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RoboticsTomorrow Industry Newsletter - July 2012

Challenges In Moving Goods --- RMT Robotics Celebrates Seven Years of ADAM™ Mobile Robot Success in Tire Handling --- Auto Pan-Tilt Camera System For Tracking Fast Moving Objects

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Challenges In Moving Goods
07/24/12, Len Calderone
We might never see warehouses that employ robots exclusively, but the ratio of robots to humans will continue to grow, as more jobs are automated. Robots are safer and they don’t call in on Monday with a hangover.

Silvus Demonstrates Robot Repeater Capability on TALON & FasTac
07/24/12, Contributed by, Silvus Technologies
Silvus Technologies demonstrated its MIMO radio repeater capability integrated into QinetiQ’s TALON and iRobot’s FasTac robots at the Army Expeditionary Warfighters Experiment (AEWE) Spiral G. TARDEC’s Ground Vehicle Robotics group requested Silvus to integrate its SC3500 MIMO radio into both robotic platforms as part of TARDEC’s ISR Mission Concepts platform.

QinetiQ Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robots
07/24/12, Contributed by, QinetiQ North America
QinetiQ is primarily focused on the defense and security markets today; however, we are seeing growing interest in robotics for the agricultural and mining industries where robotics can provide more efficient operations in harsh environments.

Adept Robotics for the Solar Industry
07/24/12, Contributed by, Adept
Today’s ultra-thin solar cells require precise and gentle handling. And with the increasing demand on solar manufacturers for product, automation must deliver the highest throughput possible.

Silvus SC3500 MIMO Radio Delivers 16 Mbps Bidirectional Link to Bomb Squad Taurus Robot
07/24/12, Contributed by, Silvus Technologies
Advanced wireless capabilities have not been available to bomb squads, who have had to rely on a tethered approach, until now. With Silvus’ cutting edge MIMO radios, EOD UGV operators can now wirelessly examine suspicious objects with 3D HD video and haptic feedback precision from safe NLOS distances of a few hundred meters.

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Auto Pan-Tilt Camera System For Tracking Fast Moving Objects

 Click Here for the full article: Phys.org

A team at the University of Japan have developed a camera system for tracking fast moving objects automatically and accurately without motion prediction. The example video shown on their website demonstrates the camera tracking a ping pong game. Even a high-speed object like a bouncing pingpong ball in play can be tracked at the center due to a high-speed optical gaze controller Saccade Mirror and a 1000-fps high-speed vision. The Saccade Mirror controls a camera's gazing direction not by moving the camera itself but by rotating two-axis small galvanometer mirrors. It takes no more than 3.5 ms even if it controls the gaze by 60 deg, the widest angle, for both pan and tilt. The newest prototype system accesses a Full HD image quality for an actual broadcasting service.

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News

RMT Robotics Celebrates Seven Years of ADAM™ Mobile Robot Success in Tire Handling

 

Honeywell Introduces SMART Position Sensor, Rotary Configuration

 

Silvus introduces the SC3800 MIMO radio at AUVSI 2012

 

Low-Cost Stepper Drive for DMC-30000 1-Axis Ethernet Motion Controller

 

iRobot Receives $7.7 Million Order from the U.S. Navy

 

Events

AUVSI'S UNMANNED SYSTEMS NORTH AMERICA 2012
Aug 06 - 09 2012, Las Vegas, NV

 

RO-MAN 2012 - 21ST IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ROBOT AND HUMAN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION
Sep 09 - 13 2012, Paris, France

 

IMTS 2012 - THE INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY SHOW
Sep 10 - 15 2012, Chicago, IL

 

NATIONAL ROBOT SAFETY CONFERENCE XXIV
Sep 24 - 26 2012, Indianapolis, Indiana USA

 

FABTECH
Nov 12 - 14 2012, Las Vegas, NV

 

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