Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a way for machines to use whole-body manipulation instead of relying on grippers and other types of end-of-arm tools.
Summit Engineered Automation has developed what it calls the Summit Agile Process to create true partnerships with customers by focusing on risk analysis early and throughout a project. The process was put to the test recently when the systems integrator was approached by start-up Corvida Medical of Coralville, IA, to build equipment to produce its latest product.
SALEM, OR—Agility Robotics will soon open a new factory here to produce its bipedal humanoid robot Digit. Dubbed RoboFab, the factory will be able to produce more than 10,000 robots per year.