Category: Industrial
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Video Friday: Welcome to Fall
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. IEEE SSRR 2023: 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX.…
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What’s Next for Clearpath Robotics?
Now that Rockwell Automation’s acquisition of Clearpath Robotics and OTTO Motors is complete (at something like $600 million, according to one source), it’s more important than ever to get at least some understanding of what the future holds for those iconic yellow and black research robots. And it’s not just about their robots, either: Clearpath…
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Founder personality could predict start-up success
The stats don’t lie — the overwhelming majority of start-up companies fail. So, what makes the seemingly lucky few not only survive, but thrive? While good fortune and circumstances can play a part, new research reveals that when it comes to start-up success, a founder’s personality — or the combined personalities of the founding team…
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Figure Unveils Its Humanoid Robot Prototype
When Figure announced earlier this year that it was working on a general purpose humanoid robot, our excitement was tempered somewhat by the fact that the company didn’t have much to show besides renders of the robot that it hoped to eventually build. Figure had a slick looking vision, but without anything to back it…
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Video Friday: Strandbeest – IEEE Spectrum
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. ROSCon 2023: 18–20 October 2023, NEW ORLEANS IEEE SSRR 2023: 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN…
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How to cope when your values clash with your co-workers’
In our increasingly polarized society, more people may find themselves in a workplace where they are one of the few conservatives or few liberals around. A new study found that those whose values — political or otherwise — don’t match the majority in their organization felt they received less respect and as a result were…
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This Robot Could Be the Key to Helping People With Disabilities
In 2010, Henry Evanssaw a robot on TV. It was a PR2, from the robotics company Willow Garage, and Georgia Tech robotics professor Charlie Kemp was demonstrating how the PR2 was able to locate a person and bring them a bottle of medicine. For most of the people watching that day, the PR2 was little…
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How Disney Packed Big Emotion Into a Little Robot
On Wednesday, at the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), in Detroit, a Disney Research team presented a brand new robotic character during their evening keynote address. The adorable robot packs an enormous amount of expression into its child-size body, from its highly expressive head and two wiggly antennae to its…
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Video Friday: Morphing Adaptive Robots
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. ROSCon 2023: 18–20 October 2023, NEW ORLEANS IEEE SSRR 2023: 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN…
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Hot weather hits productivity — even in air-conditioned factories
Hot weather reduces workers’ productivity — even if their workplace is air conditioned, new research shows. The study, led by the University of Exeter, tracked outdoor temperatures and worker productivity at a high-tech factory in China. Despite climate-controlled conditions inside the factory, productivity dropped by 0.83% for every 1°C increase in outdoor temperature. The research…