Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.94
July 08, 2021
…not just for clients, but also for schools and universities. The new fulfillment center, formerly operated by a third-party logistics (3PL) provider, now handles pallet movements autonomously with BALYO’s robots for all applications, from dock to dock. Operations are performed under real-life conditions like those in distribution or production centers, said the companies. BALYO said it has started to sell more than 5,000 pallet storage spaces. In addition, the company said the diverse nature of the logistics flows handled will enable it to step up the pace of ongoing improvement of the operating system and embedded technologies of its robots.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.29
June 28, 2021
…professor of computer science and engineering at Texas A&M University. “We need to get tools in the hands of the people who should be using them, in the first wave of emergency responders.” Murphy is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) fellow, and director of the Humanitarian Robotics and AI Laboratory. She has spoken about the role of robotics in responding to emergencies and infectious diseases, as well as the importance of human-machine interaction. Economic incentive needed for development “While many drones are being used by firefighters and law enforcement, there's not…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 30.26
June 27, 2021
Boston Dynamics' Spot robot is continuing to find uses around the world. U.K.-based Createc, which provides systems to the civil nuclear, defense, rail, marine, and security markets, last week announced that it will serve as technical integrator and commercial reseller for Boston Dynamics. “We are very positive about the future for robotics for nuclear decommissioning and collaborating with a company like Boston Dynamics is in line with that vision,” stated Matt Mellor, CEO of Createc. “The opportunity for robots like Spot to do more and to take more people out of hazardous environments is a very good thing for society.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.99
June 20, 2021
…For over a decade, RobotLAB has provided schools and universities with AI LABs equipped with technologies to empower educators and engage students with robotics, coding, and programming skills. The company said it also offers a clear pathway to successful integration of robots in banks, restaurants, hospitals, hotels, senior living facilities, and other enterprise and small businesses settings. To meed different companies' needs, RobotLab is offering two hardware versions of Pepper: Pepper Premium and Pepper Premium+Nav. The two humanoid robots share the same underlying hardware, with Pepper Premium+Nav also allowing for autonomous navigation, while Pepper Premium serves stationary applications. In the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.65
June 10, 2021
…to make the parts that power our world. Enter Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF). The company was co-founded by Nicholas Fang in 2016 to improve the resolution and precision of 3D printing. Today, BMF is helping customers in the race toward ever smaller parts by offering new kinds of printers that are being used to make electronics, medical devices, microfluidic chips, and more. The company’s machines use a technology co-developed by Fang to print millimeter-sized products with details at the micron scale — objects you can see with the naked eye, but whose details you’ll likely have to squint to make…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.47
June 25, 2020
…Koulopoulos is chairman and founder of Delphi Group, a Boston-based think-tank that advises Fortune 500 companies and governments on future trends. He is the author of “Reimagining Health Care” (Post Hill Press, May 2020). “The challenge in talking about the use of robots in health care is not so much a technical one as it is a very human challenge of perception, emotions and the cornerstone of all effective health care, the physician-patient relationship,” comments Koulopoulos. Dean Slawson is the VP of advanced technologies at PointClickCare in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. “As with any technology, the application of robots needs to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.52
April 10, 2020
…in the medical supply chain—and more help is needed. Universities (and some high schools, and individuals working in livings and garages) across the country have converted their engineering departments and 3D print labs into make-shift factories for churning out PPE. On-demand manufacturing and prototyping operations, as well as manufacturers of other types of products, have converted all or part of their capacity to address the shortages. Hobbyists and makerspaces are pitching with 3D-printed face shields and hand-sewn masks. In Italy, an engineering startup called Isinnova 3D printed venturi valves (which connect oxygen masks to respirators) that were needed to help…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.83
July 29, 2019
Fortify, a Boston-based additive manufacturing start-up and pioneer in digital composite manufacturing (DCM), announced it has closed a $10M Series A funding led by Accel with additional participation from Neotribe, Prelude Ventures and Mainspring Capital Partners. The funding will support the launch of Fortify’s Discovery Partner Program and the growth of the Fortify team. This follows a previous seed round this year of $2.5M. Fortify’s “Fluxprint” technology combines magnetics and digital light processing (DLP) 3D printing to produce composite parts with optimized mechanical properties. This is achieved by precisely orienting reinforcement fibers throughout the parts. Founded on research in composite…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.56
April 10, 2017
…of 100”Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University The National Bureau of Economic Research found that manufacturing industries use 80 percent of the industrial robots in the US. And more upheaval could be on the way, making those recent solid manufacturing numbers in the jobs report look like a blip on the radar. Boston Consulting Group projects that the as robots become more affordable and easier to program, a greater number of small manufacturers will be able to more deeply integrate them into supply chains. The shift, according to a published…
