Franka: A Robot Arm That’s Safe, Low Cost, and Can Replicate Itself

January 19, 2017

Source: IEEE Spectrum Sami Haddadin once attached a knife to a robot manipulator and programmed it to impale his arm. No, it wasn’t a daredevil stunt. He was demonstrating how a new force-sensing control scheme he designed was able to detect the contact and instantly stop the robot, as it did. Now Haddadin wants to make that same kind of safety feature, which has long been limited to highly sophisticated …Read More

New German Collaborative Robot – FRANKA

May 13, 2016

Source: Robotiq The robotic industry is currently surfing on a new wave of collaborative robots. With several big companies trying to make their way into the market, there is still a huge effort from emergent companies to get a part of the market. This new German collaborative robot is continuing this wave of small companies emerging with some really awesome concepts. Here’s Franka. With one of the most fast growing robotic economy …Read More