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The 1741 … CXR motor. Source: FAULHABER Musculoskeletal disorders are a common occupational hazard in Europe and North America and are among the most common reasons for long-term absences. Wearable technologies can reduce such injuries and loss of productivity and...

As application opportunities increase, the mobile robotics sector continues to expand rapidly, with funding to start-ups continuing, and larger established technology companies, including AGV suppliers, entering the market with solutions developed in-house or...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new metric for evaluating how well self-driving cars respond to changing road conditions and traffic, making it possible for the first time to compare perception systems for both accuracy and reaction time.

Trade conflicts, geopolitical tensions, and now the COVID-19 crisis, is putting global supply chain at risk, and as a result companies are expected to reverse the multi-decade trend of offshoring. As robotics and automation becomes more capable, cheaper, and easier to...

Top: Highly compliant soft-bubble parallel gripper on a robot arm grasping an object. Bottom-left: In-hand pose estimate during this interaction; Bottom-right: Shear-induced displacements tracked on the interior of this sensor. Source: TRI As part of its efforts...

The novel coronavirus crisis has led to a sharp increase in interest in disinfection and cleaning robots, with new models being announced weekly. However, only a few organizations can claim to have been working on such robots before the pandemic and have clinically...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...