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Background Universcience is home to two science museums: the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie and the Palais de la Découverte. The Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie has set itself the objective of making scientific and technical culture more accessible to the general public. Its aim: to democratise scientific and technical knowledge, particularly among children[…]
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Background The NAS (Nad Al Sheba Sports Tournament) is an annual event organised by the Emirate of Dubai. In 2015, it attracted some 4,000 athletes. HQCREATIVE, an event management agency that specialises in creating shows for the United Arab Emirates’ main official events, was responsible for organising its 2016 opening ceremony. HQCREATIVE wanted to give[…]
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A new future for Poppy Until now, the Poppy Humanoid robot, a 3D-printed technology platform, has been used mainly in education and research. Some owners of these robots use them in other areas, for example the art world, but such use is still quite rare. Poppy is now diversifying into the hospital sector. In fact,[…]
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Your best ally for service-robotics projects GR Lab: your professional service-robotics integrator Our Professional Service-Robotics Engineering Department – affectionately known as the GR Lab – specialises in the development of customised professional service-robotics solutions. The GR Lab’s team of enthusiastic, experienced engineers and doctors are your best choice if you’re looking for help with setting[…]
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The context Our Génération Robots Consulting Firm in service robotics (the GR Lab), joined forces recently with communications consultancy Auditoire (Coca-Cola, Nissan, Carrefour) as part of the Viva Tech event. Attracting some 200 speakers, 5,000 start-ups and numerous large groups like Orange, EDF, Facebook and even Google, this new event dedicated to technology set some[…]
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A look back at Innorobo 2016! For its 6th edition, the Innorobo event was hosted at the Dock de Paris. Last week, 200 exhibitors and robots from all around the world gathered in this giant futuristic and international village. On day 2, Innrobo welcomed the general public, who came to meet the robots and their[…]
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Cognex In-Sight and Siemens S7 PLC Modbus Ros package and tutorial The modbus stack provided by Génération Robots team of engineers offers a wrapper from the modbus communication to standardized ROS messages. The modbus package is based on pymodbus and is also written in Python. This package was used in an industrial quality inspection project[…]
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In order to make Baxter robot even more collaborative, the GR Lab, Generation Robots’ engineering team, decided to fit upon it the most famous depth measuring sensor: The Kinect camera. There is nothing more natural for a collaborative robot than to directly interact with someone, if he instantly detects this person in its surroundings. Why embed a[…]
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Rodney Brooks is hailed as one of the most important roboticists in the world who led a career as a famous and distinguished researcher in artificial intelligence at Stanford university, Carnegie Mellon and MIT. After co-founding iRobot in 2008, he leaves the latter and the academics world to create his company Heartlands robotics, considered as one of[…]
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Baxter Tasker is a brand new ROS package intended for the Baxter Research Robot from Rethink Robotics has been released by Generation Robots. Baxter Tasker gives an interface on both the controlling computer and on Baxter, created to set up a simple pick and place behaviour, while generating the Python code for it.Thus you can[…]
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