The majority of robotics used in industry are in very structured environments. To program and teach a robot a specific task in industry, like spray painting an area, takes a significant amount of time. Dr. Anthony Maciejewski and his team of Randy Hoover and Shantell Hinton at Colorado State University are working on a way to not only automate the process but also to reduce configurations that create kinematic singularities which reduce motion by dropping off a degree of freedom of the robotic movement.
