Day: May 19, 2017

  • TI unveils ‘world’s most precise’ single-chip millimeter wave sensor portfolio available today

    TI unveils ‘world’s most precise’ single-chip millimeter wave sensor portfolio available today

    Texas Instruments is bringing what it calls “an unprecedented degree of precision and intelligence” to a range of applications spanning the automotive, factory and building automation, and medical markets. TI’s new millimeter wave (mmWave) single-chip complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) portfolio includes five solutions across two families of 76- to 81-GHz sensors with a complete end-to-end…

  • Robotic co-pilot autonomously flies and lands a simulated Boeing 737

    Robotic co-pilot autonomously flies and lands a simulated Boeing 737

    Aurora’s Alias system performs various flight scenarios, further demonstrates capabilities Aurora Flight Sciences’ work on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (Alias) program has further demonstrated its automated flight capabilities with various successful flight scenarios in a Boeing 737 simulator. These accomplishments build on Aurora’s successful installation and testing of Alias components…

  • Miniature 700-watt servo motor drive with integrated motion controller

    Miniature 700-watt servo motor drive with integrated motion controller

    Granite Devices, a Finnish servo drive manufacturer, has released a new industrial servo motor drive contributing high degree of time and cost saving features to the machine automation market. A “Swiss-army knife of motion control”, Ioni starts a new era of servo drives by bringing snap-on installation, built-in SIL2 safety functions and unforeseen compactness in…

  • Acorn shortens supply chain with Rethink Robotics’ Sawyer

    Acorn shortens supply chain with Rethink Robotics’ Sawyer

      Acorn Sales, a specialist in customized, handmade rubber stamps and embossing seals, says it has significantly shortened its supply chain by deploying Rethink Robotics’ Sawyer at its facility in Richmond, Virginia. Family-owned and operated for over three generations, Acorn is a self-described “small business operating in an Amazon world”. With Sawyer, the company says…