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…Advanced Robotics in Manufacturing, or ARM, Institute this week opened applications for its fellowship program in support of the AIM Higher Consortium. Artificial Intelligence in Metals and Manufacturing (AIM) Higher is led by Catalyst Connection with more 30 academic, economic development, technology institute, and manufacturing partners from around the region. The program is funded by the Department of Defense Office…
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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, the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), and the Robot Operations Group (ROG) have been discussing robot interoperability in heterogeneous environments. However, Open Robotics has been taking an open-source approach for a few years already, said Gerkey. “Compared with companies in the robot operations, or RobOps software space, some of them are focused on…
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…identify partners at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other schools. “We later brought in more students from the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Waterloo in Toronto,” said Suvarna. “One unique aspect of our team is that it was entirely student-led. All the other teams had professors on site. I worked with Andrew Tresansky from MIT to…
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…University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (India), Universidad de San Buenaventura (Colombia) Cavalier Autonomous Racing – University of Virginia EuroRacing – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), University of Pisa (Italy), ETH Zürich (Switzerland), Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland) KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea) MIT-PITT-RW – Massachusetts Institute of Technology,…
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The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute today announced that the U.S. Department of Labor is providing a grant to retrain people in the Tampa Bay, Fla., area who were unemployed or displaced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The “Connecting Talent to Careers Project” is intended to create a comprehensive national capability for talent identification and attraction for manufacturers nationwide. The…
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…German company is the logistics arm of HARTING, one of the world’s largest suppliers of products that enable industrial automation. To provide an answer, the logistics team started with that question and then worked backwards. How much storage capacity might be needed to support that level of sales? How many new items will be introduced each year? And how many…
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…article in the Southwest Research Institute's series on collaborative robots. In previous posts, we examined the benefits and limitations of cobots. Assuming you’ve decided that a cobot is indeed the right choice for your application, read on. Now let's look at how to pick the right cobot from the many options on the market. Factors to consider when cobot shopping…
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…the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute is working on an interoperability project with Siemens, FedEx, Yaskawa, Waypoint, and the University of Memphis. Since some of the participants are in multiple groups, they are able to coordinate efforts and focus on different aspects of the challenge. “Now that the MassRobotics standard is published, they can use it in their projects…
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…the CEO of Toyota Research Institute published a seminal paper about whether a Cambrian explosion was coming for robotics. The term “Cambrian explosion” refers to an important event approximately half a billion years ago in which there was a rapid expansion of different forms of life on earth. There are parallels with the field of robotics as modern technological advancements…
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…that collaborative robots are robot arms designed to work near humans in industrial settings. They are also designed so that workers who are not robotics experts can more easily program them. Cobot safety standards Cobot safety standards are governed by ISO/TS 15066. This standard is very deliberate in differentiating between a robot and a robot system. In simple terms, a…
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…of articles, the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) shares insights from its “Innovations in Automation Blog” gained over many years of working with collaborative robots. Our goal is to help you navigate the cobot market and determine if this technology can help solve your problems. Cobots are not the right solution in all cases, but they do allow robots to work…
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…the Eastern Kentucky Advanced Manufacturing Institute, or eKAMI, opened a new Robotics Center to offer hands-on retraining with robot arms and mobile robots used in industry. The Paintsville, Ky.-based institute was founded in 2017 and is dedicated to addressing the skills gap in U.S. manufacturing. Among the technologies at the event was an Ohmni telepresence robot from OhmniLabs Inc. Demand…
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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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…learning, simulations, 3D cameras, and end-of-arm tooling. It also engages with a range of robotics suppliers and the Louisville Automation and Robotics Institute to rapidly engineer and deploy its turnkey robotic solutions. The company currently offers several pick-and-place robotic products, each designed to fit seamlessly into existing distribution center workflows, such as order fulfillment. MHS Robotics also offers autonomous mobile…
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