Interviews from Automate 2013
We contacted several presenters from Automate 2013 in order to get a consensus of the conference as well as to give them the opportunity to pass on their experiences and impressions of the industry as a whole. Here are their responses.
Maritime Community Pushes Forward Despite Budget Fears
The oil and gas industry, like the Department of Defense, is looking for new technology that can help make it more efficient and effective.
UAS Test Site Competition to Kick Off this Month, FAA Official Says
Numerous states are vying to host the sites, which will demonstrate how unmanned aircraft can fly in the National Airspace System safely.
AUVSI's Unmanned Systems Program Review 2013
Sequestration, Doing More With Less Both Keys on Ground Day
Avnet Electronics Marketing and TE Connectivity Celebrate 25 Years
Together, they have more than 100 years of electronics industry leadership, providing a combined powerhouse of know-how and capabilities to customers.
Toradex Release Datasheet for Apalis T30
Toradex today announced the release of the datasheet for their new Apalis T30 module.
IEEE Standards Association and W3C "Open Future Series" Champions More Collaborative, Interconnected Future During SXSW 2013
Global technology and open web standards development leaders unite to explore current and long-term implications of technologies like Augmented Reality, social robotics, and self-hacking
Health Robotics Reports 106 Total New Sales in 2012, Including 27 New Sales in 4Q, Beating FY2011 Record
Health Robotics continued to benefit in 2012 from its transition to a direct sales and service approach, now accounting for the majority of its gross revenues and profits.
Global Industrial Machine Vision Market Estimated to Reach $6.75 Billion in 2016
Previously considered bulky, expensive and complex to interpret, machine vision technology has undergone continuous improvements to become an integral part of quality control for industrial or manufacturing production lines. Advances in sensor, digital signal processors, field-programmable gate array and microprocessors, electronics and computing have considerably expanded the application scope for machine vision technology.
ALDEBARAN Robotics Announces Robotic Dance Competition
ALDEBARAN Robotics, a world leader in humanoid robotics, launches Robotic Idol, the first robotic dance competition for grades 6th to 12th. The idea behind the competition is to help increase students interest by bringing Art in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
GA-ASI's Remotely Piloted Aircraft to be Equipped with Raytheon's Miniature Air Launched Decoy
Raytheon Company and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. are working together to develop a highly autonomous, unmanned electronic warfare capability based on equipping GA-ASI's Predator® B/MQ-9 Reaper Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) with Raytheon's Miniature Air Launched Decoy (MALD®).
European Semiconductor Industry to Discuss Strategies to Maintain Global Competitiveness at ISS Europe 2013
Discussing ways to bundle forces in a single strategy that has the potential to take on the
technological, financial and entrepreneurial challenges ahead will be the topic of a highranking
panel discussion at the conference.
Three-legged Robot Uses Exploding Body To Jump 30 Times Its Height
New Scientist:
George Whitesides from Harvard University and colleagues have created a three-legged robot lined with tubes filled with a mixture of methane and oxygen. When an electrical spark ignites the gases, the combustion reaction generates bursts of pressure that propel the robot aloft. "By actuating all three legs simultaneously, we caused the robot to jump more than 30 times its height," write the team. As the height of the jump was limited by the size of the experimental chamber, they think it could spring twice as high without the attached tubing.
Festo Introduces the Solid-State Cylinder Switch SMT-8M-A
The SMT-8M-A delivers high reliability in many cylinder switch applications
Opening Held for Center to Address Skills Gap, Flexible Manufacturing
Gateway Technical College opens the first flexible manufacturing training center in the region, fueled by a $1.7 million contribution by SC Johnson, at a grand opening event.
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ST Robotics Develops the Workspace Sentry for Collaborative Robotics
The ST Robotics Workspace Sentry robot and area safety system are based on a small module that sends an infrared beam across the workspace. If the user puts his hand (or any other object) in the workspace, the robot stops using programmable emergency deceleration. Each module has three beams at different angles and the distance a beam reaches is adjustable. Two or more modules can be daisy chained to watch a wider area. "A robot that is tuned to stop on impact may not be safe. Robots where the trip torque can be set at low thresholds are too slow for any practical industrial application. The best system is where the work area has proximity detectors so the robot stops before impact and that is the approach ST Robotics has taken," states President and CEO of ST Robotics David Sands.
