Robotics Business Review

MARCH 8, 2024

this week announced that it has raised $13 million in Series B funding, co-led by Yamaha Motor Corp. ” RIOS is releasing the feature in phases and is working on object manipulation. RIOS works with NVIDIA Isaac Sim and serves the wood-products industry. Source: RIOS Intelligent Machines RIOS Intelligent Machines Inc.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 10, 2023

Over time it learns to get better and better at manipulating the soccer ball to match the desired velocity.” The motion is also designed to be more static; the robot isn’t trying to run and manipulate the ball simultaneously,” Ji said. “That’s where more difficult dynamics enter the control problem.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 6, 2023

Motion control and robotics insights Motion control and robotics maintenance requires strong understand of all the components and mechanisms in a motor and a robot, which are sometimes intertwined. Motion control involves the use of motors for positioning and precise movement of actuators. Figure 1: Stepper motor system.

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Dinesh Mishra

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The hub will help industries reimagine long-unsolved challenges in automating manual tasks, through versatile robots equipped to sense motion and feel objects, enabling them to manipulate objects in their environment effectively. The new facility will help us realize the holy grail of robotics – universal object manipulation.

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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. With this updated option, advanced sensor technology detects vibration and can automatically fine-tune not only the pressure of the spindle motor but also how quickly it moves the wheel down onto the part.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 1, 2024

” Similarly, interest in mobile manipulation and the humanoid form factor will also intensify pressure on compute and power management. “Even if you just put an articulated robot arm on a mobile base, stepper motors require eight times the current to start, just to change from static to movement,” said Mitra.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 15, 2024

Source: maxon The High Efficiency Joints integrate torque-dense electric motors from maxon’s EC frameless DT motor lineup, planetary gears, electronics, sensing, and support structures into a fully integrated IP67 ingress-protected actuator unit. This can include humanoids, quadrupeds, exoskeletons, or mobile manipulators.

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E&T

MARCH 17, 2023

The technology is based on a physical wiper measuring what is happening to a resistive pad as the player manipulates the stick. Specifically, replaceable parts – Sony has also swapped from solder to generic connectors for the Edge’s rumble motors – take up more space, and one victim of that appears to have been the battery.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 2, 2024

HAT requires fewer fine motor skills than other interfaces to help people with some form of paralysis or similar motor impairments control a mobile robot and manipulator. “To be able to manipulate my environment again according to my will is motivation enough.”

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Expect a SCARA to have a main connection for motors and encoders, plus vertical axis holding brake connectors and integrated air lines. Figure 9: Pick and place with SCARA and 6-axis manipulator. The end of this section supports the tool quill at the far end, which can move up and down with the third axis and rotate with axis four.

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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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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 23, 2024

“We’re offering a mobile manipulator for small companies,” said Alexander Mühlens, head of automation technology and robotics at igus. The mobile manipulator includes gearboxes using the company’s patented motion plastics. He touted the company’s low-cost automation approach.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 10, 2022

The EtherCAT protocol does not manipulate the logic for the safety data. A question occasionally asked is: “What happens if a bit in the safety data that turns a motor on is unintentionally set by a corrupted frame?” . Safety over EtherCAT is a factual term. Figure 4: Safety over EtherCAT – System Example.

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21st Century Tech

JANUARY 14, 2022

Our vacuum cleaner, a Dyson stick less than five years old which we maintained to the manufacturer’s specifications, has now had to be replaced because of motor problems making repairing almost as costly as buying a new one. And so we have done the latter.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 18, 2024

Actuators / motors / servos Fieldwork Robotics 758,181 Grant U.K. Outdoor mobile manipulation platforms, sensors Firestorm Labs 20,519,500 Seed U.S. Drones Eacon Mining 41,804,272 Series C China Autonomous transportation, sensors ECEON Robotics Estimate Pre-seed Germany Autonomous forklifts ESTAT Automation Estimate Grant U.S.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 16, 2023

Figure 1) In an assembly operation, for example, linear actuators might feed materials, manipulating them to optimize access to work surfaces or diverting objects from one conveyor to another. Linear actuators using brushless motors can have duty cycles of 100% and up to 600 km of maintenance-free life.

