Day: July 16, 2017
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Continental demonstrates ‘Cruising Chauffeur’, its vision of autonomous driving
Continental has showcased its “Cruising Chauffeur”, an self-driving car platform which provides an insight into the company’s vision of the future of what it calls “highly automated driving” on highways. Highly automated driving on highways is no longer just a dream, says the company, but now a reality. Continental started testing systems for automated driving…
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TUV Rheinland outlines cyber security threats to industrial robotics and automation systems
TUV Rheinland was invited to attend Shanghai International Industrial Automation & Robot Exhibition 2017 earlier this month, and held thematic lectures on the “New Engine of Smart Society – Robots and Inspection & Certification Services for Robot Systems” during the exhibition. Shu Xu, unit general manager of commercial products of TUV Rheinland Greater China, officially…
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Neousys launches ARM-based IoT gateway
Neousys Technology has launched an industrial grade ARM-based gateway, which it calls IGT-20. The company says unlike System on Module (SoM) that’s commonly provided as a barebone component, IGT-20 is based on AM3352 from Texas Instrument’s Sitara AM335x family and will be shipped as a ready system pre-installed with Debian. The industrial nature of IGT-20…
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What will America’s roads and highways look like in the future?
The New Jersey Institute of Technology has been looking into the future to see how roads and highways will change over the next few years, and found a significant proportion of roadways in a poor state. Across the United States, says the NJIT, there are more than 4 million miles of public roadways, and 28…
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Kollmorgen and VH Vertical Packaging realise new potential with a separate labeler
By Jens Depping A Dutch packaging machinery manufacturer has now developed a labeller as part of a retrofit with servo-drive technology based on 48 volts. This is designed as an optional module for the company’s own vertical packaging machines on the one hand and as a functional enhancement for retrofitting older machines of well-known producers…
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A giant company built on tiny components: Interview with Bosch industrial internet boss
In this interview, Stefan Hartung, a senior member of the board at Bosch, talks extensively about the industrial internet, detailing some of the components and devices the company uses to give old machines a new lease of life, and provides some insight into the company’s plans going forward Bosch is as relevant in today’s computerised…