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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.
Video: New data storage medium is potentially faster, more energy-efficient
The medium is based on specific properties of antiferromagnetic materials that had previously resisted experimental examination.
Plus and Iveco to develop self-driving trucks for China
The trucks will also run on liquefied natural gas.
Handheld DNA sequencers could simplify bacteria monitoring during food production
The devices offer a routine microbial monitoring solution for food production facilities.
The sensors powering NASA's martian rover
Perseverance is busy gathering data on Mars - and here are some of the sensing technologies making that possible.
Biorefinery efficiency gains with smart transfer chutes
The chutes solve a pervasive problem in the biorefinery industry, potentially making biofuels more cost-competitive.
Video: Starfish robot designed for underwater applications
Robot starfish could be used to study deep recesses of the ocean.
UC Berkeley turns robot dogs into robot guides for the visually impaired
Robodogs to guide the visually impaired.
Report: 20% of oil and gas industry tasks to be automated by 2030
Report suggests that one in five oil and gas industry jobs will be performed by robots.
Watch: Warehouse robot from Boston Dynamics autonomously moves boxes
Stretch moves boxes, builds orders.
Pipeline repair robots deployed to reduce danger for human workers
See how igus® plastic components help automate the labor required to clean and repair pipelines.
AI detects defects in wind turbine blades
The deep learning system is 85% accurate in detecting and classifying wind turbine blade defects.