Engineering:Workerbot
The workerbot is a trademark, which was developed by the pi4 robotics GmbH to describe an industrial robot, which was modeled with its possibilities of movement and its sensory abilities of a human.
The industrial robot has two arms with seven degrees of freedom. In the arms of force sensors are integrated, enabling the robot to work while the forces occurring measure and similar to humans the gripping process or machining processes to adapt to the forces occurring accordingly. The robot is also equipped with cameras that it can detect its environment and react to it. This industrial robot has been developed within the EU funded project PISA (Flexible Assembly Systems through Workplace-Sharing and Time-Sharing Human-Machine Cooperation). The project consortium consists of the lead company pi4_robotics GmbH and the Fraunhofer IPK, the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the company EICAS Automazione S.p.A. .
The aim is to enable the use of highly flexible industrial robots manufacturing companies within the European Union cost production and to prevent the migration to low-wage countries. The workerbot is still the first operative humanoid factory worker worldwide that can be acquired by purchase. In context with the workerbot there is the first webshop for humanoid robots.[1]
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External links
- pi4_robotics: The official homepage of workerbot
- pi4_robotics: Video of workerbot
- Deutschen Patent- und Markenamt: Registerauskunft zur Marke "workerbot"
- FP6-Rahmenprogramm der EU: PISA Projekt
- FP6-Rahmenprogramm der EU: PISA-Projekt Sub Project 2 - Time Sharing Intelligent Assist Systems
- Europäische Kommission: CORDIS Informationsdienst Nationale F&E
- Awards / Prizes: The workerbot of pi4_robotics won the MM Award 2010 at the fair Automatica
- Awards / Prizes: The workerbot of pi4_robotics is a finalist in the euRobotics Technology Transfer Award 2011
- Zeitschrift VDMA Nachrichten 02-2011: Robotik Neue Ära der flexiblen Automation
- Zeitschrift Blechnet 07-2012: Zweiarmige Roboter stehen für neue Anwendungen bereit
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