A control unit located inside a control cabinet controls the robot. They are fixed to the floor, ceiling or wall. Industrial robots handle tasks like welding, palletizing and lifting.The industry looks at industrial robots in the following five areas:īefore we get to examples of robot-human-interaction, let’s look at the first three categories of robots that are being used today in factory automation. After all, by 2018 around 1.3 million industrial robots will be introduced to factories around the world with the highest concentration working in factories in Europe, according to the International Federation of Robotics. But let’s switch from entertainment to business and take a look at how humans can benefit from the interaction with different types of robots involved in factory automation and still feel safe when working with them. Luckily, “The Terminator” is just science fiction, and Arnie even saves mankind in the second movie.
At the same time, it’s probably also not the best promotion for robotics as the Terminator does everything but act like a friendly human. That’s probably the most famous sentence ever uttered by a robot. I won the 20 RoboCup world championship league). My objective is to connect the seemingly unrelated fields of infant research and robotics, and understand the flexible framework of intelligence. I am interested in a wide variety of subjects, from language acquisition in infants to speech recognition systems for robots. I am engaged in cognitive developmental robotics research, with aim of clarifying developmental mechanisms in human cognitive processes using infants and robots. Professor, Tamagawa University, College of Engineering, Department of Information and Communication Technology Ultimately, we aim at "agile one-off manufacturing" where efficient manufacturing is possible even for one-off products by quickly reconfiguring the system without teaching and jigs.Ĭhairperson, Service Robotics Competition Committee Hiroyuki Okada, Ph.D.Įxecutive Director, RoboCup Japanese National Committee However, labor shortage and labor cost is becoming a serious problem recently both in Japan and abroad, and realization of a robot system that can handle high-mix low-volume production is strongly desired.īased on this background, we in the WRC manufacturing category expect participating teams to develop a robot system that can automatically generate motion procedures from given product information and can recognize, grasp, and assemble various parts including flexible parts. Therefore, many assembling works are performed manually by human workers. Particularly, "assembly" is a difficult task for robots because it takes time to prepare peripheral devices such as part feeders and jigs, and careful teaching is required for precise part fitting. Industrial robots that have spread rapidly worldwide since the 1980s have played an important role in the field of manufacturing.Īlthough industrial robots, which are good at accurately repeating the same task but inflexible, had been efficient in mass production era, they have become difficult to meet the demands of high-mix low-volume production in recent years. Chairperson, Industrial Robotics Competition Committee Yasuyoshi Yokokohjiĭepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University
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