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MassRobotics, in collaboration with Chewy, a trusted destination for pet parents and partners everywhere, announced the launch of the CHAMP (Chewy Autonomous Mobile Picking) Challenge. This innovation challenge invites robotics developers and innovators to tackle a pressing issue in warehouse automation: designing a system that efficiently grasps, lifts and places heavy, awkwardly shaped items in confined warehouse spaces. CHAMP Challenge…
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MassRobotics and Chewy have unveiled the CHAMP (Chewy Autonomous Mobile Picking) Challenge, a robotics competition aimed at improving warehouse automation. The challenge invites developers to design systems capable of efficiently handling heavy and awkwardly shaped items in confined warehouse spaces. The challenge focuses on automating the grasping, lifting, and placement of large, bulky items like dog food bags and cat…
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…has announced its sponsorship of MassRobotics, an innovation hub and startup accelerator for robotics in the United States. As part of this sponsorship, ABB Robotics will donate several of its GoFa 5kg collaborative robots (cobots), and licenses to its RobotStudio simulation programming software to MassRobotics, providing emerging companies access to cutting-edge technology to drive innovation and development. MassRobotics promotes talent…
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…Research Institute, Interface Technologies, and MassRobotics Description: The apparel industry is a manufacturing sector that is ripe for automation and a keen strategic focus for ARM. The Institute has funded several robotics projects centered on apparel manufacturing with each building on prior outputs and lessons learned. This project will design, develop, and test a robotic system that automates six operations…
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…5050 in Europe and the MassRobotics Standard in the United States. The former focuses on one fleet management system for both AGVs and AMRs from multiple manufacturers. The latter focuses on sharing basic data across the network. “Since the two standards are not conflicting protocols, a mobile robot should be able to use both,” Siefen says. Both standards are roughly…
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…5050 in Europe and the MassRobotics Standard in the United States. The former focuses on one fleet management system for both AGVs and AMRs from multiple manufacturers. The latter focuses on sharing basic data across the network. “Since the two standards are not conflicting protocols, a mobile robot should be able to use both,” Siefen says. Both standards are roughly…
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…Boston University, with support of MassRobotics, and industry partners AETLabs, Ava Robotics, Boston Scientific, GreenSight, Intel and Ubiros. At the inaugural celebration, Boston University Provost Ad Interim Kenneth Lutchen led opening remarks and introduced Commonwealth of Massachusetts Secretary of Economic Development Yvonne Hao who initiated the ribbon cutting. Speakers also included: MassTech Collaborative executive director Carolyn Kirk Amazon Robotics Chief…
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Nonprofit robotics innovation hub MassRobotics recently announced the first cohort of its MassRobotics Accelerator, which is funded through support from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech). The inaugural cohort was announced at MassRobotics annual partner’s celebration. The three month accelerator program began on February 5, 2024. $5 million initiative to support R&D, commercialization The MassRobotics Accelerator is funded by a recently-announced…
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…of the competition.” MassTech & MassRobotics partnership expands The first program funded under the initiative is the new accelerator program launched in early November 2023 by Boston-based MassRobotics. The inaugural MassRobotics Accelerator powered by MassTech will support 10 robotics companies by providing “programming, individual mentorship, and immersion in the world-class robotics network” that exists across the state, including the robotics…
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MassRobotics has annnounced the dates, prizes and entry information for its second annual Form and Function Robotics Challenge. The challenge calls for university teams to create any type of robotics or automation project that delivers a compelling form factor specific to its task while accomplishing a useful function. The grand prize is $10,000 and there are $1,000 prizes for second…
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…Polytechnic Institute (WPI), MassHire, and MassRobotics. The third annual Massachusetts Manufacturing Mash-Up included networking and educational opportunities. Source: CAM Mash-Up includes student activities This year's Massachusetts Manufacturing Mash-Up activities included an “on-deck” STEM Challenge. It brought together 300 students from Innovation Pathways, a workforce development program that connects students with career opportunities in high-demand industries. There was also a “speed…
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…in robotics.” From BattleBots and MassRobotics Innovation Challenge winners to sensor fusion for patient care and ROS 2-based autonomous vehicles, Kria enables new users to adopt adaptive computing, he said. “With the REV Robotics' DC brushless motor, like a Lego 2-in-1 kit, there's a connector to a simple robot arm and a foam ball shooter,” said Khona. “They're inherently unstable…
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…technologies and the general public. MassRobotics yesterday announced that it will host RoboBoston in the Boston Seaport neighborhood on Friday, Sept. 29, and Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. The organization claimed that it is “one of the world's largest celebrations of robots and robotics,” with more than 50 companies, several universities, and student robotics teams. They will showcase cutting-edge robotics and…
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…onshoring as a priority. Its members—MassRobotics, Silicon Valley Robotics, and the Pittsburgh Robotics Network—have all pursued their own workforce development initiatives. Reshoring and nearshoring After trade conflicts with China, the COVID-19 pandemic, and other supply chain challenges, the U.S. and other countries have encouraged the production of automobiles, processors, and other goods closer to home. The CHIPS Act and Build…
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…Apparel Robotics Corp. (principal investigator), MassRobotics Topic areas addressed: Automated robotic task planning and AI in robotics for manufacturing Description: Clothing manufacturing is a very labor-intensive process, with 80% of the total labor cost attributed to material handling, and most labor manufacturing is completed offshore. For the garment manufacturing industry to progress meaningfully towards automation, several effective fabric-handling technologies must…
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