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Robotics & AI

Verve Motion’s Revolutionary Robot Backpack Reduces Burden on Workers

Naturally, I jumped at the opportunity to take Verve Motion’s SafeLift Exosuit for a spin. You put it on over your shoulders and then snap yourself in with a pair of chest straps. Next, another pair of soft straps are stretched around your thighs and Velcro-ed in place. The thigh straps are connected to a pair of soft fabric cables that retract into the backpack with a bit of a yank. Verve Motion sells SafeLift as part of a larger system featuring a wall of lockers/cubby holes used to store and charge the exosuits.

Max Chen
March 12, 2024

Robotics & AI

“Exploring the World of Robotics: A Conversation with UC Berkeley Professor Ken Goldberg”

Techcrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2018 Day 3

For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. Large language models like ChatGPT can allow robots and humans to communicate in natural language. Robot “singularities” are a fundamental problem for all robot arms; they are very different from Kurzweil’s hypothetical point in time when AI surpasses humans. Robot singularities are points in space where a robot stops unexpectedly and must be manually reset by a human operator. For repetitive robot motions, singularities can be avoided by tedious manual fine-tuning of repetitive robot motions to adjust them such that they never encounter singularities.