Robotics Business Review

APRIL 10, 2024

Source: Adobe Stock, Photoshopped by The Robot Report Collaborative Robotics today closed a $100 million Series B round on the road to commercializing its autonomous mobile manipulator. He described the machine as a mobile manipulator , with roughly the stature of a human. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2023

. | Source: LimX Dynamics LimX Dynamics designs CL-1 toward general-purpose use LimX Dynamics explained that it uses advanced motion control, artificial intelligence, and proprietary actuators and hardware to achieve dynamic stair climbing based on real-time perception.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 14, 2024

in the Biomimetics and Dextrous Manipulation Laboratory at Stanford, he built small robots that jumped, flew, perched, and climbed in various combinations. At Disney Research, he is the technical lead for the Stuntronics project that enables actuated figures to perform untethered, high-velocity gymnastic actions robustly and repeatably.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 16, 2023

Learning Objectives Learn the advantages of electric linear actuators over their hydraulic and pneumatic alternatives. Learn how machine builders and end-users can ensure a healthy ROI on custom projects making use of electric linear actuators. Electric linear actuators are helping raise material handling application to new heights.

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E&T

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Before, we literally had to manipulate these 'strings' in order to get any kind of response from the robot," said Itai Cohen, professor of physics. The robot legs are platinum-based actuators, and both the circuit and the legs are powered by solar energy. .

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 3, 2024

A high level of manipulation protection and added flexibility for increased productivity is inherent in this safety locking device. The actuator has a wide range of mounting options, enabling a high level of flexibility during installation. So even smaller swing gates and sliding gates can easily be safeguarded.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 10, 2023

However, the team wanted to automatically learn how to actuate the legs during dribbling, to enable the discovery of hard-to-script skills for responding to diverse terrains like snow, gravel, sand, grass, and pavement. Over time it learns to get better and better at manipulating the soccer ball to match the desired velocity.”

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E&T

JULY 10, 2023

Engineers typically recreate proprioception using a combination of cameras, sensors and algorithms, enabling their robotic creations to walk, grip objects and perform delicate manipulations more seamlessly. Performing manipulation tasks requires a more nuanced understanding of Atlas’s environment and better balance.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 29, 2024

The end of the robotic arm is fitted with a fingerlike gripper, designed to safely manipulate and handle parts. These devices include a controller, actuators, sensors, software, and vision systems, if needed. Industrial robotic arms emulate the movements of a human arm using multiple rotary joints that act as axis points.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 15, 2024

The company says it believes that fast-moving robotics companies should focus on their core robotics value drivers and challenges, and leave it to maxon to take care of key complexities typically associated with robotics actuators, including high performance, reliability, supply chains, integration, and testing.

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Control Engineering

JULY 30, 2022

“We use all kinds of interesting new materials like hydrogels and elastomers that can be actuated by things like chemical reactions, pneumatics and light,” he said. “We This area of soft robotics is a lot of fun because we get to use previously untapped types of actuation and materials,” Preston said.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 6, 2023

Motion control involves the use of motors for positioning and precise movement of actuators. As illustrated in Figure 4, machine vision may be integrated to guide manipulators to the right location. When addressed from the view of the manipulator, they are referred to as tool coordinates, where the origin moves with the end effector.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

So far, TRI ‘s team is working with just the torso of a robot and developing manipulation skills. “Our mission is to help people with everyday tasks in our homes and elsewhere,” said Alex Alspach, one of TRI’s tech leads for whole-body manipulation, in a video (see above). “Punyo does things differently.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 18, 2024

Applied Intuition , a provider of software infrastructure to deploy autonomous vehicles at scale, received a $250 million Series E round, while Physical Intelligence , a developer of foundation models and other software for robots and actuated devices, attracted $70 million in a seed round. Both firms are located in California.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 19, 2022

Thermal switches can be implemented using several technologies, including bimetallic switches, thermal reed switches, mercury switches, rod and tube switches with different temperature coefficients, and gas-actuated switches. The following lays out three approaches to controlling heat buildup using different kinds of thermal switches.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This could enable the building of structures that can not only bear loads but also carry out work, such as lifting, moving and manipulating materials — including the voxels themselves. And that’s down to fine-tuning of things, like the force of actuators and the strength of joints. …

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Control Engineering

JULY 17, 2023

Courtesy: Automation LLC Since IL is text-based, it is easy to manipulate in third-party text or spreadsheet editors, such as Microsoft Excel. These devices often had pictures of ladder logic contacts on the keys. Figure 4: Example of an instruction list (IL) PLC programming.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The existing requirements for safety applications are handled by such a safety technology, such as: Compliance with current requirements according to IEC61784-3; Reaction times sufficient for the process, even with additional acyclic data exchange; Sufficient consistent data quantities for the control and interrogation of actuators and sensors.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 19, 2024

The system is designed with next-generation surgeon controllers and patient-side manipulators with additional sensors. The insufflator, for example, features integrated smoke evacuation with automatic sensing and actuation. Da Vinci 5 takes surgical precision to a new level,” Rosa said.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 17, 2023

“Having both soft and rigid elements is very important in any hand, but so is being able to perform great sensing over a really large area, especially if we want to consider doing very complicated manipulation tasks like what our own hands can do.

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Control Engineering

MAY 8, 2023

When manipulating an arcade claw, a player can plan all they want. In their new work, Kim’s team built a more reflexive and reactive platform, using fast, responsive actuators that they originally developed for the group’s mini cheetah — a nimble, four-legged robot designed to run, leap, and quickly adapt its gait to various types of terrain.

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Trimantec

OCTOBER 30, 2019

By adding an active and passive electronic component to a typical electrical circuit, we manipulate electric current to create signals which impart communications between electronic machine devices. Actuators are one form of transducer. Stroke refers the distance the cylinder piston or rod extends when it is actuated.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

MAY 3, 2023

Handling is fully electric, without pneumatic or hydraulic actuators. ArTube is the BLM GROUP CAD/CAM software for programming Lasertube systems allowing operators to draw, manipulate and design single parts or complex tubular assemblies of any section.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Complete, fully integrated production systems can be provided including simple raw material feeding systems, and robotic solutions including loading/unloading the press, the ability to perform an optional secondary part manipulation or process, automated inspection of parts and stacking finished products for downstream processes.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It is also developing machine learning and computer vision tools for accurate perception, pick-and-place operations, and manipulation tasks of fabric-like materials. “We’re working on a model with force-torque sensors and reactive actuation. “We’re focusing on the materials handling gaps,” he said.

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