Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.93
December 13, 2023
…with them or even being replaced by them. A Washington State University study, published in the journal IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors, found that watching videos of a soft robot working with a person at picking and placing tasks lowered the viewers’ safety concerns and feelings of job insecurity. This was true even when the soft robot was shown working in close proximity to the person. This finding shows soft robots hold a potential psychological advantage over rigid robots made of metal or other hard materials. “Prior research has generally found that the closer you are to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.11
August 11, 2023
…e-commerce demand, said the IFR. A spinoff of the University of Washington, Olis Robotics claimed in a release that its Olis Connect system can significantly improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and address costly robot downtime. “Robot downtime can cost a large plant over $1 million per hour. When every minute counts, you need to leverage remote tools to react as quickly as possible, no matter where you are,” said Fredrik Ryden, CEO of Olis Robotics. “Our technology is ingeniously simple to use and intensely practical in terms of its impact.” Olis Connect designed to enable secure, remote management Olis Robotics…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.89
July 30, 2023
…(EECS) and CSAIL members; and Dieter Fox, senior director of robotics research at NVIDIA and a professor at the University of Washington. The team was supported by AI Singapore and grants from National Science Foundation, the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the U.S. Army Research Office. This project was partially conducted while Yang was an intern at NVIDIA Research. Their research was presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems conference this month. About the author Rachel Gordon is communications manager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. This article reposted with permission.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.24
July 16, 2023
…and flexibility of robotics systems, which is accelerating deployments. University researchers, often working with NVIDIA Research and technical teams, are solving problems in simulation that have real-world impact. Their work is expanding the potential for commercialization of new robotics capabilities across numerous markets. Among them, robots are learning to cut squishy materials such as beef and chicken, fasten nuts and bolts for automotive assembly, as well as maneuver with collision-free motion planning for warehouses and manipulate objects with new levels of robotic dexterity. Such research has commercial promise across trillion-dollar industries. High-fidelity, physics-based simulation breakthroughs The ability to model physics,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.03
June 25, 2023
…Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where he has won several best paper awards. In 2015, Farhadi started AI2's Computer Vision team, and he co-founded Xnor.ai, an on-device deep learning startup that Apple Inc. acquired in 2020. Farhadi rejoined the Seattle-based AI2 from Apple, where he led its next-generation machine learning efforts. Allen Institute for AI presents Phone2Proc At last week's Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), held by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Computer Vision Foundation in Vancouver, Canada, AI2 presented a paper on Phone2Proc. The…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.31
June 16, 2023
…award has been presented to Nancy Amato at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her significant contributions to the field of robotics, the Boston-based organization shared Friday. Amato was recognized for her research on the algorithmic foundations of motion planning, computational biology, computational geometry, and parallel computing. Alyssa Nicole Pierson, at Boston University, was awarded the MassRobotics Rising Star in Robotics Medal for her key contributions to the cooperative, distributed control of multi-agent teams. The Robotics Medal is awarded to a woman-identifying student/faculty nominated professor in robotics to recognize their impactful contributions to the field and includes a $50,000…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 20.88
May 05, 2023
…Bostelman is currently a visiting research scientist at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). He is also part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Professional Research Experience Program. The new ASTM Fellow recently retired from his engineering project manager position at NIST’s Intelligent Systems Division after 41 years of service. While there, he managed the Intelligent Control of Mobility Systems Program, as well as other technology research and development projects at NIST and other organizations. Bostelman received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the George Washington University (GWU) and an M.S. in technical…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.23
February 05, 2023
…Form Automation Source: Boeing Principal Investigator: Boeing Project Team: University of Southern California and 3M Project Description: This project seeks to develop adaptive path planning to ensure affordability of Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMC) components for hypersonic platforms, or an object that exceeds 5 the speed-of-sound (Mach 5 or greater). The project also seeks to integrate improvements to automated pick, place, and form for processing CMC fabric prepregs using 3D vision-based sensors to reduce the cost and variability for high-rate production of CMC structures. Benefits of this approach include having a cost-competitive alternative to titanium, higher processing efficiency, and applications for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.09
January 11, 2023
…It has also endorsed programs at Universal Robots, the University of Maryland, the University of Washington, Wichita State University Campus of Applied Sciences and Technology (WSU Tech), and Wichita State University, Department of Engineering Technology. About RoboticsCareer.org RoboticsCareer.org supports U.S. workers through each stage of their professional lives – from students exploring career options to incumbent workers looking to take the next step in their careers. The ARM Institute said it connects the full ecosystem needed to correct the skills and labor gap. RoboticsCareer.org houses the nation’s only database dedicated to training programs for robotics careers in manufacturing, claimed the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.22
September 02, 2022
…Community Development, and Farnam Jahanian, president of Carnegie Mellon University. The Southwestern Pennsylvania New Economy Collaborative said its partners include labor groups, educational institutions, workforce and economic development organizations, businesses, and more. During the application process, the collaborative convened a coalition of more than 90 public and private organizations representing 11 counties in southwestern Pennsylvania. The counties were Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence, Washington, and Westmoreland. The Pittsburgh Robotics Network (PRN) is representing the robotics industry, and it will collaborate with Innovation Works on one of the projects. “The collaborative extends its sincere gratitude to the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.69
July 10, 2022
…rely more heavily on robotics and intelligent machines. The Washington Post recently reported that a trial run was launched in Midwest and the Mississippi Delta where robots were deployed, plodding along at 12 miles per hour. By using computer vision, the robots were able to distinguish between crop or weed and spray herbicide at pinpointed crops. The effort is an undertaking at its early stages of implementation, but the potential is enormous. It allows very specific treatment, and no wide-scale crop dusting or spraying, as used in the past (often with aviation). Machines are helpful and don't have the concerns…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.13
June 28, 2022
…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 visual feedback is limited, complementary senses such as touch play a critical role in completing dexterous tasks,” explained Santos. “This is true for humans as well as for robots remotely controlled by humans. Tactile sensation will enhance the teleoperation and semi-autonomous control of underwater robot hands for difficult manual tasks.” The gripper uses an advanced array of visual and underwater sensors to orient itself to its…
