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Safety concerns for collaborative robots
Frank Tobe
03 Oct 2014
At a daylong workshop on Collaborative Robots by the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), two main themes were expressed: worker safety and almost universal expectation for rapid deployment of colla...
ISO to adopt nursing-care robot safety standards
Frank Tobe
31 Jul 2013
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) will compile global safety standards for nursing-care robots based on criteria provided by the Japanese government. Nursing care robots are des...
International standards, with Gurvinder Virk
Podcast team
22 Mar 2013
Link to audio file (50:26)
In this episode we hear from Professor Gurvinder Virk from the University of Gävl about how international standards are created in the ISO. He also tells us why he thinks ...
The importance of interfaces
John Payne
24 Nov 2008
Take the USB port as an example. It's ubiquitous; practically everything either has one or plugs into one.
Similarly, if you want to build a multi-vendor market for almost anything, one of t...
