Complete article Abstract: Recognising human activities from sensors embedded in an environment or worn on bodies is an important and challenging research topic in pervasive computing. Existing work on activity recognition is mainly concerned with identifying single user sequential activities from well-scripted or pre-segmented sequences of sensor events. However a real-world environment often contains multiple users, with each performing activities simultaneously, in their own way and with no explicit instructions …Read More

Source: Robohub  As sales via online retailers steadily increase, so too does the speed with which customers want their goods delivered. Amazon, eBay, and Google all have massive and speedy warehousing operations attempting to meet those needs. Amazon Robotics (previously Kiva Systems) Amazon changed their warehouse pick and pack operations from man-to-goods to goods-to-man using robots in their attempt to speed up operations. Kiva Systems and their orange robot fleet had been …Read More

Source: The Robot Report ABB leapt into the collaborative robotics space at the Hannover Messe trade show by launching their two-armed YuMi robot and simultaneously announcing their acquisition of German startup gomTec whose one-armed co-bot was a hit at last years AUTOMATICA. Lightweight flexible robot arms that are innexpensive and safe to work alongside human workers are one of the hottest topics in industrial robotics today. Manufacturers are being called upon to deliver complex solutions …Read More

Complete article Abstract: The development of robots that can physically cooperate with humans has attained interest in the last decades. Obviously, this effort requires a deep understanding of the intrinsic properties of interaction. Up to now, many researchers have focused on inferring human intents in terms of intermediate or terminal goals in physical tasks. On the other hand, working side by side with people, an autonomous robot additionally needs to …Read More

Source: The Robot Report A flurry of 10 costly robotic research analyses offered by a variety of vendors were recapped in a previous post. Here are 9 additional reports for your review and consideration. [ComputerWorld wrote that Apple supplier Foxconn expects robots to take over up to 70% of its assembly line work within three years. Foxconn CEO Terry Gou confirmed this in news footage. Previously Gou said he hoped to one day deploy a “robot …Read More