A Treeswift drone on a test run in a New Jersey forest. | Credit: Treeswift Forests cover 30 percent of the Earth’s landmass, but that number is on the decline. Despite forests’ crucial role in conserving wildlife and processing carbon dioxide, many are threatened by deforestation and wildfires. Complicating these threats is the lack of […]
Source: InOrbit Thanks to the Robot Operating System, there is a community platform for robotics programming, but there has not been one for scaling of robot fleets — until now. The Robot Operations Group is a new collective of people, companies, and organizations across industries intended to help accelerate the adoption of robotics.
Before deploying autonomous driving systems (ADS), we must know how, when, and whether they will work. There is no excuse for allowing the attention of drivers to stray during automated operation – if a system is really semi- and not fully autonomous.
SemExp, or Goal-Oriented Semantic Exploration, uses machine learning to train a robot to recognize objects and understand where in a home they are likely to be found. A robot travelling from point A to point B is more efficient if it understands that point A is the living room couch and point B is a […]
For small-to-medium manufacturers (SMMs), especially those with high-mix, low-volume production loads, collaborative robots provide many benefits over traditional industrial robots for certain tasks. But deploying cobots can be challenging. Thankfully, the US’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) can help.
Coty Cosmetics uses eight Universal Robots cobots to automate picking and packing of products. Until fairly recently, automation has been primarily been a big-company advantage. Several factors have now begun to level the playing field, including the emergence of collaborative robots, or cobots. Cobots have introduced many of the same benefits to small and medium-size […]
Polishing an artificial knee. Source: AV&R Industrial automation and healthcare robotics might not appear to have much in common at first glance, but technologies and techniques from one can benefit the other. Since its founding in 1994, AV&R Inc. has specialized in robotic surface finishing. The Saint-Bruno, Quebec-based company announced that it has applied its […]
Automation in the logistics, warehouse, and supply chain market was already growing before the COVID-19 pandemic, but accelerating e-commerce demand, social distancing requirements, and the need for greater flexibility and throughput have expanded the global market for mobile robots. Robotics developers, suppliers, and integrators need to navigate between economic hardship and commercial opportunity.
With the announcement of eight new robotics technology projects, all involving collaboration between government, industry, and academia, the ARM Institute’s total for completed or ‘in process’ advanced robotics for manufacturing programs increases to fifty-one. The post ARM Institute Announces 8 New Robotics Technology Projects appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
The jobs robots create demand a high skill level, so to build a sustainable workforce companies must develop a strategy for upskilling their current workers, and also have plans in place for training future employees.
