Global Service Robotics Market

Posted June 15th, 2010 by sharkdancer

 

Global Service Robotics Market

Service robots can be used to provide domestic aid for the elderly and disabled; serving various functions ranging from cleaning to entertainment. The high cost of labor in developed countries and the increasing need for assisted living has led to the development of the service robotics market. The saturation of industrial robotics industry also lends significant growth potential to this nascent market. ( http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=135403&rt=Global-Service-Robotics-Market.html )

As service robots are in greater proximity to humans, the technology involves more safety concerns over human-machine interaction. However, developments in the manufacture of intelligent and safer robots are expected to soon address the issues of safety, manipulation, and sensing. Thus, leading robotics companies have begun preparing for the day when every home will have a robot. The stakeholders of the market will be benefited by key opportunities identified and analyzed in the report. Also, the key players, their developments and strategies have been analyzed and explained in the report.

Market estimates and forecasts

The report provides in-depth market estimates and forecast for the following global service robotics market:

Service Robotics by functions: Professional service Robots, Personal service robots, Field robots, Inspection and Maintenance robots, Construction and Demolition robots, Logistic system robots, Medical robots, Defense, Security and Surveillance robots, underwater robots, Domestic robots, Entertainment robots, Handicap assistance robots and Home Security and Surveillance robots.

Key questions answered

• Which are the high-growth segments/cash cows and how is the market segmented in terms of market directed specialty chemicals?
• What are market estimates and forecasts; which markets are doing well and which are not?
• Where are the gaps and opportunities; what is driving the market?
• Which are the key playing fields? Which are the winning edge imperatives?
• How is the competitive outlook; who are the main players in each of the segments; what are the key selling products; what are their strategic directives, operational strengths and product pipelines? Who is doing what?
 

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History and limitations of a forex robotics

Posted June 15th, 2010 by sharkdancer

In the era of1950s scientists and engineers had started working on developing the technology of robotics. It was believed at that time that robots would be conducting all the small jobs for humans in the 21st century. There are many documentaries and programs that claimed this would happen.

A company named Intel had introduced to the world in November 1971. It was a chip microprocessor which was the first in its own league. It was known as Intel 4004 (U.S. Patent #3,821,715) which was invented by Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin, and Stan Mazor who are all Intel engineers.

This innovation was the path way to the advance in development of robotics. These robot controls have an important place in our lives and take care of quite a few aspects. Many of the small jobs in a work place or a factory are executed by robots in which they excel with impeccable execution.

Even with such enormous advancement in robotic development, it is still not possible to see robots to stand beside humans while trading is taking place to scream out in shrill voices “Warning” and wave their hands. Robots are still not seen doing any household chores in the house. There are a lot of decisions to be made in even the most ordinary of tasks in a household.

Plugging a vacuum cleaner in the dock may be a very simple task to anybody though this may be a huge task for the brain to function to complete. Then, in a household very often we need to act with emotions. This is not possible for a robot to do. Thus, there have been many automated trading systems but not one robot to carry out mundane household chores. It is at the same time not so surprising to realize that there aren’t any robots that can make judgment calls while trading in forex and using forex robotics.

There are automated trading help that can be entered in a trade after some pre mentioned conditions have been met, though this technology is far away from a fully automated trading. “Set it and forget it” technology in automated trading has yet to be developed.

If this had been possible in this era there would not be any eager traders following the forex market. Instead they would be relaxing and whiling away time. Trading houses would not exist with analysts and traders. Instead there would be computers doing all the work.

Though this seems to be dream come true in the foreseeable future for all those banking institutions that would have gladly closed all their investment departments and laid off people for automation, it is not the case in our present case scenario. In spite of these limitations, Forex Robotics and forex related software like robotics has made life of the forex traders much easier and convenient.

The advent of robotics in car wash equipments

Posted June 14th, 2010 by sharkdancer

A robot is defined as a mechanical device that is meant to do the work of a human being. In fact it can work harder than a human being since it is activated by sound waves and radiant energy. Robots play an important role in all types of cleaning, moving, lifting and various other jobs. They have also entered the car washing industry to bring out perfectly and effectively cleaned cars.

In this car wash equipment process performed by the robots, it uses a feed back loop by which information is transmitted from the carwash equipments that are fixed at various points where the vehicles is shifted to and from while being cleaned. With the help of these transmitting sources mechanical energy gets converted to electrical energy in a process called transducers.

