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My takeaway: They are removing robots that are cordoned off into areas to keep workers safe. These robots are not very good at customizing/changing quickly.
by thehoff 11y ago
My takeaway:
They are removing robots that are cordoned off into areas to keep workers safe. These robots are not very good at customizing/changing quickly.
What they are being replaced with is people and much smaller robots that work side-by-side with those people. Assisting more than trying to do it all.
- melling 11y agoSounds like a business opportunity to build better robots.
- sschueller 11y agoThe large Robot manufactures such as ABB are already working on such solutions: http://new.abb.com/products/robotics/yumi http://new.abb.com/products/robotics/yumi
- ju-st 11y agoThe real billion dollar idea is robots which don't need engineers to instruct them. These robots will simply learn from humans who literally show them e.g. how to pick parts from a conveyor and put them in wire mesh crates.
- sschueller 11y agoThis robot almost does this, you take its hands and 'show' it what is should do.
- dbcurtis 11y agoThat is what Rod Brooks is pushing with Rethink. We'll see if it works.
- ashmud 11y agoFanuc also has a collaborative robot: http://www.fanuc.eu/de/en/robots/robot-filter-page/collaborative-cr35ia http://www.fanuc.eu/de/en/robots/robot-filter-page/collabora...