What’s New In Robotics? 15.02.2019 [Video]

Hi!  In this week’s news mix: researchers reveal grasping fundamentals, Universal Robots launches India partnership, and Ford announces USD1bn investment.  We also see AntBot and Ai-Da in action, see the 1st debate between human and machine, meet a joint-melting robot and much more.  

Cobots & manufacturing

In a ground-breaking study, researchers from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna’s BioRobotics Institute and the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision have revealed the “guiding principles that regulate choice of grasp type” and hand placement during human-robot object exchanges.  (More: On the choice of grasp type and location when handing over an object, Science Robotics). 

Ford Motor Company announced plans to invest USD1 billion in its Chicago assembly and stamping plants this week, creating 500 new jobs.  The plans incude an all-new body shop and paint shop, modifications to the final assembly area and the addition of new stamping lines.  The automotive giant is also set to deploy advanced manufacturing technologies at the facility, Future Carreported, including 3D printed …