Moving an object from one location to another—picking and placing—is an ideal application for industrial robots due to the robots’ repeatability, throughput and favorable return on investment. It is ...

Stereo camera use case with autonomous mobile robots. Source: OTTO and Gideon Brothers. 3D sensors are a fundamental technology for measuring depth perception. These sensors can be found in several ...

ABB’s new Robotic Item Picker uses artificial intelligence to accurately detect and pick items in unstructured environments. The ABB Robotic Item Picker. Source: ABB The Robotic Item Picker, recently ...

Munich-based Agile Robots has unveiled its first-ever humanoid robot dubbed Agile ONE. Announced on November 19, it is built to handle the complexity of the factory floor. The five-fingered humanoid ...

Reliable pick and place systems have long been a kind of Holy Grail among industrial robotics. The job of moving products in and out of bins is high among the jobs that many warehouse and fulfillment ...

Factories and warehouses have been two of the biggest markets for robots in the last several years, with machines taking on mundane, if limited, processes to speed up work and free up humans to do ...

A control system for deformable robot-fingertips was developed for grasping and releasing objects. Previously developed robot fingertips with high friction texture can stably grasp a paper box, a soft ...

A new gripper robot grasps by reflex. Rather than start from scratch after a failed attempt, the bot adapts in the moment to reflexively roll, palm, or pinch an object to get a better hold. When ...