Customer cases & applications

Context: An experiment on robots helping out with household chores Assistant robots designed to help with household chores (especially for the elderly or people with reduced mobility) is an issue that many researchers are working on. Toyota, Preferred Networks, MIT, Sony and Carnegie Mellon University are all doing work in this particular area. A robot[…]
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A mobile robot equipped with a robot arm is an autonomous machine able to navigate its surroundings and perform complex tasks assisted by an articulated arm. It offers advanced perceptual capabilities, including vision and environmental sensing, for safely navigating complex and unpredictable environments. And users can equip its robot arm with various tools to perform[…]
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Climate change is one of the most disturbing problems of our time. It’s having devastating effects on our planet, marked by episodes of drought, heat waves, extreme rainfall and weaker ecosystems, not to mention desertification and land degradation. Inappropriate farming practices and global warming are destroying more and more land and diminishing its biological potential.[…]
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Chemical fertilisers increase agricultural yield, but cause massive soil and water pollution. It’s an issue that affects us all and we must find alternative solutions. Robots are already used to assist with livestock farming and crops, but they may also help us move towards a more sustainable agriculture. Here we take a closer look at[…]
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In recent years, quadruped robot performance has come on in leaps and bounds, even on difficult terrain. Mobile robots are well-suited to inspection missions, although not natively designed for tasks involving gripping. Engineers working with quadrupeds will often add external peripherals to increase the number of jobs they can perform. Which is exactly what the[…]
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A “digital twin” is a virtual replica of an object, process or system. It’s a technology that has already revolutionised many sectors, including in industry, engineering and medicine, and is playing a crucial role in the development of smart cities . It gives access to multiple data in real time, thereby opening the door to[…]
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The Génération Robots team recently visited a photovoltaic power station. We were in search of a transport system capable of carrying inverters weighing 80 kg over difficult terrain. A tiring task, undertaken at present by site employees. We chose to test the Bunker Pro mobile robot by Agilex. A heavy-duty UGV with caterpillar tracks for tackling[…]
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To make life easier for its employees, SNCF regularly tests robotics solutions already available on the market in addition to customised robotic platforms, to see how they may serve the railway industry. Trains, and the railway network in general, must be constantly monitored and inspected to carry out maintenance tasks and ensure user safety. In[…]
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Both efficient and robust, ROBOTIS Dynamixel servo motors are now being used for prototyping in the field of space robotics , in particular by the French national space agency ( CNES ). The CNES is using them for example to design the Earth prototype of an exploration robot to be sent to Phobos, one of[…]
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Livestock farming: an activity where robotisation makes sense In the livestock industry, scraping manure slurry is a necessary but time-consuming and exhausting task, sometimes required several times a day. There are different ways of doing this: flushing, automatics scrapers (with a chain, cable or rope), tractor equipped with scraper, etc. These methods, used in the[…]
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