Zhejian is HIGH QUALITY WITH Safe small industrial Robot, Details: Payload 6kg. Reach 750 mm Structure Articulated Number of axes 6 Repeatability 土0..... FP7cPGB0v5o9 Stretch is the next generation of Handle, a robot Boston Dynamics introduced in 2017 thatbined wheels and legs. Stretch doesn’t have legs, but it does have an omni-direction mobile base with four independently controlled wheels, a custom 7-DoF industrial robot arm that can lift up to 50 pounds, a custom suction gripper and much more. The air system for the gripper is onboard the mobile base. Stretches with an 8-hour battery life, but there will be a 16-hour battery option and the ability to plug Stretch in for continuous power. Stretch uses the Pick vision system, which Boston Dynamics acquired when it bought Kinema Systemsin April 2019. Pick uses high-resolution 2D and 3D vision and machine learning algorithms for robotic depalletizing. Kevin Blankespoor, Boston Dynamics’ VP of product engineering, said Stretch can pick up to 800 cases per hour. Its arm has a seven-foot reach and can reach boxes up to 10 feet high. Stretch weighs 2,650 lbs. Stretch is semi-autonomous, Blank... See full list on As you might notice in Boston Dynamics’ videos of Stretch, all the boxes inside the truck and on the pallet look identical and are perfectly stacked. Most, if not all, trucks that need to be unloaded in the real world won’t look like that. So Stretch’s success, like other attempted solutions before it, could be determined by its ability to handle a variety of packages. “That’s an astute observation,” said Blankespoor. “It’s pretty easy to detect a box sitting by itself. But detecting a box when they’re packed tightly together or when there’s a big variety, is a much harder task. But that’s where our Pick box detection softwarees in. And that’s one of the things you’ll see next with Stretch. We’re starting off with more straightforward trucks, but we’re going to get into moreplex types of boxes, different types of boxes over theing year.” FedEx’s Aaron Prather discussed during his recent RoboBusiness Direct keynote that tggest challenge in solving the truck offload i... See full list on Boston Dynamics in 2020 acquired a boatload of warehouse automati, an R&D organization founded by Google. Boston Dynamics was owned by Google from. Certainly some of the IP helped with Stretch, but it likely points to a broader interest in the logistics automation sp acquired by Google in 2013, partnered with Wynright on truck unloading research. Here’s a video of the partnership in action. “Well, we’ve definitely had int Atlas. That’s when we figured out what a big market this is, and how much potential there is for mobile robots in the warehouse space. I don’t want to say too much about the patents, but we have a warehouse robotics team that is growing rapidly, wudes development of the Stretch robot, we have our Pick vision system, we have a fleet management software system that can pull together different robots into doing coordinated... See full list on Boston Dynamics introduced in February 2021 Spot Arm, a robotic arm for the Spot quadruped that offers a max lift capa of 24.3 lbs. While Spot Arm looks vastly different from Stretch’s industrial robot arm, Blankespoor said the core technological building blocks are the same. “If you look at the wrist joint of Stretch, it’s actually the same as the hip joint on Spot. So it uses the same electric motors and the same gearboxes, same sensing even the same software,” he said. “We use the same cameras and depth sensors across our different platforms. More importantly, we use the same software underneath to actually understand what those sensors are seeing – everything from box detection to obstacle detection. So even though it looks really different from Atlas or Spot, Stretch is built from most of the same technologies. And that enabled us to get a prototype built really fast.” Atlas remains an R&D platform, while Boston Dynamics has so the quadrupe... See full list on Boston Dynamics and OTTO Motors released a videoin March 2020 that demoed their vision of the future of logistics automation. In the video, Boston Dynamics’ Handle robot picked boxes and built pallets on top of the OTTO 1500 heavy-duty AMR. Blankespoor said the twopanies continue to collaborate, and it’s played an important role in the development of a fleet manager for Stretch. “Part of the important piece of that demo with OTTO Motors was to get heterogeneous robots working together. There’s a lot of AMRpanies that control their own robots, and they might have a fleet manager to do that. But there’s not a whole lot of fleet managers that can control a variety of different types of robots, coordinated to do different tasks. One of the reasons we’re working with OTTO is to coordinate the pallet movement and the case movement with different robots.” Blankespoor also said integration with warehouse management systems is on Boston Dynamics’ roadmap. But he said it’s more crucia... See full list on You might think a logistics robot is out of left field for Boston Dynamics, but it’s shown interest in the space for a while. In 2016, one of its first videos of the next-gen Atlas robot showed the humanoid bend down, pick up a box, and place it onto a cart. Then in 2017, Boston Dynamics introduced Handle, a hybrid robot thatbined wheels and legs. Stretch is the next generation of Handle. “We got a lot of interest [for Atlas] from warehouses,” Blankespoor said. “We knew we could design a simpler robot, and that’s where Handle really came from. Handle was an offshoot of Atlas. “We branched off and designed Handle for a couple of reasons. One was that we wanted to do something more purpose-built for the warehouse. And another reason was that we always wanted tobine wheels and legs. Handle was an opportunity to explore both of those things. So we built a couple versions of Handle and started doing warehouse tasks.” “First we were doing pallet building, and that was working pret... See full list on Hyundai Motor acquired a majority stake in Boston Dynamicsfrom Softbank in December 2020 for about $880 million. A Softbank affiliate retained the other 20%. Spot Arm w it effectively turned Spot into a mobile manipulator, not just a data collection platform. But the introduction of Stretch is tggest annou the acquisition. So will Hyundai be an early test customer for Stretch? “They absolutely could be,” said Blankespoor. “We’re excited to work with Hyundai. Obviously they’re a world-class manufacturer. Hyundai has its own logisticspanies in Korea, and they definitely could be a customer for us in the future.” Editor’s Note:We will have more about Stretch from our conversation with Kevin Blankespoor later this week on The Robot Report Podcast. See full list on jsXg6KbzAsYR ABB Robotics is a pioneer in robotics, machine automation and digital services, with more than 500000 robot solutions installed. wBf5m85XUlOx Product Description. 1.We have both robot controller technology and robot body technology. Our controllers get the largest user market (more than 50%) in China. (1) High quality multi-axes (6 axis, 5 axis, 4 axis) industrial robotic arm with payload 3kg 5kg, 6kg, 7kg, 8kg, 10kg, 12kg, 20kg, 25kg, 30kg, 50kg, 60kg, 80kg,120kg, 165kg, 210kg. jawcfeI52n8h
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