Automation and Control

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  • Watch: Seismic shield engineered for Giant Magellan Telescope

    A seismic isolation system protects the 22-story rotating observatory and seven of the world’s largest monolithic mirrors from being damaged by earthquakes.

  • Watch: Robotic X-ray inspection improves cast automotive wheel production

    The robotic inspection system is ideal for inline operation in the mass production of cast aluminum automotive wheels.

  • Versatile system measures ship-generated underwater noise

    Researchers adapted existing equipment to develop a waterproof aerial drone capable of measuring underwater radiated noise.

  • GM shows off an all-electric flying car at CES 2021

    Fiat Chrysler will also help to develop an air taxi with Archer.

  • Video: Kodiak self-driving truck travels 205 miles, disengage free

    The company then ran eight additional disengagement free runs in Texas.

  • Smart valve will automate agricultural, fishery applications

    GloryKylin has manufactured a smart water valve for the automation of agriculture, fishery and animal husbandry.

  • Borescope enhances temperature monitoring of furnaces

    The instrument enables highly accurate and fully radiometric temperature measurement image data to be taken, stored and trended over the lifetime of a furnace.

  • Glass fiber-based sensor network to safeguard drinking water supplies

    The use of glass fibers to assemble fiber optical turbidity sensors offers the benefits of lower cost and thermal stability.

  • USAF to fund adapting radar for flying cars

    Metawave awarded a contract for advancing capabilities for electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.

  • Video: New Industrial DataOps solution for smart manufacturing

    HighByte Intelligence Hub version 1.3 makes it faster and easier for manufacturers to merge industrial data with enterprise systems and deliver ready-to-use information to the cloud.

  • Watch how this sensor monitors home water usage

    A smart watch can tell the user the time but a really smart watch can gauge home water use.

  • Polymers pinpoint drug precursors in wastewater

    An automated sensor system incorporating highly selective molecularly imprinted polymers was engineered to detect the presence of banned and illicit drugs in wastewater.

  • Servo series features motion safety functionality

    AC servomotors and drives with built-in safety functions can help prevent machine stoppages and achieve zero-loss production due to synchronized emergency stops.

  • Edge app designed to make drives smarter

    The app includes intelligent functions based on high-frequency data exchange that allow users to perform complex analyses of data already collected in drives.

  • Retrofit your vehicles with collision protection

    Forklift drivers need a high level of concentration when maneuvering in reverse. The camera-based anti-collision system from ifm automatically detects persons and obstacles, warns the driver and stops the vehicle.

  • The Olympus OLS5100 smart experiment manager simplifies data acquisition and analysis

    A semi-automated experiment manager for quick and efficient surface metrology experiment workflows

  • Watch: Specimen collection tube decapping now automated

    The pre-analytical function of decapping a specimen collection tube can now be automated.

  • Watch: Fever sensor cleared for inclusion in injectable cardiac monitor

    The injectable device designed to help cardiologists detect and diagnose cardiac arrhythmias remotely now has an additional role in monitoring for signs of fever.

  • Video: Earring enables glucose monitoring in style

    A non-invasive blood glucose monitoring approach based on a fashionable wearable device replaces the finger prick sting with bling.

  • Watch how CRISPR and smartphone tech combine to detect COVID-19

    The diagnostic uses a smartphone camera to provide accurate results in under 30 minutes.

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