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Boston Dynamics’ Handle robot brings mobile manipulation to logistics

April 9, 2019

Source: The Robot Report / by Steve Crowe Holy mobile manipulation, Batman! Boston Dynamics just released a new video of its reimagined Handle robot. The Waltham, Mass.-based company is now calling Handle a “mobile manipulation robot designed for logistics. Handle autonomously performs mixed SKU pallet building and depalletizing after initialization and localizing against the pallets.” Handle uses an on-board vision system to track the marked pallets for navigation and finds …Read More

Yale’s Robot Hand Copies How Your Fingers Work to Improve Object Manipulation

February 12, 2019

Source: IEEE Spectrum / by Evan Ackerman These robotic fingers can turn friction on and off to make it easier to manipulate objects with one hand In-hand manipulation is one of the things near the top of a very, very, verylong list of things that humans do without thinking that are extraordinarily difficult for robots. It’s the act of repositioning an object with one hand, usually with your fingers—you do it whenever you …Read More

PICK-PLACE plenary meeting and comprehensive visit at CNR-STIIMA, Italy

February 6, 2019

Last week, members of the PICK-PLACE consortium gathered at CNR-STIIMA’s headquarters in Milan (Italy) for a plenary meeting and an in-depth visit to their facilities, where relevant previous deployments and new experiments carried our within the project were presented. During the plenary meeting, progress made in each work-package was shared, with a special focus on WP5: System deployment and process validation. A session was also devoted to an extensive discussion …Read More

Partner profile: IK4-TEKNIKER

January 21, 2019

In this series, members of the PICK-PLACE consortium are portrayed. After TOFAŞ, ULMA Handling Systems and Mondragon Assembly, it’s the turn of technical coordinator IK4-TEKNIKER. Loreto Susperregi, Robotics Research coordinator, answers the interview. What is IK4-TEKNIKER? IK4-TEKNIKER is a technological center legally constituted as a private not-for-profit Foundation that aims at the development and transfer of technology to improve the competitiveness of industry. IK4-TEKNIKER was founded in 1981 and currently has more than 270 researchers …Read More

Artificial sensor mimics human sense of touch (ABSTRACT)

January 16, 2019

Source: Science Daily A team of researchers have developed an artificial tactile sensor that mimics the ability of human skin to detect surface information, such as shapes, patterns and structures. This may be one step closer to making electronic devices and robots that can perceive sensations such as roughness and smoothness.

Partner profile: Mondragon Assembly (SPAIN)

December 4, 2018

In this series, members of the PICK-PLACE consortium are portrayed. After TOFAŞ andULMA Handling Systems, it’s the turn of project coordinator Mondragon Assembly. Lierni Zubillaga, R&D project engineer, answers the interview. What is Mondragon Assembly? Mondragon Assembly is an international group specialising in the development of automation and assembly solutions. The parent company in Spain was created in 1977, one of the pioneers in the development of production and assembly technologies. …Read More

Diffractive Deep Neural Network Identifies Objects at Speed of Light

October 15, 2018

Source: The Robot Report / By TRR Editor Engineers have 3D printed a physical artificial neural network that can analyze large volumes of data and identify objects at the actual speed of light. Developed at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering the “diffractive deep neural network” uses the light bouncing from the object itself to identify that object in as little time as it would take for a computer to “see” the …Read More

Partner profile: ULMA Handling Systems (SPAIN)

September 26, 2018

In this series, members of the PICK-PLACE consortium are portrayed. After Turkish automotive company TOFAŞ, it’s the turn of project coordinator ULMA Handling Systems. Leire Zubia, I+D technician, answers the interview. What is ULMA Handling Systems? ULMA Handling Systems is an intra logistic solution system provider located in the Basque Country, in the town of Oñati. We carry out our comprehensive engineering activity in material handling systems through a wide range …Read More

SafeLog project: Safe human-robot interaction in logistic applications for highly flexible warehouses

July 19, 2018

Source: SafeLog.eu About SafeLog SafeLog is a European project focusing on safe human-robot interaction in logistics applications for highly flexible warehouses. The consortium includes seven members from Germany, Czech Republic and Croatia. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is the project coordinator; other partners are Swisslog Automation, Czech Technical University in Prague (CVUT), University of Zagreb (UNIZG-FER), Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML) and KONČAR – Electrical Engineering Institute. With a total budget …Read More