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Festo Corporation Introduces New Sanitary Valves
Festo Corporation introduced new sanitary ball, angle seat, and pinch valves at Interphex 2017. With this introduction, Festo claims to offer seamless automation from control cabinet to pipe for steam, inert gases, water, cleaning solutions and powders applications.
Robot Connectivity Boosts GM Productivity
General Motors Co. has connected about a quarter of its 30,000 factory robots to the Internet and says that it is benefiting from less down time.
Groundwater Management with Smart Hand Pumps
University of Oxford researchers are using low-cost mobile sensors fitted to existing hand pumps to provide water resource data.
Floating Sensor Fingerprints Spilled Oil
A low-cost, floating fluorometer incorporating an array of four photodiode detectors detects and distinguishes among different types of crude and refined oil.
Video: Robots have an impact on jobs and pay. GE deploys advanced analytics to cut drilling rig costs. An ATV goes the distance with a practical fuel cell.
Video: Robots have an impact on jobs and pay. GE is deploying advanced analytics on drilling rigs to cut costs. An ATV goes the distance with a practical fuel cell.
Mini Medical Agents: Self-Propelled Nanojets
Nanorobots under development for medical diagnostics or drug delivery are propelled by enzyme-triggered biocatalytic reactions or bubble oscillations.
Designing Low Earth Orbit Satellites
Remote sensing satellites that can operate at 200-450 km (124-280 miles) above the Earth’s surface are being developed under a European Union research initiative.
Mapping Nuclear Sites with NASA Robot Tech
A UK consortium will develop sensor-equipped advanced robotic platforms for the characterization of radioactive waste and nuclear storage sites.
WAMI Sensor Takes First Flight
A wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) system has been carried in the internal payload bay of a small unmanned aircraft system for the first time.
University Team Unfolds Space Tug Design
A NASA initiative challenged universities to design a solar electric propulsion-powered space tug using autonomous robotic assembly.
Autonomous Crack Detection in Nuclear Power Plants
An advanced algorithm and a powerful machine learning technique to detect cracks based on the changing texture surrounding cracks on steel surfaces.
PolyU Develops Accurate Contactless 3-D Fingerprint Identification System
The minutiae features from the fingerprint ridges — such as ridge ending and bifurcation — are universally considered to be the most reliable of fingerprint details, ensuring that each fingerprint is unique.
Fewer Malfunctions and Lower Costs Thanks to Smarter Maintenance Model
Researchers at the University of Twente have developed a mathematical model for improving the maintenance schedule for trains, rails, aircraft, self-driving cars, robots and nuclear power plants.
How Do Ball Valves Work?
Ball valves are quarter-turn, straight-through valves that have a round closure element with matching rounded seats that permit uniform sealing stress. The valve gets its name from the ball that rotates to open and close the valve. Ball valves are used in situations where tight shut-off is required.
Model Solution Establishes New Technique for Molding Flexible PCBs
A wearable device developer benefitted from new production tools and an innovative method to hold flexible PCBs in place while molding around them.
Robotic Duo Cooperates in Crop Study
A robotic system developed at the University of Missouri collects more detailed information about crops and individual plants than drones can provide.
Graphene Micro-transistor Maps Brain Activity
The flexible device records brain activity in high resolution while maintaining excellent signal to noise ratio.
SKF Corrosion-Resistant Spherical Roller Bearings
SKF is manufacturing the first-ever corrosion-resistant steel spherical bearings, available in nine standard sizes.
E-Gloves to Protect Workers from Dangerous Vibration Levels
Gloves embedded with tiny sensors are being developed by Nottingham Trent University to help protect construction workers from exposure to vibration.
Proto Labs Adds PolyJet Technology to Its 3-D Printing Service
PolyJet technology is now offered along with stereolithography, selective laser sintering and direct metal laser sintering.