Eureka Robotics Pte Ltd
Octavia Leithoff
With a little luck, a lot of preparation and hard work, the Eureka Robotics Team is headed to Worlds for the second time. They beat 24 other Montana teams in the robot games competition at the State Championships in Bozeman securing their spot in Houston in April.
The small team is successful for many reasons, one of those being the middle school robotics team is a feeder program for the high school. It all comes down to the students who participate in the six-month extracurricular activity.
These people they're all cool because they have the same passions as us and it was really awesome because you don't find a lot of robotic nerds in Eureka," said Team Eureka Robotics programmer Benjamin Cooke.
They're like faces for like sheer terror. Like they were so scared that like our main driver wasn't there. But despite all those challenges, we still performed extremely well, and Jackson stepped in, and he did a phenomenal job," said Lord.
And we told the judges that, they thought wow, that's really interesting because usually, people use pre-made switches. However, we just made these switches out of a screw and a soldered piece of metal. And so they worked really well," said Cooke.
Eureka is a wonderful community. They helped us fundraise our way to worlds and without them, one, we wouldn't have a robotics team and two, we wouldn't have had the opportunity to be there. And so it's just wonderful that we had the support of our community," said Lord.
The six-axis robot arm uses cameras and algorithms to plan its motion and how much force to exert in its grip. The system can mimic the dexterity of human fingers and the visual acuity of human eyes, claimed NTU Singapore.
Pham Quang Cuong, an NTU associate professor who founded Eureka Robotics, said Archimedes is different from other robots currently used in industry that have either high accuracy but low agility (where robots perform the same movements repeatedly), or low accuracy but high agility (such as robots handling packages of different sizes in logistics).
While the robot also takes a few hours to slot delicate optics into a designated tray just like a human operator, the operator can now focus on higher-level tasks after taking three minutes to start the robot on its job, said Pham.
Archimedes uses AI to analyze how many lenses there are and their respective sizes, then an algorithm plans the most efficient way to slot them onto the tray. An alert sounds once the task is complete, so the operator can remove the fully loaded tray, ready for the next manufacturing process.
This robotics research was supported by the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). Its development from a lab concept into a prototype that is now going out to market is one example of technological translations taking place at the NTU Smart Campus.
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The robot can slot lenses and mirrors of different sizes into a custom loading tray, to get them ready for coating. This level of precision could benefit the manufacturers of optical products such as cameras, medical imaging, and eyewear because it eliminates defects in production and improves productivity, said NTU Singapore.
Eureka Robotics plans to deliver Archimedes to a U.S. laser optics manufacturer, after which it will look into adapting the platform for other types of manufacturing processes currently done with manual labor, such as drilling and tapping of custom machinery.
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In teaching and research, all of them emphasized the importance of utilizing simulation platforms, with a preference for Python and ROS. They primarily leverage Python and ROS to acquire fundamental programming and robotics software development skills, which they then apply to practical myBuddy projects. Jiayin Bai emphasized her experience with myBuddy, stating, "As many students may be encountering robots for the first time, I primarily use myBlockly and Python programming to understand myBuddy's mobility. Then, I introduce the ROS system to familiarize them with Linux and ROS for robotics operations."
In the UK robotics landscape, various robotics centres specialize in different areas and then they may use different types of robots. But Shuyang Hu emphasised, "I think the single robot arm is the one that every robotics center must have." This insight reflects the diverse focuses within the field, with single-arm robots being fundamental for various experiments and research. Additionally, the dual-arm design of myBuddy has enabled Jiaji to illustrate the differences between single-arm and dual-arm robots, offering a clearer understanding of the challenges and opportunities in humanoid robot development.
In practice, there are notable distinctions in the application of single-arm and dual-arm robots within both research and education. Single-arm robots are typically employed in teaching to convey fundamental knowledge, such as motion planning and control. Conversely, dual-arm robots, due to their involvement in various control algorithms, are better suited for in-depth exploration in research areas like coordinated control, synchronous motion, and trajectory planning. Single-arm robots are primarily used for simpler tasks like grasping and handling, while dual-arm robots excel in more complex scenarios, facilitating tasks that require cooperation between two robotic arms, such as synchronization and trajectory prediction. These differences hold significant implications for both educational instruction and research endeavors.
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