These transducers play a very important role in the robotics method of Car Wash Systems. Vehicles of varying height and length can be cleaned by this method. The robot is programmed to clean each vehicle according to its size. This method is adopted to improve the chemical consumption and the quality of the way along with other functions as well.

The roller arm is a device used to sense all carwash equipment from the brush arm movement to the overhead door position. In this way the car gets completely clean leaving no part out including the windshield and the door jams etc.

The modern transducer does its work without physical contact with the vehicle. Instead the loop detector is used to sense the vehicle’s presence while cleaning. They are fitted with a photo-eye that sends signals to the PLC. The signal strength can be adjusted. It should be fixed properly by applying tape to the receiver eye lens leaving a small area in the middle uncovered.

The next robotic in car wash equipment Installation is the proximity switch. It is the metal detector in car washes. It is able to sense metal like the loop detector but only with a finer accuracy. Since this is a sensing unit care should be taken when adjusting or replacing the proximity switch. Care should be taken to set the right distance between the sensing end of switch and the target. It should be perfect to the manufacturer’s specification.

Ultrasonic sensors are another carwash transducer. This refers to the sound wave frequency that is above the normal hearing range of a human being. Physical therapy, welding plants and distance measuring equipments use ultrasonic sensors to do their work.

The ultra sonic sensor that is applied in car washing transmits sound waves that reflect off the surface of an object and then come back to the source or to the paired receiver. The distance is then calculated by the time spent between the sending and receiving of the sound waves.

In this technology the brush and the touch less automatic equipments benefit by the ultrasonic car wash robotic equipment. In this way the chemical consumption and the water consumption are reduced when the spray arm is used for cleaning the side of the vehicle.

With ultrasonic sensors vehicle drivers can be instructed to steer their vehicle either to the left or right. In the case of tall vehicles the upper brush halves are engaged to perform rear arm oscillation. These and many more functions are available with ultra sonic sensors. In short, they are very important in robotic car washing.

Now coming to the future one may begin to think what type of robotic technology one might see. It could be just anything like human like figures walking stiffly all around doing more work than a human being. The car industry has faced this challenging robotics in their industry and has increased their profitability. But at the same time it’s hard to find low cost labor that is high in quality. Customers should be treated with utmost care and attention or one would lose good customers.

Though washing may seem a bit simple drying a car used to be a bit difficult. But this is not anymore with the introduction of the robotics in car washing. Surely during the winter months cars get crusted with snow and salt from icy roads. The robotics need to be trusted during these times. They would complete the work instantly and impressively. If a car is parked between to points and a robot is put to use it would dry the car perfectly well without pressing down on the vehicle by using the Haptic Sensor technology.

Global Service Robotics

Posted June 12th, 2010 by sharkdancer

Service robots can be used to provide domestic aid for the elderly and disabled; serving various functions ranging from cleaning to entertainment. The high cost of labor in developed countries and the increasing need for assisted living has led to the development of the service robotics market. The saturation of industrial robotics industry also lends significant growth potential to this nascent market.

As service robots are in greater proximity to humans, the technology involves more safety concerns over human-machine interaction. However, developments in the manufacture of intelligent and safer robots are expected to soon address the issues of safety, manipulation, and sensing. Thus, leading robotics companies have begun preparing for the day when every home will have a robot.

The stakeholders of the market will be benefited by key opportunities identified and analyzed in the report. Also, the key players, their developments and strategies have been analyzed and explained in the report.

Market estimates and forecasts

The report provides in-depth market estimates and forecast for the following global service robotics market:

Service Robotics by functions:  Professional service Robots, Personal service robots, Field robots, Inspection and Maintenance robots, Construction and Demolition robots, Logistic system robots, Medical robots, Defense, Security and Surveillance robots, underwater robots, Domestic robots, Entertainment robots, Handicap assistance robots and Home Security and Surveillance robots.

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•    Which are the high-growth segments/cash cows and how is the market segmented in terms of market directed specialty chemicals?
•    What are market estimates and forecasts; which markets are doing well and which are not?
•    Where are the gaps and opportunities; what is driving the market?
•    Which are the key playing fields? Which are the winning edge imperatives?
•    How is the competitive outlook; who are the main players in each of the segments; what are the key selling products; what are their strategic directives, operational strengths and product pipelines? Who is doing what?

