Wevolver Robots in Depth

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Future innovations at the Robotics and Mechatronics lab w/ Professor Stefano Stramigioli Jan 24, 2020

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Stefano talks about how he leads the Robotics and Mechatronics lab at University of Twente. The lab focuses on inspection and maintenance robotics, as well as medical applications.

Stefano got into robotics when he saw the robots in Star Wars, and started out building a robotic arm from scratch, including doing his own PCBs etc.

He also tells us about the robotic peregrine falcon that has been spun out and is now a successful company of their own. Check it out at www.clearflightsolutions.com

Stefano and Per agree that the simple reason for being in robotics is that it’s just so cool!

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Bringing together academia, industry and end users in robotics w/ Sebastian_Weisenburger Jan 22, 2020

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Sebastian tells us all about the ECHORD++ project, and describes how ECHORD++ works with application oriented research bringing together academia, industry and end users to bring robotics to market, under the banner “From lab to market”

We also hear about Public end-user Driven Technological Innovation (PDTI). Currently, two projects are run, one in healthcare and one in urban robotics.

Sebastian shares how he adapts the information that comes out of research in a way that makes it suitable for the general public.

We also get and in depth look at the ECHORD++ project with insight into many of the projects in it.

This podcast was recorded in 2016 and is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovate.
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Autonomous navigation and it's challenges w/BlueBotics CEO Nicola Tomatis Jan 15, 2020

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Nicola talks about his long road into robotics and how BlueBotics handles indoor navigation and integrates it in automated guided vehicles (AGV).

Like many, Nicola started out tinkering when he was young, and then got interested in computer science as he wanted to understand it better.

Nicola gives us an overview of indoor navigation and its challenges. He shares a number of interesting projects, including professional cleaning and intralogistics in hospitals. We also find out what someone who wants use indoor navigation and AGV should think about.

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Human-robot-collaboration w/Søren Peter Johansen from the Danish Technological Institute Jan 10, 2020

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Søren Peter Johansen from DTI talks about implementing robotics solutions. He talks about how he got into robotics by starting to tinker with any electronics he could get his hands on. He worked in a mechanical workshop and added automation to the machines in the shop. As robots became more and more available, he then included them in his work.

Søren also discusses examples of successful human robot collaboration and how software and hardware both are essential elements of robot development.

We also get to hear about how he went to the Danish Technological Institute because he saw an opportunity to work with lots of interesting robots.

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3D printing metal components w/Hans Kimblad Jan 10, 2020

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Hans talks about 3D printing metal or MAM, metal adaptive manufacturing.

He describes how the different technologies that are used for MAM work. He then talks through the opportunities and challenges and what one needs to consider when designing for the Höganäs powder sintering MAM process. He also shares some details about the metal powder they use.

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How this robotics entrepreneur makes programming robots easier w/Sven Schmidt-Rohr Jan 03, 2020

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Sven talks about how he always wanted to be a robotics entrepreneur and how ArtiMinds makes programming robots easier.

Like so many, Sven got interested in robotics early. He found robots exciting as they could make his programs come to life and work outside the computer. They could do so much more than just display graphics on the computer screen.

Sven also decided to become a robot entrepreneur early and worked on becoming a robotics entrepreneur from high school and through university where he met his co-founders of ArtiMinds.

Sven talks about how ArtiMinds grew out of the work he did at university and how it focuses on making it easier, faster and more intuitive to program complex robot manipulation tasks.

ArtiMinds software platform makes it easier and more intuitive to create your robotics program by dragging and dropping building blocks representing different steps needed to perform a task.
This allows you to automate tasks requiring flexibility and force control for example in industrial assembly and laboratory automation.

We also hear how ArtiMinds software makes it easier to handle assembly of flexible material and inexact parts. For instance, it can help you develop applications involving cabling and wire assembly which is usually considered to be a very difficult task for robots.

This interview was recorded in 2016.
As of 2018/05 ArtiMinds has grown to greater than 70 employees.

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How to get benefits from being part of an open source robotics community w/Dirk Thomas Jan 01, 2020

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Dirk talks about his work with ROS at the OSR Foundation.

We hear about how programmers and roboticists can benefit from being part of and contributing to the open source community.

Dirk discusses the development of ROS and how it is being used both in academia and in commercial projects. He also shares his thoughts on the future development of ROS and how it can support advancements in robotics overall.

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Robot snakes to reach impossible places w/Andrew Graham Dec 27, 2019

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Andrew Graham is Senior Technical Leader at OC Robotics, the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of commercial snake-arm robots and software for confined and hazardous environments

Andrew talks about snake arm robots that can get into impossible locations and do things no other system can.

Andrew tells the story about starting OC Robotics as a way to ground his robotics development efforts in a customer need. He felt that making something useful gave a great direction to his projects.

We also hear about some of the unique properties of snake arm robots:
– They can fit in any space that the tip of the robot can get through
– They can operate in very tight locations as they are flexible all along and therefore do not sweep large areas to move
– They are easy to seal up so that they don’t interact with the environment they operate in
– They are set up in two parts where the part exposed to the environment and to risk is the cheaper part

Andrew then shares some interesting insights from the many projects he has worked on, from fish processing and suit making to bomb disposal and servicing of nuclear power plants.

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This interview was recorded in 2015.

Merging robotics and fashion w/Anouk Wipprecht Dec 27, 2019

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Anouk creates instinctual and behavioral wearables; essentially clothes that can sense, process and react.

She creates dresses that move, including motors and special effects. They don´t follow the normal fashion cycle of becoming irrelevant after six months, since they can be updated and improved.

Anouk is unusual as a Fashion Designer as she doesn’t do catwalks; since her designs are made to interact with – not just being viewed.

She is a big supporter of open source and is contributing an open source unicorn horn + cam design for children with ADHD amongst other things that she publishes on Instructables.com or Hackster.io.

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The next generation of robots w/Paul Ekas Dec 10, 2019

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The EZGripper by SAKE Robotics is a tendon based gripper using Dyneema tendons and aluminum oxide
eyelets to make it durable and able to handle rough environments.

The EZGripper is under-actuated, the fingers stay straight when picking up small objects and wrap around large objects. You can control position and torque allowing you to grip soft or hard objects and to do so gently or firmly.

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