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'Make in India' initiative could be a bigger success with help of cobots

06/07/17, 05:43 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | cobots, Collaborative Robots, industrial automation

Pradeep David for Financial Express: The government of India launched the 'Make in India' initiative in 2014 to enhance skill development as well as build a strong manufacturing infrastructure

Building Up Today's Manufacturing Startups: Lowercase NYC

06/06/17, 08:35 AM | Industrial Robotics | Case Study, Clamping and Gripping | Robotiq

If I make a change on a design, I have to be able to apply the changes quickly. And since we are competing against bigger, high-end eyewear manufacturers, we have to deliver the highest quality even if we do quite smaller productions.

Questions to Ask When Specifying a Frame Grabber for Machine Vision Applications

06/06/17, 08:35 AM | Industrial Robotics | machine vision | BitFlow, INC.

Frame grabbers are no longer exclusively used in machine vision; they are today an essential component of dozens of industries. It is therefore important that the frame grabber manufacturer is involved in standards committees and other groups monitoring the evolution of this fast-changing technology.

This cutting-edge drone port could be the future of the shopping mall as we know it

06/06/17, 05:34 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | drones

Megan Harney for Business Insider: CallisonRTKL wants to transform the shell of the former mall into a delivery warehouse that's ideal for drone takeoff and delivery.

THE NEXT BIG LEAP IN AI COULD COME FROM WAREHOUSE ROBOTS

06/05/17, 06:06 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Artificial Intelligence, Technology Discussions

Nick Statt for The Verge: Kindred thinks the path to smarter software is by giving it a physical body

The No. 1 industry being threatened by robots

06/02/17, 05:43 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | Jobs / Employment

Kari Paul for MarketWatch: The robot revolution may not have replaced us yet, but automation is undoubtedly creeping its way into many careers.

Nvidia's Robotic Platform

06/01/17, 08:23 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | ai, research

By continuing to add more computing capabilities for AI on edge devices with NVIDIA Jetson, and more tools and platforms to accelerate robotics development, like Isaac and the Jetson robotics reference platforms, we can help researchers and companies build robots that are more capable, less expensive, and safer to deploy.

Drone vs. truck deliveries: Which creates less carbon pollution?

06/01/17, 05:44 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | drones

Science Daily: A new study finds that drone deliveries emit less climate-warming carbon dioxide pollution than truck deliveries in some -- but not all -- scenarios.

CMU's interactive tool helps novices and experts make custom robots

05/31/17, 05:39 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | 3D Printing, Training and Education

Phys.org: A new interactive design tool developed by CMU's Robotics Institute enables both novices and experts to build customized legged or wheeled robots using 3D-printed components and off-the-shelf actuators.

Visible Flight: Drones Raise Filmmaking Opportunities

05/30/17, 08:34 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | drones

Despite all of the new tools, drones are still only used in about 10 percent of film productions where a camera drone and crew can cost less than $3,000 compared to $25,000 for a helicopter shoot.

Robots May Help Defuse Demographic Time Bomb in Japan, Germany

05/30/17, 05:59 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Jobs / Employment

Anirban Nag for Bloomberg: Robots to offset negative impact of slower labor force growth. Emerging markets won't be so lucky, Moody's report says

Dual-Arm Collaborative Robots Increase Flexibility and Accuracy

05/26/17, 05:49 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Collaborative Robots, robot arms

James Anderton for Engineering.com: Robotics are an ideal technology for fine assembly tasks, such as those in the electronics industry.

Machines and Robots Driven by Muscle Like Acting NiTi Alloys

05/25/17, 08:14 AM | Personal & Service Robots | Shape Memory Alloys

The biomechanically inspired machine that is discussed in this paper refers to the antagonistic muscles pairs, which belongs to the Skeletal Muscles and are normally arranged in opposition so that as one group of muscles contract another group relaxes or lengthens.

DARPA taps Boeing for unmanned reusable spaceplane

05/25/17, 05:45 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Darpa, nasa, space, unmanned

Ross Wilkers for Washington Technology: Boeing has emerged as the winner of a DARPAcompetition to design and test an unmanned reusable spaceplane.

Collaborative robotics at the Automate and ProMat trade shows

05/24/17, 08:29 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | automate, Automate 2017, event, Tradeshows and Conferences

Collaborative robots need safe, sensitive and flexible end-of-arm-tooling (EOAT) and there were many vendors - and some breakthrough technologies - demonstrated at the two shows.

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