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Page 1: rw@  Rich Walker -  · PDF fileRich Walker Managing Director rw@  An SME's view Rich Walker Shadow Robot Company Working with Shadow in EuRoC

Rich Walker

Managing Director

[email protected]

An SME's view

Rich WalkerShadow Robot Company

Working with Shadow in EuRoC

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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

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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

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Unusual SI work

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Tech: RoNeX

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Use Cases

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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