Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.05
January 28, 2019
MIT has long been a source of important 3D printing research and advancements, with scientists there working on everything from printing in glass to developing new 3D printheads. MIT also offers well-regarded coursework for students and professionals related to additive manufacturing. Last year, MIT announced it was forming a new industry consortium to focus on additive manufacturing—the Center for Additive and Digital Advanced Production Technologies (ADAPT)—to focus on expanding the use of AM in industry through new research, education platforms, and more academic-industry partnerships. According to ADAPT’s program manager, Haden Quinlan, the idea for the consortium was first floated back…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.36
January 11, 2019
…get once you move into nanoscale territory. Researchers at MIT appear to have found a way around this problem by printing small objects and then shrinking them to even tinier sizes after the fact. 3D Print with Nanoscale Precision Using a technique called implosion fabrication, researcher Ed Boyden and his team have been able to print complex shapes and structures at very tiny sizes. “It’s a way of putting nearly any kind of material into a 3-D pattern with nanoscale precision,” said Boyden, the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology and an associate professor of biological engineering and of brain…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.50
December 19, 2018
…the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT, intent on bringing grasping intelligence powered by computer vision and applied machine learning to bear on real-world problems. Related: Honeywell and Fetch Robotics Deliver Autonomous Mobile Robots to DCs Related White Papers Material Handling Industry Makes the Digital Transformation The material handling industry is in the middle of a historic digital transformation from manual to automated processes in a distribution center (DC) and fulfillment operations. Download Now! Understanding the 3Rs, Range, Rate, and Reliability, of Robotic Piece-Picking This paper describes how to put robotic piece-picking to work for your company…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.57
December 01, 2018
…will encounter them.” A Moral Compass for Self-Driving Cars MIT researchers recently launched an online experiment, designed to explore the moral dilemmas faced by autonomous vehicles. Dubbed The Moral Machine (moralmachine.mit.edu), the online system is described as “a platform for gathering human perspective on moral decisions made by AI.” By MIT’s own count, it has collected 40 million decisions in 10 languages from millions of people in 233 countries and territories. Researchers published the first set of findings in a paper titled “The Moral Machine experiment,” Nature: International Journal of Science, October 2018. It includes charts explaining participants’ choices, such…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.47
August 28, 2018
…have been acknowledged as top 35 global innovators by MIT Technology Review. GreyOrange is also opening a research and development (R&D) center in Boston, Massachusetts, to further expand its technology development capability and propel innovation in robotics logistics. GreyOrange plans to build a team of more than 60 engineers for R&D in AI, human-machine interface (HMI), machine vision and data intelligence, adding to the current global team of 250 R&D engineers. GreyOrange selected Atlanta and Boston for their respective reputations for excellence in supply chain and emerging tech. With the robotics segment of the materials handling equipment market expected to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.38
March 12, 2018
…slow to become part of what Jim Rice at MIT calls “the dominant design” - just another tool in the tool kit. I’m going to go out on a limb, but I’m now convinced that robotic materials handling is at a tipping point in materials handling, and it feels as if the adoption rate is about to take off. Over the last two years, we’ve featured a variety of robotic applications, ranging from piece picking robotics at an eye wear manufacturer; mixed layer palletizing at L’Oreal; mobile robots in manufacturing at GE Healthcare and Whirlpool; a piece picking robot in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.35
January 25, 2018
…into a language a computer can understand. Researchers at MIT are already hard at work on developing what’s being called brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). They’re even claiming they’ve been able to achieve up to 20% robotic performance improvement by enabling robots to adapt to users’ thought commands. While these claims feel more like something from a Sci-Fi movie, it’s nice to know that even if a robot can’t read your mind, it can still improve workplace productivity by working collaboratively with laborers rather than working against them. Related Article: Four Ways to Future-Proof Your Warehouse Related White Papers Energy Efficiency in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.68
September 08, 2017
…Drones to Catalog and Manage Inventory New research from MIT proposes lightweight drones that can help track and manage inventory in large-scale environments by allowing passive, long-range radio frequency identification (RFID) scanning. RFID tags have long provided a potential solution to the problem of effective package tracking through digital cataloging. Think of it as a much more sophisticated version of barcode scanning. However, RFID technology has been limited in implementation because the most common RFID tags are passive and short range. The battery-free “smart stickers” cannot send out a signal until they are scanned by a reader. Thus, while RFID…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.73
August 01, 2017
…Technological University of Singapore winning the Pick Task and MIT Princeton winning the Stow Task. The Australian Centre for Robotic Vision developed their own Cartesian robot “Cartman” for the challenge. Theirs was the only Cartesian robot at the event, and it is believed to be the least expensive contestant as well. Cartman can move along three axes at right angles to each other, like a gantry crane, and featured a rotating gripper that allowed the robot to pick up items using either suction or a simple two-finger grip. This year’s finalists demonstrated sophisticated solutions combining object recognition, pose recognition, grasp…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.55
April 13, 2017
…the term, it was coined by Charles Fine, an MIT professor, to define rapidly evolving industries – those with a fast clock speed that he likened to fruit flies that are born, mature and expire in a very short time. He argued that “in business today, all advantage is temporary. In order to survive-let alone thrive-companies must be able to anticipate and adapt to change, or face rapid, brutal extinction.“ Based on my week at Promat in Chicago, I’d argue that the clockspeed of our industry has been accelerating in an unprecedented fashion over the last three to five years.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.61
April 10, 2017
…chains. The shift, according to a published report from MIT Economist David Autor, will affect both the engineers that design them, and companies that rely on them. “There's never been a better time to be a worker with special skills or the right education, because these people can use technology to create and capture value,” says Autor. “However, there's never been a worse time to be a worker with only 'ordinary' skills and abilities to offer, because computers, robots, and other digital technologies are acquiring these skills and abilities at an extraordinary rate.” One proposed solution to offset the growth…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.02
February 24, 2017
…Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Pratt and Rus will be honored at a special ceremony held in conjunction with the Automate 2017 Exhibition and Conference and the International Symposium on Robotics. The award is named for Joseph F. Engelberger, known throughout the world as the ”father of robotics.” Engelberger was founder and president of Unimation, Inc., the world’s first industrial robot manufacturer. The Engelberger Robotics awards are presented to individuals for excellence in technology development, application, education and leadership in the robotics industry. Each winner receives a $5,000 honorarium and commemorative medallion with the inscription,…
