A Unified Framework for Real-Time Failure Handling in Robotics Using Vision-Language Models, Reactive Planner and Behavior Trees - 2025-03-19 - Research Publication - The paper presents a unified failure recovery framework that combines Vision-Language Models (VLMs), a reactive planner, and Behavior Trees (BTs) to enable real-time failure handling. The authors evaluate the framework… - source: arxiv.org
Towards Autonomous Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Robotic Manipulation with Large Language Models - 2025-03-06 - Research Publication - The authors propose Autonomous Reinforcement learning for Complex Human-Informed Environments (ARCHIE), an unsupervised pipeline leveraging GPT-4, a pre-trained LLM, to generate reward functions directly from natural… - source: arxiv.org
ABB Robotics Uses 3D Printing for Functional Prototyping - 2016-09-23 - Demonstration - ABB Robotics utilized the Ultimaker 2 Extended+ 3D printer to create prototype fingers for their YuMi robot. This approach reduced the prototyping process from several weeks to just a few days. The 3D-printed designs were… - source: all3dp.com
ABB introduces YuMi, world's first truly collaborative dual-arm robot - 2015-04-13 - Product Launch - ABB introduced YuMi (IRB 14000), a dual-arm collaborative robot designed for small-parts assembly and safe human-robot workcells. YuMi combines force-sensitive safety behavior, vision-assisted handling, and lead-through… - source: automate.org