At an event in Dortmund, Germanytoday, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which the company is calling “its first robotic system with a genuine sense of touch—designed to transform how robots interact with the physical…
Category: Industrial
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Vulcan Robots: Amazon’s Solution to Picking Challenges
As far as I can make out, Amazon’s warehouses are highly structured, extremely organized, very tidy, absolute raging messes. Everything in an Amazon warehouse is (usually) exactly where it’s supposed to be, which is typically jammed into some…
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Robot Videos: Extreme Terrain Quadruped, Humanoids, and More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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How Robots Could Transform Dairy Farming for Cows and Humans
I come from dairy-farming stock. My grandfather, the original Harry Goldstein, owned a herd of dairy cows and a creamery in Louisville, Ky., that bore the family name. One fateful day in early April 1944, Harry was milking his cows when a heavy…
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Freddy the Robot and the Great Debate over AI’s Future
Meet
FREDERICK Mark 2, the Friendly Robot for Education, Discussion and Entertainment, the Retrieval of Information, and the Collation of Knowledge, better known as Freddy II. This remarkable robot could put together a simple model car from…Continue Reading
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Robot Videos: Cargo Robots, Robot Marathons, and More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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Robot Videos: Humanoid Robot Boxing, Rodney Brooks, and More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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The Future of AI and Robotics Is Being Led by Amazon’s Next-Gen Warehouses
This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon.
The cutting edge of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) doesn’t occur just at NASA, or one of the top university labs, but instead is increasingly being developed in the warehouses of…
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Modeling method provides smarter way to predict customer demand
Researchers at Washington State University have developed a new forecasting model that helps companies more accurately estimate how many customers are interested in a product — even when key data is missing.
Published in the journal Production…
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Robot Videos: Robot Bug, Murderbot Sci-Fi Series, and More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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