{"id":111947,"date":"2020-08-26T14:31:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/why-ford-wants-robot-dogs-running-through-its-plants"},"modified":"2020-08-26T14:31:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:31:19","slug":"why-ford-wants-robot-dogs-running-through-its-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/why-ford-wants-robot-dogs-running-through-its-plants","title":{"rendered":"Why Ford Wants Robot Dogs Running Through Its Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-ford-wants-robot-dogs-running-through-its-plants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Ford appears to have found a unique way to use a robot. We\u2019ve seen some interesting applications for Boston Dynamics\u2019 Spot robot, and the latest takes the 70-pound dog-like robot to the floors of a Ford transmission manufacturing plant.<\/p>\n<p>These plants are reportedly so old \u2014 and have been re-tooled so many times \u2014 that Ford is unsure as to whether it possesses accurate floor plans. With an end goal of modernizing and retooling these plants, Ford is using Spot\u2019s laser scanning and imaging technology to travel the plants so they can produce a detailed map.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/07\/27\/ford-to-use-boston-dynamics-dog-like-robots-to-map-their-manufacturing-facilities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch<\/a>, the manual facility mapping process is time-intensive, with lots of stops and starts as cameras are set up and repositioned station to station. By using two continuously roving robots, Ford can do the job in about half the time. The other benefit is Spot\u2019s size: these little critters can access areas that humans can\u2019t easily get to, and with five cameras they can sometimes provide a more complete picture of their surroundings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Ford appears to have found a unique way to use a robot. We\u2019ve seen some interesting applications for Boston Dynamics\u2019 Spot robot, and the latest takes the 70-pound dog-like robot to the floors of a Ford transmission manufacturing plant. These plants are reportedly so old \u2014 and have been re-tooled so many times \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}