... different companies are like and what they’re working on. Networking outside academia still feels underemphasized, but it can be really insightful to better understand what the challenges in today’s commercialization of robotics are. Robotics Navigation Mobile robots Service robots Autonomous...

... than spending my time in Jira (project tracking software) working out what the deadlines are going to be. I always hire someone for that. Figure 3 History of Bear’s ROS-based award-winning Penny/Servi autonomous indoor food service robots Figure 2 Bear Robotics’ Penny prototype...

... 03 2021 20 03 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Teleoperation Service robots Medical Medical robots Surgical robots Health-care robots Figure 1 Dr Gary Guthart, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive...

... hierarchical architecture to compute very fast objects’ 3D pose for mobile service robots to grasp them. Design/methodology/approach The methodology used in this study is based on a dynamic pyramid search and fast template representation, metadata and context-free grammars. In the experiments, the authors...

...Zhuming Bi; Chaomin Luo; Zhonghua Miao; Bing Zhang; Chris W.J. Zhang Purpose Since the market penetrations of service robots are only successful to a limited types of services, the purpose of the paper is to look into the reasons why the market penetrations are lagged from both technical...

... Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Agriculture Robotics Mobile robots Robot vision Service robots Field robotics Figure 1 Tony (Harvey) Koselka, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Vision Robotics Corporation Koselka : I studied product...

... in a completely irrelevant and sometimes nonproductive way. Pransky: What is the biggest, “Gosh, I really wish we hadn’t done that” mistake that you made in the early days that you could share; i.e. the greatest lesson you learned? Military Mobile robots Service robots Healthcare robots...

..., regarding the challenges of bringing technological discoveries to fruition. This paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The interviewee is Martin Haegele, a renowned expert in industrial and service robot applications, technologies and markets. He is Division Director...

... that can be applied to the optimization of the design of future industrial and household glass-cleaning robots. Service robots Glass-cleaning robot Wiping mechanism Xin Li can be contacted at: vortexdoctor@zju.edu.cn 18 07 2015 16 01 2016 12 02 2016 15 02 2016 ©...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Robotics Mobile robots Service robots Robot design Programming Autonomous robots Wise: Your biggest cause for burn rate is typically head count. Everything else is kind of in the noise when you’re paying engineers at Silicon Valley salaries...

... Publishing Limited 2016 Mobile robots Service robots Robot design Healthcare robots Autonomous robots Flexible manufacturing Zini: I was always very interested in processing: How are things getting done? I’ve always been fascinated with the logistics of how things move, how things...

... record for managing research and development organizations and realizing a significant return on investment. Dr Cousins has dedicated the past near-decade of his life to the mission of building and deploying personal and service robotic technology to assist people. In this interview, Dr Cousins discusses...

... Group Publishing Limited 2014 Sensors Prosthetics Exoskeletons Rehabilitation robots Service robots Compliant mechanisms ARES is conceived as a knee joint for the ATLAS lower-limb active orthosis, which controls independently its equilibrium position and its compliance. Being...

... that the venture capital (VC) partners at Evolution could find acceptable. He gave me a call in 2012 and asked what I thought of putting the companies together and that's when we started talking. Navigation Localisation Mobile robots Robot vision Service robots SLAM Pransky: Tell us about...

...Qingxiao Yu; Can Yuan; Z. Fu; Yanzheng Zhao Purpose Recently, service robots have been widely used in various fields. The purpose of this paper is to design a restaurant service robot which could be applicable to provide basic service, such as ordering, fetching and sending food, settlement and so...

...Guido Bugmann © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Service robots The what and when of service robotics Keywords: Service robots Service robotics is the area of robotics with the strongest predicted growth. According to Future Horizon, service robotics...

..., especially when used in the real world applications of robotic systems. A further comparison between the conventional (industrial) robot and the new breed of (service) robot is summarized in Table I . The dominant objective of conventional robots is productivity, whereas that of the new robots...

...Joe Engelberger Demonstrates that present technologies are sufficient to produce a household robot for the elderly or disabled, that is able to undertake a wide range of domestic chores and supply 24 hour care and companionship. Service robots Health care Household robots Robotics guru...

...Monica Schofield This paper takes a critical look at the progress of the commercialisation of service robots. For over 20 years researchers and developers have been trying to develop robots for service or household applications. So far the forecast market potential has not been achieved. Service...

...Anna Kochan Reports from the Hanover Industrie Messe on new robots exhibited. Reviews the latest robot controllers. Describes the work of the IPA in developing service robots. Also on the IPA stand, researchers demonstrated a prototype cell for the assembly of connectors to optical fibres...