News briefs for the week take a look at the return of Automate to Detroit after 23 years in Chicago and the celebratory homecoming event going on there from 6 to 9 June. Automate returns…big time! 6-9 June 2022 (Detroit) Bing, bang, boom! All in a row, the big boys of robot/automation events, Hannover Messe, …
Russian cosmonaut Sergey Korsakov captured this view of the Starliner spacecraft approaching the International Space Station. Credit: Sergey Korsakov / Roscosmos Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule finally reached the International Space Station Friday night with a “nail-biting” rendezvous and docking, overcoming several technical glitches to accomplish a long-awaited objective for the spacecraft before NASA clears it …
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News briefs for the week take a look at a dual-arm cobot training to uptick dexterity capabilities, virtual reality and cobots partnering on projects, sidewalk delivery robots’ new “carbon emissions” angle, robot vacuums acquiring advanced “dirt-sensing” skills, and Built Robotics “exosystem” refocusing specialization to autonomous excavators only. Is 57% of a banana good enough? The …
News briefs for the week take a look at pharmacy robots saving time, money and lives, electric vehicle production driving the development of new kinds of industrial robots, space-orbiting tow trucks, robot arms and 3D printers combining for first-ever technology capabilities, and $73 million for robots hunting for dangerous infrastructure. Walgreens converting to prescription-filling robots …
StartUs Insights is out with a list of over 1300 robotics companies with AI/ML offerings. News briefs for the week take a look at the sudden expansion by robot/cobot developers in “joining forces” with AI/ML, especially among startups, to acquire a wide range of intelligent capabilities. Joining forces: robots/cobots with AI/ML New-age force multipliersIt’s like …
News briefs for the week take a look at seafloor mapping of an ocean’s bedrock, AI-infused robots learning to sort trash, home vacuum that keeps an eye on the family, robot highway repair workers, new Hominis surgical robot, and remote control of factory robots by smartphone or browser. Maritime robots map ocean bottom for bedrock With …
News briefs for the week take a look at drones picking fruit, Ocado’s next-gen logistics system, micro-plating lab cobots, seafloor robots collecting trash, no-code Wandelbots, and robots disrupting wire harness industry. Drones as flying fruit pickers Drones, usually categorized mainly as our eyes in the sky or for delivering packages, now have a real “hands-on” …
A close-up of the top of the Falcon 9 booster stage set for launch with the Transporter 3 rideshare mission. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography SpaceX plans to land a Falcon 9 rocket booster back at Cape Canaveral around eight-and-a-half minutes after launch Thursday in the company’s first onshore rocket recovery …
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket streaks downrange over the Atlantic Ocean Saturday night. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography Fifteen hours after hurling a package of Starlink internet satellites into orbit from California, SpaceX launched a high-power geostationary communications spacecraft for Turkey from Cape Canaveral late Saturday, the first time two Falcon 9 …
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Packaging is a core task in logistics. But, a lot of packaging processes are inefficient. They are not well suited to the changing needs of the modern logistics industry. Collaborative robots are a robust solution for streamlining your packaging tasks. They provide a flexible way to solve common problems in logistics packaging. The needs of …
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