ANSI/A3 R15.08-1-2020 (R2026): Industrial Mobile Robots Safety
In a busy distribution center, people, forklifts, equipment, and inventory are constantly on the move. Adding an industrial mobile robot (IMR) introduces another moving element…
ANSI/PLASTICS B151.27-2021: Robot / Injection Molding Machine Safety Requirements
The systems covered by an American National Standard, ANSI/PLASTICS B151.27-2021: Safety Requirements For Robot / Injection Molding Machine Systems, enhance the efficiency of injection molding…
Industrial Robots Make Production Safe and Efficient
What are Industrial Robots? The word “robot” derives from the Old Church Slavonic word rabota, meaning “servitude,” with its origin with the 1920 play “R.U.R.”…
Space Telerobotics: The Convergence of Ergonomics, Robotics, and Space Exploration
Thomas B. Sheridan, a pioneer of robotics and remote control technology, defined a robot as “a machine that senses and acts upon its environment autonomously,…
Artificially Intelligent Killer Robots Could Save Great Barrier Reef (Which is Still Alive, But Dying)
If you spent any time on social media in mid-October 2016, you may have witnessed the trending tragedy surrounding the death of the Great Barrier…
Future Job Losses from Automation
Automation drastically increases the efficiency of many processes, simplifying and even reducing the cost of different necessities in our society. Despite the advantages brought forth…
Collaborative Robots
Collaborative robots are designed to be used in “collaborative workspaces” with humans. Collaborative operations offer many notable advantages over other robotics procedures, but they require…
Mother Robot Selects Children For Evolution
During the summer of 2015, researchers at the University of Cambridge gave robots one of the key advantages that living things previously held over them:…
Do Robots Want to Take Over the World?
For some time now, there has been a prevalent fear of robots as intelligent mechanical beings that will hunt down all members of the human…