Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.76
May 31, 2023
…International Organization for Standardization to the American National Standards Institute, experts regularly convene to outline what robot makers should consider when building their machines. That work is ongoing, and these organizations continue to make changes as technologies improve and robots begin to be used for more applications. Luckily, the groundwork has been laid, Aaron Prather, director of robotics and autonomous systems at ASTM International, a global standards group, said in an interview with Robotics 24/7. But standards bodies must work fast to keep up with the changing industry. “We have good bones is what I would say,” Prather said. “But…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.70
February 04, 2021
…Lisa Masciantonio, Chief Workforce Officer, Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute Marie-Christine Caron, Senior Engineering Section Manager, GE Aviation (Global Robotics and Automation R&D Center) Fritzi Moneza, Senior Principal Manufacturing Engineer, Advanced Automation, Northrop Grumman Sue Keay, CEO, Queensland AI Hub Susanne Lauda, Director, Global Advanced Manufacturing Technology, AGCO Helen Greiner, CEO, Tertill Helena Samsioe, CEO and Founder, GLOBHE (Global Health) Amy Elliott, Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Rosa Ciprian, Senior Electrical Engineer Lead, Alert Innovation Elena Messina, Group Leader Manipulation & Mobility Systems, NIST Christine Spiten, Co-founder, Blueye Robotics Nicole Renee Williams, Thermoplastic Composite Materials and Process Manager,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.68
April 03, 2023
…system is impressive in the wild, noted the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Researchers at MIT's Improbable Artificial Intelligence Lab, part of its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), have developed a legged robot that can dribble a soccer ball under the same conditions as humans. The robot used a mixture of onboard sensing and computing to traverse different natural terrains such as sand, gravel, mud, and snow. It could also adapt to their varied impact on the ball’s motion. Like any committed athlete, “DribbleBot” could get up and recover the ball after falling. MIT team turns to simulation to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.67
September 04, 2023
…a survey last year by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute, nearly 45% of manufacturing executives said they have turned down business opportunities because of a lack of workers. The study said that most workers prefer jobs in sectors such as retail, services, and technology, even as the amount viewing manufacturing as innovative has increased from 39% to 64%. If public-private partnerships present manufacturing as high-tech and invest in training, as Forbes recommended, that positive perception could spread. North America, Europe, South Korea, and Japan might not be able to compete with China in terms of the size of their labor…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.66
September 30, 2022
…Chris Atkeson, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute and Human-Computer Interaction Institute, teaches a course on humanoid robots. In that class, students are taught a broad view of what’s going on in robotics and AI, he said. Atkeson explained that his students learn about a range of different areas of robotics by studying humanoids, from legged locomotion to flexible robot arms. Atkeson, who has a master’s degree in computer science from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said a central debate among the robotics community is whether general-purpose…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.65
May 18, 2021
…defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Robotic Industries Association (RIA, part of the Association for Advancing Automation or A3). In addition, the AMR Interoperability Working Group noted that hardware changes, such as sharing chargers among robots produced by different vendors, and defining interoperability for other types of robots, such as arms, were beyond its initial scope. Other groups, such as A3 or the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, are working on other aspects of interoperability, said Ryden. After some discussion, the MassRobotics group decided to initially focus…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.64
June 02, 2023
…existing system, and equipment such as conveyors and robotic arms to facilitate smooth and efficient pallet transferring and order picking. CoEvolution’s CO-PICK smart warehouse solution uses different types of robots working collaboratively to deliver high throughput and high storage density, significantly reducing customers’ labor and storage costs in many different kinds of warehouses. CoEvolution provides total control and visibility of multi-vendor robot fleets. Source: CoEvolution The benefits As a direct result of the new automated warehouse solution connecting and accelerating order fulfillment, overall efficiency rates went up at the Lotte facility, with throughput raised by an additional 30% SKUs and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.61
August 27, 2022
…the Netherlands, robots could be met with more open arms than in countries such as Spain or Greece, where there is more income inequality. The study, which examined countries in Europe, was published recently in the journal Technology, Mind and Behavior. The study focused on European countries, but study co-author Mindy Shoss, a professor in UCF’s Department of Psychology, says the findings could also help better understand the issue in America. U.S. also skeptical of AI “The U.S. always ranks pretty high on inequality and societal inequality,” the researcher said. “Given that, I would suspect that there probably are, on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.59
June 13, 2022
Recording: June 29, 2022 at 3:00 EST
…to become more collaborative. At the same time, cobot arms and certain mobile robots have gotten bigger in response to industry demand. Are the technologies converging? Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 Time: 3:00 p.m. EDT This webinar will examine the state of cobots, new tasks and operating environments, and the software to manage them. The expert panelists will also discuss how end users and integrators should evaluate collaborative robots and industrial systems. This Robotics 24/7 Roundtable will discuss the following: Industrial robots get smarter Collaborative robots offer flexibility, ease of use, and aid to human workers The importance of end…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.58
October 27, 2022
…system that uses RFusion. It consists of a robot arm with a camera and radio frequency (RF) antenna attached to its gripper. By fusing or combining signals from location signals and visual camera images, it's almost able to find the proverbial needle in a haystack. For a supply chain model, many products have RFID tags attached that can communicate with a robot. MIT's RFusion prototype can detect RFID signals just about anywhere—even if buried under a pile of rubble. RFusion uses machine learning to enable the robotic arm to zoom to the object’s exact location. It then verifies that the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.57
March 20, 2019
…to a recent study by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute, more than 2.4 million jobs are expected to remain unfilled in the manufacturing space by 2028. In addition, 80% of manufacturers report a shortage of qualified applicants for skilled production positions, and the shortage could cost U.S. manufacturers 11% of their annual earnings. Manufacturing executives reported an average of 94 days to recruit engineering and research employees and 70 days to recruit skilled production workers. Automate Works! Theater Sessions on April 11: Workforce Urgency for Robotics in Manufacturing (10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.) Dr. Stephen Catt, Deputy Director- Education and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.57
October 16, 2021
…is fourth and final article in the Southwest Research Institute's series on collaborative robots. In previous posts, we examined the benefits and limitations of cobots. Assuming you’ve decided that a cobot is indeed the right choice for your application, read on. Now let's look at how to pick the right cobot from the many options on the market. Factors to consider when cobot shopping As described in previous posts, cobots are not all the same in either performance or ease of use. Cobots can fill a wide range of roles, but the best cobot for teaching and educational purposes may…
