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 […]
The Parallel Structured Light approach for 3D sensing aims to fill a critical gap among 3D sensing solutions, enabling a whole new range of machine vision applications and tasks in the process. The post Parallel Structured Light Addresses Limitations of Standard 3D Sensing appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
Researchers, including Ken Goldberg’s team at UC Berkley, are hard at work developing robotic systems that assist surgeons by automating routine, often tedious subtasks common to all surgical procedures. Listen to the interview at the Robotics Business Review. The post Automating Robot-Assisted Surgical Subtasks – An Interview With UC Berkley’s Ken Goldberg 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 […]
The healthcare sector is struggling from the combined pressure of skyrocketing costs, as well as the need to continuously improve the quality of services and results. The Covid-19 pandemic only exacerbated the challenge. As a result, new healthcare business models – including Surgery-as-a-Service – are being evaluated and gaining traction. The post Surgical Robots as […]
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 […]
The robotics industry is at an inflection point where the baton is being passed from the scientists to the practitioners. In historical terms, we are witnessing the Edisons of the world harness the innovations of the likes of Faraday to create life changing businesses and wealth. Automation has moved from smart manufacturing and logistics to […]
During the pandemic, protein binding simulations have had a heyday as researchers scrambled to use supercomputing to find effective ways to inhibit SARS-CoV-2’s spike protein. But developing a better understanding of protein binding has a wide range of applications outside of treating COVID-19, ranging from drug screenings for a wide range of diseases and conditions […]
