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…The course put her in touch with people at the Deaf-Blind Contact Center in Allston, Mass., where she was able to practice signing with the participants in the center. “When I was watching the interpreter sign, I asked, ‘How do you communicate without the interpreter?' and the answer was simply, 'We don’t,’” Johnson recalled. She set out to develop a…
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…Shaw noted. “We've reduced human touch points. Where handheld scanners were traditionally used, we're now using Cognex cameras. Returns are primarily a qualitative process for sortation, and vision technology is key.” GXO last year opened nine automated sites in the U.S. and three in Europe in 2021, and it plans more for this year. “We have hundreds of people in…
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…receipt confirmation without having to touch the individual packages. Any time you can avoid or reduce manual handling of returned packages is a big win, obviously. AI-enabled robotics broadens the opportunity. Step 2: Automate the return-to-inventory process Next, robotic put wall systems streamline the sorting of individual items for fast restocking or other dispensation. Automated put walls have shown that…
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…blood pressure with a simple touch. Kim, Ph.D. student Tae-Ho Kim, and a team in SFU's Additive Manufacturing Lab have researched how the intracies of origami and bioinspired motion can help robots perform diagnostic procedures. They have replaced the traditional blood-pressure check by replicating the folding mechanisms of the leech in their design of 3D-printable origami sensors. The leech-inspired origami…
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…challenges that need a special touch. Material removal applications such as gate grinding, filing, polishing, and others depend heavily on manual labor and take skill and experience to execute correctly. Because of their nuance and complexity, such material removal operations seem impossible to automate, according to ATI Industrial Automation. Sponsored by the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, students and…
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…The 8 in. (20.3 cm) multi-touch display supports standard gestures, such as pinch, swipe, and tap, simplifying robot programming. FlexPendant is “hot-swappable,” which means it can be unplugged or re-connected without interrupting ongoing production. This allows it to be shared between multiple robots, accelerating robot deployment, and minimizing costs, said ABB. ABB described the E10 and V250XT as the latest…
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…easy for anyone to program touch-sensitive tasks that are usually done by humans, such as assembly, fine manipulation, polishing, or sanding,” explained Pham Quang Cuong, an associate professor at NTU Singapore and co-founder of Eureka Robotics. “These tasks all share a common characteristic: the ability to maintain consistent contact with a surface.” “If our human hands are deprived of our…
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…computing capabilities and fewer human touch points in registration,” Mitra explained. “Because of our advanced algorithms in predicting patients' anatomy, we don't require preoperative CT scans.” Smith+Nephew builds on university connections In 2015, Smith+Nephew acquired Blue Belt Technologies, a spinoff from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). CMU founded the world's first robotics Ph.D. program in 1988 and claims that its Robotics…
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…is the first professional-grade, collision-tolerant, safe-to-touch, intelligent drone, said Cleo Robotics. It has a patented, enclosed ducted-fan design that prevents damage to its propellers. The Dronut X1’s intelligence and sensing includes lidar-powered obstacle detection. Its sensor suite is built for image and data collection with high-definition video and pictures and 3D point-cloud output, said the MassRobotics resident. In addition, Dronut…
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…changed consumer expectations “for high-quality, low-touch, and speedy food options.” With restaurants operating with 2.8 fewer employees in the front of house and 6.2 fewer workers in the back of house, automation is increasingly seen as necessary for survival, it said. The company's team includes food and robotics experts from Miso Robotics, SBE, C3, Walt Disney Imagineering, and iRobot. Nommi…
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…that require deep cleaning in high-touch, hard-to-reach places. It added that OhmniClean can disinfect a 3,000-sq.-ft. (278.7 sq. m) space in less than 15 minutes. “We developed OhmniClean to address a critical need in the market for fast, simple, and effective disinfection,” stated Tra Vu, chief operating officer at OhmniLabs. “At a time when sterile cleaning and infection control are…
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…vision, but the sense of touch is just as important for manipulation and teleoperation. Touchlab Ltd. has been developing flexible sensors that it said are less bulky than others on the market and could enable new applications. “At Amazon's re:MARS conference in 2019, Jeff Bezos said that people 40 years ago thought that the hardest challenges would be in artificial…
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…to know how these robots can work in automotive manufacturing. Logistics touches everyone, not just e-commerce and warehouses.” See the slideshow (right) for 10 insights from the AMR & Logistics conference.
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…offerings give robots the vision, touch, and human-like skill and speed to handle unstructured piles of goods. The company said it addresses labor shortages by delegating repetitive tasks—such as sortation, palletizing, and fulfillment—so employees can focus on higher-level, cognitive work. Systems designed to grasp challenging items Dexterity claimed that its intelligent robotics approach has enabled logistics providers to automate some…
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