Posts Tagged Robotics
ABB Robotics – Picking pancakes
ABB Robots installed by RG Luma are helping specialist food company Honeytop to speed up its pancake production and improve health, safety & hygiene. William Eid a director of Honeytop comments “This is our first investment in robotics technology and we have not experienced a single issue sincethe installation 6 months ago”
Robot Chef
Robot chefs take center stage at Japan’s Food Machinery and Technology Expo 2009.
Robotics Soft-Tissue Injury Study
Video part of the report “Soft-Tissue Injury in Robotics,” by Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu-Schaffer, and Gerd Hirzinger at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, DLR – German Aerospace Center, Wessling, Germany.
Lecture 1 | Introduction to Robotics
Lecture by Professor Oussama Khatib for Introduction to Robotics (CS223A) in the Stanford Computer Science Department. In the first lecture of the quarter, Professor Khatib provides an overview of the course. CS223A is an introduction to robotics which covers topics such as Spatial Descriptions, Forward Kinematics, Inverse Kinematics, Jacobians, Dynamics, Motion Planning and Trajectory Generation, Position and Force Control, and Manipulator Design.
ABB Robotics – Safe human robot interaction – SafeMove
The working areas of people and robots have traditionally been seperated by fences thereby preventing any form of collaboration.
Aldebaran Robot using Microsoft Robotics Studio. Robo Development Conf. Nov. 18, 2008 -2
tiltul.com Aldebaran Robot using Microsoft Robotics Studio. Robo Development Conference Santa Clara CA November 18, 2008 -2 TilTul www.tiltul.com – Automate the Web. View Playlist www.youtube.com
Evolution Robotics Mint Cleaning Robot at CES 2010
PM’s Erik Sofge tested out Evolution Robotics Mint Cleaning Robot at CES 2010. Go to www.popularmechanics.com to read his whole review.
ABB Robotics – The FlexPendant HMI
Jim Kosmala of ABB Robotics USA talks you through what to look for when selecting a robot teach pendant. He compares the ABB FlexPendant ,with its patented joystick and touch screen, to the more traditional full keypad based teach pendants.
Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal’s eminently charming and huggable creatures appear to have stepped out of Santa’s North Pole workshop. But Breazeal wants you to know that her robots are attempts to create socially intelligent machines “whose behaviors are governed not just by physics but by having a mind,” and which might someday collaborate with humans in critical [...]
Sociable Robots
Lecture about Sociable Robots at MIT Museum Cynthia Breazeal, director of the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group, makes social robots, machines with the capacity to interact with people on psychological terms. She says they “open up a new world of questions.” But these increasingly sophisticated devices make Sherry Turkle uneasy, since they challenge the idea [...]
iCub – The Robot Child
The iCub is a wide-eyed robot that wants to learn like a baby. European researchers are working with child psychologists and neuroscientists to build a robot that can absorb new information in the same way as a human infant.
Robot Bartender
Mr. Asashi, the Robot Barman makes his debut at a London department store.
Raytheon Sarcos XOS
A military prototype armor as seen in the movie Aliens. The XOS can lift and carry weights more easily without losing agility but the futuristic suit still needs external power. The exosqueleton is a combination of sensors, motors and controllers that enable a man can lift 180 Pounds with ease. Another features in development are [...]
Big Dog Robot
An impressive video of Big Dog, a robot that can walk on ice and snow, climbs on rough terrain and carry heavy loads. Big Dog, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) is being developed by Boston Dynamics with the goal of creating robots that have rough-terrain mobility. Scary noise.
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