Robotics Business Review

MARCH 12, 2024

So while there’s still work to be done for our region to stay competitive as a globally recognized robotics hub, we will continue to stay focused on driving high-impact results for these companies to see them grow.” Pedersen led RE2 Robotics from a small startup to a recognized leader in the field of mobile 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

APRIL 23, 2024

The Cologne, Germany-based company announced 247 new products, including lubrication-free drives using motion plastics and new robots for educational, service, and industrial applications. “We’re offering a mobile manipulator for small companies,” said Alexander Mühlens, head of automation technology and robotics at igus.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 10, 2024

In addition, Universal Robots has partnered with MathWorks to organize the Autonomous Robot Manipulation (ARM) Challenge this July in Eindhoven, Netherlands, as an affiliated event to RoboCup 2024. The ARM Challenge young researchers and students to address problems related to autonomous robot manipulation.

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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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Control Engineering

APRIL 11, 2023

Picking tasks in the warehouses are extremely repetitive, and companies across the world have struggled to recruit and retain warehouse operators for several years, driving up the cost of labor. However, the rise of automation is leading to the growth of static manipulation roles within warehouses. We estimate there will be around 7.5

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Gary Mintchell

MARCH 5, 2024

In simpler words, metasurfaces are engineered surfaces that can manipulate incident electromagnetic waves to achieve specific modifications leading to the generation of different signals. This ensures that signals are separated and do not interfere with each other, reducing the likelihood of congestion-related issues.

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Canadian Manufacturing

MARCH 7, 2024

. “Respondents overwhelmingly told us the fraud landscape is becoming more complex, with 95 per cent saying generative AI and social engineering scams make it easier for fraudsters to deceive, manipulate, misrepresent and conceal their crime.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2024

The range of manipulation tasks that robots can carry out is growing, according to FAULHABER. Eppingen, Germany-based IPR said it has seen a significant trend towards the use of electric drives instead of pneumatic ones. FAULHABER offers motors that can easily hold their own compared to pneumatic drives.”

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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Faster Bending with the new Rotary Part Manipulator With the TruBend Center 7020, it only takes a few clicks to create a bending program on the computer. Source: TRUMPF) The TruBend Center 7020 owes its short cycle time to a new rotary part manipulator, which can move the part even closer to the bending line.

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AU Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Known as ‘coherence time’, the duration of time that qubits can be manipulated in increasingly complicated calculations, the achievement is 100 times longer than previous benchmarks in the same quantum processor. In the same way, if we continuously drive qubits, they can hold information for longer.

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E&T

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Musk’s purchase of Twitter stocks merely months before his acquisition of the platform could see him facing charges of insider trading, market manipulation or even violation for fair market disclosure. As part of the investigation, the SEC subpoenaed Musk.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Computing and artificial intelligence have been driving the technology revolution, but they are reaching a ceiling," said Thomas Hartung , the leader of the research team. Because you can start manipulating the system, doing things you cannot ethically do with human brains."

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Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 22, 2024

One area was how AI will drive new levels of autonomy in robotic applications. Differential drive, flexible mobility and the ability to adapt travel paths with autonomous efficiency enable it to handle any dynamic, complex environment. This makes them vulnerable to external attack, leading to unauthorized data access or manipulation.

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i4.0 today

JULY 11, 2022

Optical wireless: the new frontier for self-driving vehicles and portable devices in a chip. Generating, manipulating and receiving more modes therefore means transmitting more information. The post Optical wireless: the new frontier for self-driving vehicles and portable devices in a chip appeared first on i4.0

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MEM

AUGUST 7, 2023

Proximity grab is a valuable feature that mimics real world interaction by having users pick up nearby objects rather than interacting from a distance, therefore enhancing object manipulation, realism, collaborative design, and accessibility in VR or MR environments.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

AUGUST 13, 2023

Using computational and generative design, manipulated parameters can be rapidly evaluated in real- time to test the specific programmatic needs of Australia’s Defence Estate. The post HDR appoints defence principal to drive Australia’s defence agenda appeared first on Manufacturers' Monthly.

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Canadian Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

By using software algorithms that manipulate digital images in a technique known as Neural Style Transfer (NST), Amii took over 200 images blending ‘style’ from one onto the other. “This visionary project will create more impactful collision for founders and start-ups and drive corporate innovation across the city.”

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Base surface tool paths follow a base surface for direction, enabling mold designers to create surfaces to drive tool paths in the way they choose. The moldmaker moved to CAM software that used “projected tool path” and could obtain a consistent stepover and manipulate the order and direction of specified path segments.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 19, 2024

“Pallet manipulation has come up in every conversation with existing and potential customers, after the availability of labor.” In addition, the MiR1200 Pallet Jacks’ robust tricycle drive system is developed through a partnership with Logitrans, which has 80+ years of experience with material handling.”

