Robots are everywhere – but perhaps just not how everyone imagined them. For decades, the promise of robots brought to mind devices like R2D2 and C3PO, or perhaps Rosie the Robot from The Jetsons – autonomous, intelligent devices entirely safe for human interaction. Today, instead, robotic devices are becoming ubiquitous; augmenting human effort and intelligence in the military, industrial plants, healthcare facilities, retail stores and in homes.
Robotic devices perform repetitive and intricate tasks with greater safety, efficiency, precision and accuracy than ever before. While many of yesteryear’s robots had to be segregated from nearby people, vast technologic improvements such as sensors, cameras, operator communications, visual displays and artificial intelligence have made robots more collaborative and interactive, able to work harmoniously amidst both trained workers and untrained customers alike.
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Cartesian robots: simple, sophisticated packaging automation
This box forming line demos how a simple linear axis system can automate a basic packaging operation | Phot Credit: Bell Everman
Packaging operations continue to embrace automation as a way to reduce labor costs and workplace injuries while improving the efficiency and quality of packaged goods. But the use of automation isn't evenly distributed, with large consumer packaged goods producers running with more automation than smaller packaging firms.
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St. John Sheriff's Office purchases two robots as latest crime-fighting tools
The sheriff's office recently purchased two robots manufactured by FLIR Unmanned Ground Systems. Each robot has independent capabilities that will allow safe clearing of dangerous incidents.
The cost was $230,000, paid through a port security grant funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to the sheriff's office.
The sheriff said the robots, as well as newly acquired drones, will be used in SWAT, HAZMAT and other situations where keeping distance is critical for officer safety.
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Meet the Oregon robot on the front line of future innovation | kgw.com
ALBANY, Oregon — Agility Robotics, a small company of 42 employees in Albany, makes bipedal robots, with arms and legs, and has sold the first two to Ford Motor Company. It's just the beginning for the implications of how robots like these will be used.
The first time you see it, it's legitimately hard to look away from. You focus on the movements — the bird-like legs, the humanness — but also the machinery of it. "Digit", as Agility's newest version is named , has become somewhat of a regular sight as engineers take them out on test walks around Albany to encounter real world obstacles.
Ford partners with U-M on robotics research, new building - ABC News
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Digit marches on two legs across the floor of the University of Michigan's Ford Motor Co. Robotics Building, while Mini-Cheetah — staccato-like — does the same on four and the yellow-legged Cassie steps deliberately side-to-side.
A grand opening was held Tuesday for the four-story, $75 million, 134,000-square-foot (11,429-square-meter) complex. Three floors house classrooms and research labs for robots that fly, walk, roll and augment the human body.
Industrial Robot Market and Medical Robots Market Size & Forecast 2021-2026 By Global
The global Industrial Robot market size is projected to reach USD 46470 million by 2026, from USD 19880 million in 2020, at a CAGR of 15.2% during 2021-2026.
An industrial robot is a robot system used for manufacturing. Industrial robots are automated, programmable and capable of movement on two or more axes.
Currently, the global industrial robots market is still dominated by players from Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, United States and Korea, like FANUC, Yaskawa (Motoman), Nachi, Kawasaki Robotics, EPSON Robots, DENSO Robotics, OTC Daihen, Panasonic, Toshiba, Mitsubishi Electric, Yamaha, Star Seiki and JEL Corporation from Japan; KUKA and CLOOS from Germany; ABB and Staubli from Switzerland; Hyundai Robotics and Robostar from Korea; Omron Adept Technologies from United States and
Red Sox will use robots to disinfect Fenway Park while fans attend games - The Boston Globe
The Red Sox will employ a rolling squad of ultraviolet light-emitting disinfecting robots to keep Fenway Park safe this season.
When the Red Sox open their 81-game home slate April 1 at 12 percent capacity, the 4,500 fans and hundreds of employees at Fenway might encounter the robots, which consist of a trio of slim black cylinders set on a four-wheel base. The towers work as a team, using laser mapping to allow them to get as near as possible to high-touch surfaces before blasting them with a burst of UV rays that destroy genetic bonds of coronaviruses and other pathogens within five minutes.
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