Robotics Automation News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

ASTM International’s committee on robotics, automation, and autonomous systems (F45) has formed a new subcommittee on grasping and manipulation. This new subcommittee (F45.05) of ASTM (formerly known as American Society for Testing and Materials) will develop standards that evaluate performance in several major areas of robotic manipulation.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

AI and robotics insights MIT researchers have developed a method using AI smoothing techniques to simplify contact-rich manipulation planning for robots. You might spread your fingers out and lift that box with both hands, then hold it on top of your forearms and balance it against your chest, using your whole body to manipulate the box.

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Robotics Business Review

JULY 6, 2022

The post Collaborative Robotics Trends – Heavier Payloads, Smaller Form Factors & Mobile Manipulators appeared first on Robotics Business Review. The Collaborative Robotics Sector continues to evolve with the addition of smaller platforms, as well as systems capable of handling much heavier payloads.

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Automation World

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Apptronik and NASA ready Apollo, a humanoid mobile robot that can manipulate the environment.

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Gary Mintchell

MAY 1, 2024

These attacks are less dependent on exploiting vulnerabilities and more focused on collecting information, evading detection and manipulating the target systems. Targeted cyber-physical attacks are no longer about zero-day exploits that take advantage of an unknown or unaddressed vulnerability.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The combination of cobot arms and autonomous mobile robots ( AMRs ) in mobile manipulators offers new use cases that could expand the demand for collaborative robots, it said. This enables them to navigate through complex environments and manipulate objects, which the IFR said is crucial for manufacturing applications.

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Robotics Automation News

MAY 14, 2023

Researchers create new simulation tool for robots to manipulate complex fluids in a step towards helping robots more effortlessly assist with daily tasks that deal with liquids Imagine you’re enjoying a picnic by a riverbank on a windy day. Why you chose to do this on a windy day was your own poor decision). A […]

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Robotics Automation News

MAY 1, 2023

Columbia university engineers design a robot hand (video below) that is the first device of its kind to join advanced sense of touch with motor-learning algorithms – it doesn’t rely on vision to manipulate objects Think about what you do with your hands when you’re home at night pushing buttons on your TV’s remote control, […]

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Design World

JUNE 21, 2023

They offer protection against manipulation and tampering making them suitable for use in high-risk applications. The RSS-SERIES from Mechan Controls is a uniquely coded RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) safety switch with volt-free contact outputs.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 26, 2024

Up to 35% of the electricity bill in factories is spent on pressurized air, and 40% of the battery life of a mobile manipulator is consumed by a suction cup, he asserted. Is Ubiros looking at mobile manipulation ? Thus, Ubiros’ grippers could save a lot of battery power for autonomous mobile robots ( AMRs ) or drones, Ondemir said.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 17, 2024

In fact, it was that demonstration of Atlas manipulating a plank, picking up a bag of tools, and taking it to a worker that earned Boston Dynamics an RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award. “We wanted to know that we could solve essential dexterous manipulation problems before releasing the product.”

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Gary Mintchell

APRIL 1, 2024

The combination of the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, a complete system-on-module (SOM) designed for edge AI applications, the cuMotion path planner from the NVIDIA Isaac Manipulator platform, UR’s new PolyScope X software and its UR5e cobot platform is expected to increase application potential and efficiency for automation customers.

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Plastics Today

APRIL 26, 2024

The company is bringing its new mobile manipulators and autonomous mobile robots to NPE2024.

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Robotics Automation News

AUGUST 24, 2022

The new software products help robotics and software engineers to create, debug, and ship complex manipulation projects faster. PickNik Robotics, a robotics software and engineering services company, has released both its MoveIt Studio Developer Platform and MoveIt Studio SDK (software development kit).

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, this demo illustrates Atlas and other humanoids can perform difficult manipulation tasks, including manipulating heavy objects when properly equipped. However, Atlas remains a development platform due in part to its hydraulic actuation design and the robot isn’t ready to go to work in the real world just yet.

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Canadian Manufacturing

MAY 1, 2024

Enhanced part manipulation: Reduces the learning curve of designing in MachineBuilder with new part manipulation tools powered by contextual guidance and a more discoverable 3D manipulator.

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Robotics Automation News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This versatile and widely-used process involves the meticulous manipulation of metal sheets, transforming them into the building blocks of countless industries. Sheet metal fabrication, a testament to the ingenuity of human engineering, stands as a cornerstone in the world of manufacturing.

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Cisco Smart Manufacturing

OCTOBER 11, 2023

These attacks use psychological and pressure manipulation to trick individuals into divulging… Read more on Cisco Blogs In recent years, social engineering attacks have become increasingly prevalent and sophisticated.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Inside GITAI’s manipulator robot GITAI said it designed S2 for reliability and flexibility. Robots like S2 could provide more precise manipulation than human astronauts. Learn from Agility Robotics, Amazon, Disney, Teradyne and many more. “The space robotics field is a very new business domain.

