Labor shortages and high levels of workplace injury and illness have always challenged the food manufacturing sector, especially meat producers. The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the situation. Robotics automation provides a solution. The post How Meat Producers Can Improve Food Safety with Robotic Automation appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
To optimize order picking, robot designers, integrators, and users should consider the pieces, processes, and training required for industrial automation, cobots, or AMRs. The post 6 tips for improving automated order picking appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
GE Research testing its worm-like robot at its lab in Niskayuna, N.Y. | Credit: GE General Electric apparently has a thing for crawling, nature-inspired robots. It has already field-tested Sarcos Robotics’ snake-like Guardian S robot for maintenance applications. Now GE Research, the technology development arm of GE, is developing a worm-like robot that digs tunnels […]
Simulators analysis. Source: CMU Although simulation can be a more affordable, safer, and reliable alternative to field testing of robots, it is not as widely used as it could be, found researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science. After surveying a variety of robotics developers, the scientists identified 10 challenges and areas for […]
MIT researchers built a soft robotic gripper that uses embedded cameras and deep learning to enable high-resolution tactile sensing and “proprioception” (awareness of positions and movements of the body). | Credit: MIT CSAIL One of the hottest topics in robotics is the field of soft robots, which utilizes squishy and flexible materials rather than traditional […]
Across multiple industries, robotics has been proven to improve productivity and quality while lowering labor costs and labor dependency. Beyond these benefits, the use of robotics also substantially improves safety, and can eliminate risk of injury from the equation if properly designed. For the energy industry in particular, robotics offers a multitude of additional benefits—especially […]
Hidden landmines are among the tragic legacies of armed conflicts around the world, continuing to kill and maim people years after the cessation of hostilities. Aerial drones can collect data to be analyzed with machine learning to detect the dangerous “butterfly” landmine in remote regions of post-conflict countries, said researchers at Binghamton University, State University […]
Data annotation is a labor-intensive part of autonomous vehicle development. Source: Shutterstock, Mindy Support For robots, drones, or vehicles to achieve higher levels of autonomy, they need artificial intelligence based on reliable data. Companies working on machine learning projects must juggle research, development, analysis and other tasks connected with their core functions. Their in-house employees […]
MassRobotics and Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. (THL) announced a partnership to bring together their extensive market knowledge, expertise, and networks to advance the scaling of automation-related businesses across robotics and artificial intelligence startups. Based in Boston, MassRobotics is the first and largest robotics startups escalator in the world. The collective work of this group […]
LogisticsIQ expects the overall revenues from the Warehouse Automation Market to increase from US $13 billion in 2018 to reach US $27 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 11.7% (2019 to 2025). The post Warehouse Automation Companies – The Top 50 for 2020 According to LogisticsIQ appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
