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May 31, 2023

Improving both the surveillance and subsequent interdiction of perceived security threats is critical to effective law enforcement. The goal is to protect personnel and assets. Knightscope's autonomous security robots (ASRs) provide enhanced surveillance and safer interdiction by proactively detecting potential threats and mitigating risks to security personnel.

Knightscope ASRs have a wide range of features and capabilities such as LIDAR, GPS, sonar, IMU, 4K cameras and high fidelity audio.

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April 6, 2023

Artificial muscles and nerves made from a shape-memory nickel-titanium alloy are making robotic arms as flexible and agile as their animal counterparts. But these artificial limbs also weigh less, work tirelessly, and can be precisely controlled. The bionic robotic arms being developed by Professor Stefan Seelecke's research team at Saarland University, in collaboration with the German automation specialist Festo, consume very little electricity and can work safely alongside humans.

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April 4, 2023

Inspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses high-resolution tactile sensors to accurately identify an object after grasping it just once.

Many robotic hands place all their powerful sensors at the fingertips, so an object must be in full contact with them to be identified, which can require multiple grasps.

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March 21, 2023

Knightscope, Inc., a public safety technology services company founded in 2013, was the first in the world to deploy fully autonomous, mobile security robots (ASRs) in public spaces such as shopping malls, parking lots, and neighborhood parks. Knightscope's goal was to find a more effective way to curb crime with minimal risk to law enforcement.

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March 16, 2023

Vicor Corporation interviews OLogic, a group dedicated to the comprehensive design and development of robotics, on the Vicor Powering Innovation podcast. OLogic helps design a wide range of robotic and consumer products, as well as commercial electronic devices. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, OLogic is comprised of top-tier robotic design consultants who help leading brands and many of the most innovative startups in the robotics sector accelerate their time to market.

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February 17, 2023

Just a few kilometers north of London's Heathrow Airport, you'll find a hotbed of innovation. In the 1960s, the Hayes center in west London was home to EMI's research and development division, where scientists and inventors worked on innovations such as stereo sound and airborne radar.

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February 9, 2023

Underwater structures that can dynamically change shape, like fish, move through the water much more efficiently than conventional rigid hulls. But building deformable devices that can change the curve of their body shape while maintaining a smooth profile is a long and difficult process. MIT's RoboTuna, for example, was made up of some 3,000 different parts and took about two years to design and build.

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September 7, 2022

Yaskawa expands its portfolio of industrial robots with the Motoman GA50, a model designed for applications requiring the highest degree of precision and path accuracy. With a payload of 50 kg and a reach of 2,038 mm, the GA50 can be positioned close to the workpiece, improving accessibility. Its compact design includes brakes on all axes, and with multi-robot control, it allows for the use of up to eight robots (72 axes).

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June 21, 2022

Universal Robots has announced the launch of a new 20 kg payload cobot. Named UR20, the new cobot features a redesigned articulation system that will allow it to handle heavier loads of up to 20 kg and achieve faster cycle times.

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April 28, 2022

A warehouse robot picks up mugs from a shelf and places them in boxes for shipping. Everything goes smoothly until the warehouse processes a change, and the robot has to pick up taller, narrower mugs that are stored upside down. To reprogram the robot, thousands of images must be manually labeled to teach it how to pick up these new mugs, and the system must be retrained.

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April 4, 2022

Imagine a pizza maker working with a ball of dough. They might use a spatula to lift the dough onto a cutting board and then use a rolling pin to flatten it into a circle. Easy, right? Not if the pizza maker is a robot.

For a robot, working with a deformable object like dough is complicated because the shape of the dough can change in many ways, which are difficult to represent with an equation.

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March 1, 2022

An industrial robot can be as simple as a single-axis robot in terms of basic transport and positioning, or it can be expanded to multiple axes working together. The latest single-axis models incorporate advanced design features and software tools to improve accuracy, speed, and ease of use.