VW launches robot that collaborates with workers

Human working with a UR5 assistant. At a VW diesel engine production plant in Salzgitter, a Universal Robots UR5 robot carefully picks up delicate glow plugs and puts them into hard-to-reach drill ho...

30 August 2013, by Frank Tobe

OMC robot mixing system

This industrial mixing system, developed by OMC, uses a multi-axis robot from Nachi. In contrast with conventional mixing systems that rotate the container along two axes, using this multi-axis mul...

19 July 2013, by DigInfo TV

Laboratory animal management robot can care for 30,000 mice

This robot is being developed to automate the management of laboratory animal colonies used by pharmaceutical companies and research institutions, primarily those that raise from 10,000 to 30,000 mice...

17 July 2013, by DigInfo TV

Tofu handling robot picks up soft, delicate food with ease

Lands Work, a manufacturer of tofu-making machinery, has developed a robot that can pick up very soft foods such as tofu. "First, the robot checks which way the tofu is facing, and how big it is, usi...

20 June 2013, by DigInfo TV

Academic and industry collaboration (Part 3): Interview with Minoru Asada

Established experts in the field of robotics were recently interviewed by a group of scientists from the ECHORD project at Technische Universität München. Motivated by the fact that indust...

17 May 2013, by Florian Röhrbein

ROS Industrial celebrates one-year anniversary

ROS-I is developing and promoting a manufacturer-independent open-source library of drivers and the transfer of established components from research to industry - not just h/w interfaces and MS, IOS a...

13 May 2013, by Frank Tobe

Academic and industry collaboration (Part 2): Interview with Hiroshi Ishiguro

The second interview of this four-part series about collaboration between academia and industry was conducted at the CITEC Summer School 2012 at the Center of Excellence “Cognitive Interaction Techn...

22 April 2013, by Florian Röhrbein

Academic and industry collaboration (Part 1): Interview with Rodney Brooks

This is the first in a four-part interview series about collaboration between academia and industry, conducted by a group of scientists from the ECHORD project at Technische Universität München. W...

05 April 2013, by Florian Röhrbein

Foxconn Foxbot update

Ilian Bonev, a robotics prof at the ÉTS in Quebec, blogged “The truth about Foxconns Foxbot industrial robots,” and included a 2008 Foxbot brochure which shows the specs for their entire robotics...

08 March 2013, by Frank Tobe

ExOne IPO Successful: Shareholders Contribute Random Passers-by

Before I start bashing bankers, I’d like to congratulate the ExOne Company on a successful initial public offering (IPO). I haven’t seen much about ExOne [NASDAQ:XONE] on the robotics sites, b...

21 February 2013, by Robert Morris

3’600-strong underwater robot sensor network returns 1’000’000th measurement, has scientists craving for more

The Argo project, which has deployed a network of more than 3'600 robots covering all of the world's oceans, has returned it's 1'000'000th measurement....

05 February 2013, by Markus Waibel

Patent Watch: Robotic fabricator

iRobot Corporation and Rayheon BBN Technologies Corp. have filed a US patent entitled "Robotic Fabricator", a completely autonomous all-in-one product fabrication robot that handles manufacturing (inc...

24 January 2013, by Wolfgang Heller

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