One of the most adopted solutions to the labor crisis that is affecting all industries is to start using our power and ability to create a world where humans allow robots to help with jobs that are dangerous, undesired, or tedious. And then go beyond that. Think about what other areas robots can help with aside from manufacturing. Therapy, inaccessible or undiscovered areas, emergency-prevention, the opportunities are endless.
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Premise: Giana Gerboni starts this off by explaining the design of standard rigid robots, and why we need to think about the opposite approach, better known as soft robots. Her approach is built on embodied intelligence, which is a trait learned from nature that provides the ability to adapt to the environment. This is a useful skill in almost every field in the world. For example, Giana works in the biomedical industry and her soft approach to the way we view and use robots in the medical field. She speaks to one of her past projects which uses soft robots in surgery as a minimally invasive solution and expands the view-space in the body.
Premise: Disclaimer, this dog is not a pet. Marc Raibert at Boston Dynamics builds his robots to the following three goals: mobility, dexterity, and perception. We see that the robotic dogs, aside from being strangely cute and life-like, can perform human-like tasks such as opening doors. But the most impressive programming in the robot speaks to its ability to handle harsh environments with ease. It stays balanced when being pushed over, it can tread through 10-inch deep snow with little resistance, and it can tackle other obstacles like hills, stairs, etc.
Lei applied for an internship at JPL through the Student Independent Research Intern, or SIRI, program, which is designed to pair students from local community colleges with researchers at the laboratory. She caught Agha's eye thanks to her involvement in a swarm robotics competition. Still relatively new to the field, Lei spent her first internship in 2017 soaking it all in, learning as much as she could, reading papers assigned by Agha, and following him to meetings, she says.
China holds the lead, with a 24% compound annual growth rate in robotics sales, most of it to domestic customers. China is followed by Japan, Korea and then the U.S., said Jing Bing Zhang, IDC's director of research in worldwide robotics in Singapore. China is installing new robots at the fastest pace, however, adding 87,000 in 2016 and 138,000 in 2017.
"Large [manufacturing] companies don't care about this too much, because they have experts on staff that set the robot up before production begins," Bourne said. "Small companies don't have any experts, so almost anything is too hard. They usually count on the robot supplier to take care of programming before they make the purchase." Then, the robot just runs.
Along with 13 other robot researchers from SDU, he has developed a new production cell with robots that, using the latest technology in computer vision, software and robot control, have become so nimble-fingered that they can handle screws, nuts and bolts, and screw things together to create new products.
The robot cell has now moved into SDU Industry 4.0 Lab. The University has invested over DKK 100 million in the laboratory and has ambitions of creating the Nordic region's most advanced I 4.0 Lab, where companies, researchers and students can together develop even more skilled robots, smarter production and innovative products.
Think of hospitals and emergency services that routinely rely on powerful and blazing fast networks that allow nimble-fingered robots to conduct delicate surgeries from afar, or medical researchers to quickly analyze trillions of gigabytes of data as they unravel the riddle of dangerous diseases. Or a smart factory floor where thousands of sensors stream data to the cloud, boosting manufacturing efficiency while machines perform preventive self-maintenance that keeps workers safe. Or dozens of autonomous vehicles that platoon on the highway, communicating directly in real-time.
The Robotics industry is broad and diverse and is not limited to the humanoid robots you see in sci-fi movies and robots you see battling on television. Robotics is most prominent in the industrial and manufacturing sectors. Applications here include Robotic Arms, Collaborative Robots (also known as cobots), Robotic process automation, integrated AI, predictive maintenance, and service robots. Robotics is a relatively new industry, dominated by the Americas on the industrial side and its Asian counterparts on the humanoid (android) side. Competition is fierce, with accuracy, repeatability and customizability being key characteristics. 2ff7e9595c
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