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Sweden has unveiled what describes as “the world’s most advanced testing facility for self-driving cars”.
AstaZero, near Gothenburg, sets new benchmark in automated vehicle testing.
The safety of testing self-driving technology has garnered global attention recently following fatal incidents on public roads. [Read more…] about Sweden unveils ‘world’s most advanced’ testing facility for self-driving cars
By Mark Scribner, transportation policy expert, Competetive Enterprise Institute
During the final days of the Obama administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed its “talking car” mandate.
This would have required new vehicles to come equipped with radios to communicate information to other vehicles in order to convey hazard warnings to drivers.
This was to use a specific communications protocol known as dedicated short-range communications. The proposal was deeply flawed in numerous ways, as CEI pointed out at the time. [Read more…] about Opinion: Environmental Protection Agency considering backdoor subsidies for ‘talking car’ tech
The ringing of the closing bell on October 17, 2018, at the New York Stock Exchange was highly unusual as the prestigious task was performed not by a human, but by a robot arm.
The bell ringer, Universal Robots’ UR5e with a two-fingered gripper from Robotiq, is a collaborative robot able to work alongside people with no safety guarding, giving watchers worldwide the opportunity to see just how easily cobots interact with humans.
Universal Robots pioneered the market by selling the first commercially viable cobot in 2008 and has kept its early frontrunner position with a 60 percent global share of the cobot market, selling more cobots than all competitors combined. Earlier this year, UR announced the sale of its 25,000th cobot. [Read more…] about Universal Robots machine becomes first robot to ring bell at New York Stock Exchange
Humber College in Canada and Rockwell Automation’s have a five-year partnership agreement intended to address the skills gaps in the advanced manufacturing sector and equip students for the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers of the future.
Rockwell Automation will also be part of the planned Industry 4.0 consortium hosted by Humber as part of The Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation (Barrett CTI) helping to integrate more learning pathways and opportunities for students.
“Partnering with Rockwell Automation allows us to strengthen our industry connections and find new ways to prepare our students for the careers of tomorrow,” says Dr. Chris Whitaker, president and CEO, Humber College.
[Read more…] about Humber and Rockwell Automation partner to address skills gap
EuroBLECH, where experts and potential customers from the world of sheet-metal working come together, is being held from 23 to 26 October in Hannover, Germany, and Kuka will present its tailored automation solutions for different steps in the process chain there.
From individual robots to preconfigured Kuka “ready2_use” packages and standard cells for laser applications: Kuka is able to offer solutions for the various steps in the sheet-metal working process chain.
Visitors to EuroBLECH 2018 will be able to see two new Kuka ready2_use solutions for the robotic linking of press lines.
[Read more…] about Kuka at EuroBLECH 2018: robot-based solutions for sheet-metal working
Research by Europe’s leading road safety organisation shows that 71 percent of drivers around the world believe they can purchase a self-driving car right now.
The astonishing finding is just one of many worrying perceptions uncovered by the study, which also showed that one in 10 drivers would be tempted to have a nap while using a so-called “Highway Assist” system, such as Adaptive Cruise Control.
The TestingAutomation study, commissioned by Thatcham Research, Euro NCAP and Global NCAP, has discovered potentially dangerous false impressions around the apparent self-driving capability of new cars and the safe usage of Highway Assist technologies. [Read more…] about Automated driving hype is ‘dangerously confusing drivers’
