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Infineon is planning to expand its development site in Linz, Austria. The company says it will strengthen its research and development efforts in the field of high-frequency components.
The Infineon Austria holding company – Danube Integrated Circuit Engineering – in Linz will be provided with a new home.
The company broke ground for the new site today. [Read more…] about Infineon expands its development site in Austria
Make digital transformation tangible – that was what organizers of the Hannover Messe 2019 promised. And, as the five-day event comes to a close, they announced a positive result.
Artificial intelligence in industry and robotics, the potential of the new 5G mobile communications standard for industrial applications, lightweight design, and the future of work in a time of increasing digitalization were this year’s most important topics at the world’s leading tradeshow for industrial technology.
“Hannover Messe 2019 showed that it is the world’s most important platform for all technologies related to industrial transformation,” said Dr Jochen Köckler, chairman of Deutsche Messe. “More than 215,000 visitors used Hannover Messe to invest in new technologies and prepare their businesses for the future. [Read more…] about Hannover Messe 2019: Driving industrial transformation
OnRobot, a maker of end-of-arm tooling for collaborative robots, is celebrating two prestigious wins as the company’s “lizard-inspired” Gecko Gripper was awarded silver at Edison Awards Gala held Thursday, April 4, 2019, in New York City.
The win comes hot on the heels of the Gecko Gripper winning the Robotics Award at the Hannover Messe in Germany two days earlier.
OnRobot says its gripper is set to “revolutionise manufacturing” because of its ability to attach and lift any kind of flat and smooth surfaces without costly compressed air or external power, using easy gripping technology for pick and place applications. [Read more…] about OnRobot wins two prestigious awards for its ‘Gecko Gripper’
A company called Innolith says it is developing “the world’s first 1,000 Wh/kg rechargeable battery”.
Under development in the company’s German laboratory, the new “Innolith Energy Battery” would be capable of powering an electric vehicle for “over 1,000 kilometers on a single charge”.
Electric cars currently on the market can be driven for about 100 to 300 km, depending on the model. [Read more…] about New battery promises to increase range of electric vehicles by five times
Clean energy from sources such as solar, wind, and others now accounts for a third of global power capacity, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency.
The decade-long trend of strong growth in renewable energy capacity continued in 2018 with global additions of 171 gigawatts, according to new data released by Irena.
The annual increase of 7.9 percent was bolstered by new additions from solar and wind energy, which accounted for 84 percent of the growth. “A third of global power capacity is now based on renewable energy,” says Irena. [Read more…] about Renewable energy now accounts for a third of global power capacity, says Irena
Boston Dynamics, maker of the world’s most terrifying robots (see video below for proof), has agreed to acquire Kinema Systems, a company that enables industrial robotic arms with deep learning technology to locate and move boxes on complex pallets.
Using a combination of vision sensors and deep learning software, Kinema Systems’ Pick technology works with leading commercial robotic arms to move boxes off pallets to conveyors or build stacks of boxes on pallets.
Pick enables logistics, retail, and manufacturing companies to achieve high rates of box moving with minimal setup or training for both multi-SKU and single-SKU pallets. [Read more…] about Boston Dynamics buys Kinema Systems for its brains
Publisher says its innovative book prototype provides a “compelling machine-generated overview” of the latest research on lithium-ion batteries, automatically compiled by an algorithm developed in collaboration with the Applied Computational Linguistics Lab of Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Springer Nature has published its first machine-generated book in chemistry. The book prototype provides an overview of the latest research in the rapidly growing field of lithium-ion batteries.
The company says the content is “a cross-corpus auto-summarization” of a large number of current research articles in this discipline.
Serving as a structured excerpt from a huge set of papers, the innovative pipeline architecture aims at helping researchers to manage the information overload in this discipline efficiently. [Read more…] about Springer Nature publishes its first ‘machine-generated’ book
Brain Corp, a San Diego-based artificial intelligence company specializing in robotics, has launched a new delivery robot which it calls “AutoDelivery”. (See video below.)
AutoDelivery appears to be designed to operate within warehouses and stores, or facilities where it will generally be alongside human staff, rather than make deliveries to consumers’ addresses.
The proof-of-concept robot is powered by BrainOS, the company’s commercial operating system for the production, installation, and support of autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs.
BrainOS currently powers multiple machines within the robotic floor care industry, including those made by Tennant, Minuteman, ICE, and SoftBank Robotics. [Read more…] about Brain Corp debuts autonomous supply chain robot
The world’s leading industrial technology event, Hannover Messe, is this year highlighting smart factory technologies and artificial intelligence.
The organizers of the show have decided on the theme of “Industrial Intelligence”, which probably encapsulates the trends perfectly.
However, its always going to be difficult to summarise what is going on such a large trade fair, let alone distill it into two words. [Read more…] about Hannover Messe highlights smart factory technologies and artificial intelligence
Epson Robots will be showcasing its award-winning line of SCARA and 6-axis robots at Automate, as well as introduce three new robotics solutions.
In addition, the company will lead a discussion for users new to factory automation.
Epson has more than 300 robot models, including its SCARA robot lineup – the G-Series, LS-Series, RS-Series and T-Series All-in-One. [Read more…] about Epson to launch new robotic solutions at Automate
