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Industrial Automation
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366
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Deep Learning Meets Trash: Amp Robotics’ Revolution in Materials Recovery, with Joe Castagneri
In this episode, Abate flew to Denver, Colorado, to get a behind-the-scenes look at the future of recycling with Joe Castagneri, the head of AI at Amp Robotics. With Materials Recovery Facilities (MRF...
13 October 2023, by
Abate De Mey
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364
podcast
Shaking Up The Sheetmetal Industry, with Ed Mehr
Conventional sheet metal manufacturing is highly inefficient for the low-volume production seen in the space industry. At Machina Labs, they developed a novel method of forming sheet metal using two r...
17 February 2023, by
Abate De Mey
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361
podcast
Recycling: An Opaque Industry, with Areeb Malik
Areeb, the co-founder of Glacier, gives some insight into the opaque recycling industry, and why it is unable to handle the volume of recyclable good Americans through out each year.
10 October 2022, by
Abate De Mey
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336
podcast
Mobile Outdoor Manipulation with RE2 Robotics, with Travis Schneider
Robohub Podcast · Mobile Outdoor Manipulation with RE2 Robotics
In this episode, Shihan Lu interviews Travis Schneider, Business Development Manager at RE2 Robotics, focusing on their work on mobi...
04 August 2021, by
Shihan Lu
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313
podcast
Solid State Lidar – the 3D Camera, with Erin Bishop
Robohub Podcast · Solid State Lidar - The 3D Camera
In this episode, Abate interviews Erin Bishop from Sense Photonics about the technology in their “Solid State” LiDAR sensors that allows the...
29 June 2020, by
Abate De Mey
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311
podcast
Robotics Manipulation with MoveIt, with Dave Coleman
Robohub Podcast · Robotics Manipulation with MoveIt
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Dave Coleman, CEO of PickNik Robotics, about the open source robotics manipulation platform called Mo...
31 May 2020, by
Audrow Nash
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302
podcast
Robots That Can See, Do, and Win, with Juxi Leitner
In this episode, Lilly interviews Juxi Leitner, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology and Co-Founder/CEO of LYRO Robotics. LYRO spun out of the 2017 win of the Amaz...
29 January 2020, by
Lilly Clark
ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Cobots for safe and cheap assembly of frequency converters
At Danfoss in Gråsten, the Danish Technological Institute (DTI) is testing, as part of a pilot project in the European robot network ROBOTT-NET, several robot technologies: Manipulation using force s...
07 December 2019, by
Thilo Zimmermann
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295
podcast
inVia Robotics: Product-Picking Robots for the Warehouse, with Rand Voorhies
In this episode, Lauren Klein speaks with Dr. Rand Voorhies, co-founder and CTO of inVia Robotics. In a world where consumers expect fast home delivery of a variety of goods, inVia’s mission is to h...
07 October 2019, by
Lauren Klein
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294
podcast
Autonomous Bricklaying by FBR, with Mark Pivac
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley interviews Mark Pivac, Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of FBR (formerly Fastbrick Robotics) about the world’s first end-to-end autonomous bricklaying robot, ...
18 September 2019, by
Ron Vanderkley
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273
podcast
Presented work at IROS 2018 (Part 1 of 3), with Alexandros Kogkas, Katie Driggs-Campbell and Martin Karlsson
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Alexandros Kogkas, Katie Driggs-Campbell, and Martin Karlsson about the work they presented at the 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and S...
12 November 2018, by
Audrow Nash
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269
podcast
Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis in Salesforce Analytics, with Amruta Moktali
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Amruta Moktali, VP of Product Management at Salesforce Analytics, about Salesforce Analytics’ analytic and artificial intelligence software. Moktali discuss...
17 September 2018, by
Audrow Nash
European robot network helps nurses and home builders
Four knowledge institutes across Europe - the Danish Technological Institute (DTI, DK), Fraunhofer IPA (DE), Tecnalia (ES) and the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC, UK) - teamed up to offer highly...
10 September 2018, by
Thilo Zimmermann
Launch of ROBOTT-NET’s pilot projects
Irabia, Linak and Nissan have along with Trumpf, Maser, Piccolo, Weibel and Air Liquide been selected to team up on a real-world case study. Over the next 18 months ROBOTT-NET will take these eight vo...
