Learn how functional safety impacts the design and deployment of collaborative robots that operate near people.

Changing robot standards provide an opportunity for designers of cobots to deliver improved safety and greater functionality, ...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF have developed cognitive robot capabilities that can handle complex tasks in manufacturing that were previously ...

The use of robots in industry is nothing new. For decades, factories have relied on manufacturing automation to improve speed ...

Structures like the International Space Station are too big and heavy to be built on Earth and then launched into Earth as one piece. Instead, the ISS was assembled in space like a giant Lego set, ...

In a study published in Robot Learning journal, researchers propose a new learning-based path planning framework that allows mobile robots to navigate ...

Robots are machines that can sense the environment and use that information to perform an action. You can find them nearly everywhere in industrialized societies today. There are household robots that ...

Veo Robotics uses SSM because it works with standard industrial robots and has fewer limitations on end-effectors, speed, and payloads, according to Vu. “With SSM, no contact is allowed between the ...

In recent years, many disruptive technologies have emerged. For example, driverless cars have gathered a lot of attention, because they are so different from what we are used to seeing. In fact, ...

Philip Singer, business architect for data and AI at Hewlett-Packard Enterprises (HPE), operates a robot (developed in cooperation between HPE and German AI startup Aleph Alpha) that is able to speak ...

A collaborative 'cobot' robotic arm, manufactured by Kuka AG, fits a fog light to a Ford Focus automobile inside Ford's factory in Saarlouis, Germany. The trade war between China and the U.S. has hit ...

With the explosion in robotic technologies that has occurred in the past decade, it’s important to realize there are three categories of robots: industrial, commercial and consumer. Within each ...