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RE2 Marks Technical Achievement With STARFISH Gripper for the U.S. Navy

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…Research (ONR). “STARFISH uses advanced touch sensors and next-generation haptic feedback to provide robot operators with the last link in terms of robotic perception capabilities—the ability to ‘feel’ objects in the environment,” said Dr. Adam Brant, project manager at Sarcos. “This will enable EOD personnel to locate, sense, and interact with objects they both can and cannot visualize from a…


Rapid Robotics’ New Smart Setup Feature Designed to Help Machine Operators Switch Tasks Easily

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…is push-button simple. With one touch in Rapid Robotics’ tablet-based app, the RMO cameras analyze the workspace. With another, it calculates distances and orientations of parts and surfaces, then updates motion paths to deliver the fastest and most precise way to execute on the given task. With just one more tap, the RMO starts the new job. “That’s all there…


Universal Robots to Demo Press Brake Tending Application and More at Automate 2022

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…made easily using the cobot touch pad. Inspection, palletizing, and dexterous label applications The Robot Label Applicator from Universal Robots CSI Kolinahr will showcase a UR10e in a tricky application, applying a label to the inside of a roll core. It said this will demonstrate the dexterity of the six-axis UR cobots, which can reach places that are challenging for…


FANUC to Introduce New DR-3iB/6 STAINLESS Delta Robot for Primary Food Handling at Automate 2022

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…from a stack. Using the “touch skip” feature, the cobot will determine the height of each gear. Next, the CRX-5iA will assemble the selected gear using integrated force control’s “Phase search” function. A CRX-10iA welding cobot will allow attendees to teach weld joints using hand guidance or a tablet interface with drag-and-drop icons. The CRX welding cobot supports FANUC’s advanced…


stc Bahrain Teams up With Huawei to Launch Automation and Intelligence Program

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…will focus to promote “Zero touch surveillance” including the interconnection of processes across domains and one-click Operations visibility in near real-time, the company said. Currently, more than 60% of operations & maintenance (O&M) systems in the world are maintaining multiple isolated OSS systems. The O&M systems result in poor resource efficiency, slow processes, and incomplete end-to-end operations capabilities. stc Bahrain…


BeBop Sensors Introduces RoboSkin to Give Robots Tactile Awareness

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…smart fabrics give sense of touch Advances in machine vision and audio sensing are incomplete, particularly for practical human-robot interaction, said BeBop Sensors. As robots quickly become part of people's daily lives, from restaurants to shopping malls, they need to interact and learn by sense of touch and feel, it said. BeBop said its RoboSkin is “flexible, reliable, and highly…


American Robotics Gets FAA Approval to Deploy Drones Without Operators at Seven Additional Sites

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…provide continuous, real-time information.” “With zero-touch, high-frequency automated data collection, the bulk materials supply chain will be transformed as we can provide answers to enable real-time decisions at any site,” he said. “This approval is a critical turning point in addressing the market demand for continuous information.” Autonomy is necessary to realize scalable operations for an estimated 90% of commercial…


10 MassRobotics Resident Startups to Watch

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…robotic grippers a sense of touch. CEO Peter N. Vicars said the company’s proprietary sensors embedded in polymer can understand the shape, size, and density of an object. This provides rigid grippers greater sensitivity so they can rival soft grippers for handling fragile products while maintaining industrial robot speed and precision, he said. Vicars added that because the gripper is…


Boston Dynamics VP Discusses Development of Stretch Robot

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…same capability every day to touch and feel things and to do some of those more more tricky grasps,” he added. “For example, for a top box, you may ask, 'Where can I get the gripper?' We can come in with a front-face grasp, lift it off the boxes below a little bit so it doesn't pull down things. And…


5 Things to Consider Before Creating an Automated Vehicle System

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…step on your automation journey, explore ANT® technology, or get in touch to discuss how we can help you add automation to your vehicle portfolio. Related: Natural Navigation Explained: Scan Matching vs Feature Matching


ULC Robotic Roadworks and Excavation System Completes Industry Demo, Makes U.K. Debut

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…for below-ground scanning, coring, and soft-touch vacuum excavation. Over the past year, ULC’s RRES project team has worked on system enhancements, extensive testing, and spin-off projects associated with those capabilities. Since RRES arrived at SGN’s site in Epsom, U.K., last month, Asmari has been recalibrating the system and conducting extensive testing. He has also been training Wayne Hargrave and Amadeus…


CJ Logistics Integrates Autonomous Systems With SVT Robotics

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…look for ways to eliminate touches in the supply chain to create a safer work environment and to make up for the fact that there just aren’t enough people to get orders out the door without automation,” he added. “The conversations now are that we have to do something different to service our customers.” Dallas distribution center built for efficiency…


RightHand Robotics Launches Partner Integrator Program With Element Logic as First Member

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…order container without any manual touch. The robot can pick and place thousands of different products, fulfilling e-commerce orders efficiently and correctly every time, said the companies. An AutoStore installation at Solar A/S, a leading European company serving the electrical, plumbing, and ventilation sectors, includes eOperator. Since the RightPick implementation, the company said its picking productivity has significantly increased. See…


Will Robotic Automation Lead to a Lights-Out-Warehouse

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…the point that no manual touches are necessary. With no employees required on the floor, operations do not need to turn the lights on, hence the term “lights-out warehousing.” Lights-out is not a new concept, especially in manufacturing, but in reality, such facilities are extremely specialized and extremely rare. While industry experts say that few companies are actively seeking a…


Improve Warehouse Operations with Robotics

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…and reduces the number of touches. The other is to do batch picking for a single-unit pool. Automate with Robotics AMRs such as those from Locus Robotics will help improve warehouse operations in all areas, from putaway to packing; each (or piece) picking to pallet transportation and case picking with pallet moving and heavy payload robots. The Locus solution dramatically…


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