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3 Things to Know When Transporting Your Robot
We’re now on the pace of mechanical and AI technology advancement and development. A time when people use the help of a robot for a particular task. Robots are now in demand for health care, agriculture, food preparation, manufacturing industries, and the military. There are even robotic pets now for common households.
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Keep Yourself Safe While Cycling With These Useful Tips
A couple of decades ago, you could argue that bicycle accidents weren’t a thing. But fast-forwarding to 2022, an increasing number of people are biking to work. And while there are many reasons for this uptick in bicycle fatalities, one of the most common is dooring.
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Wyzo sidebot combines with Piab’s ‘extremely lightweight’ mini gripper
Handling food or other small, lightweight products quickly and easily with human-machine interaction – that’s exactly what the Wyzo sidebot is designed to do. With a maximum payload of one kilogram, the weight of the gripper is critical. So, what could be a better fit than Piab’s featherweight, the MCG, at just 270 grams, which…
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Why Technology Has Been So Important In The Past Year
The past 12 months or so have been completely unprecedented. Life as we know it was flipped completely upside down, all around the world. Not a single life hasn’t been touched by what has happened and it has been something that none of us has ever seen, or are likely to ever see again. One thing…
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Waypoint launches Kingpin lift and hitch top module for its warehouse robots
Waypoint Robotics has launched a top module that enables the company’s omnidirectional warehouse robots to automatically load and unload payloads and connect to a variety of carts for material movement. The module is called “Kingpin” and Waypoint says it enables its Vector robot – a 600 lb payload capacity AMR – to do two critical…
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Yamaha looking to invest in vertical farming companies
Yamaha’s agricultural technology investments leader says he is observing the vertical farming market with a view to backing startups in the sector. (See video below.) In a wide-ranging interview with Robotics and Automation News, Nolan Paul, partner, global agricultural technology lead at Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, says he finds vertical farming “Vertical…
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UTC begins work on hybrid electric aeroplane
United Technologies (UTC) has recently launched the advanced projects group within the company, which moves at speed to build and pilot ambitious product and service demonstrators. The group’s first product demonstrator is a hybrid-electric X-plane under the project name, Project 804. The number “804” represents the straight-line mileage between the Pratt & Whitney facility in…
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Nikola and Bosch develop fuel cell powertrain for new truck
Nikola Motor Company has showcased its hydrogen-electric powered semi-truck, the Nikola Two, at its Nikola World event. Bosch technology and expertise helped Nikola to realise the fully functional Nikola Two hydrogen-electric truck with industry-ready heavy-duty truck components and systems. The trucks feature innovations in automation, connectivity and electrification enabled with Bosch’s assistance.