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Robotics and the Autonomous Supply Chain with Jim Lawton of Rethink Robotics

October 11, 2016

Source: Supply Chain Insights As we think about digital manufacturing and Supply Chain 2030, we need to rethink the robot’s role in manufacturing based on new capabilities. While traditional robots were used to replace labor, the robots of the future are able to improve the agility of the supply chain through sensing and enabling new capabilities. In this session Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights, interviews James Lawton, Chief …Read More

Robots can help reduce 35% of work days lost to injury

October 4, 2016

Source: Robohub What’s the biggest benefit for using collaborative robots? It’s not better efficiency. It’s not the extra hours the robot can work in a shift. It’s not even having improved consistency across your product. Whilst these are all great bonuses the biggest benefit of robots is their impact on reducing workplace injury. Workplace injury is an issue that affects millions of workers worldwide, each year. It costs businesses billions in revenue. Although …Read More

Co-bots bring Industry 4.0 to Ford’s German plant

August 26, 2016

Source: The Machinist Are first being used to help workers fit shock absorbers to Fiesta cars. More than 100 years after the first cars rolled off Henry Ford’s pioneering assembly line, Ford Motor Company is breaking new ground in the way workers and robots are collaborating to manufacture vehicles. New collaborative robots, also known as co-bots, are first being used to help workers fit shock absorbers to Fiesta cars, a …Read More

Food industry palletizing cobot with vision system works in tight quarters

August 9, 2016

Source: Universal Robots Watch video Norwegian meat producer Nortura needed to optimize palletizing, but with limited floor space and a tight budget. A UR10 robot with a ceiling-mounted vision system provided a cost-effective and high-performance palletizing system in one-fifth of the space typically required. If no pallet is present, the floor space is available for other processes. Challenge Typical palletizing robots require a large fixed cell with safety caging that …Read More

This Cloud-Enabled Robot Could Be Your Next Coworker

August 2, 2016

Source: PSFK The further experts hypothesize about the future of our workforce, the more we find ourselves talking about robots and automation. Whilst the prospect of technical unemployment remains a very dire reality for some occupations, there is one startup that is looking to give the future of robotics and animation a collaborative boost. Tend.ai is a cloud-based solution aimed to assist with machine tending processes. The idea behind Tend.ai is …Read More

Cooperation project between DFKI RIC and Volkswagen AG

July 29, 2016

Source: DFKI This initial cooperation project between DFKI RIC and Volkswagen AG (Smart Production Lab) aims at creating the hardware and software basis for future work on the area of human-robot collaboration. The final robot demonstrator of this pilot project possesses multiple sensor modalities for the environment monitoring and is equipped with the ability for online collision-free dual-arm manipulation in a common human-robot workspace. Moreover, the robot can be controlled …Read More

What Makes Collaborative Robots Ergonomic?

July 26, 2016

Source: Robotiq We talk about collaborative robots being “ergonomic” but what do we really mean? In this post we introduce the basics of ergonomics and find out how ergonomic principles are applied to the design of collaborative robots. We also find out that there’s more to cobot ergonomics than first meets the eye. Look at most of the popular collaborative robots and you will notice some similarities: smooth links, rounded corners, …Read More

Manipulation Tasks Using Shared Autonomy: Optimus Robot (MIT)

July 25, 2016

Source: CPDArobotics This video demonstrates the Optimus Robot performing manipulation tasks using shared autonomy. A human operator performs the task planning with assisted perception and assisted motion planning. The robot has no previous knowledge about the tasks and objects have no fiducials. Only on-board sensing is used (no sensors external to the robot). Robot motion is shown 1X and no robot motion has been edited. Planning actions are shown on …Read More

Robots At Work: A Look At Robot Safety (infographic)

July 21, 2016

Source: Robotic Industries Association With the proliferation of industrial robots in the workplace, robot safety is something of which all companies should be mindful. Learn how OSHA safety regulations came to be as we break down some of the industry’s largest milestones. No matter where you fall in the supply chain: supplier, system integrator, educator or user, the robotics industry can be prone to a number of specific types of …Read More