Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.44
June 28, 2022
…to successfully achieve a variety of fine and large manipulation skills, including squeezing a pair of tweezers and grasping larger objects. Each finger conforms to the shape it is grasping, enabling it to securely hold objects upon contact. RE2's STARFISH gripper with tactile sensors. Source: Sarcos RE2 is developing this technology with Dr. Veronica Santos, director of the Biomechatronics Laboratory at UCLA, and Dr. Jonathan Posner, professor of mechanical engineering and chemical engineering at the University of Washington. The professors' teams designed the multimodal tactile sensor skin that enables the grippers’ sensorized fingertips to feel normal and shear forces. “When…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.09
December 31, 2021
…June 2021. Unitree develops lightweight robot arm For mobile manipulation to be viable, robot arms need to be lighter, more cost-effective, and safer than their cousins in heavy industry. Unitree said its new Z1 robot arm can move smoothly and pick up small objects, open doors, fasten screws, and even pour a glass of wine. The company said its collaborative robot arm has potential industrial, retail service, and consumer applications. “With it, the omnipotent robot dog is even more powerful,” the company claimed. “As time goes by, the combination of robot dog and collaborative robotics arm can do more and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.05
June 26, 2024
…systems designed to enable robot companies to deploy robotic manipulation in complex and unstructured applications. “Robotic vision has undergone a revolution over the past decade and is continuing to accelerate with new AI approaches,” said Mark Skapinker, Brightspark Ventures co-founder and partner. “We expect robotic manipulation to quickly follow in the footsteps of robotic vision.” Forcen to scale beyond custom design with new development options Forcen said its technology is already moving into production for customers in surgical, logistics, and aerospace robotics. “We’re excited for our customers to announce the robots they’ve been working on with our technology,” said Robert…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.91
September 12, 2024
…twins, powerful real-time control algorithms and support for mobile manipulation. Further funding, innovation from PickNik The company, which received $2 million in a pre-seed investment round in October 2023, has expanded its MoveIt platform. “The robotics industry has sorely needed a robotics manipulation engine - the equivalent of a ‘video game engine’ - to enable innovative companies to quickly apply robotics to their industries.” said Dave Coleman, PhD, founder and chief product officer at PickNik Robotics. “Out of the box, the MoveIt Pro Runtime includes real-time object identification, force control, dynamic motion planning, and multi-step processing. The suite of intelligent…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.83
June 19, 2021
…using magnetic fields to perform highly maneuverable and dexterous manipulations. This could enable applications in biomedicine and manufacturing, they said this week. The team of scientists created the miniature robots by embedding magnetic microparticles into biocompatible polymers—non-toxic materials that are harmless to humans. The robots are “programmed” to execute their desired functionalities when magnetic fields are applied. The robots improve on many existing small-scale robots by optimizing their ability to move in six degrees of freedom (DoF), said Nanyang Technological University (NTU). It defined six DoF as translational movement along the three spatial axes, and rotational movement about those three…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.81
November 15, 2024
Bipedal humanoid mobile manipulation robot (MMR) provider Agility Robotics recently announced motion components provider Schaeffler Group has made a minority investment in the company. In addition to the investment, the companies have signed an agreement in which Schaeffler intends to purchase humanoid robots from Agility Robotics for use across the whole global Schaeffler manufacturing and warehouse network. “We, at Schaeffler, will integrate this technology into our operations and see the potential to deploy a significant number of humanoids in our global network of 100 plants by 2030,” said Andreas Schick, Schaeffler AG COO. “We look forward to the collaboration with…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.57
March 25, 2022
…sorter. The platform combines AI-powered machine vision, grasping, and manipulation algorithms to handle parcels of varying size, fragility, and materials. INDUCT system to help address shortages The INDUCT work cell will help alleviate capacity shortages and increase efficiency at e-commerce and supply chain companies, according to Kindred. It said the system is addressing a critical need for fulfillment providers at a pivotal time. “Kindred INDUCT is a highly intelligent robotic system that modernizes induction processes so customers can meet the breakneck pace of consumer demand for e-commerce shipments,” said Marin Tchakarov, CEO of Kindred. “The proprietary Kindred CORE/AutoGrasp reinforcement learning…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.44
May 12, 2021
…Howard has conducted research on autonomous decision-making, developed robotic manipulation to aid people with disabilities, and founded a company serving children with special needs. She has also been a senior researcher at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA JPL) and is academic co-lead of Black in Robotics. “Ayanna Howard is a trailblazer in vital research areas, including topics such as trust and bias in AI, which will continue to be front and center in society in the coming years,” said Gabriele Kotsis, president of ACM. “The quality of her research has made her a thought leader…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.42
April 27, 2021
…board with humans in the loop.” “As for mobile manipulation, if you take an AMR [autonomous mobile robot] with two and a half degrees of freedom [DoF] and add a six-DoF arm, the edge cases multiply,” he said. “For mobile manipulation, you absolutely have to have a human in the loop.” Market small but growing “It was a seminal moment when A3's [the Association for Advancing Automation] numbers came out last year, noting that non-automotive robot sales surpassed automotive,” Nieves said. “While that won't be the case every year, it will be the case more often going forward.” “The robotics…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.38
April 15, 2022
…manipulators is not negligible when conducting high-speed rest-to-rest operation manipulations. Moreover, the end-effector oscillations are governed by flexural deformation of the joints and links. To realize the so-called residual vibration suppression of lightweight robot manipulators, researchers have used an input-shaping method, but it is purely feed-forward and does not affect vibrations from external disturbances. Other scientists have demonstrated how input shaping in joint space can cause significant Cartesian contour errors, such as when following a straight-line tool path. Last year, researchers introduced joint-space, multi-mode TVIST, or multi-mode fractional delay time-varying input shaping technology (Multi-Mode FD-TVIST) to reduce vibration. Precision ball…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.30
December 29, 2022
…materials into their in-space metal-processing system, Modular Space Foundry,” it said in a release. “Workflows will include the dismantling, manipulation, transport, and transfer of simulated or actual metal debris into pieces of appropriate size and shape to be fed into the in-space metal processing system,” PickNik added. “The purpose is to support the processing and removal of space debris.”
Found in Robotics White Papers & Archives, with a score of 13.18
December 14, 2023
…view of Amazon’s testing of Agility Robotics’ Sequoia mobile manipulation system. The system is already up and running at the e-tailer’s Houston fulfillment center, where Sequoia—integrated with multiple robots—is being used to containerize inventory into totes. Cobots Democratize Automation Amazon Tests Sequoia System and Agility Robotics’ Digit Humanoid for Fulfillment Collaborative Robotics Raises $30M Series A, Launches New Cobot Flywheel Program Industrial Mobile Robot Safety Standard Now Available, A3 Announces at Pittsburgh Conference Suhner Promises Precise Finishing with EFC-02 Active Compliance System Jet Automation Partners with Omron to Develop Cobot Palletizing System Solo Brands Works with Locus Robotics to Optimize…
