Medical Microinstruments (MMI) said its Symani surgical system was successful in a post-traumatic limb reconstruction procedure that saved a patient’s arm from amputation. The reconstruction procedure was performed at Careggi University Hospital Florence by Dr. Marco Innocenti and was the first enrolled patient in the Italy-based company’s post-market study. The post How a surgical robot […]

When NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hovered above the Red Planet April 19 on its maiden voyage, the moment was hailed as the first instance of powered, controlled flight on another planet. Figuring out how to fly on Mars, where the air is thin but gravity is about a third of that on Earth, took years […]

Basic safety needs in the paleolithic era have largely evolved with the onset of the industrial and cognitive revolutions. We interact a little less with raw materials, and interface a little more with machines. The post Researchers develop human-aware motion planning algorithm appeared first on The Robot Report.

Robo Boston will take place in the innovative Boston Seaport neighborhood on Friday, October 1 and Saturday, October 2, 2021. More than 40 companies and universities will gather to showcase cutting-edge robotics and technology in a series of professional and STEM-related events. The event will include the annual MasRobotics Robot Block Party! Robo Boston will […]

Production, warehouse, shipping – where goods are produced, stored, sorted or packed, picking also takes place. This means that several individual goods are removed from storage units such as boxes or cartons and reassembled. With the FLAIROP (Federated Learning for Robot Picking) project Festo and researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), together with […]

Despite the challenges facing the wider manufacturing industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, collaborative robots continue to attract attention and investment, due to their ease of use, re-deployability, and convenience to end-users who struggle to afford more traditional forms of automation. The post Cobot market to grow to $8B by 2030, report finds appeared first on […]

Interventional Systems has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Micromate robot for percutaneous procedures. Kitzbühel, Austria–based Interventional Systems developed Micromate as a table-mounted medical robot for interventional procedures, touting it as the world’s smallest robot for those of the percutaneous kind. The post Interventional Systems receives FDA clearance for mini surgical robot appeared first on […]

Italian robot manufacturer Comau introduced a 6-axis collaborative robot (cobot) arm called the Racer5-0.8 COBOT. The Racer5 COBOT features a 5 kg payload, and a 809 mm reach with 0.03 mm repeatability. However, the key differentiating feature for the robot is that it can operate at industrial robot speeds when no humans are present in […]

RE2 Robotics, a 2021 RBR50 Innovation Award winner based in Pittsburgh, is developing an autonomous refueling system for AH-64 Apache helicopters deployed by the U.S. Army. RE2 received $1 million in funding for the project, which is called Remote Robotic Refueling for Extended Missions (R3EM). The post RE2 Robotics developing autonomous helicopter refueling system appeared […]

igus said the system offers a 40% retraction length ensured by a unique telescopic mechanism inside the chain. This allows users to save space on the third axis of their robot, up to 83% weight and high costs for retraction systems. Retraction systems have so far been used on the third axis to ensure that […]