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…fiction, but Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corp. is making them a reality for industrial use today. The company is rapidly growing to address the potential of human-robot collaboration. Founded in 1983, Sarcos started out like many commercial robotics pioneers, developing systems for the U.S. Department of Defense. Its Guardian S is a portable mobile robot for surveillance and inspection. The…
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…company Age Bold Inc. and Intuition Robotics Ltd. yesterday announced a strategic partnership to bring balance training and fitness classes to older adults through Intuition Robotics' ElliQ platform. “ElliQ has impressive capabilities and the potential to create better at-home aging experiences through engaging and clinically meaningful content,” said Amanda Reese, CEO of Bold. “We're excited to team up with a…
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…include the ElliQ system from Intuition Robotics Ltd. in a program for more than 800 older adults. Under the program, NYSOFA will work with public and private partners, as well as local offices for the aging, to identify people who would benefit most from the voice-operated smart technology. ElliQ will be available through more than 830 case managers. “We are…
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…Immervision today announced that Halodi Robotics AS has chosen its next-generation vision system for Halodi's humanoid service robot. Montreal-based Immervision's technologies combine optics, image processing, and sensor fusion. The company said its vision system will enable Halodi's robot to better perceive its environment, collect better-quality data for artificial intelligence pipelines, and provide an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience to remote…
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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…
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…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…
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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…
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…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.…
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…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…
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…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…
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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…
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…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…
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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.…
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…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…
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…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…
GENISOM AI makes ICRA debut at conference in Vienna
World's first omni-modal evaluation including tactile sensing for…
Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
North America’s largest automation and robotics event takes place June 22-25
