Sang-Rok Oh, KIST professor and adviser to the South Korean government for r-learning, spoke at InnoRobo, the Innovation Robotics Summit in Lyon, France and clarified the full extent of the r-learning program versus what has shown up in the press as the English-teaching robot. The President of Yujin Robotics, Kyung Shin, also spoke at InnoRobo…
New details about Robonaut2
In a presentation at Automate 2011 in Chicago, the NASA and GM Team Leaders provided new details about Robonaut2 (R2). General Motors will soon work with a robotics manufacturer to enhance R2 with faster chips, cameras and sensors to take advantage of the flexibility of the hands and lower arm springs. The GM representative said…
The real facts about Korea’s kindergarten teaching robots
Sang-Rok Oh, KIST advisor In a presentation at InnoRobo, the Innovation Robotics Summit held March 23-25 in Lyon, France, Sang-Rok Oh, from the South Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), and an advisor to the government on r-learning, described the early childhood project that many of us have read about. Most of the stories,…
New details about Robonaut2
From left: R2A, Ronald Diffler, Marty Linn and R2B In a March 22 presentation at Automate 2011 in Chicago, the NASA and GM Team Leaders provided new details about Robonaut2 A and B, called R2A and R2B, the two products of their four-year collaboration. Marty Linn, from GM, talked about the flexibility and quality that…
Job Creation With Robotics
Tom Atwood, Editor-in-Chief of Robot Magazine said, “There is much discussion of job creation and producing the next generation of American innovators. India, Korea and China are producing far more computer scientists and engineers than we are here in the U.S. Although our government is beginning to push for an expansion of robotics education in…
Fast, Faster, Fastest – Or Not?
Speed is relative. Especially in the world of industrial control. 1 millisecond look ahead features in the machine control world used be considered “cutting edge” (pun intended). The programmable controller, the standard of industrial control, has a speed of execution metric. It is generally specified in thousands of instructions per millisecond. At 1000 instructions every 2 […]
WSJ 2010 Winner of Robotics Innovation Technology Award Gets $18 million Venture Money
UPDATE 3/21/11: Story in BusinessWeek Magazine about Liquid Robotic’s founder Roger Hine. Corrects venture capital investment upwards to $23.1 million. The article also told of the sale of 60 wave gliders for use in the Gulf of Mexico to track oil spill movement. Liquid Robotics, inventor of the Wave Glider which converts the up-and-down motion…
Motion Feedback, Still Changing
The only constant in the world of motion control seems to be change. One of the most crucial aspects of motion control is the feedback mechanism. After all, if we can’t measure where we are, we cannot control it. The first order of business is to estimate what feedback resolution will be needed for the […]
New Bench Top XYZ Dispensing Robots for Adhesive, Sealant and Gasketing Applications
Sealant Equipment & Engineering, Inc.’s Bench Top XYZ series dispensing robots are now available as part of a complete turn-key robotic dispensing system for 1-part and 2-part materials. The XYZ gantry robot system applies adhesives, sealants and lubricants with precision placement directly onto the customer’s part quickly with repeatable accuracy. The Bench Top XYZ Robot […]
Robotic Palletizers Make Shift from Proprietary to Open Controls
Palletizers and depalletizers have evolved from basic, hand-operated machinery into highly complex devices that can be configured for virtually any layer pattern, product packaging or container — including cases, shrinkpacks, totes, bales and trays. The integration of a robotic arm into palletizers allows for floor space savings, product flexibility, and around-the-clock productivity. Robotic arm integration […]
This time, with feeling
Real-time operating system software helps provide tactile sense to medical robotics applications No matter how many motion axes are involved and regardless of whether the movement is fast or slow, high-end robotics applications share the need for determinism. The system that controls the robot needs to keep precise track of the machine at all times, […]
FastTest Improves FI Series Connectors
FasTest recently added improvements to their FasTest Internal (FI) series connectors. FI connectors provide fast, leak-tight connections for pressure and vacuum testing, fluid filling and flushing applications—from vacuum to 120 psi. With the addition of a stroke limiter feature and improved retainer clip design, the FI series delivers increased reliability and safety. FI connectors are […]
Adept Technology acquires InMoTx
Adept Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADEP), a leading provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and autonomous mobile solutions, has entered into an agreement to acquire the Denmark-based, privately held InMoTx, a provider of industry leading technology for the global food processing market. The acquisition will help enhance Adept’s position in the fast-growing food packaging industry, as InMoTx develops […]
Market Leader in RFID systems chooses Adept linear module robots
Adept Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADEP), a leading provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and autonomous mobile solutions, announced that they have received over $600,000 in bookings from Golden Spring Internet of Things, Inc. over the past two quarters. The Beijing-based company, which recently went public in China in early October 2010, placed orders for Adept’s high-performance Python […]
Adept Technology Robotics Selected to Participate in Advanced Cancer Treatment Program
Pleasanton, CA — Adept Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADEP) announced it is participating in the CLARA (Lyon Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cancer cluster) program with Lyon Civil Hospitals as the robotics component in a method for treating small cancer tumors. Currently, early diagnosis of smaller tumors is made possible through screening biological tests and medical imaging. The CLARA project […]
Combination PLC and Robot Controller
The combined AC500 PLC and the IRC5 robot controller eliminates the cost and space of a separate PLC cabinet and reduces the time associated with the set-up and operation of robotic production cells. With up to three local I/O boards plus bus communications for remote I/Os, the controller gives you a single point of control […]
With Piezotronics — a Mechanical Action Creates a Logic Operation
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new class of electronic logic device in which current is switched by an electric field generated by the application of mechanical strain to zinc oxide nanowires. The devices, which include transistors and diodes, could be used in nanometer-scale robotics, nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS), micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) […]
Cable Carrier Delivers 3,000 Degrees of Circular Motion
Cable carriers that handle circular movements and reverse bending radii often require lots of space for their movement. The TwisterBand TB30 makes rapid rotating movements possible up to 3,000 degrees and depends only on the belt length or design height in the axis of rotation. The smaller masses involved mean lower centrifugal forces and possible […]
Adept Unveils Expanded Automation Solutions at Pack Expo 2010
Pleasanton, CA — Adept Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADEP) will showcase their two newest products at the Pack Expo 2010 show. Adept’s new mobile robot platforms will demonstrate how intelligent natural feature navigation cost-effectively automates line replenishment by interfacing with the company’s new primary packaging platform, the Adept PAC . The Adept PAC platform has been designed […]
Clean Room, Clean Robot
The consumer electronics market is expected to generate over $165 billion in revenue within the U.S. in 2010, thanks to cell phones, laptops, digital cameras, DVRs, and MP3 players. The sensitive components such devices contain require precise handling during manufacturing. The consumer electronic supply chain with its clean room requirements is growing and clean room […]
Camera Updates Improve Picture Quality and Usability
If you have watched a major sporting event on television in the last few years, you have likely seen the Skycam at work. The Skycam system is a broadcast-quality robotic camera, suspended from a cable-driven, computerized transport system. Skycam is the premier stabilized camera system in the world that can unobtrusively fly in a defined three-dimensional […]
EPSON Expands RS-Series High Performance SCARA Plus Robot Lineup
EPSON Robots has added to their Power of Choice initiative by introducing the NEW RS4 to the RS-Series High Performance SCARA Plus robot lineup. The new work space design of the RS4 robot provides a pallet size of 778mm x 778mm. A pallet size this large would normally requre a SCARA arm which is […]