Assessing Industrial Robot agility through international competitions

Manufacturing and Industrial Robotics have reached a point where to be more useful to small and medium sized manufacturers, the systems must become more agile and must be able to adapt to changes in the environment. This paper describes the process for creating and the lessons learned over multiple years of the Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition (ARIAC) being run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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Manufacturing and Industrial Robotics have evolved to a stage where they need to be more agile and adaptable to environmental changes, as demonstrated by the Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition (ARIAC) organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.