Web tool for individual 3D gripper jaws now available online at www.schunk.com
Worlds first fully automatic 3D design tool for additively manufactured gripper fingers
Robots Learn to Perform Tasks by "Watching" YouTube Videos
DARPA program advances robots ability to sense visual information and turn it into action
Adept Technology Launches New Family of SCARA Robots in North America
eCobra robot models are available in 600-mm and 800-mm-reach configurations.
MVTec launches HALCON for Android
Machine vision software on mobile devices
----Wide range of applications for character and object recognition
The Industrial Automation Exchange
New online tool connects manufacturers with industrial automation expertise, products
NEW QC-160 ROBOTIC TOOL CHANGER PROVIDES FLEXIBILITY, EXCEEDS 200 kg ROBOT LOAD SPECIFICATION
The new QC-160 Robotic Tool Changer, recently developed by ATI Industrial Automation, Apex, NC, has a high moment capacity in a lightweight and compact design and utilizes the same proven Locking Mechanism as ATIs QC-200 Series.
Güdel Introduces New Green Tire Trays
Fast, efficient handling of sticky, green tires.
Schunk - Extremely Compact and Powerful Servo Gripper
The EGL from SCHUNK is an extremely compact and powerful servo gripper. It has flexible control of gripping force, speed, and position, which makes it well suited for pharmaceutical, testing, laboratory, and assembly applications.
Baxter Robot Injects Packaging Innovation into Leading Plastics Manufacturer
Rethink Robotics' Baxter Robot Streamlines Packaging Process at Koller-Craft Plastics
ADVANCED PLC ADDRESSES EMERGING CHALLENGES IN MACHINERY CONTROL
"Machinery and motion control applications are becoming much more complex as
machinery becomes more capable, smarter and safer, and as demands for more
sophisticated human interfaces and communications grows"
VERSABALL Beer Pong Robot
From Empire Robotics:
The VERSABALL is a squishy balloon membrane full of loose sub-millimeter particles. The soft ball gripper easily conforms around a wide range of target object shapes and sizes. Using a process known as “granular jamming”, air is quickly sucked out of the ball, which vacuum-packs the particles and hardens the gripper around the object to hold and lift it. The object releases when the ball is re-inflated. VERSABALL comes in multiple head shapes and sizes that use the same pneumatic base... ( Empire Robotics' site )
Four Robotics Related Kickstarters For January
EVB: Replace the brain of your LEGO® EV3 with BeagleBone / X PlusOne: Your Ultimate Hover + Speed Aerial Camera Drone / The ProtoCam+: An easy way to build projects and prototypes around your Raspberry Pi Camera Module with your A+ and B+ Raspberry Pi / Tektyte: LogIT Specialised Circuit Testers
Gudel Introduces the Base-RAP Dress-out Solution
Standard routing and protection solutions for cable management from TrackMotion cable carrier to robot base.
Robot Learning Manipulation Action Plans by "Watching" Unconstrained Videos from the World Wide Web
From Yezhou Yang, Yi Li, Cornelia Fermuller and Yiannis Aloimonos:
In order to advance action generation and creation in robots beyond simple learned schemas we need computational tools that allow us to automatically interpret and represent human actions. This paper presents a system that learns manipulation action plans by processing unconstrained videos from the World Wide Web. Its goal is to robustly generate the sequence of atomic actions of seen longer actions in video in order to acquire knowledge for robots. The lower level of the system consists of two convolutional neural network (CNN) based recognition modules, one for classifying the hand grasp type and the other for object recognition. The higher level is a probabilistic manipulation action grammar based parsing module that aims at generating visual sentences for robot manipulation.
The list of the grasping types.
Experiments conducted on a publicly available unconstrained video dataset show that the system is able to learn manipulation actions by “watching” unconstrained videos with high accuracy.... ( article at Kurzweilai.net ) ( original paper )
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