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High performance in compact dimensions
With the all-new Linear Actuator L product family, FAULHABER is offering a unique turn-key-solution for a broad range of applications.
Tough on pump clogs: Prison facility eliminates submersible clogs with new above-grade lift station
A facility management services company serving other prisons operates and maintains the sewage pump station.
This autonomous mobile robot fulfills orders in the grocery, e-commerce sectors
The Brightpick Autopicker is a fully autonomous picking robot designed for e-commerce and grocery order fulfillment tasks.
AI-powered FRIDA robot creates art
FRIDA (Framework and Robotics Initiative for Developing Arts), so named for the artist Frida Kahlo, is a robotic arm with a paintbrush attachment.
Flexiv debuts "world’s first" force-controlled parallel robot
Flexiv’s Moonlight adaptive parallel robot has been designed for applications that demand precise motion and force control including screw fastening, loading and polishing.
Collision-free cobot designed for the intralogistics space
Outfitted with laser scanners and 3D object detection, the KUKA KMP 600-S diffDrive can reportedly work safely alongside humans without the need for safety fencing, according to its developers.
Video: Tool for rapid detection of nuclear contamination
Rapid color detection within one minute — purple for uranium and pink for plutonium — indicates possible nuclear contamination.
Artificial intelligence in molecular design
Prior to AI, when experimental laboratories designed new compounds, they relied almost completely on experts to design experiments and characterize, validate and analyze final products. This bottleneck has slowed the discovery of new materials, which could have implications for many industries.
Aerones introduces ‘first’ wind turbine maintenance and repair robot
The full-service wind turbine maintenance and repair bot is five times faster than human workers and autonomously performs repairs from Level 1 to 3 leading edge erosion (LEE), thereby halting the progression of erosion to Level 4-5.
Watch SWOT satellite preparations post-launch
Onboard cameras capture the deployment of solar arrays and antenna panels by the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite.
Service robot eyed for the hospitality and healthcare sectors
The robot, dubbed Servi, is a 100% self-driving service industry robot capable of performing mundane tasks such as carrying dishes and beverages to and from tables, thereby helping restaurant staff to work more efficiently.
Piab introduces its new egg suction cup
The egg suction cup’s stable design and multistage actuation offer easy control over the product release. As such, it reduces the risk of damaging eggs in the process, thus enabling high speed applications in egg handling.
Rapidly growing rocket industry could undo decades of work
Rockets have exciting potential to enable industrial-level access to near-Earth space and exploration throughout the solar system. This makes them “charismatic technology” – and the promise of what the technology can enable drives deep emotional investment.
Squids inspire a microfluidic approach to cutting building energy costs
The system mimics the light filtering and color-changing abilities of the squid to reduce the energy costs of heating, cooling and lighting buildings.
Automated doughnut production
Three companies combine to ensure consistent, uniform and package-ready doughnut perfection.
This "jewelry" could be a lifesaver
The pendant, called SmokeMon, tracks heat signatures from lit cigarettes as captured by thermal sensors, revealing how much smokers inhale and time between drags, according to its developers who call that data “smoking topography.”
When to use MEMS capacitive pressure sensors
Various technologies are used to make pressure sensors.
Flexiv's new robotic gripper can grip virtually any object
The Grav Gripper’s developers are eyeing the new gripper for tasks that include inserting micro components, transferring delicate objects or machine-tending applications.
Safer infectious sample prep with a voice assistant
The technology is intended to make the laboratory safer for those who handle potentially infectious samples.
Numerical weather prediction and AI can help
Computing power was a limiting factor for NWP for many years, as was data collection. Now, both of these have improved, and data analysis and increasing both time and space resolution are the foci for future forecast improvements.