Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 32.08
…to new insights on how to build an energy-efficient legged teammate for dismounted warfighters. In a recent peer-reviewed PLOSE One paper, the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory’s Alexander Kott, Sean Gart, and Jason Pusey offered new insights on how to build autonomous legged robots that operate as efficiently as any other ground mobile systems. Its use could lead to potentially important changes to Army vehicle development. Scientists said they may not know exactly why legged, wheeled, and tracked systems fit the same curve yet, but they are convinced their findings drive further inquiry.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.74
…small drones to self-driving vehicles of different sizes and legged systems. Self-assembling systems, unified controls, multidomain and integrated units, and more intuitive human-machine interfaces could come out of this research. A robotic arms race? At the same time, geopolitical allies such as the U.K. and rivals such as Russia and China are also pursuing semi-autonomous systems, and a new arms race could already be under way. Asymmetrical conflicts have also seen increasing use of technologies such as AI and drones, as demonstrated in Israel's “Iron Dome” air-defense system intercepting six drones during the current hostilities with Hamas. The global market…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.07
…exoskeletons, we've seen a lot of developments lately in legged robots. Does the interest in commercial applications reflect a maturity or greater understanding of robotics in spaces designed for humans? Wolff: We'll see a continued explosion of what they're capable of doing. The power consumption of legged robots was a major limiting factor. Another limitation is around teleoperation and autonomous navigation. You can overcome the power issue, but you still have the challenge of machines moving around in dynamic environments. With AMRs [autonomous mobile robots] and other types of machines that are wheeled, they're mostly deployed in highly structured environments,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.13
…robotics officer” to oversee the COE. “The talent for these centers of excellence for robotics would be like a three-legged stool, with expertise in IT, engineering, and business and operations,” said Klappich. “Some companies are already moving in this direction. They recognize the need for an organization that can work with the business to align them with robots that would match up with their specific needs, and then can help them introduce a solution and support it.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.35
…with a single arm. However, we can look at legged robots as having multiple articulated limbs. One of the best-known quadruped robots is Boston Dynamics' Spot, which is now available for sale. The company, now a unit of Hyundai Motor Group, describes Spot as “an agile mobile robot that navigates terrain with unprecedented mobility, allowing you to automate routine inspection tasks and data capture safely, accurately, and frequently.” As seen on 60 Minutes this week, Spot can travel on battery power at 3 mph and has a range of about 90 minutes. The mobile robot's battery packs are interchangeable, and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.69
…ability to transform from a four-wheeled vehicle into a four-legged walking machine, which allows it to traverse terrain beyond the limitations of even the most capable off-road vehicle. “One of the use cases for Elevate is in search and rescue. We wanted to have the ability for the interior seats of the vehicle transform from a seat into a stretcher that can be used by the rescuers to lift and carry a person back into the vehicle,” explains John Suh, vice president, Hyundai Motor Group. “The second objective was to look at what technologies we could use. The seat needed…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.94
…be it a sauntering elephant or a bunch of two-legged pumpkins. When an elephant crosses the road TASS International’s genesis went back to the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). In 2013, after consolidating five divisions of TNO, TASS International was created. In September 2017, manufacturing titan Siemens acquired TASS International, in a bid to bolster its offerings to autonomous car developers. TASS International products and services are now part of Siemens’ Simcenter portfolio. TASS International’s products are: Simcenter Madymo, for restraint system design and occupant safety analysis; Simcenter Prescan, for virtual development and validation of automated driving systems;…
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…Numina Group. “I look at order fulfillment as a three-legged stool of picking, packing and shipping,” he says. “If any one of those areas gets out of alignment with the others, it causes problems.” For example, says Hanrahan, if a DC adopts voice picking and ramps up the number of orders picked per hour, but has no pack automation in place, a bottleneck can easily occur at its pack stations. The better approach, says Hanrahan, is to look at ways to balance the flow of work through the overall system, rather than trying to accelerate just one area. One streamlining…