The Cartesian robot can pick-and-place everywhere within the box. An articulated six-axis robot’s workspace is circular, with a dead zone in the middle near the base where the robot cannot reach ...

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently introduced SimPLE (Simulation to Pick Localize and placE), a new learning-based, visuo-tactile method that could allow robotic ...

Many pick-and-place robot manipulators like those on assembly lines are equipped with a simple gripper or specialized tools dedicated only to certain tasks like grasping and carrying a particular part ...

Brightpick, a maker of autonomous mobile robots, on Tuesday announced a lofty addition to its current line. The appropriately named Giraffe system is notable for its large, retractable platform ...

Finally, the robot uses an RGB-D camera, an object segmentation model and a pre-trained grasp model to pick the object. The system uses a similar process to reach the destination and drop the object.

Amazon has introduced a new robot for its fulfillment centers that can use artificial intelligence to sense the size and shapes of items by touch, and then pick or stow those items from hard-to-reach ...

The company uses hundreds of autonomous mobile robots to bring items from shelves to workers. The upgrade saves the employees from time-consuming tasks, like walking up and down aisles to find the ...

They have to carry the plates, move the chairs, pick up dirty laundry and place it in the washer. These operations require the robot to be able to handle fragile, soft, and sometimes heavy objects ...

Join us on Wednesday, February 9 at noon Pacific for the Pick and Place Hack Chat with Chris Denney! We in the hacker trade are pretty used to miracles — we make them all the time. But even t… ...