Safety is paramount in robotics, from cobots to surgical systems. Source: MedAcuity Software The use of robotics in medicine continues to grow. Whether it’s a collaborative robot working alongside humans in manufacturing or a surgical robot in the operating room, a single point of failure can cause serious harm. The incorporated software systems must take […]

Source: IFR World Robotics 2020 Robots have been a mainstay in factories for decades, but their use has been expanding everywhere else, from warehouses and hospitals to retail. That trend continued last year, and the novel coronavirus pandemic has accelerated service robot demand for automated logistics, disinfection, and delivery, according to the International Federation of […]

Source: Ekso Bionics Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc. today announced EVO, an upper-body exoskeleton designed to assist human workers with repetitive tasks. The Richmond, Calif.-based company said the wearable robot builds on its EksoVest technology. The post EVO from Ekso Bionics applies customer lessons to upper-body exoskeleton appeared first on The Robot Report.

Calif.-based Productive Robotics added a fourth model to its OB7 lineup of collaborative robot arms. The new OB7-Stretch is similar to the company’s standard OB7 cobot, but it has a longer reach of 1250 millimeters and a slightly lower payload of 4kg. The post Productive Robotics OB7-Stretch cobot offers longer reach, lighter payload appeared first […]

Source: PrecisionHawk One of the barriers to beyond visual line-of-sight drone operations has been the need for safety measures. PrecisionHawk Inc. last week announced that it has received two patents for unmanned aircraft traffic management, or UTM, technologies. The “Automated Unmanned Air Traffic Control System” includes the transmission of real-time flight data from drones to […]

Boston Dynamics and Trimble are expanding the capabilities of Spot within the construction industry. | Credit: Trimble The construction industry has been an area of early commercial success for Boston Dynamics‘ Spot quadruped. And today [Oct. 20. 2020] during its Actuate conference, the Waltham, Mass.-based RBR50 company announced a partnership with Trimble to take its […]

Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital hope to reduce the risk to healthcare workers by using robots such as Spot to remotely measure patients’ vital signs. Source: Image courtesy of the researchers, MIT News During the current coronavirus pandemic, one of the riskiest parts of a healthcare worker’s job is assessing people who […]

Earnest Cunningham and Nimbus. Source: Nevoa As businesses, hospitals, schools, and other public venues look to reopen in the wake of the novel coronavirus, many are turning to disinfection robots. Several such robots use ultraviolet light, but Nevoa Life Sciences Holdings Inc. this week announced Nimbus, a system that it claimed takes a different approach […]

Researchers built a dataset by recording video and audio of 60 common objects as they rolled around a tray. The team captured these interactions using Tilt-Bot — a tray attached to a Sawyer robot arm. Source: CMU Although humans rely on multiple senses to comprehend the world, robots largely use vision and, increasingly, touch. Carnegie […]

A member of the ALYN Hospital team demonstrates the use of a robotic arm designed to assist patients with spinal injuries in performing daily tasks from a wheelchair. Source: ALYN Hospital One of the most promising uses for robotics and artificial intelligence is in assisting people with serious injuries and chronic conditions. Researchers at the […]