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Zero Tillage Robotics, with Peter Corke

Ron Vanderkley 02 May 2014

In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Professor Peter Corke from Queensland University of Technology, about the fast-tracking research that will see robots planting, weeding, maintaining and har...

EuRoC Info Day is just around the corner

Bruno Siciliano 28 Apr 2014

The European Robotics Challenge (EuRoC) Info Day will take place on May 5, 2014 at the Fraunhofer IPA auditorium in Stuttgart, Germany. Interested participants will have the opportunity to present t...

Make it smart; make it here!

Frank Tobe 28 Apr 2014

Make it smart and make it here! These are the rallying words heard around the world regarding keeping jobs in-country and manufacturing smarter, more efficiently, and less costly....

The evolution of assembly lines: A brief history

Robert Corday 24 Apr 2014

The assembly line has long been considered one of the greatest innovations of the 20th century. It has shaped the industrial world so strongly that businesses that did not adopt the practice soon beca...

Schunk Manipulators, with Henrik A. Schunk

Per Sjöborg 20 Apr 2014

Link to audio file (27:49)In this episode Per Sjoborg speaks with Henrik Schunk about his company’s work in gripping technology, modular robotics and dexterous manipulation. They then look at se...

ROV operations expenditures to grow to $1.5 billion by 2017

Frank Tobe 24 Mar 2014

Douglas-Westwood, an energy research group, says (in their $5,000 World ROV Operations Market Forecast 2013-2017 report), that ROV operations expenditures will grow 80% over the next 5 years....

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 8-II – Education and Industry Session

Fabio Bonsignorio 18 Mar 2014

Lecture 8-II: Education and Industry Session This lecture hosted by Prof. Samia Nefti-Meziani from the University of Salford, Manchester, UK, is about higher education and industrial impact of the ...

Sydney Harbor Bridge gets blasted by robot

Frank Tobe 18 Feb 2014

SABRE Autonomous Solutions, a spin-off from the University of Technology Sydney, is using two Schunk lightweight arms and blaster pistols to grit-blast the Sydney Harbor Bridge....

Robotic skills want-ads up 13% in 2013

Frank Tobe 16 Feb 2014

Comparing 2013 to 2012, demand for robotics skills increased 13% year-over-year. Further evaluation shows that the bulk of hiring is in the healthcare sector. WANTED Analytics, a research firm anal...

Industry and Society, with Rezia Maria Molfino

Per Sjöborg 07 Feb 2014

Link to audio file (33:13) In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Rezia Molfino from the PMAR group at University of Genova about how all robots are service robots, it's just that they serv...

Competing sales reports for industrial robotics

Frank Tobe 29 Jan 2014

Research and Markets, an online market research store, is offering a new $3,000 report, Global and Chinese Automotive Industrial Robotics Industry Report 2013-2014, with figure...

Bloomberg Businessweek says: “Factory Jobs Are Gone. Get Over It.”

Frank Tobe 27 Jan 2014

Although politicians and economists may have been aggravated by the article, the figures are impressive and worthy of study. Manufacturing makes up 12% of the U.S. economy with only 10% of the non-...

Seegrid adds vision-guided lifting and stacking to product line

Frank Tobe 19 Jan 2014

Seegrid Corporation, a Pittsburgh-based start-up, has been providing driverless tugs for moving materials from point a to point b. Up until now they have just delivered the skids of material and then ...

Harvest Automation rolls out bots for nurseries

Frank Tobe 17 Jan 2014

Harvest Automation, a Massachusetts-based start-up, has begun shipping their robots. After five years and an A, B and C round of equity funding, plus some debt, totalling almost $25 million, their HV-...

Swiss to invest almost CHF30 million in digital fabrication research over next 4 years

Hallie Siegel 13 Jan 2014

Photo credit: Gramazio & Kohler, ETH Zurich Over the next four years, the Swiss will invest almost CHF30 million to build a new National Centre of Competence in Research for digital fabrication i...

Robotic hand changer enables high-precision docking through dual surface resting

DigInfo TV 19 Dec 2013

KOSMEK has developed a robotic hand changer that can switch between robot tools automatically - and with high precision. "Our aim is to enable a single robot to be used for many purposes. With this h...

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...

Lynne Parker on “What were the highlights at IROS/iREX this year?”

Lynne Parker 13 Nov 2013

I found the plenary speeches at IROS to be especially interesting. Marc Raibert gave an entertaining talk on the robots being developed at Boston Dynamics. It's encouraging to see that robots are beco...

From precision farming to autonomous farming: How commodity technologies enable revolutionary impact

Jeremy H. Brown 11 Nov 2013

The popular conception of farming as low-tech is woefully out of date. Modern farmers are high-tech operators: They use GIS software to plan their fields, GPS to guide field operations, and auto-steer...

Robotic cornucopia: Robohub focuses on the state-of-the-art and the future of agricultural robotics

Hallie Siegel 18 Oct 2013

With an ever-increasing need to feed the world's hungry, the agricultural sector has long been an important boon to the field of robotics: the sector's widespread acceptance and use of automation tec...

ABB, Nike and a Silicon Valley VC invest $3 million in Grabit

Frank Tobe 08 Oct 2013

... Grabit, a 2012 SRI International spin-off, secures $3 million in Series A funding from ABB Technology Ventures, Nike and Formation 8, a tech VC in Silicon Valley....

Don’t blame technology for persistent unemployment | Slate

John Payne 06 Oct 2013

Posting on the Slate blog Future Tense, James Bessen takes issue with the notion that technology causes unemployment, illustrating his point by debunking a pair of frequently cited examples, textile w...

There are mobile robots and then there’s KUKA’s MOBILE robot

Frank Tobe 26 Sep 2013

... At the recent Hannover Messe trade fair, KUKA displayed their concept mobile robot showing how it could work a huge turbine blade. ... The device consisted of a KUKA omnimove mobile platform, a K...

Interest in industrial robots seen at Taipei Intl. Industrial Automation Exhibition and Robot Show

Frank Tobe 13 Sep 2013

... The trade show, held the last week of August in Taipei, had a record 550 exhibitors. “It is the age of intelligence and automation,” said Eric Chuo, chairman of TAIROA (Taiwan Automation Intel...

VW launches robot that collaborates with workers

Frank Tobe 30 Aug 2013

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...

China’s 5-Year Plan targets robotics as a growth industry

Frank Tobe 11 Aug 2013

... China's 12th 5-Year Plan (2011-15) targeted robotics as a growth industry necessary for China's development. It expects a compound growth rate of 25%, said Wang Weiming, deputy director of the Min...

OMC robot mixing system

DigInfo TV 19 Jul 2013

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...

World’s first all stainless steel robot with seven degrees of freedom

DigInfo TV 17 Jul 2013

Kawasaki Heavy Industries has developed the world's first all stainless steel robot with seven degrees of freedom. It will be used in the drug discovery and pharmaceutical fields to automate experi...

Laboratory animal management robot can care for 30,000 mice

DigInfo TV 17 Jul 2013

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...

Tofu handling robot picks up soft, delicate food with ease

DigInfo TV 20 Jun 2013

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...

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

Florian Röhrbein 17 May 2013

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...

Robotic bartender assembles personalized drinks, monitors alcohol consumption, and takes social mixing to a whole new level

Hallie Siegel 16 May 2013

You're at a busy bar. You order your personalized cocktail through a smart phone app; a drink dispenser measures out the beverage according to your instructions and a Kuka robotic arm give it a shake ...

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