24 July 2018, by
Thilo Zimmermann
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247
podcast
ANYmal: A Ruggedized Quadrupedal Robot, with Marco Hutter
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Marco Hutter, Assistant Professor for Robotic Systems at ETH Zürich, about a quadrupedal robot designed for autonomous operation in challenging environments,...
11 November 2017, by
Audrow Nash
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245
podcast
High-Performance Autonomous Vehicles, with Chris Gerdes
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Chris Gerdes, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, about designing high-performance autonomous vehicles. The idea is to make vehicles sa...
14 October 2017, by
Audrow Nash
Top 6 robotic applications in food manufacturing
Robotic food manufacturing is a rising trend in the food industry. The value of the global food automation industry is expected to rise to $2.5 billion by 2022. In this article, we introduce six robot...
09 August 2017, by
Robotiq Inc.
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: HEPHAESTUS
In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation. 16 of these resulted from the robotics work programme, and 1 proje...
20 July 2017, by
SPARC
ARIAC Qualifier 3 is now open
We are happy to announce that Qualifier 3 is now open for the Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition (ARIAC)! ARIAC is a simulation-based competition is designed to promote agility in in...
21 April 2017, by
Open Source Robotics Foundation
The infrastructure of life part 1: Safety
Part 1: Autonomous Systems and Safety
We all rely on machines. All aspects of modern life, from transport to energy, work to welfare, play to politics depend on a complex infrastructure of physical...
26 January 2017, by
Alan Winfield
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226
podcast
Toru Robots, with Dr. Moritz Tenorth
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley spoke to Dr Moritz Tenorth, head of software development at Magazino, a Munich-based startup developing mobile pick-and-place robots for item-specific logistics. They d...
21 January 2017, by
Ron Vanderkley
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223
podcast
Actuation for Robotic Fingers, with Edward Neff
In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Edward Neff, founder of SMAC Corporation. Mr. Neff discusses how breakthroughs in his company have allowed them to develop linear actuators compact enough to b...
11 December 2016, by
Abate De Mey
Collaborative robots and breaking down evolving risk assessment
During the last 50 years, industrial robots have been increasingly used in manufacturing industries around the world. The technology has been evolving and adapting to the needs of its users. Over the ...
14 April 2016, by
Alexandre Paré and Robotiq Inc.
Evaluating what’s easy and what’s hard to automate in your workshop
If you haven’t already introduced a robot into your workshop, or if you are in the process of introducing such a device, you may be wondering … what is the best place to start? What is easy and wh...
17 December 2015, by
Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette and Robotiq Inc.
South Korean private-public partnership to invest $2.6B in robot industry by 2018
With contributions by JiEun Maeng
On July 25, the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy held the robot industry policy meeting at the Korea Technology Center in Seoul and announced the 2nd...
11 August 2014, by
Jong-Oh Park
ShanghAI Lectures: Alan Spreckley “Robotic Automation in Manufacturing”
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-10-13
This talks provides a summary of the current and future market places, key application areas, history of robotics and future trends....
08 May 2014, by
Nathan Labhart
€ 7M EuRoC competition opens call to ignite EU manufacturing industry
The call for Europe's newest robotics competition opened yesterday when a consortium of leading robotics and research institutions from across the EU announced the launch of the European Robotics Chal...
02 April 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
The robots behind your Internet shopping addiction: How your wallet is driving retail automation
When you're shopping for the best online deals you're probably not thinking much about the massive distribution network required to bring that pair of shoes to your doorstep. Is your quest for the bes...
25 February 2014, by
Erin Rapacki
Factory-in-a-Day: EU FP7 invests €7.9M to make robotics affordable for SMEs
Factory-in-a-Day is an EU initiative to develop a robotic system that is inexpensive, leasable, and can be set up and working in 24 hours. The goal is to make advanced robotic systems, which currently...
07 December 2013, by
Hallie Siegel
Co-robots really ARE a BIG thing
UPDATED: October 6, 2013
Small and medium shops and factories (SMEs) are an untapped marketplace for robotics but direly in need of automation to remain competitive in this global economy. Two ne...
05 October 2013, by
Frank Tobe
