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French manufacturing companies exist in a constantly changing economic sector. In order to better respond to their customers’ requirements and market pressures, they have to demonstrate innovation and a readiness to invest in factory modernization.
Cutkosky applies analyses, simulations, and experiments to the design and control of robotic hands, tactile sensors, and devices for human/computer interaction. In manufacturing, his work focuses on design tools for rapid prototyping.
Mechanical Engineering Professor Sunil Agrawal gets people back on their feet
Gecko Robotics is the company behind the creation of industrial inspection robots to aid in the assessment of manufacturing machinery such as tanks, boilers, scrubbers, and piping over time.
By introducing robots for the inspection, multiple inspection processes can be executed in parallel. This speeds up the overall inspection process, which today often is performed on a section-by-section basis through a single inspector.
Decommissioning happens around us all the time, old buildings get torn down, coal power plants shutdown and vehicles get scrapped.
Robots can drive on the plains and craters of Mars, but what if we could explore cliffs, polar caps and other hard-to-reach places on the Red Planet and beyond?
Created by the Biorobotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, this robot has many internal degrees of freedom which make it possible for the robot to thread through tightly packed volumes, and narrow spaces.
A soft and flexible leech-shaped robot that can climb vertical walls has been developed as part of a collaborative research project.
Programmable kirigami metamaterials enable responsive surfaces and smart skins
New “HAMR-E” robots could enable inspection of complex machines without dismantling them
A team of researchers tested their gripper in multiple zero-gravity settings, including the International Space Station.
