Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.47
November 07, 2023
…experience in any OR globally.” OTTAVA incorporates four robotic arms into a standard size surgical table. According to the company, this unified architecture allows for an invisible design, with the robotic arms available when needed or stowed under the surgical table when not. The design removes barriers to movement and collaboration in robotic operating rooms and offers surgical teams the freedom and flexibility to adapt to clinical workflows and individualized patient needs. The system's “twin motion” feature – unified movement of the table and the robotic arms – is designed to allow surgical teams to address important clinical needs during…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.46
October 26, 2023
…and hoses in an arc from the robot’s vertical arm to the end effector. Its separable upper and lower shells can be combined to form a closed, dust-proof, water-resistant tube. This ensures that particles from the cables and hoses do not get into the surrounding air from the inside – even during the wildest movements. “To reduce stress on the cables and increase their durability, we have provided a rotating mount for the connections to the fixed and moving ends of the energy supply system,” says Meyer. “That is what is special about the energy supply system. At the same…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.37
October 10, 2023
The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM, Institute last week said that it has evaluated and selected seven more training programs to endorse. The ARM Endorsement Program is a thorough evaluation process intended to identify the organizations that most effectively prepare students for careers in manufacturing working with robots. “Millions of manufacturing jobs may go unfilled in the coming years if we do not work to correct the manufacturing workforce gap,” said Lisa Masciantonio, chief workforce officer at the ARM Institute, in a release. “Effective training programs are critical to course-correcting, engaging the next generation of manufacturers, and helping to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.56
September 24, 2023
…and Mobile Industrial Robots), the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, and MIT Lincoln Lab. Other sponsors included 6K, Synagex, Quabbin Wire & Cable, Tooling U-SME, GBMP, Equinor, the Massachusetts Manufacturing Energy Collaborative, Skylitics, Hybrid CNC Parts, Spark Photonics, Mack Prototype, AB Corp, MRSI Myronic, Modern Mold and Tool, MassDevelopment, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, and Associated Industries of Massachusetts. Organizing partners for the event included CAM, the Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MassMEP), FORGE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), MassHire, and MassRobotics. The third annual Massachusetts Manufacturing Mash-Up included networking and educational opportunities. Source: CAM Mash-Up includes student activities This year's Massachusetts…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.33
September 06, 2023
…this week said that the Advanced Manufacturing Robotics, or ARM, Institute has awarded it funding to develop a roadmap for guidance and adoption of advanced robotics technologies. In partnership with the institute, ASTM also plans to host its 4th Specialty Workshop on Discovery & Market Analysis for Robotics in Manufacturing of Space and Hypersonic Components. The workshop will be on Oct. 4 and 5, 2023, at ASTM headquarters in West Conshohocken, Pa. Interested parties are required to register their interest in attendance. The main goals of the workshop, which the ARM Institute funded in a recent project call, are to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.67
September 04, 2023
…a survey last year by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute, nearly 45% of manufacturing executives said they have turned down business opportunities because of a lack of workers. The study said that most workers prefer jobs in sectors such as retail, services, and technology, even as the amount viewing manufacturing as innovative has increased from 39% to 64%. If public-private partnerships present manufacturing as high-tech and invest in training, as Forbes recommended, that positive perception could spread. North America, Europe, South Korea, and Japan might not be able to compete with China in terms of the size of their labor…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.50
August 29, 2023
…and hoses in an arc from the robot’s vertical arm to the end effector. The company said its separable upper and lower shells can be combined to form a closed, dust-proof, water-resistant tube. This ensures that particles from the cables and hoses do not get into the surrounding air from the inside – even during the wildest movements, igus claimed. “To reduce stress on the cables and increase their durability, we have provided a rotating mount for the connections to the fixed and moving ends of the energy supply system,” explained Meyer. “That is what is special about the energy-supply…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.31
August 27, 2023
…box up a flight of stairs, said the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. You might spread your fingers out and lift that box with both hands, then hold it on top of your forearms and balance it against your chest, using your whole body to manipulate the box. Humans are generally good at whole-body manipulation, but robots struggle with such tasks. To the robot, each spot where the box could touch any point on the carrier’s fingers, arms, and torso represents a contact event that it must reason about. With billions of potential contact events, planning for this task quickly becomes…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.73
August 25, 2023
The 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 diverse areas of need in manufacturing – from identifying and road-mapping needed robotics developments to directly creating solutions for the problems that manufacturers are facing today,” stated Dr. Chuck Brandt, chief technology officer of the ARM Institute. “These projects…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.32
July 16, 2023
…California, University of Washington, University of Toronto and Vector Institute, and University of Sydney won “Best Student Paper” at the Robotics: Science and Systems conference. The work, titled DiSECt: A Differentiable Simulation Engine for Autonomous Robotic Cutting, detailed a “differentiable simulator” for teaching robots to cut soft materials. Previously, robots trained in this area were unreliable. The DiSECt simulator can accurately predict the forces on a knife as it presses and slices through common biological materials. DiSECt relies on the finite element method, which is used for solving differential equations in mathematical modeling and engineering. Differential equations show how a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.99
June 29, 2023
The ARM, or Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, Institute has announced the addition of job-matching functionality on its national workforce resource: RoboticsCareer.org. This new functionality connects workers and students to manufacturing jobs, apprenticeships, and internship opportunities that match specifically their skills and goals. Job-matching is the latest development on RoboticsCareer.org that also includes a robust database of 16,700+ training programs for robotics careers in manufacturing, digital profile creation for students and job seekers, skills definition for robotics career pathways, and the ARM Institute’s Endorsement Program, which recognizes the nation’s most effective robotics training programs for advanced manufacturing. The ARM Institute is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.14
June 25, 2023
…of the ongoing research in the field. The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, or AI2, last week announced Ali Farhadi as its new CEO. He is an AI researcher, executive, and Forbes Top 5 AI entrepreneur, said the organization. It also presented the Phone2Proc robot training approach. “As we face unprecedented changes in the development and usage of AI, I could not think of a better time to return to AI2 as CEO,” stated Farhadi in a blog post. “Today more than ever, the world needs truly open and transparent AI research that is grounded in science and a place…
