Automation and Control

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  • 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.

  • Stanford University wearable device measures changing size of tumors

    The device, dubbed the “Flexible Autonomous Sensor measuring Tumors,” or FAST, is a small autonomous device that features stretchable and flexible sensors that adhere to the skin and measure the changing size of tumors.

  • Real-time monitoring and automation solution launched for the oil and gas industry

    XLink is a hardware and software system upgrade that provides both personnel-on-board (POB) reduction through offshore automation and allows customers to monitor their drilling waste operations live from anywhere in the world.

  • The 3 Ds of energy

    The 3 Ds — digitization, decarbonization and decentralization — are major trends reshaping the global energy environment.

  • Trimble’s new 3D scanning and imaging solutions

    The Trimble X12 gives users the ability to visualize, manage and evaluate projects throughout the workflow.

  • Video: Fast testing smart sensor kits

    The SCD40 and SCD41 CO2 sensor enables innovative applications to improve indoor air quality.

  • New robot picks and places fashion

    The Smart Fashion Picker robot is based on Smart Robotics’ line of pick and place robots, which perform repetitive tasks in the warehouse and manufacturing spaces.

  • FPT Industrial rides the new wave of hybridization at Cannes Yachting Festival 2022

    The company revealed the next step in its marine hybridization route and showcased a Guinness World Speed Record-holding diesel powerboat engine.

  • AGILOX North America opens new Client Experience and Fulfillment Center

    The facility supports an expanded workforce and fulfillment capabilities as well as a robotics training academy.

  • DAWN of a new solar fuel production plant

    The world’s first industrial plant to produce synthetic fuels using solar heat is now under construction in Jülich, Germany.

  • World's most compact Ethernet/IP encoder

    Encoders with the Ethernet/IP protocol are now available, including the most compact in the world.

  • Regaining the ability to walk independently

    Patients with neuromuscular disorders can regain mobility with an exoskeleton equipped with an innovative all-in-one component motor and torque sensor from FAULHABER.

  • New LNP THERMOCOMP compounds from SABIC for automotive GNSS antennas offer improved signal gain vs ceramics

    The compounds offer potential to improve signal gain performance versus ceramics in second-generation automotive global navigation satellite system (GNSS) antennas.

  • Watch how a spraying robot autonomously spots, eliminates weeds on the farm

    The Solix Sprayer robot offers weed spot-spray maps with accompanying analysis on inputs saved and it can reportedly service more than 95 acres per day depending upon the field shape and terrain.

  • Cyborg insects one step closer to reality

    The cyborg cockroaches are equipped with a tiny wireless control module powered by a rechargeable battery attached to a solar cell. Ultrathin electronics and flexible materials enable the cyborg cockroaches to move freely.

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