Automation and Control

HEADLINES ARCHIVE

  • Watch as this robot takes on construction site tasks

    Baubot aims to automate dangerous tasks on the construction site.

  • NRC seeks input on AI and nuclear power plant safety

    Can advanced computational and predictive capabilities involving artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning improve nuclear power safety?

  • Team using low-cost tech to reduce the cost and carbon footprint of pressurized irrigation

    Researchers from the Department of Agronomy of the University of Córdoba are testing a technology that takes advantage of the excess pressure of the grid to generate energy.

  • Model based on cavitation bubbles to improve hydraulic systems

    Engineers used what they know about cavitation to build the model.

  • Hydraulic linear drives from Bosch Rexroth undergo redesign

    Bosch Rexroth’s hydraulic linear drive CytroForce design concept squeezes previously bulky structures into a smart compact axis for power, movement and positioning tasks.

  • How exoskeletons can boost Army soldier’s performance

    The Army Research Lab studies how intelligent agents and humans adapt to each other.

  • Watch: First US design for fully electric tug

    The design includes an Azimuthing drive propulsion system with two 1,800 kW motors and a 6 MWh battery.

  • Video: Lynx Fleet solution enhances digital capabilities for transport refrigeration

    Advanced internet of things, machine learning and analytics technology connect the cold chain in the cloud.

  • NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter takes flight on Mars

    The 30 second flight is the first ever to take place on another planet.

  • Video: Software speeds design of complex DNA nanodevices

    The tool designs more complex DNA robots and nanodevices than were possible before in a fraction of the time.

  • Video: Dill from Pickle Robots boasts super fast box-unloading speeds

    Dill can unload double the number of boxes per hour that humans can.

  • Watch item-handling robot take on material handling tasks

    Item-handling robot will automate material handling tasks in warehouses.

  • Watch NASA news: Asteroid Bennu is disturbed; Return to the moon with SpaceX

    OSIRIS-REx left its aeronautical footprint on asteroid Bennu, and SpaceX is selected to return astronauts to the moon.

  • Watch patches replace plugs during Porsche Taycan production

    Robotically applied sealing patches replace the manual insertion of plastic plugs.

  • Watch a snake-bot swim through hoops

    Snake-bot will literally swim through hoops to inspect ship hulls, pipelines.

  • Automation and machine learning improve accuracy in nanofiber fabrication assessment

    A new automatic process to assess quality in nanofiber fabrication produced results 30% more accurate than current assessment techniques.

  • Student-designed pump cuts diagnostic microfluidics cost

    Plans for the low cost, 3D-printed peristaltic pump are open source.

  • Video: Autonomous weeding robot improves crop yield, costs

    Weeding robot destroys weeds using laser tech and AI.

  • Video: BMW simulates, optimizes EV factory with digital twin

    Viewers enjoy a guided tour of the digital twin of BMW's new EV manufacturing facility, powered by Nvidia technologies.

  • Team takes ozone measurement out of the lab and into a home

    Levels of ozone and volatile organic compounds were measured in an actual occupied residence.

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