Robotics
Win a drone with Electronic Specifier at productronica 2017
If you’re attending this year’s productronica, make sure to stop by Electronic Specifier’s stand in hall A1, booth 531. At the stand you can enter a prize draw to win a Parallax ELEV-8 V3 Quadcopter Drone Kit. With a RRP of $500, it’s certainly worth the trip.
Berkeley startup to train robots like puppets
Pieter Abbeel, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and his students, Peter Chen, Rocky Duan and Tianhao Zhang, have launched a startup, Embodied Intelligence Inc., to use the latest techniques of deep reinforcement learning and artificial intelligence to make industrial robots easily teachable.
Mini robot gets a schooling when swimming with fish
Researchers from EPFL have developed a new miniature robot that can swim with fish to learn how they communicate with each other and make them change direction or come together. These capabilities have been proven on schools of zebrafish.
Robotic automation for high speed machining centres
Japanese manufacturer, Brother, has introduced Feedio, a robotic component handling system, to increase the production efficiency of its Speedio range of 3- to 5-axis machining centres. Available in the UK and Ireland through Whitehouse Machine Tools, the compact unit can be retrofitted to upgrade any machine in the range.
Cleaning up after robots
Breakthrough Funding comes across innovation stories every day. The vast majority relate to new products or services; often they are ideas that exploit the latest technologies and trends or provide an answer to a problem that is so simple that it makes you wonder how it could have been overlooked for so long. We know that what an organisation creates and delivers can bring enormous value, but we should never ignore the fact that how a business op...
igus say YES to supporting GlitterBomb robot-building team
A North Wales robot-building team is being aided by igus’ engineering support and engineering-grade plastic bearings through the company’s YES (Young Engineers Support) programme, established to foster and support design ideas of young people with a passion for engineering. Designed by 10-year old team captain, April, the pink, sparkly and very formidable GlitterBomb robot has competed in the BBC’s iconic Robot Wars, as wel...
PennEngineering to exhibit its industrial robot at Blechexpo 2017
Fastening technologies and solutions company, PennEngineering will exhibit an integration of its PEMSERTER Series 3000 Automatic-feed Fastener Installation Press and Universal Robot’s UR5 Collaborative Industrial Robot at Blechexpo, Stuttgart, on stand 4313 between 7th and 10th November 2017.
Disinfection robot has robust wireless access
A disinfection robot has been introduced from the Danish company INFUSER, as the STERISAFE-Pro. It disinfects surfaces in any given room - for example patient rooms, operating theatres or hotel rooms - removing up to 99,9999% of pathogens. The robot fills the designated room with an Ozone-based biocide agent which kills unwanted bacteria, viruses and fungi, while purifying the air from small particulate matter in the air.
Toyota Material Handling UK to showcase Autopilot TAE050 at MMS 2017
Toyota Material Handling UK, who are appearing as headline sponsor at the Manufacturing Management Show, will be using the show as an opportunity to showcase its new product the Autopilot TAE050, which is set to bring automation to manufacturing sites across the UK.
Hitting the right note
If you have never had a musical bent, creating music may seem like some form of alchemy. A work of magic that only a select group of individuals with a very special set of skills, and a unique creativity, can ever master. So, to many, learning that a machine can create music - good music that to the untrained ear has nothing artificial about it - will no doubt seem like something out of a science fiction story. But that is exactly what tech start...