This comprehensive article dives deep into the world of robotics, exploring the history, types, engineering components, applications, and future trends of robots, offering readers an in-depth understanding of how these remarkable machines work and shape our lives.
The hospitality industry can leverage the gender characteristics of service robots to influence customers' decisions, according to new research from a team in the Penn State School of Hospitality Management.
Service robots have evolved from simple automated machines to intelligent adaptive systems that can navigate unpredictable environments and interact with humans.
AI-powered artificial muscles made from pliable materials are reshaping recovery, from stroke rehabilitation to prosthetic design. These machines help people regain motion, strength, and confidence.
A team of researchers from ITMO University, Tel Aviv University, and University of Aveiro have come up with a new way to improve the mechanical properties of spider webs.
EPFL researchers have developed a customizable soft robotic system that uses compressed air to produce shape changes, vibrations, and other haptic, or tactile, feedback in a variety of configurations.
Based on the 'Crover Effect' for locomotion in granular media, the CROVER robot is able to move through bulk solids and powders. The team wins $25,000 of manufacturing support from Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials to take their design to the next level.
The engineers of DMG MORI’s ADDITIVE INTELLIGENCE team redesigned the Robo2Go head for additive manufacturing using nTopology. The new design is 62% lighter, has 60% fewer components, and improves the handling precision of the robot by a factor of 16x.
This solution for automated pallet unloading was developed by MV Center. For precise and reliable robot navigation, the system uses robust 3D vision technology from Photoneo.
KOPR spol. s.r.o. developed a solution for advanced laser cutting of heavy hot-formed parts and their subsequent quality check. The solution deploys 3D vision and Bin Picking Studio from Photoneo and an ABB robot.
In this episode, we talk about how computer vision works and discuss an application coming out of the Technical University of Denmark that can help dairy farmers remove weeds from their fields.
Preziosa Francesco SRL & Add-it redesigned the grippers of their in-house press brake bending robotic cell for metal 3D printing. The final design was ready for application in just 4 days, increased system reliability, bypassed a supply chain bottleneck, and enabled lights-out manufacturing.
While we're not yet at the stage of lethal military development depicted in the Terminator film series, today's defence strategists are taking a definite step along that path.
Kinalisoft developed a solution for the automation of electrical inspection of PCBs. The system uses Photoneo 3D vision to get high-resolution and high-accuracy 3D data.
Actuators are an integral part of instrumentation systems that power the machines that exist today. These devices make it possible for the machines to interact with their surroundings the way they do. In this article, we take a closer look at the omnipresent technology.