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Why Robots Will Always Need Us?

I was at the airport the other day looking at planes coming in and something surprised me. One plane came in with one of its propellers completely stopped. According to my minimal aviation knowledge, something went wrong and the engine simply stopped working or the crew decided it was safer to fly without this engine. As I was analyzing the situation, I suddenly remembered that 90% of commercial flights are done on autopilot. Since an autopilot is simply a bunch of algorithms, how does the plane’s computer analyze this problem? If one of the motors on a robot stops working, the robot receives error signals and stops its motion, which I guess is no different for a plane. But in the back of my mind, I was still wondering how ''robots'' analyze and treat unexpected situations. 

Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
By Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
on Aug 14, 2015 1:49 PM. 2 min read time
 
Why Robots Will Always Need Us?

I was at the airport the other day looking at planes coming in and something surprised me. One plane came in with one of its...

Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
By Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
on Aug 14, 2015 1:49 PM
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Questions on Universal Robots Answered: Here!

Perhaps you still have some questions concerning Universal Robots. Even if the term collaborative robot is becoming more and...

Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
By Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
on Aug 14, 2015 1:48 PM
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Risk Assessments for Collaborative Robots

There are four types of collaborative applications: safety monitored stops, hand guiding, speed & separation monitoring and...

Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
By Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
on Aug 14, 2015 1:47 PM
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New eBook on Collaborative Robot Risk Assessment

If you have been in the robotic or industrial world you have probably already heard about risk assessments. This process is of...

Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
By Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
on Aug 13, 2015 10:27 AM
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F&P Robotics Releases a New Collaborative Robot

F&P Personal Robotics headquartered in Glattbrugg, Switzerland recently released their new version of P-Rob. This updated...

Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
By Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
on Aug 05, 2015 4:38 PM
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Easy to Program the Collaborative Universal Robots

The introduction of collaborative robots has brought two major improvements: safer human-robot collaboration and robot...

Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
By Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
on Aug 05, 2015 4:37 PM
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3-Finger Adaptive Robot Gripper History

Robotiq is a spin-off from the Laval University Robotics Lab. At the time, the 3 co-founders were not quite sure that...

Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
By Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
on Aug 05, 2015 4:35 PM
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STAMINA Project Mobile Manipulator

Mobile robotics is capturing a larger market share in the robotics industry. I previously wrote about this last June in a blog...

Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
By Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
on Jul 29, 2015 10:14 AM
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How to Integrate Your First Robot (Part 3/3 Lack of Technology)

As a wrap up of our past two blog posts on the different tools to use to integrate your first robot, the following article...

Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
By Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
on Jul 29, 2015 10:12 AM
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