Automation and Robotics

Five trends to witness in Electronic Manufacturing

With improvements in AI and IoT visualizing the factories of the future can be truly magical for tech enthusiasts. The implementation of several significant...

M-Sense22 Provides New Encoder Option for Portescap’s BLDC Motor Platform

Portescap, an industry-leading supplier of motion control solutions, is introducing the M-Sense22, a magnetic encoder option perfectly suited for its brushless DC motor platform....

Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) Have Evolved into Smart Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) and Are Improving...

The extent to which the work time of each process on the production line is shortened is important to enhance productivity in factories. Nevertheless,...

Enhance Your Industrial Network Security to Fortify IT/OT Convergence

Following the pandemic, the past two years have been synonymous with a rapidly changing global environment. More than ever, businesses are encountering uncertainties, such...

Autonomous Robots in Manufacturing: Pros and Cons

Robotic systems have been crucial to modern manufacturing since their introduction to the industry in 1961 by inventor George Devol. With the first manufacturing-centred...

StickBot: A Robot Made of Sticks

Powered by four AA batteries, connected by a maze of wires and blinking lights, StickBot's wooden arms now thump up and over, powering the...

Multi Functional Caterpillar like Soft Millirobots

When you hear the term "robot," you might think of complicated machinery working in factories or roving on other planets. But "millirobots" might change...

Robot that Draws Circuits with Conductive Ink

Recent technological advancements have paved the way for the creation of increasingly sophisticated robotic systems designed to autonomously complete missions in different familiar and...

New Robots Require New Ways to Think about Processors

We’re on the cusp of a revolution in robots. After years of relatively moderate growth, sales of commercial and industrial robots are slated to...

Accelerating the Commercialization of Stretchable Electronics

Carnegie Mellon mechanical engineering researchers have developed a new scalable and reproducible manufacturing technique that could accelerate the mainstream adoption and commercialization of soft...

Pneumatic Energy System for Assistive Robotics

Mechanical engineers at Rice University's George R. Brown School of Engineering have built a handy extra limb able to grasp objects and go, powered...

Aquabots the Ultrasoft Liquid Robots

In recent years, roboticists have developed a wide variety of robotic systems with different body structures and capabilities. Most of these robots are either...

Aiming to Enhance Human-robot Collaboration with AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) methods have become increasingly advanced over the past few decades, attaining remarkable results in many real-world tasks. Nonetheless, most existing AI...

Scratching the 6G Surface

“We can imagine completely autonomous systems; or multi-sensory extended reality which integrates the five traditional human senses with the digital world; or real-time remote...

Sensor Fusion Comes of Age

Over time, sensors have morphed from simple analog and mechanical constructs to chip-based digital devices that connect to a machine to monitor the machine’s...

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