Automation and Control

HEADLINES ARCHIVE

  • Demaco announces the release of its new cryogenic control valve

    The valve is EC 1935/2004 and FDA conformant, allowing integration into a wider market spectrum including the food, medical and pharmaceutical industry.

  • Valworx releases all-stainless-steel air actuated sanitary butterfly valve

    The new sanitary butterfly valves feature heavy duty quarter turn stainless steel rack and pinion actuators designed for long service life.

  • Monitoring solutions for cutting machines

    The solution to both productivity and quality can be found in real-time machine monitoring.

  • AI-guided laser beams aimed at cockroaches

    The device features a Jetson Nano, an electronic device that runs machine-learning software; two cameras; a galvanometer, which is an instrument for detecting and measuring small electric currents; and a laser.

  • New data-sharing platform helps optimize infrastructure industry

    The platform provides a comprehensive map interface with utility locations, site hazards, geotechnical conditions, land rights and permit constraints.

  • ANCILLARY program tech would enable warfighters to deploy, retrieve VTOL systems without infrastructure

    As part of the AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY X-Plane (ANCILLARY), the agency plans to build a plane that launches from ship flight decks, for instance, in adverse weather without the launch and recovery equipment generally required of these systems.

  • Modified X-ray machine identifies explosives in luggage

    Researchers scanned a set of objects featuring embedded explosives and determined that the machine could identify the explosives with 100% accuracy in the lab.

  • Cornell mircrobots smaller than the head of an ant

    The solar-powered microbots feature an onboard microprocessor "brain" that enables the robots to walk without being externally controlled.

  • Watch an obstacle-climbing robot designed for the law enforcement sector

    The Mini Vantage robot is described by Transcend Robotics as an obstacle-climbing robot capable of assisting law enforcement during potentially dangerous missions.

  • Caterpillar-inspired millirobot eyed for biomedical applications

    Altering various factors — the composition of ammonium sulfate, the thickness of the gel or the strength of the magnetic field for instance — could potentially enable researchers to fine tune the properties of the gel.

  • Landmine detection tech to automate the identification of explosives

    Grids of mines and munitions are being installed in Oklahoma to train a drone-based, machine-learning-powered detection system to autonomously locate explosives without risking the lives of human workers manually seeking out these explosives.

  • The differences between capacitive and piezoresistive pressure sensors

    Pressure sensors currently installed are based on MEMS technology and utilize piezoresistive or capacitive measurement principles.

  • Shape-shifting robots can split apart, reassemble

    The robots are composed of a ferrofluid featuring magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles suspended in clear oil. According to the researchers, the robots are controlled using magnets.

  • The origins of orbital debris

    According to data from NASA, Russia, the U.S. and China are the biggest contributors of space junk.

  • Video: NASA’s DART mission is a smashing success

    This first planetary defense test was designed to alter the orbit of a space rock to prove humanity could deflect a dangerous asteroid if one was headed for Earth.

  • Peer inside a Category 4 hurricane

    On September 22, 2022, an unmanned surface vehicle sailed into the path of Hurricane Fiona south of Bermuda, capturing video of the Category 4 storm.

  • ABB launches IRB 365 FlexPicker

    The IRB 365 has been developed for applications including food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and consumer goods, where production line speed and adaptability are essential.

  • Prepare to watch a NASA spacecraft collide with an asteroid

    On Monday, September 26, 2022, DART will careen into the asteroid Dimorphos at about 14,000 miles per hour.

  • Data science toolkit for energy grid machine learning

    The open source tool analyzes and leverages electricity use data from millions of smart meters installed in the U.S.

  • Mask detects respiratory pathogens surrounding the wearer in just minutes

    The mask is designed to quickly detect the presence of respiratory pathogens responsible for COVID-19 and H1N1 influenza, among others, that are spread via small droplets and aerosols released by infected people.

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