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…gait. Improving assistance and robot touch Exoskeletons are typically bulky and expensive, added Rob Palfreyman, CEO of Seismic Robotics, which spun out of military supplier SRI International in 2015. By contrast, Menlo Park, Calif.-based Seismic has commercialized the Flex-Drive electric muscles for “powered clothing” that's more wearable for worker safety and wellness applications. Seismic's elastic system weighs a total of…
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…customer preferences in favor of low-touch food and drink options, and the disruption of our traditional foot-traffic model are all challenges that aren’t going away. They were there before, and operators see the imperative need to tap into technology that can help them be successful as doors reopen widely. Miso Robotics’ “Intelligent Automation” approach can address the needs of operators…
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…is to reduce reliance on high-touch labor, shorten design and production times, and increase throughput while reducing costs. Autonomy in robotics for manufacturing: Most industrial robots still require specialized workers to be set up, and most operate in constrained settings. ARM is seeking systems that factories could use without prior robotics experience and that could adapt to dynamic or unstructured…
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…today are hard to the touch and use rigid grippers, but TRI said its air-filled, elastic bubble design provides greater flexibility and better grasping. When combined with cameras on the inside, the shape- and force-sensing gripper enables robots to respond to and control an object when it slips or moves, TRI said. The Punyo bubbles use visuotactile sensing techniques that…
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…do with their sense of touch. We can feel the pose, adjust grasp, and adjust for slipping better than robots.” Some cobots have cameras mounted near the end-of-arm tooling (EOAT) or even inside the grippers. Why not just rely on vision? “Putting a camera inside the gripper takes a whole computer to calculate—simpler is always better,” Sullivan replied. “To train…
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…OmniCore also offers the FlexPendant user interface, which features a large multi-touch display with standard gestures such as pinch, swipe, and tap, allowing users to easily program and operate their robots, it said.
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…of fixed assets—anything that can touch items, such as lift trucks, conveyors, or operators?” he asked. “Most equipment providers have similar shuttles, mini-loaders, and pallet cranes. Robots move at fixed speeds, so you want to get to the most efficient picking process possible.” “It's really how you're leveraging the software,” said Dickinson. “We've decoupled storage and the throughput engine, which…
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…sensorimotor integration. Restoring sensation of touch and proprioception in real time allows the user to improve his or her mobility, thanks to the reshaping of the kinematics in a more physiological walking. The processing of sensory information guarantees a better control of movements. (All images and video are courtesy of ETH Zurich / Neuroengineering Lab.) What is the sensation of…
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…one week. Automotive gear-shift knobs High-touch parts like these gear knobs (see below) require materials that are easy to sanitize. 316L offers corrosion resistance and cleans easily, said Desktop Metal. A textured gear shift is an example of mass customization made possible by binder jetting on the Production System, which supports up to 200 parts per build and up to…
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…People plus technology Can you touch on the importance of “human-in-the-loop” supervised autonomy? Morie: When two people are connected via an avatar robot, there needs to be the trust that the avatar is a version of a unique human being—that is what the communication is all about. It is a very different experience to interact with an unknown entity that…
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…to grab them successfully, using touch to recognize pressure, texture, temperature, and proximity. AI-powered robots are using these smart senses to supplement labor in facilities that cannot be fully staffed, like those belonging to RIOS customers. These smart robots are able to see items and decide how to interact with them to successfully place them in polybags that will later…
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…The end-of-arm tool, the primary touch point where the work is being done, is critical to the success. If we use cobots as an example, the first applications required self-compliance for gripping. Now, Schunk's offering of certified off-the-shelf collaborative grippers is growing rapidly. These developments are one of the many factors making our industry and our work so much fun.…
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…subjected to three times more touches than a palletized shipment. For manufacturers, this means one of your biggest ecommerce challenges is making sure you adequately package your products for parcel shipping without excessive weight or cost. Two end-of-line solutions worth considering for changing order patterns and smaller, more frequent orders are cartonization technology and on-demand packaging systems. These tools are…
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…accelerated the preference for a no-touch buying experience. Customer expectations. Along with online buying, customer expectations have continued to grow, including demand for personalized features/terms, lightning fast deliveries and flexibility to make no cost shipping and order/return changes. That puts multi-point pressure on warehouse operations stretching them in a lot of different directions to drive the expected perfect order and…
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…video of CES.) Touchless and touch-minimal UIs on the rise During the pandemic, autonomous vehicles and smart devices continue to make new advances. What’s noticeable are the various ways UIs have evolved to accommodate touch-less or touch-minimized interactions using gestures and computer vision. AI-driven IOT devices that can remember user’s preferences and histories are also a highlight of the show,…
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