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The Label Printers Sponsors Geneva High School’S First Robotics Team

Posted June 11th, 2010 by sharkdancer

Geneva High School’s “ROBOVIKES” Team Attacks the FIRST Robotics Program’s Breakaway Challenge

Walking into a Geneva High School “ROBOVIKES” team meeting is like stepping into any team meeting of teenagers – they’re working, chatting, teasing, and laughing.  They’re excited about what they’re building, maybe a little anxious about the upcoming competitions, but also looking forward to something that they understand, in their second year as a team, will be a blast.

The ROBOVIKES feature a mascot designed by The Label Printers’ prepress department, to the team’s specifications.  The ROBOVIKE is clearly a cross between Geneva High School’s “Vikings” mascot and Robocop as he must look on the weekends when he’s working in the shop in his basement.  In keeping with the Viking theme, Geneva will once again be naming their robot after a Viking god/goddess. Last year’s robot Freyja and her rookie team went to the Midwest Regionals, advancing there to the FIRST equivalent of the “Elite Eight”.  This year’s team hopes to do as well, or better, in this year’s game, called Breakaway.

The FIRST program is designed so that the kids have only 6 weeks to build their robot from a kit of parts, with no instructions – one of the many life lessons that are part of this “competition of the mind” – and that 6 week time frame is a significant commitment of time and effort that is clearly understood by everyone. Mary Keyzer, a teacher at Geneva High School, draws on her years of experience as a coach, as she keeps an eagle eye on the proceedings, occasionally making a suggestion to one of the kids about what they might be working on.  She says, “This year has been a little less stressful because we already had supplies and a core group of kids [from last year’s rookie team].  But it’s still a much slower process than people realize.”  Trevor Deem, a sophomore veteran of last year’s ROBOVIKES team chimes in, “It’s slow, but fun.  FIRST is fun.”

Senior David Foehring, who is considering an aerospace engineering major at IIT, is a rookie ROBOVIKE, and is involved with building the robot.  He says, “It’s kinda fun coming up with different solutions to the challenges.”  Sophomore Keane Hensley is a team veteran.  He thinks that FIRST is a “great program [that] provides a lot of opportunities for anyone interested in any type of engineering.  The challenge is really different this year.  They did a really good job of making something really new and fresh.”  He echoes Mary Keyzer’s sentiment, saying that this year “it was easier to get going because we’ve got stuff already from last year.”  Freshman Matt Fee thinks that FIRST is “really fun.  A different experience than what we usually do in school.”  Matt is a member of the Alpine Club (Geneva’s ski club) and the freshman football team.  And while FIRST may be a “competition of the mind”, Matt says that it’s like being on a football team, as everyone is “still working together for a common goal.”

In addition to Mary Keyzer, the ROBOVIKES coach, the team has two principal adult mentors who have volunteered countless hours to help the team build the robot – Kevin Keyzer, a ceramics engineer and Mary’s husband, and Joe Kane, who is the Prepress Department Manager at The Label Printers.  Kevin’s brother is the teacher/mentor for the FIRST team at Lake Zurich High School and Kevin has long thought that the program is outstanding.  Joe is a graduate of Geneva High School, who has a long term interest in robots, having built robots for both middle school and high school science projects.  Joe says, “We have a good group of kids.  There’s a lot of enthusiasm with this group.  Even though we lost four seniors from last year’s team, we have four freshmen to replace them, which is good.  The continuity helps.”  He also echoes the idea that this year is easier than their rookie year.  “They’re learned a lot.  This year they’re much better at working as a team.  And we can get better.  This year will be a good year to get the construction part down, and hopefully future ROBOVIKES teams will be able to add other elements of the FIRST program, such as the ‘business’ aspect.  For that, they’ll need community involvement and Boosters.”

Joe Kane encourages everyone to attend the Midwest Regional competition, held at UIC on March 19th and 20th.  He suggests that this year’s game “should be very spectator friendly.  Last year was a little chaotic to the observer – balls flying all over the place, tough to understand who had scored and how.  But this year’s game is soccer themed, and I think that people who haven’t been immersed in the game for 6 weeks, trying to build a robot that will accomplish the game objectives, will better understand the action.”  Twins (of the extremely identical variety) Derik and Mitchell Baer are freshmen working on construction of the robot.  They think that FIRST is “pretty neat [and] offers a challenge.”  They play Tri-Cities Soccer, and think that the soccer aspect of this year’s game is fun.

Dr. Woodie Flowers, FIRST national advisor and Pappalardo professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, advised students on how to succeed in the 21st century noting, “This thing we’re launching today [the Breakaway game introduction] is not about building a robot, it’s about changing society. Remember Gracious Professionalism™, remember informed thinking, and remember critical analysis – all three, all the time. If you do that, you will soon have real comparative advantage.”

