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Deep Learning Meets Trash: Amp Robotics’ Revolution in Materials Recovery, with Joe Castagneri
Abate De Mey
13 Oct 2023
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...
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364
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Shaking Up The Sheetmetal Industry, with Ed Mehr
Abate De Mey
17 Feb 2023
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...
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361
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Recycling: An Opaque Industry, with Areeb Malik
Abate De Mey
10 Oct 2022
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.
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336
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Mobile Outdoor Manipulation with RE2 Robotics, with Travis Schneider
Shihan Lu
04 Aug 2021
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...
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313
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Solid State Lidar – the 3D Camera, with Erin Bishop
Abate De Mey
29 Jun 2020
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...
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311
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Robotics Manipulation with MoveIt, with Dave Coleman
Audrow Nash
31 May 2020
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...
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302
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Robots That Can See, Do, and Win, with Juxi Leitner
Lilly Clark
29 Jan 2020
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...
ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Cobots for safe and cheap assembly of frequency converters
Thilo Zimmermann
07 Dec 2019
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...
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295
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inVia Robotics: Product-Picking Robots for the Warehouse, with Rand Voorhies
Lauren Klein
07 Oct 2019
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...
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294
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Autonomous Bricklaying by FBR, with Mark Pivac
Ron Vanderkley
18 Sep 2019
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, ...
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273
podcast
Presented work at IROS 2018 (Part 1 of 3), with Alexandros Kogkas, Katie Driggs-Campbell and Martin Karlsson
Audrow Nash
12 Nov 2018
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...
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269
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Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis in Salesforce Analytics, with Amruta Moktali
Audrow Nash
17 Sep 2018
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...
European robot network helps nurses and home builders
Thilo Zimmermann
10 Sep 2018
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...
Launch of ROBOTT-NET’s pilot projects
Thilo Zimmermann
24 Jul 2018
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...
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247
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ANYmal: A Ruggedized Quadrupedal Robot, with Marco Hutter
Audrow Nash
11 Nov 2017
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,...
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245
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High-Performance Autonomous Vehicles, with Chris Gerdes
Audrow Nash
14 Oct 2017
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...
Top 6 robotic applications in food manufacturing
Robotiq Inc.
09 Aug 2017
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...
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: HEPHAESTUS
SPARC
20 Jul 2017
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...
ARIAC Qualifier 3 is now open
Open Source Robotics Foundation
21 Apr 2017
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...
The infrastructure of life part 1: Safety
Alan Winfield
26 Jan 2017
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...
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226
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Toru Robots, with Dr. Moritz Tenorth
Ron Vanderkley
21 Jan 2017
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...
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223
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Actuation for Robotic Fingers, with Edward Neff
Abate De Mey
11 Dec 2016
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...
Collaborative robots and breaking down evolving risk assessment
Alexandre Paré and Robotiq Inc.
14 Apr 2016
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 ...
Evaluating what’s easy and what’s hard to automate in your workshop
Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette and Robotiq Inc.
17 Dec 2015
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...
South Korean private-public partnership to invest $2.6B in robot industry by 2018
Jong-Oh Park
11 Aug 2014
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...
ShanghAI Lectures: Alan Spreckley “Robotic Automation in Manufacturing”
Nathan Labhart
08 May 2014
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....
€ 7M EuRoC competition opens call to ignite EU manufacturing industry
Hallie Siegel
02 Apr 2014
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...
The robots behind your Internet shopping addiction: How your wallet is driving retail automation
Erin Rapacki
25 Feb 2014
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...
Factory-in-a-Day: EU FP7 invests €7.9M to make robotics affordable for SMEs
Hallie Siegel
07 Dec 2013
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...
Co-robots really ARE a BIG thing
Frank Tobe
05 Oct 2013
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...
Low-cost robots like Baxter, UR5 and UR10 successfully entering small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
Frank Tobe
14 May 2013
Much has been said about the need to augment the skills and increase the productivity of small factory workers by using robotic assistants called co-robots. Europe funded an SME (Small and Medium-size...
ROS Industrial celebrates one-year anniversary
Frank Tobe
13 May 2013
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...
Foxconn Foxbot update
Frank Tobe
08 Mar 2013
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...
