Day: January 12, 2018
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Maxim introduces smart car battery safety device
Maxim Integrated Products has introduced a new 12-channel, high-voltage smart sensor data-acquisition device to improve safety for car lithium-ion battery packs, called the MAX17843. Electric vehicles (EVs), hybrid EVs, and plug-in hybrids rely on large lithium-ion battery packs filled with hundreds or even thousands of individual battery cells. With industry experts predicting that 25% of…
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Smart Ag delivers first cloud-based platform for driverless tractors
Iowa, USA, technology company Smart Ag has developed the first cloud-based platform for driverless tractors. The company is releasing on a limited basis, the first application for the platform, called AutoCart. This software application fully automates a grain cart tractor, which provides farmers with assistance during the demanding harvest season. Colin Hurd, the founder and…
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Misty creates developer edition of home robot
Misty Robotics, the personal robot company spun out from Sphero, the creator of the BB-8 toy robot, announced, at CES 2018, the limited availability of the Misty I Developer Edition prototype robot and software tools. The robot will be made available to a select group of developers and inventors who will help create useful skills for…
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How to secure your programmable logic controller
By Joseph Zulick, MRO Electric As security concerns increase in many sectors, including the factory automation space, getting up-to-speed with the different types of programmable logic controller security is imperative. By creating and implementing an effective strategy to remain secure, you will likely avoid issues, downtime, and setbacks.
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Rising minimum wage pushing fast-food joints towards automation
The ongoing demand for an increase in the minimum wage to the level which would enable workers to buy burgers is leading fast-food giants to consider fully automating hundreds if not tens of thousands of restaurants across the US, getting rid of all the human employees. The latest senior executive to suggest such a move is…
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LG expands range of robots to explore new commercial possibilities
Electronics giant LG has expanded its portfolio of robots and says it is exploring a variety of commercial possibilities. The company says the expansion of its robotics activity is a “key factor of LG’s transofrmation into an artificial intelligence company”. Following the introduction of the company’s robot lineup a year ago, LG says it is…
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MaidBot launches Rosie the robot to provide room service at hotels
A company backed by PayPal founder Peter Thiel has launched a robot to provide room service at hotels. Rosie the robot, which looks like a small robotic vacuum cleaner, has a number of data gathering functions which can help improve the operation of hotels and similar establishments. The company that developed and launched Rosie is…
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Fast-growing sectors within robotics and automation
If we were to think of robotics and automation as one industry – which we at this website in fact do – we could argue that it’s one of the fastest-growing industries in the world right now. Certainly if we were to include software automation systems – such as robotic process automation – it would…