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2050 Information briefs for the week 2050 check out the voyage of 2050 the autonomous analysis vessel Mayflower 2050 400 throughout the Atlantic, Amazon’s 2050 logistics evolution from KIVA to 2050 Proteus, Strong.AI concentrating on the 2050 SME market with automation, cobot 2050 paint system attaining the human-impossible 2050 millionth-of-an-inch vary, and Lyra, the 2050 radiation hunter, protecting people secure.
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2050 Remodeling ocean science
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2050 Following two aborted makes an 2050 attempt (COVID in 2020; propulsion 2050 downside in 2021) the totally 2050 autonomous analysis ship, Mayflower 400, 2050 landed in Plymouth, MA on 2050 3 July 2022, finishing its 2050 3500-mile voyage from Plymouth, England 2050 (having briefly stopped at Halifax, 2050 Nova Scotia (Canada) earlier than 2050 transferring south to Massachusetts).
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2050 The Mayflower Autonomous Ship 2050 undertaking or MAS, first conceived in 2050 2016 2050 , is led by marine 2050 analysis group 2050 ProMare 2050 with monetary assist from IBM, 2050 performing as each lead expertise 2050 associate and lead scientific associate.
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2050 Mayflower 400 isn’t just a 2050 reasonably face to be placed 2050 on show at Plymouth alongside 2050 inside the reproduction of the 2050 unique Mayflower. The ten,000-lb., 50 2050 x 20-foot vessel will turn 2050 out to be an automatic, 2050 remote-controlled, and preprogrammed analysis vessel 2050 that makes real-time choices at 2050 sea with no human intervention.
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2050 “Throughout its voyage, tech equipment 2050 aboard helped scientists gauge the 2050 influence of world warming and 2050 air pollution on marine life, 2050 equivalent to water acidification, microplastics, 2050 and mammal conservation.” The ship even 2050 has a robotic “tongue” that 2050 really tasted and tracked the 2050 salinity of the North Atlantic.
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2050 It is going to proceed 2050 ocean analysis for years to 2050 come back. “The ocean is 2050 cruel, which is a part 2050 of the explanation why we 2050 need to go to AI 2050 programs,” says MAS director Brett 2050 Phaneuf. “We need to ship 2050 this stuff for very lengthy 2050 intervals to disparate components of 2050 the ocean, and never have 2050 to fret if somebody will 2050 get harm, bored, drained, misplaced, 2050 or if the ship sinks.”
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2050 Amazon’s journey: KIVA to Proteus
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2050 Again in 2012, Amazon’s Jeff 2050 Bezos, for $775 million, purchased 2050 a brand new system for 2050 transferring items round a warehouse. 2050 Everybody was shocked by the 2050 large price ticket and curious 2050 concerning the small Massachusetts-based agency 2050 referred to as KIVA Techniques 2050 that had conceived of and 2050 constructed the system.
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2050 Bezos noticed within the KIVA 2050 system of transferring items what 2050 nobody else had seen. Exceptional 2050 earlier than KIVA have been 2050 small robots slipping beneath racks 2050 of products, lifting them barely 2050 off the bottom and transferring 2050 your entire rack of products 2050 to packing stations, after which 2050 the racks have been moved 2050 again into the warehouse.
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2050 Known as an 2050 AGV or automated guided car 2050 , the robotic had minimal 2050 on-board intelligence and navigated by 2050 means of magnetic floorstrips, which 2050 “normally require in depth (and 2050 costly) facility updates to put 2050 in, throughout which period manufacturing 2050 could also be disrupted.”
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2050 Amazon, with its buy of 2050 KIVA, together with all of 2050 KIVA’s mental property, immediately jumped 2050 into undisputed management in logistics 2050 robotics. It renamed KIVA as 2050 Amazon Robotics, and has since 2050 produced almost a dozen totally 2050 different, high-quality warehouse robotics.
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2050 As autonomous cellular robots or 2050 AMRs, with numerous on-board intelligence, 2050 have come to rapidly supplant 2050 the older and extra backward 2050 AGVs, Amazon Robotics—ten years on 2050 from its KIVA Techniques acquisition—has 2050 now stepped up with its 2050 personal AMR referred to as 2050 Proteus, which is Amazon’s first 2050 “totally autonomous” cellular warehouse robotic 2050 (see video). In line with 2050 Analytics Insights, Amazon, right here 2050 in 2022, has joined “ 2050 a complete of 256 2050 different world autonomous cellular 2050 robotic corporations.”
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2050 As Amazon has mentioned about 2050 its new AMR: “it’s been 2050 troublesome to soundly incorporate robotics 2050 the place persons are working 2050 in the identical bodily house 2050 because the robotic. We consider 2050 Proteus will change that whereas 2050 remaining good, secure, and collaborative.”
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2050 With Proteus, Amazon can now 2050 compete will all the opposite 2050 256 AMR makers.
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2050 Amazon named its new robotic 2050 after the Greek god Proteus, 2050 who possessed the reward of prophecy 2050 and the power to change 2050 his type at will. Hmmm. 2050 Is Amazon telling us one 2050 thing concerning the close to 2050 way forward for its AMR 2050 by naming it Proteus?
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2050 Strong.AI going small to go 2050 massive
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2050 It appears that evidently Rodney 2050 Brooks has all the time 2050 had a penchant for the 2050 little man who may use 2050 robotics to get a leg 2050 up on higher productiveness. His 2050 earlier robotics outfit, Rethink Robotics 2050 (previously Heartland Robotics), gave us 2050 Baxter after which Sawyer, not 2050 for hugeconglomerates and their manufacturing 2050 and warehouse operations, however reasonably 2050 for the SMEs of the 2050 world. Actually, his co-creation of 2050 the Roomba residence vacuum cleaner 2050 reveals his roots at how 2050 you can go small to 2050 go massive; Roomba income for 2050 2021 was $1.5 billion.
