Creating and Commercializing the NIST RoboCrane

A mechanical engineer tells the story of a successfully commercialized technology invented at NIST.

View as a Web Page Taking Measure Blog Creating and Commercializing the NIST RoboCrane By Nicholas G. Dagalakis, a mechanical engineer at NIST The RoboCrane — now hard at work at the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear cleanup sites — is a good example of a successfully commercialized technology invented at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I'll try to tell that story in this blog. In the early 1980s, the manufacturing of industrial robots was dominated by a few dozen U.S. companies eager to expand into new applications with new innovative robot designs. One application that had not yet been explored was that of robotic cranes that could move and position industrial robots or tools in novel ways to achieve a variety of new tasks.  Read More IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Search and Rescue Robotics: A Q&A With NIST's Adam Jacoff May 7, 2021 Adam Jacoff has been a robotics research engineer at NIST since 1988. His research has focused on developing a variety of new robotic capabilities and designing comprehensive suites of tests to foster innovation throughout the robotics community to help keep emergency responders out of harm's way. Read More

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