We hosted a group from the International Society for Professional Innovation Management on March 27th for an “Introduction to Robotics” discussion and demos in our lab. Fady Saad, a co-founder and Director of Partnerships at MassRobotics, kicked of the afternoon session presenting a background on Robotics and what the future may hold as these technologies are adopted and incorporated into our everyday life.
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Attendees were then treated to demonstrations by two of our residents:
Maciej Pietrusinski and Daniel Posfai from Andros Robotics demonstrated a long reach robotic arm for warehouse automation that they are developing. The enabling technology is their patent-pending force-controlled actuator, which makes it possible to design light-weight collaborative robotic arms, perfect for mounting on mobile robots, with a long reach for retrieving items from top shelves.
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Rahul Chipalkatty from Southie Autonomy Works, LLC (SAW) showed a novel interaction paradigm that they are developing for collaborative robot arms. SAW is a pre-seed-stage startup changing the way people interact with collaborative robots and the winner of ABB IdeaHub Robotics Accelerator 2015.
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