Quote: “Today’s machinery is controlled by clunky levers and buttons. Most often, operators are having a hard time syncing their coordination with the machines. But now, as a new era of motion-control arrives, the Kinect can change the way we operate, the way we control machines. With the Kinect, precision handling of these constructs are on their way as users and operators can finally control machines through motion-based commands.”
Category Archives: ABB
ABB's FRIDA Offers Glimpse of Future Factory Robots
“This headless, two-armed robot may be tomorrow’s factory worker. Its name is FRIDA, and it’s a creation of ABB, the Swiss power and automation giant, which introduced it early this month at the Hannover trade show, Europe’s largest industrial fair…”
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/abb-factory-robot-frida
Job Rotation to Västerås
Yesterday, I arrived in Västerås in Sweden, where I will stay for three month on a job rotation for ABB. Check out the weather and Google Street View.
ABB technology to search for signs of life on Mars
An ABB interferometer is a central component of an instrument that will orbit Mars and probe the planet’s atmosphere in search of indicators of the past or present existence of life.
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. Copyright: European Space Agency
ABB Robot playing Basketball
3D Factory Viewer Prototype
Cooperation with ABB Corporate Research Sweden:
Final MT Prototype – SCA Factory Viewer from Ru Zarin on Vimeo.
ABB Robotics Fanta Can Challenge
Timo found this impressive clip about ABB robots:
ABB Operator Workplace
I am currently involved in a project with a process control system, which looks like this:
ABB Flexpicker
Last year I worked on the software for these robots:
ABB Robots featured in "Terminator Salvation"
ABB will soon change its name into “Cyberdyne Systems”:
http://www.abb.de/cawp/seitp202/378c37a37c79c9f1852575a8006ce451.aspx