In the stressful environment of an operating room, surgery robots should be practical, easy to use, and safe. At ERF 2024, Italian company Orthokey demonstrated their knee surgery robot ROBIN at the booth of their partner KUKA. For this report, the Rocking Robots team interviewed Saye Ghadirpour about the challenges of surgical robots.
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Teradyne Robotics has announced its collaboration with NVIDIA, aiming to enhance the capabilities of its robotics offerings through advanced AI technologies. This partnership involves integrating NVIDIA’s accelerated computing into Teradyne’s robotics, particularly Universal Robots (UR) and MiR’s products, to broaden their application potential and improve their functionality.
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Video ERF 2024 #4: humanoid robots and AI
Humanoid robots, AI, medical applications, supply chain solutions: at the European Robotics Forum 2024 in Rimini, all these disruptive trends were extensively demonstrated and discussed both at the expo and in the conference. In this video report, the Rocking Robots team talks about these trends with Gizem Bozdemir from PAL Robotics, and Volker Schmirgel from Kuka.
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Massive amount of AI announcements at NVIDIA event
Yesterday, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made an extensive series of announcements at the GTC conference, almost exclusively designed to bolster the capabilities of generative AI. Among these announcements was the introduction of the NVIDIA Blackwell platform, a computing system specifically developed to enhance the performance of generative AI, particularly in managing large language models with trillions of parameters.
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Dutch Innovation at ERF 2024: Avular and IM Systems
At ERF 2024 a record number of robot companies presented their solutions at the 2,000 m2 exhibition area. Among them two innovative Dutch companies, both spin-offs of technical universities. Avular, originating from Eindhoven technical university, presented its open mobile robot and drone technology. IM Systems, originating from Technical University Delft, showed their Archimedes speed drive. In this report the Rocking Robots team interviews Tess Kolkman of Avular, and Casper van Eersel of IM Systems.
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The relationship between robotics and AI was a hotly debated topic at ERF 2024, as is clear from this new report by Rocking Robots from Rimini. Our team interviewed both Dr. Bernd Liepert, President of euRobotics, and Dr. Werner Kraus, who is responsible for organizing next year’s event in Stuttgart.
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At the European Robotics Forum taking place in Rimini this week, the field of robotics is being discussed from a wide range of perspectives. In this video report, Rocking Robots offers a first impression and discusses the main trends in robotics with Professor Lorenzo Marconi from the University of Bologna.
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The field of human resources is intrinsically data-intensive. Therefore, it is a logical environment to deploy artificial intelligence. Workday has been working on incorporating AI in their offerings for many years now. Their European Headquarters in Dublin is a hub for AI R&D. Rocking Robots interviewed Caroline O’Reilly, General Manager of Analytics at Workday, to discuss the transformation of HR by AI.
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The challenge of human and robot interaction
As robots become more ubiquitous and more intelligent, more people will interact with them. But how do you design these complex systems in such a way that humans can comfortably interact with those machines? Preceding a workshop on this theme at ERF 2024, Rocking Robots discussed human-robot interaction with Valeria Villani, a researcher at the University of Modena.
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Dr. Dympna O’Sullivan is Head of Research at the Faculty of Computing, Digital and Data at the Technological University Dublin. She has a PhD in AI, and her current research focuses on the way AI systems align with human values. AI and data science are one of the key research topics at the TU, and the institute cooperates closely with Workday, which works on AI at its EMEA Headquarters in Dublin. Rocking Robots sat down with her to discuss the way AI impacts society.