Roberta Nelson Shea from Common Robots Receives Robotics Award for Contribution to Robotic Security
Detroit, Michigan, Might 25, 2023: For the second time inside 5 years, a key determine at Common Robots (UR), the Danish producer of collaborative robots (cobots), has been awarded the world’s most prestigious robotics prize, the Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Award, typically described because the Nobel Prize of robotics.
Following within the footsteps of UR’s co-founder Esben Østergaard, who was given the Engelberger Award in 2018 within the Know-how class, Roberta Nelson Shea, UR’s International Technical Compliance Officer obtained the award for Functions at a ceremony final evening on the Automate Present in Detroit.
The Software class acknowledges people or organizations which have made a big contribution to the event of robotics expertise and its sensible software. Nelson Shea gained the award for her excellent work associated to robotics security the world over. For over 45 years, Nelson Shea has been a central determine within the improvement of commercial robotic security requirements in North America and all over the world. Because the convenor of the ISO committee, she led the introduction of ISO/TS 15066, which is the primary doc that defines standardized security necessities inside human-robot collaboration
“I’m extraordinarily honored to be receiving this award,” she mentioned. “I see it as an acknowledgement of not simply my very own work, but in addition of Common Robots’ and Teradyne’s dedication to security. This award is a recognition of all who’ve contributed to robotic security over time. Once I began on this discipline greater than 4 many years in the past, I felt I had a private mission and that there was nobody else who signed up for it with me. Now, particularly after the emergence of collaborative robotic purposes, we’re all aligned on the significance of security.”
Lately, different ladies have obtained Engelberger Awards, and that is one other indication of how robotics has advanced since UR’s International Technical Compliance Officer first began within the business in 1982:
“Fortunately, I’m not the primary girl to obtain this award, however with ladies nonetheless being outnumbered within the robotics business, I hope my profession can be an inspiration to youthful ladies as a result of they’ve an vital function to play sooner or later improvement of each robotics and expertise basically.”
Kim Povlsen, President, Common Robots, has additionally acknowledged Nelson Shea’s achievements.
“This award is a testomony to the good contribution Roberta has made to the robotics business. In robotics, and particularly on the subject of cobots, security is at all times the highest precedence. Roberta’s dedication to security has helped create the requirements for the interplay between folks and robots. This has been a significant contribution to the collaborative relationship we see as we speak between people and cobots throughout 1000’s of workplaces,” Kim Povlsen mentioned.
About Common Robots
Common Robots is a number one supplier of collaborative robots (cobots) used throughout a variety of
industries and in training. Based in 2005 and headquartered in Odense, Denmark, Common
Robots goals to create a world the place folks work with robots, not like robots. Its mission is
easy: Automation for anybody. Wherever.
Since introducing the world’s first commercially viable cobot in 2008, Common Robots has
developed a product portfolio reflecting a variety of reaches and payloads and has offered over 50,000
cobots worldwide. An intensive ecosystem has grown across the firm’s cobot expertise
creating innovation, alternative for patrons and a variety of elements, kits and options to
go well with each software.
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