{"id":143341,"date":"2022-07-31T22:02:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T03:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/the-omnid-mocobots-new-mobile-robots-for-safe-and-effective-collaboration"},"modified":"2022-07-31T22:02:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T03:02:53","slug":"the-omnid-mocobots-new-mobile-robots-for-safe-and-effective-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/the-omnid-mocobots-new-mobile-robots-for-safe-and-effective-collaboration","title":{"rendered":"The Omnid Mocobots: New mobile robots for safe and effective collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SEuFfONryL0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Teams of mobile robots could be highly effective in helping humans to complete straining manual tasks, such as manufacturing processes or the transportation of heavy objects. In recent years, some of these robots have already been tested and introduced in real-world settings, attaining very promising results.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Northwestern University\u2019s Center for Robotics and Biosystems have recently developed new collaborative <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/mobile+robots\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mobile robots<\/a>, dubbed Omnid Mocobots. These robots, introduced in a paper pre-published on arXiv, are designed to cooperate with each other and with humans to safely pick up, handle, and transport delicate and flexible payloads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Center for Robotics and Biosystems has a long history building robots that collaborate physically with humans,\u201d Matthew Elwin, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told TechXplore. \u201cIn fact, the term \u2018cobots\u2019 was coined here. The inspiration for the current work was manufacturing, warehouse, and construction tasks involving manipulating large, articulated, or flexible objects, where it is helpful to have several robots supporting the object.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teams of mobile robots could be highly effective in helping humans to complete straining manual tasks, such as manufacturing processes or the transportation of heavy objects. In recent years, some of these robots have already been tested and introduced in real-world settings, attaining very promising results. Researchers at Northwestern University\u2019s Center for Robotics and Biosystems [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143341","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}