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MOOCs ? Massive Open Online Course ! These online courses, accessibleto all and most of the times free of charges are multiplying lately. If you lack of theorical basics for your mobile bases, if you want to have a look at artificial vision or to learn about machine learning,you will find material in these courses.[…]
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We generally associate industrial robotics with the kind of robotic arms used on production lines in the automotive industry. This is a common image. These robots, derived from automatism, are efficient, accurate and rapid. Since Unimate, the first industrial robot used by General Motors in 1961, these robots have made great progress and are continuing[…]
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On 5 November 2012, I was invited by Sirris, in Belgium, to the Smart Factory Day to present a session on the arrival on the market of a new class of industrial robot, called the collaborative robot, and notably the Baxter robot by Rethink Robotics. You can download a commented PDF version of this presentation[…]
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On January 16, we delivered a Baxter robot at the Irccyn Laboratory of the Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France). IRCCyN is the research institute of communication and cybernetics of Nantes. It is a mixed CNRS unit that is also a dependent unit of the Ecole Centrale de Nantes, University of Nantes and the Ecole des[…]
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On October 15, members of Generation Robots went at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland for mutual presentation. EPFL is well known in the world of robotics as one of the most advanced schools in Europe on service robotics. The visiting team was very excited about this presentation. The day began with a presentation of the collaborative[…]
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