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Metrology

MAY 2, 2023

OXLS 40 C 450 comprises a single-piece cabinet housing a metrology-grade, granite-based manipulator combined with rigid steel towers and it incorporates high precision motors and encoders. The post Versatile Large-Volume X-ray CT Inspection System Introduced appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 1, 2024

Most robot makers use proprietary, closed-source software and control systems for their manipulators that cause the many “black-box” issues that plague modern robotics applications. The ZA6 has lit up our user community with its potential for automated welding and machine tending.

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Modern Machine Shop

JUNE 19, 2023

The VOXLS 40 C 450 comprises a single-piece cabinet housing a metrology-grade, granite-based manipulator combined with rigid steel towers. It incorporates high precision motors and encoders.

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MEM

APRIL 28, 2023

The VOXLS 40 C 450 comprises a single-piece cabinet housing a metrology-grade, granite-based manipulator combined with rigid steel towers and it incorporates high precision motors and encoders. production line environment. The equipment’s ergonomics make it particularly easy to set up and operate.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Also, the machines are often paired with a robot that holds and manipulates the fabrication as it is being welded. The IS-Q series is designed to be used in combination with mechanical, pneumatical, or motorized weld heads. The IS-Q series offers control monitoring with both MG3 and the OP-AWS3-A Active Welding Systems.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Users can manipulate shape files to CAD and compare and analyze probe point, point cloud, alignment and GD&T. For example, it can validate 240 electrical contacts of a motor stator in only 30 seconds, which is 100 times faster than a traditional contact system. Marposs Corp’s OptoCloud EDU inspection solution.

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Trimantec

AUGUST 10, 2020

In 1961, Devol deployed Unimate at General Motor’s assembly line at a die casting plant. General Motors became the first automated factory in the world. . . . Usually, the object or material is already set in place for the machine to manipulate. This revolutionized the automotive industry. Robotics in Manufacturing.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

AUGUST 23, 2022

The motor has been moved and covered to protect it from harsh environments and workplace wear, and the new motor location on the base allows for enhanced protection and easier serviceability. Unison Tube LLC (Danville, VA) will present several innovative tube manipulation technologies in Booth C10217. www.kawasakirobotics.com.

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Trimantec

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Here is an example of mechanical parts working in conjunction with a motor to achieve a mechanical power advantage. The motor is spinning one shaft, but the shaft, with the aid of bearings, can transfer power to multiple devices through pulleys and gears. . Motor Controls. Key motion control components: . drive amplifier.

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Dinesh Mishra

JANUARY 30, 2023

Ltd: The CHIRON Group is the proprietor of the CHIRON, STAMA, and FACTORY5 brands for new machines, as well as the automation brand GREIDENWEIS, CMS for refurbishment, and HSTEC for motor spindles and fixtures. HSTEC specializes in the development, manufacture, and repair of high-speed motor spindles and fixtures.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This feature takes the excess motor power from a crane hoist, for example, during descent and feeds it to another component in the system or back to the grid for trackable energy savings to the customer. It has been in a close supplier relationship with Siemens Motion Control for over a decade.

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E&T

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

To prevent the entire building from vibrating, and so that the neighbours didn’t complain about the noise, the chamber had to be constructed on a floating floor made of an elastic rubber-like material to dampen the noise and vibration from the multiple pumps and motors of the environmental control systems. Vine variety testing.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The ball joint at the base of the handle allows the cable to move independent of the handle, meaning less weight for the welder to manipulate while articulating the gun. The system uses FANUC aux axis control with a table controlled by FANUC’s Purge Motor Box solution. www.fanucamerica.com.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 2, 2022

hp saw blade motor and 1 hp hydraulic motor, the saw is ready to cut through any challenge. Motor driven, synchronized wire blade brush. Besides an externally mounted drive motor, Eriez’ Chip and Parts Conveyors are self-contained, with a conveyor mechanism that is completely enclosed. Equipped with a 7.5

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Fabricating & Metal Work

MARCH 17, 2023

This machine owes its short cycle time to a new rotary part manipulator, which can move the part even closer to the bending line. The original enclosure doors were manually operated, while the new doors are twice as long, push-button operated, and powered by an electric motor.

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Foley

JULY 11, 2023

While phishing is a well-known form, social engineering attacks may involve spear-phishing (targeted at specific individuals or companies), baiting (enticing a user to perform an action with a false promise such as a free gift), and pretexting (creating a fabricated scenario to manipulate the victim into providing access or information).

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