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The Russian space agency is planning to send its humanoid robot Fedor to the International Space Station.
Fedor stands for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research and seems to have been developed as a fighting robot.
Fedor can shoot guns, drive cars and use a variety of tools, including drills, according to a video by Interesting Engineering (video below). [Read more…] about Robots in space: Russians to send Fedor the humanoid robot to the International Space Station
Mentor, a Siemens business, says the company’s Veloce Strato platform is now a customer-validated cloud computing emulation platform directly accessible on-demand on Amazon Web Services.
The Veloce Strato platform offers data center options, such as hardware emulation on-premises, off-premises and on AWS. It’s a computing system often used by chip designers.
This new data center use model extends the availability of hardware emulation across a broad range of deployment scenarios to ensure that all semiconductor companies have access to hardware emulation for system-on-chip and system-of-systems verification. [Read more…] about Mentor Veloce hardware emulation platform now available on Amazon Web Services
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor-making equipment posted $2.49 billion in billings worldwide in June 2018, according to industry association SEMI.
The $2.49 billion figure is calculated by SEMI on a “three-month average basis”, and is published in the Market Data Billings Report, published today by SEMI.
The billings figure is 8 percent lower than the final May 2018 level of $2.7 billion, and is 8.1 percent higher than the June 2017 billings level of $2.3 billion. [Read more…] about North American semiconductor manufacturing equipment industry posts $2.5 billion in billings
Mitsubishi Electric Automation will present its single source manufacturing solutions at the International Manufacturing Technology Show, being held September 10-15, 2018 at McCormick Place in Chicago.
Visitors to booth 134102 will see some of Mitsubishi Electric’s most advanced, integrated factory automation products in action, including industrial internet of things systems, the M8 CNC series control platform, FR series robots, 5-axis machining and a fully automated manufacturing (FAM) cell.
The company’s theme for this year’s show is “Running the Smartest Machines in the World”, which conveys that through a range of integrated products. [Read more…] about Mitsubishi to present its ‘single-source manufacturing’ solutions at IMTS
Balluff has launched a smart sensor for industrial internet applications, describing it as a “photoelectric all-rounder”.
The company says its BOS 21M ADCAPGenerating sensor is ideal for transporting and processing information are central tasks in the Industry 4.0 environment.
The basis for all the information is intelligent sensors which provide the required input. With their BOS 21M ADCAP will be showing a newly developed optical multifunction sensor, the BOS 21M series. [Read more…] about Balluff launches smart sensor for industrial internet applications
A Croatian company called Gideon Brothers has raised $765,000 to further develop its warehouse robot, according to a story on TechCrunch.com.
The company’s technologies are said to be already in use at some of the largest and most well-known companies in the world.
Tesco, Henkel, Target, Walmart, DHL, DB Schenker, Kuehne & Nagel, and FedEx are among the names Gideon Brothers mentions on its website as customers.
The new money will be used to further develop Gideon Brothers’ autonomous mobile platform, as seen in the main picture, which is from the company’s video (see below). [Read more…] about Gideon Brothers raises $765,000 to further develop its warehouse robot
By Anne de Kerckhove, CEO, Freespee
No matter which sector you are currently operating in, it’s more than likely that artificial intelligence will soon completely change the way you do business.
Consumer-facing organisations in the retail, energy, finance, insurance and automotive sectors are embracing automation – not just to keep up with competitors, but also to keep pace with increasing expectations.
However, with so much hype around AI in today’s media landscape, knowing the true value of what it can offer organisations – and how it can truly improve the customer experience – is increasingly difficult. [Read more…] about Opinion: Do customers really want to talk to robots?
The US has again taken the lead in the global supercomputing sector because of a large investment by the Department of Energy, which made $260 million available to fund the development of the Summit supercomputer, located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
According to the Top500.org, which measures these things, the Summit supercomputing system is capable of 122,300 teraflops a second.
A teraflop is a trillion floating point operations. A petaflop is 1,000 times a teraflop, or a quadrillion flops. [Read more…] about World’s fastest supercomputers: US takes the lead again in high-performance computing
Nowadays servo motors are used not only in industry and mechanical engineering, but also in innovative areas such as virtual reality.
In this context, word of Kollmorgen’s high-performance motor and drive technology has spread as far as India. Kollmorgen helped to drive the three degrees of freedom platforms for a high-tech virtual reality application for Smaaash in India.
Kollmorgen servo-geared motors and drives support the thrill of a roller coaster simulator. Passengers taking the seat in this simulator get an undeniable adrenaline rush as the roller coaster tears up and down through steep curves at breakneck speed. [Read more…] about Kollmorgen servo motors used with virtual reality on rollercoaster
Agility Robotics has raised $8 million to develop its two-legged walking robot, called “Cassie”.
The legs of the robot look like they’re modeled on the way a bird’s legs move, or the hind legs of a horse.
Agility designs and builds walking and running robots for advanced mobility in human environments. [Read more…] about Agility Robotics raises $8 million to develop its two-legged robot
