Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.85
September 14, 2022
…a variety of locomotion forms beyond wheels, including bipedal, multi-legged, or tracked. This versatility enables AMRs to better adapt to environments that are less predictable than a warehouse and is a feature that makes them easier for a variety of industries to adopt, fast. Let’s take a look at some of the industries that the next generation of AMRs are set to take hold in. Robotic lawncare It’s a sunny Saturday morning, and you slowly wake up to the sound of your neighbors mowing their lawn…except it’s not your neighbor mowing their lawn, but a robotic mower finishing up the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.65
October 28, 2021
…configuration.” “For example, Boston Dynamics has been working on legged robots for 15 years, and it had to invent the motors for them,” he noted. “Now we're starting to see more dog-like robots and standardization of those components. It takes 10 to 20 years for each sector to generalize.” “To take a drone frame and make it work, we have to marry it with a base station, charging infrastructure, and unique communications solutions like Wi-Fi or radio,” Mozer explained. “We have our own proprietary, computer vision-based landing system. When moving from prototyping, remember there's no single airplane frame and no…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.51
May 30, 2023
…ways or signal the output, and reliability. It's a three-legged stool of reliability, the architecture of the circuitry, and the diagnostic coverage of things not working as they should. In the 2011 document, we gave a little detail about it. The 2011 document only has an absolute requirement for two safety functions. As the writers, we thought that we were requiring more, but we didn’t make explicit statements. Go forward a few years, and we all looked at each other and said, “Crapola, look at all we didn't include.” It's a combination of all us learning more about functional safety.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.97
August 30, 2017
…Numina Group. “I look at order fulfillment as a three-legged stool of picking, packing and shipping,” he says. “If any one of those areas gets out of alignment with the others, it causes problems.” For example, says Hanrahan, if a DC adopts voice picking and ramps up the number of orders picked per hour, but has no pack automation in place, a bottleneck can easily occur at its pack stations. The better approach, says Hanrahan, is to look at ways to balance the flow of work through the overall system, rather than trying to accelerate just one area. One streamlining…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.54
April 14, 2023
…is the amount of maturity we are seeing in legged locomotion. We're starting to see robotic legs that can do very sophisticated things like Boston Dynamics' Spot and all its various competitors around the world that are being developed by different competing companies building quadrupedal robots and humanoid robots as well. … It's going to be interesting to see the ways those begin to have an impact and get into places no wheeled robot was able to go before, maybe no winged robot was able to go before. I'm also excited to see what happens with these new generative AI…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.44
May 26, 2023
…some of the biggest announcements of the week involved legged robots: Melonee Wise, founder of Fetch Robotics and a speaker, joined Agility Robotics, and startup Figure raised $70 million to join the race to “general-purpose” robots. Partnerships abound Ease of use, the ability to reach new markets, a dearth of venture capital, and the need to support users at scale are all factors driving the growing number of vendor and integrator partnerships. Many booths showed an ecosystem of robots, accessories, and software for multiple applications, including those of Universal Robots, Yaskawa (with Plus One Robotics), and Mujin (with Geek+). Some…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.95
December 01, 2018
…be it a sauntering elephant or a bunch of two-legged pumpkins. When an elephant crosses the road TASS International’s genesis went back to the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). In 2013, after consolidating five divisions of TNO, TASS International was created. In September 2017, manufacturing titan Siemens acquired TASS International, in a bid to bolster its offerings to autonomous car developers. TASS International products and services are now part of Siemens’ Simcenter portfolio. TASS International’s products are: Simcenter Madymo, for restraint system design and occupant safety analysis; Simcenter Prescan, for virtual development and validation of automated driving systems;…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.47
September 24, 2021
…from bins. Source: SB Logistics If you use the three-legged stool analogy, two legs of the stool were the development of a cost-efficient, high-throughput facility that could provide same-day and next-day service across Tokyo in the most sustainable way, while reducing the reliance on people. As an example, the company is making efforts to reduce the size of shipping boxes by combining systems and packing machines. It uses almost no plastic cushioning material in packing. This leads to a reduction of packing materials and a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. The third leg, which is critical to the Japanese consumer,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.13
April 20, 2021
…robotics officer” to oversee the COE. “The talent for these centers of excellence for robotics would be like a three-legged stool, with expertise in IT, engineering, and business and operations,” said Klappich. “Some companies are already moving in this direction. They recognize the need for an organization that can work with the business to align them with robots that would match up with their specific needs, and then can help them introduce a solution and support it.”