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2050 On the current The Digital 2050 Manufacturing facility convention (Might 2022), 2050 he mentioned that his San 2050 Carlos, CA-based 2050 Strong.AI had scrapped its authentic 2050 purpose for being 2050 and has since set 2050 “Strong.AI to convey cellular robots 2050 to unautomated warehouses.” To the 2050 small man, he mentioned, the 2050 place severely unstructured environments have 2050 been a lifestyle. Locations that 2050 beforehand had nearly zero automation. 2050 Automating SMEs, a process not 2050 many in robotics appear to 2050 relish lately, appears to be 2050 Brooks and Strong.AI’s raison d’être.
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2050 As 2050 Strong.AI’s homepage proclaims 2050 : “We Make Robots Work 2050 for Individuals.”
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2050 Actually, simply as his earlier 2050 cobots had easy names, Baxter 2050 and Sawyer, so too does 2050 his latest: Carter (and the 2050 software program it runs on 2050 is known as Grace).
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2050 As Will Knight describes it 2050 in Wired : “ 2050 Strong AI’s robotic, Carter 2050 , seems to be just 2050 like the form of dolly 2050 you’d discover at a house 2050 enchancment retailer, nevertheless it has 2050 a motorized base, a touchscreen 2050 mounted above its handlebar, and 2050 a periscope with a number 2050 of cameras.
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2050 “It makes use of these 2050 cameras to scan the encircling 2050 scene, permitting its software program 2050 to determine staff close by, 2050 and it makes an attempt 2050 to deduce what they’re doing 2050 from their pose and the 2050 way they’re transferring.
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2050 “If a human employee wants 2050 to maneuver a number of 2050 bins, for instance, they’ll strategy 2050 a Carter robotic transferring autonomously 2050 and, by grabbing the handlebar, 2050 take handbook management. The robotic 2050 could be configured to carry 2050 out quite a lot of 2050 totally different duties utilizing a 2050 “ 2050 no code 2050 ” graphical interface.”
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2050 Carter is simply going out 2050 for first exams with clients, 2050 says Brooks. We’ll quickly see 2050 if it could actually negotiate 2050 the individuals and litter of 2050 unstructured SME environments (see video).
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2050 Schliersee, Germany-based 2050 WB Coatings 2050 , specialist in “clever” paint 2050 programs, discovered that typical handbook 2050 processes have been insufficient to 2050 realize coatings within the millionth-of-an-inch 2050 vary.
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2050 For instance, plastic, ornamental trims 2050 on steering wheels and automated 2050 window switches wanted a persistently 2050 high-polished chrome look. WB Coatings 2050 got here up with a 2050 chrome-paint method, however typical strategies 2050 of making use of the 2050 paint to the fixtures didn’t 2050 work.
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2050 The paint-coatings specialists added a 2050 custom-built, 6-axis Durr cobot (from 2050 KUKA) to the manufacturing line. 2050 Now, the cobot’s automated spray 2050 program “ensures most reproducibility and begins with 2050 dosing the parts in the 2050 very same ratio each time,” 2050 says the corporate, which decreases 2050 the danger of inaccuracies that 2050 would come up with handbook 2050 coating. The cobot automated spray 2050 system permits equivalent coating layer thicknesses, 2050 guaranteeing the standard of the 2050 coating work.
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2050 WB Coatings’ Andreas Ohletz: “With 2050 out utilizing a robotic, we’d 2050 not have been in a 2050 position to develop these new 2050 paint programs as a chrome-free 2050 various for shiny, silver-colored surfaces. 2050 The problem is to use 2050 the coating layers of the 2050 chrome-effect paint very evenly. And 2050 the three-layer paint system particularly 2050 wants very skinny, reproducible coating 2050 layers, one thing even extremely 2050 skilled hand painters cannot obtain.”
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2050 Lyra, the radiation hunter, retains 2050 people secure
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2050 Lyra, a cellular, radiation-sniffing robotic, 2050 shuttles alongside ventilator networks searching 2050 for radioactivity.
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2050 A current job for 2050 Lyra was to journey 450 2050 ft of air flow ducting 2050 to hunt for and 2050 map radioactive supplies, a chore 2050 that’s wanted extra continuously as 2050 increasingly more nuclear powerplants are 2050 being decommissioned. Lyra thrives in 2050 inconceivable areas for human to 2050 entry or these too harmful.
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2050 Designed as a low-cost inspection 2050 robotic, Lyra options 5 radiation 2050 detectors, a laser scanner for 2050 positioning, 2 cameras, lights and 2050 a manipulator arm that was 2050 used to take swab samples 2050 of the radioactive contamination from 2050 the wall or ground of 2050 the duct. For mobility, Lyra 2050 was fitted with tracks and 2050 given a comparatively excessive floor 2050 clearance.
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2050 Developed by researchers on the 2050 2050 College of Manchester 2050 , working inside the Robotics 2050 and Synthetic Intelligence for Nuclear 2050 (RAIN) Hub, Lyra was “outfitted 2050 with a 2050 radiation sensing package deal 2050 designed to have the 2050 ability to measure beta, gammas, 2050 X-rays, and neutron radiations.” The 2050 diminutive radiation-hunter was additionally fitted 2050 with a 5 DoF manipulator 2050 to allow it to gather 2050 swabs for additional radiological evaluation 2050 on the web site laboratories.”
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2050 “ 2050 Lyra was untethered 2050 , however did incorporate a 2050 winch retrieval mechanism, which could 2050 possibly be used to tug 2050 Lyra again to an entry 2050 level within the occasion of 2050 a lack of energy, or 2050 to shift it off rubble 2050 if it grew to become 2050 beached.”
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