Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.98
April 13, 2022
Robotics developers must integrate multiple components, particularly for systems that must safely and effectively interact with people. Cogniteam today announced that the Israel Innovation Authority's consortium of robotics companies will rely on its Nimbus platform to develop next-generation human-robot interaction capabilities. “A simple direction such as ‘go right’ can be confusing for a robot that does not have the capability to understand human gestures,” said Dr. Yehuda Elmaliach, CEO of Cogniteam. “If given the direction ‘go right’ by a pedestrian, it must rapidly understand if it is the robot’s right or the right of the person who is giving directions.”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.05
March 17, 2022
…Interactions have been working on ways to improve a robotic mini-cheetah's strides. Their model-free reinforcement learning system helped the legged robot break the record for the fastest run recorded. The mini-cheetah has an indoor sprint of 3.9 meters per second (8.7 miles per hour), an outdoor 10-meter dash of 3.4 m/s (7.6 mph), and an indoor spin of 5.7 radians per second, according to the project's website. MIT News spoke to Gabriel Margolis, a Ph.D. student at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and Ge Yang, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of AI and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI),…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 32.20
March 15, 2022
Intuition Robotics Ltd. today announced the official commercial launch of its ElliQ digital care companion, which is now available for purchase. The social robot is designed to help older adults be more physically active and socially engaged, enabling them to have happier, more independent lives. “After years of hard work, this day has finally come,” stated Dor Skuler, co-founder and CEO of Intuition Robotics. “Over the course of the pandemic, we’ve seen the devastating effect that loneliness can have on the older adult population.” “At the same time, we’ve seen ElliQ be incredibly helpful to our beta users and put…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 20.00
March 04, 2022
…said Serena Booth, a graduate student in the Interactive Robotics Group of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and lead author of the paper. This is particularly true in the manufacturing and health care industries. “Whether or not we try to help people build conceptual models of robots, they will build them anyway,” she said. “And those conceptual models could be wrong. This can put people in serious danger. It is important that we use everything we can to give that person the best mental model they can build.” Theoretical approaches should be deliberate While many research papers…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.76
February 10, 2022
…task. MIRAI skills are not programs; they are collected intuitions of human movement that MIRAI then intelligently transfers to robots, said Micropsi. This capability expands the commercial potential of industrial robots, allowing them to handle complexity and keeping them flexible even as conditions change, claimed the company. MIRAI has been successfully deployed in assembly, material handling, and quality-control applications in a wide range of industries. Companies like Siemens Energy, automotive supplier ZF Group, and European home appliance maker BSH are already using MIRAI in production, said Micropsi. Investors to support Micropsi expansion New investors Metaplanet Holdings, VSquared, and Ahren Innovation…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.08
September 21, 2021
…have experienced, Mujin will bring a new wave of robotics technology to the U.S. market, with robots no longer needing to be taught how to move explicitly,” he claimed. “Instead, the robots will already ‘know’ what they need through what we call ‘machine intelligence,’ which enables more capability and efficiency for robot picking applications that were previously impractical or difficult to deploy.” Tokyo-based Mujin said it has designed a common platform for industrial and collaborative robot arms specializing in logistics and other pick-and-place applications. The Mujin Controller uses real-time perception, motion planning, simulation, and universal control to enable robots to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 39.48
July 05, 2021
Intuition Robotics Ltd. last week announced that it is expanding the ability of primary care teams to use its ElliQ companion robot to increase patient engagement and the quality of care for older adults at home. The Ramat Gan, Israel-based company said its proprietary cognitive artificial intelligence can help people develop long-term relationships with technology and improve their quality of life. “ElliQ has proven to be an invaluable resource for our older adult users, who often choose to share something personal with the companion robot on a daily basis,” stated Dor Skuler, co-founder and CEO of Intuition Robotics. “While our…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 20.04
June 24, 2021
…new positioning skills meet the market's need for making robotic applications flexible quickly and with little effort.” How long has Micropsi been working on the positioning capability? “The development time was about 24 months, from early research to product launch in Germany,” Vuine told Robotics 24/7. MIRAI designed to hasten flexible robot use Certain machine tending, assembly, or test applications have been difficult to automate because of variances in position, shape, surface properties, or lighting conditions. Previously, human labor was required for production tasks involving different placement of workpieces, gripping objects with unstable shapes, or picking reflective or transparent materials.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.80
April 15, 2021
As robotics suppliers work to expand automation to new tasks and markets, their systems need to be easier to train and more flexible. Micropsi Industries has developed MIRAI, a control system that it said enables collaborative robots to perceive and react rather than follow preset programs. Micropsi was founded in 2014 and has offices in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Berlin, Germany. The company is aiming to serve in assembly and test applications for electronics, consumer goods, and other manufacturing. “I have a background in computer science and philosophy, and I got into robotics via artificial intelligence,” said Ronnie Vuine, founder and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.88
November 01, 2019
…robot lawn mower and Maytronics Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus robotic pool cleaner. Smart home technology developers, however, have grander plans, in which they foresee robots growing in complexity and value. They anticipate that these machines will eventually assume such household tasks as cooking and serving meals. Social robots, on the other hand, will be the soul of home systems, providing owners with some level of empathetic interaction (Fig. 3). Fig. 3: Intuition Robotics’ ElliQ robot aims to provide older adults living alone with social companionship via multimodal interaction. This bot intuitively engages users, based on contextual understanding of its operating…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.66
August 18, 2017
…the efficiencies and benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics in the workplace,” said Linda Galipeau, CEO Randstad North America. “These sentiments should be welcome news for companies as they seek greater adoption of automation to drive productivity and innovation. As we have known for quite some time, the success of organizations in the future will depend greatly on their ability to strike a balance between valuable human insight and interaction with technology. “In addition, it has become necessary for today’s employees and job seekers to continually cultivate, develop and update their skills to work successfully alongside AI and automation,”…
