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…programs to support its robot arms. Kim Povlsen, who became president and CEO of the Odense, Denmark-based company last year, has seen cobot technology mature. Robotics 24/7 spoke with Povlsen about his background, how Universal Robots has weathered the COVID-19 pandemic, and the company's plans for innovations in 2022. You came to Universal Robots from Schneider Electric—how familiar were you…
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…the CEO of Toyota Research Institute published a seminal paper about whether a Cambrian explosion was coming for robotics. The term “Cambrian explosion” refers to an important event approximately half a billion years ago in which there was a rapid expansion of different forms of life on earth. There are parallels with the field of robotics as modern technological advancements…
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…The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute—A $14.2 million grant is intended to de-risk the adoption of advanced robotics and automation by SMEs and accelerate the commercialization of technologies in these entities. Expanded Pathways to New Economy Careers, led by Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission—A $24.8 million grant will establish a highly coordinated, regional upskilling system serving both robotics developers and adopters.…
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…German company is the logistics arm of HARTING, one of the world’s largest suppliers of products that enable industrial automation. To provide an answer, the logistics team started with that question and then worked backwards. How much storage capacity might be needed to support that level of sales? How many new items will be introduced each year? And how many…
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…University of Toronto and Vector Institute, and University of Sydney won “Best Student Paper” at the Robotics: Science and Systems conference. The work, titled DiSECt: A Differentiable Simulation Engine for Autonomous Robotic Cutting, detailed a “differentiable simulator” for teaching robots to cut soft materials. Previously, robots trained in this area were unreliable. The DiSECt simulator can accurately predict the forces…
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…Lausanne (EPFL), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, was selected as a technology winner for his pioneering role in the invention of the Delta robot concept. Marc-Olivier Demaurex, was selected as a technology winner for his role in pioneering the Delta robot and bringing it to market. In the early 1980s, Clavel led the research team that invented the Delta…
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…the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute's working group and Europe's VDA 5050 specification for autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs). InOrbit’s cloud platform supports the MassRobotics AMR-Sender protocol, which is designed to help connect robots from different vendors for basic functionality. It was first demonstrated at FedEx's DART center during the Association for Advancing Automation's (A3) AMR & Logistics Conference in…
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…the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute is working on an interoperability project with Siemens, FedEx, Yaskawa, Waypoint, and the University of Memphis. Since some of the participants are in multiple groups, they are able to coordinate efforts and focus on different aspects of the challenge. “Now that the MassRobotics standard is published, they can use it in their projects…
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…groups like MassRobotics and the ARM [Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing] Institute,” he said. “The Pittsburgh Robotics Network is also a partner, and we've worked with Silicon Valley Robotics. “We're also very active internationally. A3 Mexico will roll up into A3,” Burnstein added. “We work with the VDMA [Germany's Mechanical Engeineering Industry Association], the IFR, and we have good relations with…
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…emergency responders.” Murphy is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) fellow, and director of the Humanitarian Robotics and AI Laboratory. She has spoken about the role of robotics in responding to emergencies and infectious diseases, as well as the importance of human-machine interaction. Economic incentive needed for development “While many drones are…
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…much bigger issue, and the ARM Institute and MassRobotics are starting to think about it.” “It's not just the physical interface of contact chargers, but also some devices use 24- or 48-volt batteries, and others need charge fast or slow,” he said. “We need to deliver the right intelligence for a particular robot in the system to be able to…
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…Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a prototype collaborative robot with tactile sensor technology. The ability to grasp, lift, and place food items without damaging them also has implications for manufacturing, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, and ultimately home robots, according to MERL. Robotics 24/7 recently spoke with Daniel Nikovski, manager of the data analytics group; Allan Sullivan, group…
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…FedEx senior technical advisor. Source: ARM Institute Many vendors wanted to be “one-stop shops” for robots, but that oversimplified the needs of manufacturers and logistics providers such as FedEx, he observed. “Early on, there was the image—'You'll only buy robots from us'—but you only have so many resources, so much time,” said Prather. “They didn't understand scale of where users…
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…the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, and others. “Interoperability is important. It's a space we feel strongly about and are investing in,” said Fergal Glynn, vice president of marketing at 6 River Systems Inc. “We're a member and an active participant in the Materials Handling Industry's Robotics Group, and Chris Cacioppo, our chief technology officer, is working with MassRobotics…
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…for advanced manufacturing at Florida Institute of Technology, Grieves says too many manufacturers have backward thinking about how a digital twin is developed and how it should be used. From the very beginning, “we were looking at usage in service, using both a physical version and a virtual one,” Grieves explains. The change requires “moving from functional-centric to product-centric engineering,”…
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