Posts Tagged ‘RUTH’

Ford Robot Measures Interior Comfort

Published by Nadeem Muaddi on August 4th, 2012

Car owners prefer soft-touch surfaces in their vehicle cabins – that’s a fact. But how soft is soft enough?

To answer that question, Ford is using a robot it calls RUTH to measure comfort and standardize quality. While the system has been employed in Europe for years, it has only recently come to American shores.

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