Andy Choi

Articles from Andy

Researchers from Bionic Learning Network at Festo Design Lightweight Flying Robots

Festo has come up with some innovative designs of lightweight, flying robots like the SmartBird, AirPenguin, AirJelly etc. The SmartBird is essentially an ornithopter, which flaps and swoops around a large empty hall at Festo’s manufacturing plant. Festo is a German based automation company which specialises in pneumatic and electrical actuators.

19 Jul 2011

ICSR 2011 Competition Encourages Students, Scientists, and Professionals to Develop Social Robot for 2020

The International Conference on Social Robotics enables practitioners and researchers to demonstrate and explain the latest innovations in the area of social robotics.

19 Jul 2011

Energid Technologies to Develop Commercial Robots for Nuclear Power Plant Inspection

Energid Technologies Corp. of Cambridge, Massachusetts has developed a prototype for a robot that will inspect nuclear power plants. The next generation robot was developed as part of an agreement with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd of Japan. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Mitsubishi is one of the world's leading heavy machinery manufacturers.

18 Jul 2011

PPT Vision Incorporates JAI's Ultraviolet and Remote-Head Camera in Embedded Machine-Vision Systems

A manufacturer of industrial machine-vision cameras, JAI and PPT Vision have declared that the M-Series embedded machine-vision systems of PPT will feature JAI's CM-030GE-RH remote-head camera and CM-140GE-UV ultraviolet (UV) camera.

18 Jul 2011

Adept to Automate Secondary Packaging Operations of Walls Machinery

Adept Technology, a company that offers international robotics solutions and intelligent vision-guided robotics services, declared that Walls Machinery, Australia, has placed orders for two dual OctoLoader equipment including four Adept Quattro s650H robots to completely automate secondary packaging activities for a pioneer food packaging company.

18 Jul 2011

PR2 Robots Help Stroke Affected Patients Become Independent

PR2 Robots have been assisting people in carrying out daily chores like folding laundry, baking cookies or playing pool. Robots are also capable of doing critical tasks like defusing bombs, helping disabled persons etc.

18 Jul 2011

Energid Builds Robots for Nuclear Power Plant Inspection

As part of the agreement with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Energid has developed a next-generation robot prototype for inspecting nuclear power plants.

18 Jul 2011

Q Unveils Lightweight Fanuc M-1ia Compact Robot

Q introduces the new Fanuc M-1ia Robot. The robot is compact in size and light in weight. The Fanuc M-1ia Robot is designed for assembly applications that involve handling small parts at a high speed. A unique parallel-link structure has been used to design the robot in order to deliver high-speed and accurate movements.

18 Jul 2011

Robolink Multi-Axis Joint Modules from igus Available for Sale

Igus announced that the Robolink multi-axis joint modules were now available for ordering. Robolink is used in humanoid robots and other automation applications. Robolink comes with a variety of options and components, such as drive units, high-strength Bowden cables and attachment accessories for robotic arms.

18 Jul 2011

Cool or Creepy? A Robot Mouth

A new robot doesn’t just have a mouth on it, it is just a mouth! Singing robots have always been a bit weird but not quite as weird as this robot which is essentially just a mouth complete with a set of lips and nothing much else about it in terms of physical appearance.

17 Jul 2011