Day: April 12, 2017
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Toyota demonstrates robot to make elderly people walk faster
By Naomi Tajitsu, Reuters Japanese automakers are looking beyond the industry trend to develop self-driving cars and turning their attention to robots to help keep the country’s rapidly graying society on the move. Toyota said it saw the possibility of becoming a mass producer of robots to help the elderly in a country whose population…
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Universal Robots partners with Nissan to increase manufacturing productivity through collaborative robots
Universal Robots says Nissan has simplified processes, reduced relief worker costs and stabilised production output through deployment of the company’s UR10 cobots Universal Robots says the Nissan Motor Company has successfully deployed Universal Robots’ UR10 robot arms at its Yokohama factory. The automaker joins other global automotive manufacturers including BMW and Volkswagen who are using Universal Robots’…
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Aerospace industry places unique demands on holemaking technology
Plan ahead to get tooling that can handle today’s new materials, say Nate Craine and Greg Torres, of Allied Machine & Engineering The aerospace industry is bigger than ever. As more and more people rely on air transport, the Airbus Global Market Forecast predicts the need for 33,000 new passenger and freighter aircraft in the…
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EIT Digital launches ‘Robot IoT Interface’ solution
EIT Digital has launched what it calls a “Robot IoT Interface”, a new technology project being developed with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and Poitiers-based startup Agileo Automation. The goal of the technology is to enable different kind of robots and machines to connect to different cloud platforms. Agileo’s managing director, Marc…