BY Jon Fingas @jonfingas Robots tend to be either very rigid or very soft, but neither extreme is ideal; ideally, machines could both squish themselves into tight spaces and remain sturdy for strength-dependent tasks. They just might, thanks to a … Continued
Ohio’s Great Lakes Cheese adds pick-and-place robots for its shingled cheese packs and for pouched cheese placed in retail-ready cases. By Anne Marie Mohan, Senior Editor, Packaging World From cheddar to provolone to mozzarella and more, Great … Continued
By Evan Ackerman Image: Georgia Tech MacGyver could make a rocket-powered harpoon gun/zip line out of some moth balls, cleaning fluid, rope, pulley, and an old telescope. Robots can’t do that. But hey, neither can you. What you can do … Continued
DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials By Evan Ackerman Robots are getting things done Lockheed Martin’s TROOPER scores a point in the ladder climbing task. Quite frankly, this is an impressive thing to be able to say. Many robots are completing some … Continued
Here’s That Extra Pair of Robot Fingers You’ve Always Wanted By Evan Ackerman Posted 21 Jul 2014 | 13:37 GMT Share | Email | Print Photo: Melanie Gonick/MIT Faye Wu, an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering, demonstrates the ‘supernumerary … Continued
Olive producer adds robot to transfer pouched product to trays for delivery to retort system. Success leads to further investments in robotics. By Anne Marie Mohan, Senior Editor, Packaging World Bell Carter Foods, Inc., based in Lafayette, … Continued
Coating Systems company adds palletizing equipment that integrates PLC and robot controls for ease of operation. By Anne Marie Mohan, Senior Editor, Packaging World For Axalta Coating Systems, headquartered in Philadelphia, the use of integrated robot and programmable … Continued
BY Michael Gorman @Numeson RoboEarth. No, it’s not a lame SNES game from 1994, it’s a cloud network that lets robots learn from the actions of other bots. It started over three years ago, and now, a new, related project … Continued
BY Jon Fingas @jonfingas Humans are good at catching fast-moving objects — just ask any baseball fan. Robots typically lag behind, however, which is why the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has developed a robot arm with the reaction … Continued
BY Jon Fingas @jonfingas They grow up so fast, don’t they? It seems like only yesterday that Boston Dynamics’ AlphaDog (aka LS3) robot was finding its legs, and yet it has already gone out on training exercises with the US … Continued