Automation and Control

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  • World’s smartest autonomous forklift launched by OTTO Motors

    OTTO Lifter is a smart autonomous forklift that easily navigates through crowded and dynamic environments and improves safety in warehouses and facilities.

  • Support for virtual vehicle engine test cell R&D

    Gastops is supporting Europe’s largest R&D center for virtual vehicle technology by supplying custom oil debris monitoring solutions.

  • Video: One step closer to automating high-rise window washing

    Ozmo, using its pair of Kuka industrial robotic arms, cleans windows three times faster than human window washers, without risking the lives of human window washers.

  • Dunkermotoren is exhibitor at MD&M West

    Dunkermotoren’s product portfolio includes brushless and brushed DC motors up to 5 kW, AC motors and linear systems.

  • UK team teaches robot to dress a mannequin

    Demonstrating that these robots could be employed in dressing patients who do not have the use of their limbs, the researchers taught the robots to dress a mannequin in a simulated hospital room.

  • Watch as Geek+ launches its four-way shuttle warehouse storage and picking solution

    The solution uses Geek+’s X-series four-way shuttle robots to boost storage density while devoting the ground floor to picking operations entrusted to the flagship P800 robots.

  • Algorithm identifies individuals via heartbeat

    To develop the identification algorithm, researchers used electrocardiograms (ECG) to analyze five musical qualities — dynamics, rhythm, timbre, pitch and tonality.

  • How measurement technology helps hydrogen enter gas networks

    Reliable measurement technology can facilitate the creation of environmentally friendly hydrogen networks.

  • Robots now operating Ford's 3D printers

    Because the robots can autonomously operate the 3D printers day and night, Ford suggests that throughput will be increased and the price tag of custom-printed components will decrease.

  • 3D microscope could mean the end of biopsies

    MediSCAPE is a high-speed 3D microscope capable of capturing image data of tissue structures that could direct surgeons to navigate tumors and their boundaries without the need to remove tissues and wait for pathology results.

  • Winners of the Lunar Robotics Design Contest

    Young engineers designed robots that dig through lunar soil for deployment on future NASA Artemis missions.

  • Algorithm spots depressed Twitter users

    The researchers report achieving 88.39% accuracy with the Tsinghua Twitter Depression Dataset and an accuracy rate of 70.69% with the Johns Hopkins University's CLPsych 2015 dataset.

  • Fabric that can hear a heartbeat

    The fibers can also be made to produce sound, such as a recording of words or phrases that can be recognized by another fabric.

  • Watch magnetic nanobots grab pollutants from water

    Temperature-responsive magnetic nanorobots were engineered to bond with heavy metals under certain circumstances and release them under others.

  • AWWA testifies on new approach to cybersecurity threats

    The agency advocates a regulatory approach that is similar to the electric sector, with a tiered risk- and performance-based set of requirements.

  • Gecko Robotics seeks funding to fix broken infrastructure

    Gecko’s robots capture data at previously unheard-of scale and fidelity, climbing pipelines, boilers, tanks, ship hulls and much more in search of damage, no matter how subtle.

  • KT Enterprise launches its AI Quarantine Robot

    The autonomous system reportedly purifies the air, removing dust and toxic gases, and disinfects floors, all at the same time.

  • Rollon’s new digital platform delivers fast product selection

    The redesigned website provides access to myRollon, the digital configurator tailored to the needs of linear motion system designers.

  • Part 1: The robots working on (and off) the offshore oil and gas platform

    So many examples of robots designed for the oil and gas sector exist that this article will be broken into two parts to include as many of them as possible.

  • FPT Industrial presents new keel cooled C16 600 marine engine for commercial vessels

    The cooling system can efficiently dissipate an engine’s heat and cool it down without the need to circulate saltwater in the engine.

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