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Enhancing Industrial Automation: Why Compact Mini PCs Are Quietly Becoming the Default Choice for Robotic Controllers

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In most modern factories, the control cabinet has changed a lot compared to even a few years ago. There’s more happening inside it – vision systems, sensors, controllers, networking gear – and somehow engineers are expected to fit all of it into the same limited space.

That’s where compact industrial computers have started to take over roles that used to belong to bulky industrial PCs or even desktop-class machines sitting awkwardly outside the system.

The shift isn’t about aesthetics. It’s about practicality: less space, fewer points of failure, and systems that can run continuously without constant attention. [Read more…] about Enhancing Industrial Automation: Why Compact Mini PCs Are Quietly Becoming the Default Choice for Robotic Controllers

Interview with Christina Gomez-Terry of Plus One Robotics: Why warehouse robotics succeeds or fails at scale

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Warehouse automation has entered a new phase. The question is no longer whether robotics can perform individual tasks such as parcel picking, depalletizing, sorting, or palletizing.

The technology has largely proven itself in pilot projects and controlled deployments. The bigger challenge facing the industry today is scale.

As logistics operators expand robotics systems across multiple facilities, they often discover that success depends less on peak performance and more on consistency, reliability, and operational resilience. [Read more…] about Interview with Christina Gomez-Terry of Plus One Robotics: Why warehouse robotics succeeds or fails at scale

Open source hardware for robotics: Democratizing robot building

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Most discussions about open-source robotics focus on software. The Robot Operating System (ROS) has become the best-known example, providing developers with a common framework for building and operating robots.

Yet software is only part of the story.

Over the past two decades, a growing ecosystem of open-source hardware platforms has dramatically lowered the barriers to robotics development. [Read more…] about Open source hardware for robotics: Democratizing robot building

Shadow IT: Risks, Realities, and How to Manage it

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Shadow IT refers to tools, services, and resources that employees use without approval from the main IT department or security team.

For example, an employee may store company files in a personal cloud account or use an external password manager because it feels more convenient, even though these services are not part of the organization’s approved toolset.

Shadow IT remains common. In one Capterra survey, 57 percent of small and medium-sized businesses reported that employees used unapproved software or services at work. [Read more…] about Shadow IT: Risks, Realities, and How to Manage it

How Alisira OÜ Approaches Leadership Development From Within

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While most organizations see leadership succession as a matter of recruiting, Alisira OÜ sees it as a matter of design.

This is what drives all else – the way meetings are run, whom to give stretch assignments to, whether the leadership team in three years will be composed of internal growth or external pressure.

Deloitte’s Private Company Outlook found that 81% of surveyed CEOs consider leadership succession a main priority, yet only a fraction report having a working pipeline ready to deliver it. The gap isn’t intention – it’s method. [Read more…] about How Alisira OÜ Approaches Leadership Development From Within

Virginia Tech researchers control soft robotics with ‘AI’s cousin’: ‘Reservoir computing’

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Soft robotics – machines made of flexible, muscle-like materials – can bend and stretch in fluid ways that put the rigid robots of old sci-fi movies to shame. 

But the flexibility that lets them pick ripe tomatoes or navigate a search-and-rescue site comes at a cost: soft robotics are notoriously difficult to control.

Virginia Tech researchers are working to solve that problem using a new computing approach inspired by the complex architecture of neurons in the brain. [Read more…] about Virginia Tech researchers control soft robotics with ‘AI’s cousin’: ‘Reservoir computing’

The power of the open-source community in robotics: Collaboration and shared innovation

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For decades, robotics was viewed as a niche engineering discipline inhabited largely by researchers, academics, and highly specialized industrial automation companies.

Development was expensive, fragmented, and slow. Even simple mobile robots often required years of work and highly customized software stacks.

Today, robotics sits at the center of one of the largest technology investment waves in modern industrial history. [Read more…] about The power of the open-source community in robotics: Collaboration and shared innovation

Why Network Security is Critical in the Age of Robotics and Automation

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A few years ago, “network security” usually meant protecting laptops, servers, and the office Wi‑Fi (which somehow always died in the conference room).

In 2026, that definition feels too small. Networks don’t just carry email and video calls anymore; they carry instructions that move real machines.

Robots in warehouses, automated conveyor systems, industrial sensors, smart cameras, access control systems, autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs), and even building management systems all of them rely on a network to coordinate what happens next. [Read more…] about Why Network Security is Critical in the Age of Robotics and Automation

Machine Vision Systems Are Expanding the Need for Scalable Media Infrastructure

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Machine vision systems are becoming increasingly important across modern industrial environments. Factories, warehouses, logistics centers, robotics platforms, and automated production facilities now rely heavily on cameras, sensors, and AI-assisted visual analysis to improve operational efficiency and decision-making.

These systems help monitor production lines, inspect product quality, track inventory movement, support predictive maintenance, and improve workplace safety. As industrial automation continues expanding, organizations are generating far larger volumes of visual information than they did only a few years ago.

This rapid growth in visual data is creating new infrastructure challenges surrounding storage, organization, accessibility, and long-term media management. For many companies, scalable media infrastructure is becoming just as important as the automation systems generating the data itself. [Read more…] about Machine Vision Systems Are Expanding the Need for Scalable Media Infrastructure

Wiz Alternatives in 2026: 7 Tools Compared – Best for Cloud and Code Security

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Wiz is one of the fastest-growing security companies in history. Its agentless cloud scanning, Security Graph visualization, and ability to surface cross-cloud attack paths changed how the market thinks about cloud-native application protection (CNAPP).  [Read more…] about Wiz Alternatives in 2026: 7 Tools Compared – Best for Cloud and Code Security