While the use of robots in other industries have been extensive, restaurants and hotels are relative fledglings in this space. The COVID-19 crisis has now forced employers to think outside the box to find efficient solutions to new-age problems, including adding team members that literally arrive in a box.
Prior to March 2020, hotels across the world rolled out service delivery robots, or concierge robots, designed to deliver items such as water, food, towels, or packages directly to guests in their rooms without human assistance. These robots made it possible for staff to focus on other duties, while simultaneously providing a novel and remarkable experience to guests that increased occupancy and customer return and promoted brand recognition.
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New game lets users remotely control robots to play mini golf | CTV News
TORONTO -- A new game is allowing users to remotely control robots from their phones to play rounds of mini golf.
The studio behind the app development, 54e Studios, refers to it as "connected reality technology."
"OneShot Golf" is played through an app that allows users to pilot one of 50 robots in a converted warehouse in Regina, Sask.
"It's a really amazing thing, we operate a warehouse full of golfing robots here in Regina," co-founder and chief technical officer of OneShot Golf, Tim Borgares, told CTV's Your Morning Monday.
Piestro Uses Robots to Make Pizzas | Los Angeles Business Journal
Tenured robotics integrator turns on a dime to help manufacturers do the same
In October, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, a smaller machine shop in Wisconsin needed a robot to deburr parts—and fast. Acieta jumped to fill the void: About a week after the machine shop bought Acieta’s FastLOAD CX1000, it was shipped. Better yet, the robot’s touchscreen interface made it easy to program.
“They were a new robot user, but they were able to program the standard, entry-level, collaborative robotic system themselves,” said Jake Corning, a mechanical engineer and product engineer for standard products at Acieta. “Very quickly after they purchased it, they were able to begin programming the system, which was pre-assembled, on their floor.”
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The World's Most Powerful Modular Robot
SHENZHEN, China , April 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Umbratek, a cutting-edge new robotic tech startup, has just released its first robotic arm series called the UTRA series on Kickstarter.
With 5 different robot arm models to choose from, the UTRA series is the world's most powerful and most affordable modular robot on the market today.
Ranging from 4 to 6 axis and built with a modular structure design, each arm can be configured to meet your business needs. Being 90% produced in-house, the UTRA series is approximately 70% more affordable than leading worldwide competitors.
Big box robots – TechCrunch
So, let me preempt this by saying that there are plenty of robotics verticals worth getting excited about. But at the moment, everyone sure seems focused on warehouse fulfillment. It's understandable, of course. Right now, it's Amazon versus the world, and the retail giant certainly has a leg up on much of the world on the robotics front — questions around human labor are a different conversation entirely (though that's also one I'm happy to have ).
I've spoken to a number of executives at top fulfillment robotics companies, and the message is pretty much the same across the board: How can they stay competitive with Amazon? There's an answer to that question dripping with more existential dread than I would care to impart in a robotics roundup on a Thursday morning, so I'll just say that, for better or worse, the easiest answer it automation.
A robot that senses hidden objects | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In recent years, robots have gained artificial vision, touch, and even smell. "Researchers have been giving robots human-like perception," says MIT Associate Professor Fadel Adib. In a new paper, Adib's team is pushing the technology a step further. "We're trying to give robots superhuman perception," he says.
The researchers have developed a robot that uses radio waves, which can pass through walls, to sense occluded objects. The robot, called RF-Grasp, combines this powerful sensing with more traditional computer vision to locate and grasp items that might otherwise be blocked from view. The advance could one day streamline e-commerce fulfillment in warehouses or help a machine pluck a screwdriver from a jumbled toolkit.
Swiss robots use UV light to zap viruses aboard passenger planes | Reuters
UVeya, a Swiss start-up, is conducting the trials of the robots with Dubai-based airport services company Dnata inside Embraer jets from Helvetic Airways, a charter airline owned by Swiss billionaire Martin Ebner.
Aircraft makers still must certify the devices and are studying the impact their UV light may have on interior upholstery, which could fade after many disinfections, UVeya co-founder Jodoc Elmiger said.
Still, he's hopeful robot cleaners could reduce people's fear of flying, even as COVID-19 circulates.
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