Based on the 'Crover Effect' for locomotion in granular media, the CROVER robot is able to move through bulk solids and powders. The team wins $25,000 of manufacturing support from Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials to take their design to the next level.
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The engineers of DMG MORI’s ADDITIVE INTELLIGENCE team redesigned the Robo2Go head for additive manufacturing using nTopology. The new design is 62% lighter, has 60% fewer components, and improves the handling precision of the robot by a factor of 16x.
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This solution for automated pallet unloading was developed by MV Center. For precise and reliable robot navigation, the system uses robust 3D vision technology from Photoneo.
Agricultural robots are the work force of tomorrow
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While we're not yet at the stage of lethal military development depicted in the Terminator film series, today's defence strategists are taking a definite step along that path.
Kinalisoft developed a solution for the automation of electrical inspection of PCBs. The system uses Photoneo 3D vision to get high-resolution and high-accuracy 3D data.
Actuators are an integral part of instrumentation systems that power the machines that exist today. These devices make it possible for the machines to interact with their surroundings the way they do. In this article, we take a closer look at the omnipresent technology.
Power Relay Technology uses light to power robots enabling them to work continuously.
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Alexey Ledyukov, a student at ITMO’s Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics, has designed an exoskeleton that will be able to help lift up to 80 kilograms easily. At the same time, the suit itself doesn’t weigh much: you can move and even run in it freely.
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ATEsystem developed a high-precision solution for automated inspection of heat exchangers, which uses Photoneo 3D vision for accurate navigation.
Berghof Testing developed a brilliant and innovative solution for optical quality testing. The system deploys two Photoneo PhoXi 3D Scanners and eliminates the shortcomings of conventional image processing systems.
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, UAVs, are becoming more and more available as technology becomes cheaper. This is an article about Drones which work on the principle of Artificial Intelligence.
High-performance cavatappi artificial muscles, based on the shape of Italian pasta, exhibit specific work and power metrics ten and five times higher than human skeletal muscles, respectively, and up to 45 percent efficiency.
The automation of the production process of brake discs helped increase productivity and reduce the challenging nature of manually picking the brake discs from a bin.
Article #6 Robot Control Series. Motors are becoming increasingly compact but are housing an ever-greater range of functions.
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