ATI Tool Changer Enables Quick and Automatic Exchange of Material Handling Tooling
Bohl Crane Utilizing QC-40 Tool Changers
iRobot introduces new Scooba Floor Washing Robots
Expands global home robots portfolio on four continents
Wynright Autoroll+ Adds Intelligent Control to Motor Driven Roller
Connecting via Ethernet delivers greater design freedom and operational flexibility while reducing costs
ReconRobotics Receives Marine Corps Order for 126 Recon Scout XT Robots
ReconRobotics plans to complete deliveries on this latest order by April 30, 2012.
First Quebec Robotics Festival
More Than 5,000 People to Gather in Montreal to Take Part in the First Quebec Robotics Festival
Rockwell Automation Acquires SoftSwitching Technologies
Rockwell Automation purchased the assets of SoftSwitching Technologies, a provider of industrial power quality detection and protection systems, located in Middleton, Wis.
Clear Automation adds robots to PennEngineering presses
Clear Automation supplies robots to PennEngineering for its PEMSERTER Series 3000 Press fastener installation press. This allows completely hands-off installation of self-clinching.
Machine Vision Market Grew 5% in North America in 2011
Sales of machine vision components and systems in North America climbed five percent in 2011 to nearly $1.9 billion, according to new figures released by AIA, the industry's global trade group.
Technosoft announces iPOS3604 VX intelligent servo drive
Technosoft announces iPOS3604 VX intelligent servo drive. The drive offers high power density (up to 360 W of peak power) on a very compact board (only 21 x 54 mm of PCB space).
Dextre's Most Dexterous Task: Canadian Space Agency Robot Sets Record for Precision
Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency's robotic handyman on board the International Space Station (ISS), has accomplished the most intricate work ever performed by a robot in space. Over three days (March 7-9), Dextre successfully concluded the initial phases of the Robotic Refueling Mission with unprecedented precision.
Marine Corps Complete Fourth Limited Technical Assessment of Unmanned Ground Vehicle
TORC Robotics Increasing Speed and Operational Capability for the USMC Optionally Unmanned GUSS (Ground Unmanned Support Surrogate) Program
Robotic Glove For Auto Workers And Astronauts
General Motors and NASA are jointly developing a robotic glove that auto workers and astronauts can wear to help do their respective jobs better while potentially reducing the risk of repetitive stress injuries.
The Human Grasp Assist device, known internally in both organizations as the K-glove or Robo-Glove, resulted from NASA and GM's Robonaut 2 – or R2 – project, which launched the first humanoid robot into space in 2011. R2 is a permanent resident of the International Space Station.
When engineers, researchers and scientists from GM and NASA began collaborating on R2 in 2007, one of the design requirements was for the robot to operate tools designed for humans, alongside astronauts in outer space and factory workers on Earth. The team achieved an unprecedented level of hand dexterity on R2 by using leading-edge sensors, actuators and tendons comparable to the nerves, muscles and tendons in a human hand.
Research shows that continuously gripping a tool can cause fatigue in hand muscles within a few minutes, but initial testing of the Robo-Glove indicates the wearer can hold a grip longer and more comfortably.
For example, an astronaut working in a pressurized suit outside the space station or an assembly operator in a factory might need to use 15 to 20 pounds of force to hold a tool during an operation but with the robotic glove they might need to apply only five to 10 pounds of force.
Inspired by the finger actuation system of R2, actuators are embedded into the upper portion of the glove to provide grasping support to human fingers. The pressure sensors, similar to the sensors that give R2 its sense of touch, are incorporated into the fingertips of the glove to detect when the user is grasping a tool. When the user grasps the tool, the synthetic tendons automatically retract, pulling the fingers into a gripping position and holding them there until the sensor is released.
Rosinstall 0.6 Series Released
Freescale Introduces Kinetis L Series, Industry's First Microcontrollers Built on the ARM® Cortex-M0+ Processor
Alpha samples of entry-level Kinetis L series MCUs planned for Q2
5-finger hand: Almost as talented as its human model
The 5-finger hand from SCHUNK enables service robots to carry out complex gripping operations and to communicate with gestures.
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Schmalz Technology Development - The Right Gripper for Every Task
In order to interact with their environment and perform the tasks, lightweight robots, like all industrial robots, depend on tools - and in many cases these are vacuum grippers. These form the interface to the workpiece and are therefore a decisive part of the overall system. With their help, the robots can pick up, move, position, process, sort, stack and deposit a wide variety of goods and components. Vacuum gripping systems allow particularly gentle handling of workpieces, a compact and space-saving system design and gripping from above. Precisely because the object does not have to be gripped, the vacuum suction cupenables gapless positioning next to each other.
