Amazon Challenges Robotics' Hot Topic: Perception
Capturing and processing camera and sensor data and recognizing various shapes to determine a set of robotic actions is conceptually easy. Yet Amazon challenged the industry to do a selecting and picking task robotically and 28 teams from around the world rose to the competition.
Rockwell brings factory-automation tools to smartphones, tablets
By John Schmid of the Journal Sentinel: The Texas facility that mass-produces State Fair corn dogs and Jimmy Dean Pancakes & Sausage on a Stick retooled itself recently as a hyper-automated smart factory. It installed 1,500 sensors to collect gigabytes of data on everything from raw meat inventories to wastewater and electrical usage.
Then the Fort Worth factory took one extra step into the future of industrial technology: It added software that transmits all of that real-time data onto smartphones and tablets, making it possible for plant managers to monitor their production network from anywhere on the factory floor — and during coffee breaks or vacations, as well.
If they choose — so far, most don't — this new breed of mobile managers can even operate factory equipment remotely, shutting off pumps or speeding up production lines. Technology has made that sort of operation as easy as playing a smartphone video game, but it can be reckless because a lot of equipment can interfere with or hurt those who are physically present.
It's only a matter of time, some say, before factory controls migrate to Google Glass, the wearable displays mounted in eyeglass frames, or smart wristwatches. Cont'd...
RoboticsTomorrow Related Kickstarter Projects - June 2015
Here are some crowd funding projects of interest.
Sensors On Display: Velodyne LiDAR Featured in 'Robot Revolution,' National Touring Exhibit From Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
In Silicon Valley, Computer Museum Extends Run of 'History of Autonomous Vehicles, Showcasing Velodyne LiDAR Sensor Technology
Pictometry to Host FutureView 2015 User Conference
Educational sessions will be offered in multiple tracks including GIS, assessment, infrastructure and public safety.
Centricity Measurement in Substrate Production
LASER COMPONENTS invested further
New Anaren "Sensor Element Library" Enables Easy Integration of Sensor Drivers and Intelligence into IoT Devices
Anaren Launches Atmosphere Sensor Partnership Program to support its Wireless Connectivity Ecosystem
Machine Automation under Scrutiny for High-Volume, High-Quality Manufacturing
Designed for many industrial automation, quality assurance, security, and medical applications, NEXCOMs new ROKA series of Gigabit Ethernet cameras is a low cost yet highly versatile imaging solution.
STRATASYS ANNOUNCES NEW OKLAHOMA-BASED RESELLER, W.D. DISTRIBUTING
W.D. Distributing, the largest machine tool service organization in Oklahoma, will now be a reseller of the full line of Stratasys authorized products.
Hoffmann-Krippner Unveils Sensor Solutions for the Internet of Things and M2M
Ink and Foil Based Sensors for Consumer, Appliance, Business and Industrial Internet of Things Applications
Güdel, Inc. Releases White Paper on Machine Tending Applications
Automated loading and unloading of cutting and molding machines.
Banner Engineering Wireless Vibration and Temperature Sensor Provides Superior Machine Monitoring
Designed to effectively monitor machines for increases in vibration and temperature.
Usine IO, the Product Prototyping and Innovation Platform, Opens Its Capital to "French Tech Acclration" and Prodways Entrepreneurs, Subsidiary of Groupe Gorg
Usine IO is a technological innovation facility located in Paris' 13th district, which provides hardware resources and a technical expertise and networking department to assist inventors, entrepreneurs, SMEs and larger corporations with the design and prototyping of objects and their preparation for manufacture.
RobotM-Br Reinforces the Growing Presence of Robotmaster in Latin America at Feimafe 2015
At several booths, visitors had the opportunity to see what Robotmaster's CAD/CAM programming solution is capable of and get a notion of how their work can be simplified with a high-performance software. With Robotmaster's recent support of Nachi robots, visitors were also treated to a Nachi MZ07 robot demonstrating the milling process.
PRO DESIGN Launches Complete Family of Virtex® UltraScale 440 FPGA Based Prototyping Systems
The big advantage of the proFPGA concept is its modularity.
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