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RoboticsTomorrow Newsletter - Dec 3/14

Kissing It Better: Lifting Ergonomically with Vacuum

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RoboticsTomorrow Newsletter - Dec 3/14
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Kissing It Better: Lifting Ergonomically with Vacuum

By using the right suction and the right lips for the job, you really can “kiss it better” before lifting, rather than after.

DARPA-Funded Inflatable Robotics Helps Spark Idea for Silver Screen Star

DARPA's M3 program is creating and demonstrating novel design tools, fabrication methods and control algorithms to make robots more mobile and better able to manipulate objects in their environment.

Robotic Assembly

Manual assembly procedures, which previously have been neither ergonomic nor appropriate for automation, can currently be automated in a cost-effective way.

Perfecting Dental Treatments Via 3D Printed Models & Removable Dies

The case study presented herein illustrates the ease of utilizing consistent and reproducible 3D printed verification protocols as a means of ensuring the success of the restorative treatment plan.

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OpenCV Vision Challenge

From the OpenCV Foundation:  OpenCV Foundation with support from DARPA and Intel Corporation are launching a community-wide challenge to update and extend the OpenCV library with state-of-art algorithms. An award pool of $50,000 is provided to reward submitters of the best performing algorithms in the following 11 CV application areas: (1) image segmentation, (2) image registration, (3) human pose estimation, (4) SLAM, (5) multi-view stereo matching, (6) object recognition, (7) face recognition, (8) gesture recognition, (9) action recognition, (10) text recognition, (11) tracking.

Microsoft Deploys Autonomous Robot Security Guards in Silicon Valley Campus

From Extremetech: The K5, built by the Californian company Knightscope, is billed rather euphemistically as an “autonomous data machine” that provides a “commanding but friendly physical presence.” Basically, it’s a security guard on wheels. Inside that rather large casing (it’s 5 foot tall!) there are four high-def cameras facing in each direction, another camera that can do car license plate recognition, four microphones, gentle alarms, blaring sirens, weather sensors, and WiFi connectivity so that each robot can contact HQ if there’s some kind of security breach/situation.

Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions

Because of the Nov. 14th submission deadline for this years IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) several big image-recognition papers are coming out this week:

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Bitflow is the leader in CoaXPress

With the introduction of its Cyton and Karbon CXP frame grabbers, BitFlow has established itself as the leader in CoaXPress (CXP), a simple, yet powerful, standard for moving high speed serial data from a camera to a frame grabber. With CXP, video is captured at speeds of up to 6.25 Gigabits/Second (Gb/S). Simultaneously, control commands and triggers can be sent to the camera 20 Mb/S (with a trigger accuracy of +/- 2 nanoseconds). Up to 13 W of power can also supplied to the camera. All this happens over a single piece of industry standard 75 Ohm coaxial cable. 

Learn More About Bitflow, INC.

 

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Harmonic Drive LLC

Harmonic Drive LLC (HDLLC) designs and manufactures precision servo actuators, gearheads and gear components. Harmonic Drive® gears play critical roles in robotics, medical diagnostics and surgical robotics. We work with industry-leading customers and companies of all sizes to provide both standard product and custom-engineered solutions. The majority of the products sold by HDLLC are proudly made at our US headquarters and manufacturing facility in Massachusetts.

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News

Amazon Unveils its Eighth Generation Fulfillment Center

Commercial UAV Expo Announced for October 2015

Festo Introduces the DDLI Pneumatic Actuator for Servo Positioning and Force Control

BitFlow to Demonstrate CoaXPress Capabilities at International Technical Expo in Japan

Indiegogo - Cubic Robotics Launches Indiegogo Campaign to Produce Open-Platform Artificial Intelligence Device

MecklerMedia Announces 3D Print Week New York

A NEW FLEXIBLE ELECTRIC GRIPPER PERFECTLY DESIGNED FOR UNIVERSAL ROBOTS FROM ROBOTIQ

The POSITAL Advantage - Over 130,000 Varieties of Sensors!

More versions, more power - New DCX motors and GPX gearboxes from maxon

 
Events

ATX WEST 2015

FEB 10 - 12 2015, ANAHEIM, CA

HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION 2015

MAR 02 - 05 2015, PORTLAND, OR

EUROPEAN ROBOTICS FORUM (ERF)

MAR 11 - 13 2015, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

TCT + PERSONALIZE ASIA 2015

MAR 12 - 14 2015, SHANGHAI,P.R.CHINA

AUTOMATE 2015

MAR 23 - 26 2015, CHICAGO, IL

NATIONAL ROBOTICS WEEK

APR 04 - 12 2015, NORTH AMERICA
 
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