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Robotics Automation News

MARCH 25, 2024

Data migration is one of the modern world’s best practices regarding data preservation and manipulation. Businesses will usually perform such actions to move their valuables to different environments, get more protection, or simply create better solutions for the future.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Learn how to solve humanoid motion challenges with robot-ready solutions Humanoid robots must be capable of highly dynamic motion, coordinated across dozens of robotic joints, in order to manipulate objects of varying size and weight while simultaneously carrying their own weight and navigating unpredictable environments.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The mechanism consists of a mobile manipulator that includes a Fanuc CRX 25iA cobot mounted on top of a custom-built, omnidirectional AMR base. The Pixmo mobile manipulator from Anyware Robotics uses a vacuum gripper and vision guidance to acquire boxes from the container.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2024

Øivind Børnich replied to the following questions from The Robot Report : What are some of the technical challenges that 1X will be addressing with this funding — bipedal locomotion, manipulation, and/or safe collaboration with humans? With that being said, manipulation and safe collaboration are our main focus areas.

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Control.com

MARCH 12, 2024

The new BSWS-R jaw quick-change system from Schunk automates tool changes, reducing downtime during robotic manipulation of parts and enabling greater manufacturing flexibility.

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Granta Automation

JULY 21, 2023

Vacuum grippers are a type of end effector that uses suction to lift and manipulate objects. They are widely used for robotic palletising, which is the process of stacking and arranging products on pallets for transportation or storage. Vacuum … Continue reading →

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Canadian Manufacturing

APRIL 23, 2024

Forcen will use this investment to scale up prototype production facilities to support more customers and continue developing its force/torque sensing technology and edge intelligence designed to enable robot companies to deploy robotic manipulation in complex and unstructured applications.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 20, 2024

Each end of the arm features an identical manipulator known as a Latching End Effector (LEE). The next part of the system is Dextre, or the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator. MDA Space co-developed Canadarm2, MSS Canadarm2, the first key part of the MSS, is a 57.7-ft. m)-long robotic arm that MDA Space developed with the CSA.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Michael Pausch, CTO of Schaeffler Industrial, agreed to jointly develop mobile manipulators for manufacturing. Source: Rainbow Robotics Rainbow Robotics has signed a memorandum of understanding with Schaeffler Group and the Korea Electronics Technology Institute, or KETI, to co-develop mobile manipulators driven by artificial intelligence.

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Plastics Today

MARCH 28, 2024

Filing was postponed while Chemours dealt with senior execs’ financial manipulations.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

With prices ranging from $16,000 to $150,000, the cost of robotic hands has stunted progress in manipulation research.

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The Fabricator

JANUARY 30, 2024

It uses twin-strand timing belts to place, orient, and transfer pallets to workstations for robotic or human manipulation. Dorner has introduced the DualMove pallet system conveyor.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 27, 2024

Sanctuary focused on dexterous manipulation While other humanoid developers have focused much of their energy on bipedal locomotion, Sanctuary has taken a different approach with its Phoenix robot. NVIDIA also announced a foundation model for humanoids, called GROOT , that is designed to bring robotics and embodied AI together.

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Robotics Automation News

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Rapid advancements in fundamental techniques, such as navigation, manipulation, and functional safety, have made robots more intelligent, agile, and safer. Mobile robots are a proven ideal companion for humans performing mission- and business-critical tasks in outdoor environments.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2024

Dextrous also won a $999,746 grant from the National Science Foundation in September 2023 for a project entitled “Automated Perception for Robotic Chopsticks Manipulating Small and Large Objects in Constrained Spaces.” “You can’t operate on that,” they said. Dextrous said. million from Amazon.

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Automation Mag

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Mobile manipulators, the combination of collaborative robot arms and mobile robots (AMRs), offer new use cases that could expand the demand for collaborative robots substantially. 3 – Mobile manipulators Mobile manipulators – also called “MoMas” – are automating material handling tasks in industries such as automotive, logistics or aerospace.

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Robotics Automation News

MAY 10, 2023

Covariant’s AI-powered robots will be used to automate a wide range of manual fulfilment activities that require hand-eye coordination and object manipulation – supporting Otto Group to enhance services for its customers […]

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Robotics Automation News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Nvidia researchers show how training in simulation enables the transfer of complex manipulation skills to a robot hand with project DeXtreme The human hand is one of the most remarkable outcomes of millions of years of evolution. The ability to pick up all sorts of objects and use them as tools is a crucial differentiator […].

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