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PLCopen Standards Accelerating Innovation and Efficiency Demonstrated at IMTS 2018

For the first time, PLCopen will attend the International Manufacturing Technology Show, demonstrating the application of PLCopen software standards with a high-speed, multi-axis machine.

Drones Being Used to Fight Colombia's 'War on Drugs'

The war on drugs is taking to the skies thanks to a new initiative being led by the Colombian government that uses drones to destroy cocaine-producing plants.

AI Robots To Teach Students in Japan English

As part of an initiative to help educators meet an approaching deadline for students throughout Japan to start learning English, the education ministry is launching a pilot project that will place English-speaking artificial intelligence (AI) robots in roughly 500 classrooms throughout the country.

Watch: Drone Delivery Beyond the Visual Line of Sight, Smartphone App to Detect Strokes, World's Most Fuel-Efficient Vehicle

Drone Delivery Beyond the Visual Line of Sight, Smartphone App to Detect Strokes, World's Most Fuel-Efficient Vehicle

Study: Robots Will Not Displace Teachers...For Now

If there was ever fear that teachers might one day lose their jobs to robots, they can now breathe a sigh of relief thanks to recent findings from a study led by robotics professor Tony Belpaeme from the University of Plymouth and Ghent University.

Mysterious Russian Satellite Behaving 'Abnormally'

Concern over the appearance of a mysterious Russian satellite demonstrating "very abnormal behavior" is alarming some in the U.S., according to a State Department official.

Police Take to the Internet to Solve Crime

Hoping to solve a fatal hit-and-run case, Washington State Police turned to social media for help and subsequently transformed a Reddit user into an amateur detective.

Smartphone App Designed to Detect Strokes

Enabling users to detect cerebral ictus earlier is the goal of researchers from Valencia’s Polytechnic University (UPV), who have developed a mobile app capable of doing just that.

Google Still Knows Where Users Are, Even After Opting Out of Location History Feature

According to a recent Associated Press report, Google has been logging user’s whereabouts, even if those users had opted out of Google’s Location History feature.

Security Firm Discovers that Fax Machines Can Be Gateway for Hackers

Think outdated electronic equipment is safe from hackers? Think again, according to recent findings from the cyber security firm Check Point.

Machine Learning System Reveals Female Scientists Underrepresented on Wikipedia

Thanks to a machine learning system developed at Primer, John Bohannon, director of science, is able to sift through different scientific works and contributions that were previously inaccessible through a traditional search of Wikipedia.

Maersk and IBM Introduce TradeLens Blockchain Shipping Solution

Using blockchain smart contracts, TradeLens enables digital collaboration across the multiple parties involved in international trade.

University of Texas at Arlington Patents 'Hairy' Robot Tech

The idea that one day robots might be more sensitive to touch is something that the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) is banking on as evidenced by a recent patent for smart skin developed by a UTA researcher.

Researchers Investigate Whether an Algorithm Could Write Poetry as Well as Humans

Could an algorithm write poetry as well as a human? A team of computer scientists from Australia, along with an expert from the English department at the University of Toronto, set about answering that question by designing an algorithm capable of writing poetry all while adhering to the rules of rhyme and meter.

Daynamica — an App that Collects Travel Data — Available for Purchase

A system for collecting data concerning travel behaviors developed by University of Minnesota Associate Professor Yingling Fan will soon be available for purchase as an app called Daynamica.

Team Using Big Data Analytics to Automatically Detect Events in Cities

Researchers from King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia — recognizing the wealth of data being generated thanks to the number of connected devices and people’s willingness to give real-time updates of their experiences — believe that harnessing data could one day improve how information concerning traffic, events and other goings-on in a city are understood and disseminated.

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