AGV

ORMi Mobile Robot makes development simpler If you've developed a mobile robot, you'll know how difficult and frustrating it is to find compatible components and how challenging the process of putting them together, configuring the hardware, programming the software and getting them to talk each other usually is. All of that goes away when you use ORMi as the base...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is running a public challenge to develop an obstacle avoidance sensor for a possible future Venus rover. The "Exploring Hell: Avoiding Obstacles on a Clockwork Rover" challenge is seeking the public's designs for a sensor that could be incorporated into the design concept.     Venus is an extreme world. With a surface temperature in excess of...

Perfect for simple and low-cost AGV applications, AGV guiding by magnetic tape has become more widely used in recent years. The magnetic tape can be installed quickly and easily by the system operator and the track can be modified later. Continue reading →