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Alex Owen-Hill is a freelance writer and public speaker who blogs about a large range of topics, including science, presentation skills at CreateClarifyArticulate.com, storytelling and (of course) robotics. He completed a PhD in Telerobotics from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid as part of the PURESAFE project, in collaboration with CERN. As a recovering academic, he maintains a firm foot in the robotics world by blogging about industrial robotics.

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Robots Can Help Reduce 35% of Work Days Lost to Injury

What's the biggest benefit of using collaborative robots? It's not the better efficiency. It's not the extra hours the robot can work in a shift. It's not even the improved consistency across your product. Sure, these are all great bonuses, but, the biggest benefit of robots must surely be their impact on reducing workplace injury. How, you ask? Well, let's find out.

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on May 26, 2016 7:00 AM. 8 min read time
 
Robots Can Help Reduce 35% of Work Days Lost to Injury

What's the biggest benefit of using collaborative robots? It's not the better efficiency. It's not the extra hours the robot...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on May 26, 2016 7:00 AM
Read more 8 min read time
What Makes Collaborative Robots Ergonomic?

We talk about collaborative robots being "ergonomic" but what do we really mean? In this post we introduce the basics of...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on May 12, 2016 7:00 AM
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Research Spotlight: Stable Grasping of Unknown Objects

How can you reliably grasp unknown objects and ensure that the grasp is stable? In this post we discuss a new research paper...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on May 10, 2016 7:00 AM
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A History of Robot Programming Languages

There are so many different robot programming languages! Has it always been this way? Where did they all come from? We look...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on May 03, 2016 7:00 AM
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Would You Trust Your Washing Machine in a Fire?

There have been a few high profile warnings over the past year about artificial intelligence and robotics. Elon Musk, Stephen...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on Apr 25, 2016 7:00 AM
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Are Autodidactic Robots Coming to Industry?

Why is AlphaGo such a momentous step in Artificial Intelligence? What does it have to do with robotic depalletizing? In this...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on Apr 18, 2016 7:00 AM
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Is Verbal Programming Really Feasible?

How long will it be before we can tell robots "go and do this task for me"? Will programming ever be so easy, or will we...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on Apr 13, 2016 7:00 AM
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Do Roboticists Have to Reprogram the Wheel?

Robotics suffers from an unresolved issue - as a community, we tend to hate the idea of standardization. This isn't a problem...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on Apr 11, 2016 7:00 AM
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How to Be a Great Robot Programmer

What makes a great robot programmer? In this post we ask why it's challenging to accurately comprehend the limitations of a...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on Apr 06, 2016 7:00 AM
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