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Andrew McManus joined Gannon &
Scott as general manager in 2016.
Previously, he spent 15 years at a
recycling company that processed
electronic waste and precious metal
scrap. Early in his career, McManus
worked in environmental and opera-
tions positions at manufacturing facilities involving
precious metals at metal-finishing shops and a flexible-
circuit operation. Andrew also served over 30 years in
the U.S. Army and Reserve retiring as a lieutenant
colonel. He earned an MBA in operations management
from Bryant University and a B.S. in chemical engineering
from the University of Rhode Island.
Gannon & Scott has been a precious metal processor
since 1919.
to help them pick up an object, the worker gives the robot a
hand signal. Another signal tells the robot to release the ob-
ject so it can be set down.
Professor Dimos Dimarogonas, coordinator of the proj-
ect at KTH's Department of Automatic Control, says that the
functionality is not platform-specific, so it can be transferred
to other robots during the next phase
when tests continue with Bosch.
"The robots will be in a larger dynamic
office environment and collaborate with
more robots and people. They will get
more advanced tasks, and with differ
-
ent types of agents," Dimarogonas says.
Other uses for the technology will even-
tually include healthcare facilities.
(Source: KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology report-
ed new progress working within the framework of the Hori-
zon 2020 European research project, Co4Robots. The proj-
ect has developed functionality that enables real-time ro-
bots to move in a dynamic situation while collaborating with
other robots and people.
The new functionality the project
has developed has since been as-
signed to the TIAGo robot from PAL Ro-
botics in Spain. TIAGo has gained a
sense of observation that it can use
to navigate in a changing landscape
such as an office. As the robot steers
itself around a workplace, it can iden
-
tify things that must be moved. When
a human co-worker wants the robot
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