ROBOVIKE Team Members:

Seniors:  David Foehring, Kris Marut, Travis Reed, Will Zupke

Sophomores:  Trevor Deem, Keane Hensley, Josh Kilmer, Jack Wilbur

Freshmen:  Derik Baer, Mitchell Baer, Will Camacho, Matt Fee

About THE LABEL PRINTERS:

The Label Printers, Aurora, IL, started in business in 1967, manufacturing simple label constructions in a 1,000 square foot space, with 1 employee, serving the local Chicago market.

Today, the company has evolved into one of the 100 largest converters in the United States.  The Label Printers owns and operates two facilities in Aurora, Illinois, manufacturing and distributing labels and packaging products to thousands of customers in 25 countries around the world. The company’s packaging products are certified to ISO 9001 standards, and their quality is backed up by their 99.6% Quality Acceptance Rating.

About Geneva High School (Community Unit School District 304)

Geneva Community High School is over 130 years old and has over 1,800 students, 150 faculty members, and offers more than 150 courses in eleven academic areas.  Students may also enroll in one of thirty-seven academic courses in the Fox Valley Career Center curriculum.  Advanced placement and honors courses are offered in all academic areas supported by the expansion of our Acceleration and Enrichment program. 

While maintaining an outstanding tradition of excellence in education, athletic and extracurricular programs, our school provides a wide variety of community service learning experiences throughout Geneva and the Fox Valley.  Our experienced administrative team and dedicated staff, along with the support of the community of Geneva, offer one of the finest educational opportunities available throughout the state of Illinois.

About the “Breakaway” Game:

Teams receive a Kit of Parts made up of motors, batteries, a control system, a PC, and a mix of automation components – but no instructions. Working with mentors, students have six weeks to design, build, program, and test their robots to meet the season’s engineering challenge. Once these young inventors create a robot, their teams participate in competitions that measure the effectiveness of each robot, the power of collaboration, and the determination of students.

In the FRC “Breakaway” robotics game, two alliances of three teams will compete on a 27-by-54-foot field with bumps, attempting to earn points by collecting soccer balls in goals. Additional bonus points will be earned for each robot suspended in air and not touching the field at the end of the match.

The bumps have the potential to flip the robot or make it crash because of its steepness. As they “run the floor” the robots will need to shoot soccer balls in their two goals (four goals total, but as in soccer, “own” goals count for the “other” team).  Each goal scored is one point. Robots may play defense to prevent the other teams from scoring. As the game winds down to its last seconds, robots can score bonus points by suspending themselves off of a 7-foot tower. This earns the team two bonus points. And teams can earn three more points for every robot that is hanging off of the already suspended robot.

About the FIRST Robotics Competition:

The FIRST Robotics Competition is an annual competition that helps students discover the excitement of science, engineering, and technology and the rewards a career in STEM can bring. More than 45,000 high-school students on over 1,800 teams from the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Germany, Herzegovina, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands, Turkey, and the U.K. will participate in this year’s competition.

In 1992, the FIRST Robotics Competition began with 28 teams and a single 14-by-14-foot playing field in a New Hampshire high school gym. This season more than 1,800 teams – including 278 rookie teams – will participate. Forty-three regional competitions in the U.S., Canada, and Israel, plus seven district competitions and one state championship in Michigan, will lead up to the 2010 FIRST Championship at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, April 15-17.
FIRST programs are spearheaded by more than 90,000 dedicated volunteers worldwide, most of them professional engineers and scientists who mentor the next generation of innovators.

Participating students are eligible to apply for nearly $12 million in scholarships offered by leading universities, colleges, and companies.

About FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology):

Accomplished inventor Dean Kamen founded FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) in 1989 to inspire an appreciation of science and technology in young people. Based in Manchester, N.H., FIRST designs accessible, innovative programs to build self-confidence, knowledge, and life skills while motivating young people to pursue opportunities in science, technology, and engineering. With support from three out of every five Fortune 500 companies and nearly $12 million in college scholarships, the not-for-profit organization hosts the FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC®) and FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC®) for high-school students, FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL®) for 9 to 14-year-olds, (9 to 16-year-olds outside the U.S. and Canada) and Junior FIRST® LEGO® League (Jr.FLL) for 6 to 9-year-olds. Gracious Professionalism™ is a way of doing things that encourages high-quality work, emphasizes the value of others, and respects individuals and the community. To learn more about FIRST, go to www.usfirst.org.

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