collaborative robotics

Five applications for craft beer robots

What tasks in a craft brewery can you do with a collaborative robot? Here are five options to improve the efficiency, consistency and safety of manufacturing in the beverage industry....

28 December 2016, by Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.

Brown University wins inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge

As the worldwide leader in collaborative robotics research and education, Rethink Robotics is excited to announce the winner of the inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge. Launched in the summer o...

16 December 2015, by Rethink Robotics

Key takeaways from #ICRW2015 International Collaborative Robots Workshop

Everybody agrees that 'collaborative' refers to an application, not a robot type. Everyone agrees that there are four types of human-robot collaboration in manufacturing. But in the end, what people...

22 October 2015, by Samuel Bouchard and Robotiq Inc.

Tweets from #ICRW2015 International Collaborative Robotics Workshop 2015

The Robotic Industry Association's International Collaborative Robotics Workshop is on today in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Check out tweets from the event....

15 October 2015, by Robohub Editors

SMEs need robots that know their limitations and ask for help

Socrates famously said that “the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Yet while we often equate human intelligence with the ability to recognize when help is needed and where to see...

15 September 2015, by Satyandra Gupta

People and Robots: UC’s new multidisciplinary CITRIS initiative wants humans in the loop

Since 2001, the University of California's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) has leveraged multi-disciplinary research to tackle large societal proble...

22 April 2015, by Andra Keay and Hallie Siegel