Safety and efficiency in robotics design

In Episode 195 of The Robotic Record Podcast, our visitor is Giovanni Campanella, the Industrial Automation and Robotics General Supervisor at Texas Instruments (TI).

Program timeline

• 6:30– Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman wrap up the 2025 Robotics Top and Exposition live from the Boston Convention Facility
• 13:20– Mike meetings Giovanni Campanella, the Industrial Automation and Robotics General Supervisor at Texas Instruments (TI).

Information of the week

Amazon’s Vulcan robotic utilizes pressure picking up to store things

• Amazon established a brand-new robotic called Vulcan, developed to choose things from mass and put them onto the movable racks.
• What makes Vulcan one-of-a-kind is that it is geared up with pressure responses sensing units and AI, providing it a feeling of touch. This “feeling of touch” enables Vulcan to control items with higher accuracy and mastery. According to Amazon, Vulcan can choose and store around 75% of the things in Amazon storehouses, relocating them at rates similar to human employees.
• Aaron Parness, Supervisor of Applied Scientific Research at Amazon Robotics, was a keynote session recently with Steve Crowe, Managing Editor of The Robotic Record, to go over the modern technology behind Vulcan throughout a keynote throughout recently’s Robotics Top and Exposition in Boston. Parness described the value of touch and pressure picking up to the future of robotics at Amazon.
• Amazon presently has a variety of various other robot selecting applications released. Sparrow is presently choosing from totes, yet it just selects from the leading layer of the totes. Sparrow has a great deal of knowledge to recognize the things and intend the trajectories, yet it (presently) does not need a feeling of touch.
• Amazon has actually one more robotic called Cardinal, developed to fill up a cart with bundles. The secret for Cardinal is to obtain the cart as complete as feasible. Parness thinks Cardinal might take advantage of a feeling of touch to aid it take full advantage of the cart tons in the future.
• IEEE Purchases on Robotics documents
  • A Dexterous and Certified (DexCo) Hand Based Upon Soft Hydraulic Actuation for Human-Inspired Penalty In-Hand Adjustment
  • DIH-Tele: Dexterous In-Hand Teleoperation Structure for Discovering Multiobjects Adjustment With Tactile Sensing
  • Unique Collection on Tactile Robotics

Teradyne Robotics makes management modifications at MiR, UR

• Teradyne today introduced management modifications for both of its robotics departments, reliable instantly. Jean-Pierre Hathout changes from leading Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) to changing Kim Povlsen as the head of state of Universal Robots (UR). Kevin Dumas does well Hathout as the brand-new head of state of MIR. Povlsen is going after an outside occupation possibility.
• This modification begins the heels of current Teradyne monetary 2024 economic outcomes. UR, a leading programmer of collective robot arms, decreased 3% year over year, and independent mobile robotic (AMR) programmer MiR expanded 1% year over year Teradyne Robotics Team gave up 10% of its worldwide personnel in January 2024.

Robotics Set Up in United States Car Sector Up by Dual Numbers

• Initial outcomes released by the International Federation of Robotics today
• Records that Automakers in the USA have actually purchased even more automation:
  • Overall setups of commercial robotics in the auto market enhanced by 10.7%, getting to 13,700 systems in 2024.
  • By comparison, the Organization for Progressing Automation (A3) reported previously this year that united state vehicle sales went down 15% in 2024 contrasted to 2023.
• ” The USA has among one of the most automatic auto markets worldwide: The proportion of robotics to manufacturing facility employees places 5th, connected with Japan and Germany and in advance of China,” states Takayuki Ito, Head Of State of the International Federation of Robotics. “This is an excellent success of innovation. Nonetheless, in various other essential locations of making automation, the United States drags its rivals.”
• The bulk of commercial robotics are imports from abroad, as couple of robotic suppliers are creating in the USA.
• Worldwide, 70% of setups are generated by 4 nations: Japan, China, Germany and South Korea
  • Within this team, Chinese suppliers are one of the most vibrant, with manufacturing for their big residential market greater than tripling in 5 years (2019-2023).
  • This places them in 2nd location after Japan.
  • China ´ s success is based upon their nationwide robotics approach.
  • China’s production market set up an overall of around 280,000 systems each year in between 2021 and 2023, contrasted to an overall of 34,300 setups in the USA in 2024.

In China, robotics and automation are permeating all degrees of manufacturing This is shown by its high robotic thickness of 470 robotics per 10,000 staff members in production– the 3rd greatest worldwide, exceeding Germany and Japan in 2023. The USA, on the various other hand, places just tenth amongst the globe’s most automated making nations with a robotic thickness of 295 robotics per 10,000 staff members. The nation’s automation is greatly focused in the auto industry: Around 40% of all brand-new commercial robotic setups in 2024 remain in vehicle.

Teradyne additionally recently introduced economic outcomes for the very first quarter of 2025. According to the firm, its robotics profits was $69 million in Q1 2025, which is below $98 million in Q4 2024. This additionally noted a 21% decrease in sales in Q1 year over year. In its quarterly record, Teradyne claimed “robotics remains to encounter continuous end market weak point yet supplying on AI item profile (MiR 1200 Pallet Jack, UR AI Accelerator).”

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