Giving Artificial Hands a Sense of Touch
One of the biggest challenges in prosthetic hand development is designing a method that would let prosthetic hands transmit haptic information — the sense of touch — to patients. Machine Design magazine has an article about Kinea Design's new approach that provides wearers with more sensory information, including contact pressure, friction, texture, and temperature. The full article can be read here.
Five Companies Join Rockwell Automation Encompass Program
Two product suppliers have joined the Rockwell Automation Encompass third-party product referencing program in the Americas region, while an additional three companies have been named global partners.
ABB to control pulp and paper plant in India
ABB won an order worth more than $15 million to supply integrated automation and power equipment and related engineering and commissioning services to JK Paper Ltd for its expansion project.
PCL and Toyota Code Sprint 2011
PCL Code Sprints are intended to rapidly advance the capabilities of the Point Cloud Library in a certain area/subject by offering stipends to talented student developers and pairing them with knowledgeable mentors for several months of accelerated software development
"ROS (Robotic Operating Systems) Everywhere!" says Willow Garage's Steve Cousins
Yaskawa America's Motoman Robotics Division signed a collaboration agreement with the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to port Willow Garage's ROS (Robotic Operating System) to the Motoman line of industrial robots.
Microscan's Vision HAWK Smart Camera Brings Robust Vision Inspection to Packaging Operations
Microscan announces the new Vision HAWK smart camera. Built rugged packaging and production environments, the fully-integrated vision system will be demonstrated at the company's booth, #6145, at next week's Pack Expo 2011, taking place in the Las Vegas Convention Center, Sept. 26-28.
Freescale Selects Mentor Graphics to Develop Software Libraries for Enhanced AltiVec Engine
Highly advanced software intended to optimize performance of Freescale's QorIQ AMP processors
Thien eDrives Cuts Electric Motor Controller Development Time in Half with Model-Based Design
MathWorks Code Generation Tools for TI's C2000 MCU Speed Progress from First Prototype to Final Series
Edward T. Lu, NASA Astronaut and Renowned Astrophysicist Joins Liquid Robotics
Liquid Robotics, Inc., an ocean data services provider and developer of the first wave-powered Wave Glider marine robot, today announced that Edward (Ed) T. Lu, formerly of Google and NASA, has joined the company as chief of innovative applications.
Improvements To 3D Navigation Using Octomap And ROS
Armin Hornung made major improvements to the OctoMap 3D mapping library. Scan insertions are now twice as fast as before for real-time map updates and tree traversals are now possible in a flexible and efficient manner using iterators. The new ROS interface provides conversions from most common ROS datatypes, and Octomap server was updated for incremental 3D mapping. Armin also worked on creating a dynamically updatable collision map for tabletop manipulation. The collider package uses OctoMap to provide map updates from laser and dense stereo sensors at a rate of about 10Hz.
The complete summary is available here.
JAI releases two quad-tap cameras
JAI announced two 2-megapixel industrial grade cameras which offer high resolution and CCD-quality images at faster frame rates than typical CCD cameras.
RMT Robotics signs distributor in India
RMT Robotics entered into an agreement with Larsen & Toubro's LTM Business Unit (LTM), giving exclusive rights for the promotion and sale of the ADAM AMR (Autonomous Mobile Robot) products and solutions within India.
SMIT Expands Global Fleet with Schilling HD ROVs
Schilling Robotics, LLC, experts in subsea systems, announced today the order for two (2) Heavy-Duty (HD) ROV systems from maritime operator SMIT.
Adept Technology Reduces the Cost and Complexity of Automating Packaging
OctoMation Robotic Workforce Simplifies the Packaging of Fresh Produce and Processed Foods
Timberland Says 'Perfect Fit' to Kiva Systems for Multi-channel Retail Fulfillment Solution
Company Chooses Mobile-robotic Approach for Increased Flexibility
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Industrial Robotics - Featured Product
TM Robotics - THE600 SCARA robot
Designed for assembly and inspection applications in the electronics equipment and automobile components industries, the THE600 SCARA is a powerful automation tool. Advancing from the specifications of the existing THE400 SCARA, the THE600 has been developed to meet growing demand for fast-cycle automation. The THE600 model includes improvements in synchronised control and tracking precision. The THE600 is compact in design and offers improved high speed, with 60 per cent higher payload capacity than competing SCARA models in the same price range, making it the price-to-performance leader. Affordable price, impressive performance.
