2009 Articles & Press
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December, 2009Plant Magazine – Teaching Robots New Tricks (Cover Story)
Motoman, Inc and Universal Robotics are combining break-through software and industrial robots to make materials handling applications more accurate, cost effective and ‘human’…
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November, 2011Material Handling Management Magazine
Robots, Technology advances, lower cost and difficulty packaging requirements are leading more DCs to consider robotics. “Vision systems allow robots to react to different circumstances at high speeds”, says David Peters, president and CEO of Universal Robotics. “High-speed controllers allow vision-enabled robots to respond instantaneously to new information,” he says …
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October, 2009Universal Robotics and Motoman Partner to Set New Benchmark for 3D Vision System
Universal Robotics, Inc. and Motoman, Inc. today announced a partnership to develop and market an accurate, cost effective and easyto-implement 3D vision system solution for a variety of robotic applications. The companies will integrate Universal’s Spatial Vision self-calibrating 3D vision software in Motoman’s industrial robots. The Spatial Vision-enabled robots will be initially launched in the materials handling market in early 2010.
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September 25, 2009Wubbena Named Director of Marketing
Universal Robotics, Inc. has named industry veteran Hob Wubbena its Director of Marketing. Wubbena will lead all of Universal’s marketing efforts, including the 2010 launch of Neocortex, the company’s signature software that allows machines to learn from their experiences rather than being programmed to act.
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Media Blackout
until Septemer 09Universal Robotics underwent a news blackout until September 2009
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September 25, 2009Nature Magazine – US Teams Built Dexterous Robots
After years of following increasingly isolated paths, robotics researchers in the United States have agreed on a common goal: making machines that are good with their hands. They hope that a unified scientific front will help them to compete against groups in Asia, where research into humanoid robots has been heavily funded while cash for US projects has dwindled. …
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