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Additive manufacturing is a process that creates physical objects from digital designs.
An engineer creates digital design through computer software, which is then sliced into layers and sent into an additive manufacturing machine.
The machine then builds the same 3-D design as that of the digital one. [Read more…] about How Additive Manufacturing Software is Changing the Game
Visteon, an automotive cockpit electronics technology company, has launched what it describes as its “breakthrough” microZone display technology.
The virtual dashboard element is said to offer offers “significantly higher graphics performance” than traditional LCD displays.
This new, patent-pending high-dynamic range display technology offers high contrast and brightness and wide color gamut that enables automotive displays to achieve parity with consumer mobile devices with life-like imaging capability. [Read more…] about Visteon shows off new dashboard technology
by Editor
Factories and plants in industries – such as chemical processing, pulp and paper, water and waste-water treatment, have seen the benefits of remote valve monitoring.
Traditional retrofitted monitoring solutions, however, are costly and slow to deploy for factories with thousands of manual valves of different types.
There is a more cost-effective alternative – factories have evidenced a 90 percent reduction in retrofitting investment, by using industry-grade wireless sensors and Industrial IoT technologies. [Read more…] about Factories can save up to 90 per cent in valve monitoring costs with wireless IoT sensors
by Sam Francis
Scania has unveiled a new driverless – and indeed cabless – concept truck which looks to be aimed at the mining and construction sectors.
Describing it as “the latest member of our autonomous family”, Scania says the AXL is a fully autonomous concept truck, without a cab.
In what is another milestone in the development of heavy self-driving vehicles, a group of Scania experts in different fields have teamed up and developed a concept truck, which, even without the cab, has the company’s modular system at the heart of the design. [Read more…] about Scania unveils new driverless concept truck
by Sam Francis
Goudsmit Magnetics has unveiled its new and improved magnetic gripper for the automated pick-up, placement or positioning of steel or other ferromagnetic objects.
The company says the end effector is ideal for removing sheet metal from presses, de-stacking products from boxes (bin picking), assembling steel parts or handling of punched steel parts, blanks and perforated steel sheets in robotic applications.
The ultralight magnetic gripper is fitted with strong permanent neodymium magnets and is therefore extra safe. It can be used in grippers on robot arms. [Read more…] about Goudsmit Magnetics improves its gripper for picking up sheet metal
MakerBot, a 3D printing equipment supplier, says All Axis Robotics is implementing the MakerBot “Method” manufacturing workstation – or 3D printer – into its automation processes to produce custom tooling parts for its legacy machines as well as customers.
All Axis Robotics is a Dallas, Texas-based machine shop and a leader in turnkey custom robot solutions for other machine shops and manufacturing facilities in need of automated machine tending.
Customers enlist the expertise of All Axis Robotics’ mechanical and manufacturing engineers to streamline their manufacturing operations with robotic arms and custom end-effectors, including those for CNC machine tending, automated part sanding, and brake press machine tending, among others. [Read more…] about All Axis Robotics manufactures custom robot arm end-effectors with MakerBot 3D printer
by Liv
SnakeClamp’s new custom-length Flexwire product is a durable, waterproof flexible mounting and positioning arm alternative to flexible gooseneck tubes.
It is ideal for mounting objects in harsh or outdoor environments where a flexible positioning arm is required.
SnakeClamp Products of Christiansburg, Virginia has developed Flexwire, an innovative waterproof solid-core flexible mounting arm alternative to flexible gooseneck tubing. [Read more…] about SnakeClamp Products launches Flexwire
Formant, a robot fleet management software company, has acquired Formation, a robot teleoperation startup based in Pittsburgh.
Formant will integrate the startup’s solution to enable customers to remotely control their robots through its browser-based, cloud-enabled robot fleet management system.
According to Formant’s CEO, Jeff Linnell, adding teleoperation to Formant’s offerings will create an end-to-end solution that robots-as-a-service companies can leverage to scale their fleets, enabling them to easily manage thousands of robots. [Read more…] about Formant acquires Formation to add robot remote control to its fleet management solutions
by Mai Tao
A Taiwanese food and beverage store called Babo Arms is now using a collaborative robot from Universal Robots to make and serve tea.
Universal Robots’ UR5 unit was chosen by Babo Arms to “add a twist of modernity” into their production process.
Babo Arms were searching for an automated device to enhance operations and address the ongoing recruitment issue faced by the food and beverage industry. [Read more…] about Taiwanese store employs robot to make and serve tea
by Sam Francis
Anki, a startup company which made robotic toy cars and trucks, is planning to close its doors, according to a report on the Recode website.
The company had raised more than $200 million in funding for the venture, and generated $100 million in revenue in 2017, but is now making all of its 200 employees redundant.
In a statement to Recode, the company says that it had been left “without significant funding” which meant it could not finance its hardware and software development plans going forward.
[Read more…] about Robotic toymaker Anki to close downRobotics and Automation News was established in May, 2015, and is now one of the most widely-read websites in its category.
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