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The ARM Institute today announced that it has named Jim Clark from ARIS Technology and Christopher Ravasio from ARIN Technologies Inc. as fellows to lead two R&D projects. The ARM Institute Fellowship program supports the AIM Higher Consortium, a Defense Manufacturing Community. “The ARM Institute is proud to support Defense Manufacturing Communities,” stated Matt Fischer, senior new business development manager…
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The ARM Institute (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute) recently announced its 25-01 Core-Funded Technology Project Call is now publicly available. This project call, like all ARM Institute project calls, seeks to support both the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the U.S. manufacturing ecosystem at large. The ARM Institute expects to award approximately $3M to fund multiple projects under the…
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…Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM, Institute today announced the selection of eight new robotics technology projects for funding. The consortium said it chose projects that respond to urgent needs in U.S. manufacturing and that address modernization priorities of the U.S. Department of Defense. “The ARM Institute is pleased to announce these eight new development projects,” stated Dr. Charles Brandt,…
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…Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM Institute today announced that it will award a total of $3.26 million across eight new projects that identify challenges facing U.S. manufacturers and propose technology solutions. The institute said it has funded and managed more than 150 robotics, artificial intelligence, and workforce development projects to date. “Our selections in this latest project call address…
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…and the Robotics & AI Institute (formerly The AI Institute) announced a partnership to advance humanoid robots through reinforcement learning. The two organizations will establish a shared reinforcement learning training pipeline for the new electric Atlas robot to build dynamic and generalizable mobile manipulation behavior. The work, which kicked off in February 2025, brings together two research teams to advance…
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Late last month, the ARM, or the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, Institute announced that it was funding 11 new projects as part of its Technology Project Call program. ARM was founded in 2017 and is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. It has over 380 members, which span governmental, commercial, and educational sectors throughout the U.S. As part of…
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…Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM, Institute launched RoboticsCareer.org as an online resource to help address workforce challenges. The Pittsburgh-based ARM Institute is a public-private consortium backed by the U.S. Department of Defense with more than 300 members from academia, government, and industry. It seeks to help manufacturers through the adoption of robots and workforce development programs. RoboticsCareer.org identifies core…
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…Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM, Institute. The ARM Institute chose Universal Robots (UR) as the first robotics manufacturer for its endorsement program based on UR's Educational Robotics Training program. Ohio is the first U.S. state to evaluate and add UR courses to its Industry-Recognized Credential List. The UR courses count as six credits for the 2021-2022 school year and…
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…the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, students and engineers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute discovered a single solution to two of these material removal challenges. The team included research and development experts from Siemens Technology, as well as application guidance and support from Yaskawa. Together, these automation experts devised a system that uses robots to remove weld beads…
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…members of other Manufacturing USA Institutes are invited to be among the first U.S. manufacturing leaders to learn about a new call for the creation of a “National Manufacturing Guard” designed to ensure a resilient, robust national supply chain and manufacturing base in the future. Scheduled for Sept. 29 and October 1, the two identical online sessions will feature Institute…
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…supporters of efforts at the ARM (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) Institute that make robotics, autonomy and artificial intelligence more accessible to U.S. manufacturers. Christian was focused on tech research projects alongside academics. Eighteen projects in all. Each project was brought to a point they call a “tech readiness level,” and then left for other interested parties to develop in whatever…
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…capabilities of its autonomous robot arm, which will be mounted outside the International Space Station, in 2023. GITAI first demonstrated its technology onboard the International Space Station (ISS) last year and said it met all mission objectives. In the next challenge, the Tokyo-based company's extra-vehicular robot will be deployed outside the Bishop Airlock with partner Nanoracks LLC. “There are a…
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…automated solutions,” Mühlens said. Fraunhofer Institute designs dual-arm cucumber harvester Harvesting cucumbers is a physically demanding task. Some companies have workers lie prone on a support surface behind a vehicle, picking the vegetables off the vines by hand. In more rudimentary businesses, workers walk down rows carrying a harvesting bucket, bending down to look for the ripe cucumbers. Carrying boxes…
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The Eastern Kentucky Advanced Manufacturing Institute, or eKAMI, today announced the opening of a new Robotics Center that will offer hands-on training with robots that are used daily in factories and logistics facilities around the world. The Paintsville, Ky.-based institute, which is a model of workforce retraining, will include mobile robots and fixed robot arms from major vendors. “We are…
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Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced what it said is a big step forward in robotics and artificial intelligence research: demonstrating a Large Behavior Model (LBM) powering the Atlas humanoid robot. In the video below, the companies showcased how Atlas performs a long, continuous sequence of complex tasks that require combining object manipulation with locomotion. By adopting LBMs,…
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