Automation and Control

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  • Video: Monitor tanks, pressure and truckloads with BinCloud

    The integrated cloud foundation for data monitoring streamlines inventory management.

  • US Air Force may outsource fighter jet cleaning to robots

    Robots will reduce the time it takes to manually clean fighter jets from days to just one hour.

  • Video: Clamp meters measure with no contacts or leads

    The meters measure voltage and current simultaneously without touching a live wire.

  • Taxonomy update for driving automation systems

    The revision updates taxonomy with supporting terms and definitions for SAE’s six levels of driving automation.

  • New machine automates almond grading and inspection

    The machine from UniSA improves the quality and speed of almond inspection tasks.

  • Use AI to protect your brand

    AI reduces errors and automates tasks to ensure product quality and protect your brand reputation.

  • Boeing delivers rocket core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System

    The rocket core will be paired with other launch systems before carrying Orion to the moon.

  • High precision linear slide actuators for precision industrial automation

    Greater productivity with shorter cycle times are achieved with the use of maintenance- and friction-free high-speed linear motors.

  • Video: Automated 3D bioprinting process uses peptide-based hydrogels

    A new method of 3D printing hydrogel scaffolds is based on ultrashort peptides.

  • Video: There’s a disturbance in the galactic halo

    A new sky map reveals the wake of a dwarf galaxy on a collision course with the Milky Way in about 2 billion years.

  • Quadruped robot takes over inspection tasks in industrial plants

    ANYmal automates inspection of industrial equipment.

  • Watch new family of material handling robots

    All three robots automate material handling tasks in warehouse and manufacturing spaces.

  • 'Sensorized' lidar approach reduces barriers to warehouse integration

    Advances in the field of warehouse logistics illustrate how a convergence of factors has contributed to a rise in new and nontraditional uses for lidar.

  • Startup launches 'cleaning' robot into space

    Robot will clean space junk, mine asteroids.

  • Watch how AI, microfluidics combine to detect vascular diseases

    The system could be used to assess diseases characterized by the abnormal condition of blood vessels.

  • Watch: Cystic fibrosis diagnosis by skin-worn sticker

    The wearable device changes color to detect early disease markers in newborns’ sweat.

  • Affordable SaaS for pentest management

    The affordable software-as-a-service platform is designed for cybersecurity teams at consultancies and medium-sized enterprises.

  • First heavy-duty electric truck charging site opened

    Electric Island will not just charge trucks, but will also be a testbed to study future charging needs.

  • Faster observation of fluctuations in ‘stickiness' improves pharmaceuticals manufacture

    Faster measurement of viscosity will benefit disease diagnostics and pharmaceutical testing.

  • Tiny earthquakes in Antarctica measured with fiber optic cable

    Microseismic events are measured with distributed acoustic sensing methods.

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