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Move over R2-D2, because here comes UR5. The Star Wars droid is make-believe, but UR5 is a real-life robot in Yue “Sophie” Wang’s lab at Clemson University. She and her team are using the UR5 robotic arm and its mobile base to research how robots and people can better work as a team, like Luke […]
Maybe the photo shows you in a bar, and your friends from church just wouldn’t understand. Or maybe the picture of you suntanning at the beach reveals a little more skin than you would like your co-workers to see. Billions of photos have been posted to social media, and some of them can be troublesome […]
While manufacturers tune up their production processes with the ever-increasing use of automated technologies and robotics, a level of distrust has festered between flesh and blood employees and their machined counterparts now working alongside. Not only are some of these workers scared of losing their jobs, Clemson University Associate Professor and Chair on Manufacturing Automation […]
According to the International Federation of Robotics, the first industrial robot entered a U.S. automotive factory in the early 1960s. Used on a GM assembly line in Trenton, New Jersey, where parts for automotive interiors were produced, the robot was capable of obeying step-by-step commands, sequencing and stacking pieces of metal. A few years later, […]
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