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Rich Walker
Managing Director
An SME's view
Rich WalkerShadow Robot Company
Working with Shadow in EuRoC
If robots are going to be generally useful in the world, they will need hands like ours. This is the ultimate challenge in robotics.
Technology - Dexterous Hand
20 brushless DC motors
40 strain gauges
40 tendons
24 joints
24 position sensors
25 temperature sensors
5 pressure sensors
26 microcontrollers
2 CANbus interfaces
1 EtherCAT interface
Tech/SI: ROS development
Simulator
Package
Parameters
Robots Components
Distribution
Model
Topic
Service
Node
Electric Fuerte Groovy Hydro Indigo
Developers
Roadmap
Integration
RobotIdea
ClusterSWRI
Fraunhofer
Shadow
AnyRobotDesigner!
SLAM
MoveIt
Navigation
Kinematics
Unusual SI work
Tech: RoNeX
Use Cases
Collaboration Expertise
CLAWAR Meeting the key players in the field.Understanding where we all are, and what can happen next.
HANDLE Technology development on our key area.Pieces of our “AI” roadmap filled in.Strong partner relationships
TACO A challenge for our software lead.Access to a new type of sensor (then the Kinect...)
PV-SERVITOR Testing robots-in-clean-tech concepts.Some great war-stories...IP to take out into the world.
ECHORD - HYFLAM Trying an application with the leading people in that area.Working closely with a good previous partner.
ECHORD - DEXDEB Exploring an area we would never have tried.
STIFF-FLOP A product developed to fit a hole in the robotics market.To market in Year 2 of a 4-year medical robotics project!
CONTEST A full-time PhD and a research supervisor