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2024

He also cited other ecosystem partners that are using LLMs with legged robots, manipulators, and agricultural robots. Automakers will soon go into production with new electric vehicles developed with NVIDIA Drive, said the company.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 4, 2024

” NEURA has also been looking at mobile manipulation and humanoid robots, but adding capabilities to industrial automation is the “low-hanging fruit, where small changes can have a huge effect,” said Reger. .’ That’s what we’re feeling every day since we’ve been working together.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 6, 2023

Microcontroller-based stepper drives are used to activate the drive transistors in the correct order. Typical stepper motor resolution is 200 steps per revolution, but with “microstepping” drives, up to 1600 steps per revolution can be achieved. Stepper drives are also sometimes called “choppers.”

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 17, 2023

Driving is about pressing on the accelerator to go and the brake to stop. The models used in MPC are developed during plant tests to identify the dynamic and steady state effects on the control variables (CVs) when manipulated variables (MVs) or disturbance variables (DVs) are changed.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 29, 2024

“They’ll take over, drive the robot to safety, and allow it to resume its autonomous operations.” We’re also excited about manipulation and failed picking tasks as well.” ” Adagy looks to a future with AI Today, Adagy Robotics is starting out with fully human-driven operations, said Shinkle, CEO. .

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Fabricating & Metal Work

AUGUST 12, 2022

In this cell at IMTS, a Kawasaki BA006L robot will use offline programming and seam tracking to simulate arc welding on a part manipulated by a Kawasaki MX700N positioner. Utilizing a Kawasaki RS007N robot, Keyence vision system and ink jet printer, a USB drive will be picked, printed, and inspected and handed to attendees.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 13, 2024

“We had our first manipulator roll off the line in 2016, and ABB is still the first major robotics company to manufacture systems in the U.S.,” Auburn Hills gets four enhancements With a 30% increase in space, the $20 million Auburn Hills facility will support ABB’s efforts to be a strategic partner for its growing customer base.

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E&T

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Together the UK and US will ensure the global price of energy and the security of our national supply can never again be manipulated by the whims of a failing regime,” said UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. “We The initiative will be steered by a new UK-US Joint Action Group, led by senior officials from the UK government and the White House.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

The situation is currently driving an increase in energy prices and raising concerns about energy supplies for winter. Following the deal, Poland’s Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, tweeted : “This means the end of market manipulation by Russia and its company Gazprom.”.

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i4.0 today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The materials enable unprecedented control over EM waves by manipulating the impedance on a subwavelength scale and have led to significant breakthroughs in imaging, radar and wireless communications. The post Rohde & Schwarz and Greenerwave Collaborate to Verify RIS Modules and Drive 6G Research appeared first on i4.0

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 4, 2022

To manipulate said tools more robustly, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), in collaboration with the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), have designed a system that can grasp tools and apply the appropriate amount of force for a given task, like squeegeeing up liquid or writing out a word with a pen.

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iBASEt

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Shop Floor Technicians can manipulate their view of the 3D model by freely rotating it and zooming in and out as desired. Display 3D Models on the Shop Floor – Configured 3D models will now appear when the relevant Work Order is opened in the Web UI. They can also highlight parts of the model, which are linked to a nearby part tree.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The same applies to assembly processes involving small part insertion, pressing, or even driving screws with the rotational axis. Figure 9: Pick and place with SCARA and 6-axis manipulator. Dispensing is another good application for SCARA robots. Courtesy: Yaskawa America Inc. Figure 14: SCARA motion interface to machine controller.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 10, 2022

Safety over EtherCAT (FSoE) is an open safety system with multiple vendors of safety controllers, safety inputs and outputs and functionally-safe drives. The EtherCAT protocol does not manipulate the logic for the safety data. Real-time reactions – even in highly dynamic drive architectures. . Safety Drive Profile.

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i4.0 today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), case-picking robots, mobile manipulators, heavy load autonomous mobile vehicles (AMVs), and last-mile delivery robots (vans, sidewalk robots, and drones). tow tractors, forklift AGVs, unit load carts, ‘goods to person’ grid based AGVs, etc.),

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 7, 2024

The company recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Schaeffler Group and the Korea Electronics Technology Institute, or KETI, to co-develop the RB-Y1 and other mobile manipulators in Korea. Bimanual manipulator? The company called this configuration a “bimanual manipulator.”

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Modern Machine Shop

MARCH 21, 2023

Because the digital twin bears a close resemblance to its physical counterpart, results of these applications create an opportunity to improve a manufacturing process significantly without direct access or further manipulation of the material component. We can see this in the many uses for the digital twins of machine tools.

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