET, per year. Evergreen is a subsidiary of Greenbridge Packaging, formerly Polychem, a maker of polyester and polypropylene products. The Sterling Group…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.65
April 09, 2021
…Gordon has decades of experience working with the federal government, the U.S. military, and on robotics research and development. He is also chairman of the board for the Association of Unmanned Systems Vehicles International (AUVSI) and is on the board for the National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC). Gordon responded to the following questions from Robotics 24/7 about the contract: Since the AGVR contract is from now through this fall, what are the biggest challenges in preparing the demonstration? Gordon: There are two primary challenges in developing this particular AGVR system. First is the short timeline of the project. Fortunately, it…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.10
March 31, 2021
…monumental effort to develop effective vaccines, healthcare providers and governments have struggled with mass vaccinations. Can robots help? There are not many robots directly injecting patients, but, if we look at other industries with similar requirements, automation has made progress. For instance, there is already technology for livestock injections. Pharm Robotics has developed Sureshot, an automated injection system primarily for injecting many animals in dairy herds. “There is no longer a need for a labor force when delivering vaccines or repro products,” claimed the San Jacinto, Calif.-based company. “You can now deliver shots at a 100% compliance rate, without the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.57
February 15, 2021
…it was never mass-produced. Ogasawara still hopes, with local government approval and support, he may one day get the chance to send X VEIN on a real mission. A walking car John Suh, VP and founding director of New Horizons Studio, Hyundai Motor Company, thinks cars should have not only wheels but also legs—that is, if it’s intended for search and rescue. The studio he runs launched in September 2020 with the goal “to create the world’s first transformer-class vehicle, also known as the Ultimate Mobility Vehicle,” he says. He recently presented his concept car at Autodesk University (AU) Virtual…
