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We generally associate industrial robotics with the kind of robotic arms used on production lines in the automotive industry. This is a common image. These robots, derived from automatism, are efficient, accurate and rapid. Since Unimate, the first industrial robot used by General Motors in 1961, these robots have made great progress and are continuing[…]
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On 5 November 2012, I was invited by Sirris, in Belgium, to the Smart Factory Day to present a session on the arrival on the market of a new class of industrial robot, called the collaborative robot, and notably the Baxter robot by Rethink Robotics. You can download a commented PDF version of this presentation[…]
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On January 16, we delivered a Baxter robot at the Irccyn Laboratory of the Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France). IRCCyN is the research institute of communication and cybernetics of Nantes. It is a mixed CNRS unit that is also a dependent unit of the Ecole Centrale de Nantes, University of Nantes and the Ecole des[…]
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A tutorial that is presenting the Cubelets is available on Genération Robots. This tutorial is available in the CMS section of the website, that is accesible from the home page of Generation Robots. The direct link to this starting guide is http://www.generationrobots.com/en/content/76-getting-started-with-cubelets
On October 15, members of Generation Robots went at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland for mutual presentation. EPFL is well known in the world of robotics as one of the most advanced schools in Europe on service robotics. The visiting team was very excited about this presentation. The day began with a presentation of the collaborative[…]
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Cela faisait longtemps que je n’avais pas été si agréablement surpris par une nouvelle solution robotique. Les Cubelets proviennent à l’origine d’un projet de l’université Carnegie-Mellon et constituent réellement une manière efficace et originale de se frotter à la robotique. Commençons par le début. Qu’est-ce qu’un robot ? Une définition très simple et générale repose[…]
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For a long time I had not been so pleasantly surprised by a new robotic solution. The Cubelets come from a project of the Carnegie Mellon University and are a really effective and original way to discover and understand robotics. First, what is a robot? A simple and general definition is based on the paradigm[…]
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The Lego Group has been teasing us for months now and it was presented at the occasion of the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. After several years of intensive use at home by makers and at schools by teachers and students, the LEGO Mindstorms NXT is now being replaced by the Mindstorms[…]
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