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Safety of Drivers and Other Vehicles Must be Primary in NHTSA’s New Robot Car Policy

Consumer Watchdog today called on the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) to put the safety of drivers and other vehicles first as it revises its two-year-old policy on self-driving vehicles.

26 Nov 2015

SPS IPC Drives 2015: Festo Presents Automation Platform and Robot Control System

From sensors to mechanical drives and control components, Festo offers a complete spectrum of products for electric automation, as well as developing full system solutions. The company’s aim going forward is to build on its successful growth in the area of electric automation. One aspect of this will take the shape of innovative products for the factory of the future.

26 Nov 2015

UTA's Frank Lewis Honored for Contributions to Advancing Autonomous Aircraft Systems

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics will honor professor Frank Lewis, head of the University of Texas at Arlington's Advanced Controls and Sensors Group, with the society's 2016 Intelligent Systems Award in recognition of his work to advance the capabilities of autonomous aircraft systems.

25 Nov 2015

NASA Selects Proposals for Early Stage Innovations Space Technology Research Grants

NASA has selected 15 university-led proposals for the study of innovative, early stage technologies that address high priority needs of America's space program.

25 Nov 2015

Rockwell Automation Debuts New Batch Application Toolkit to Reduce Risk for Batch Control Systems

Rockwell Automation has introduced a batch application toolkit to help manufacturers and solution providers reduce the risk, time and cost of implementing batch control systems. The toolkit contains a collection of application examples, videos, documentation and ISA-88 compliant sample code to provide technical guidance when designing and automating a batch system using Rockwell Automation systems.

From Rockwell Automation, Inc. 25 Nov 2015

Trash Trek FIRST LEGO League Robotics Competition Winners Announced

Southeast Missouri State University recently hosted a FIRST LEGO League (FLL) robotics competition with a theme of “Trash Trek.” Twenty teams of fourth- to eighth-grade students from across the region participated in the event.

24 Nov 2015

Soloshot Launches Third Generation of Robot Cameraman

Soloshot Inc., creator of the first-of-its-kind Robot Cameraman, today announced the launch of their third generation product, SOLOSHOT3, the easiest way to automatically capture, edit, share and manage professional-quality content. SOLOSHOT3 automatically tracks subjects up to 2,000 feet away so users can film themselves from the perspective of the spectator, for hours at a time, without the help of another person.

24 Nov 2015

Midea Deploys Over 800 Robots and Achieves 4% Worker-Machine Ratio

As a global leader in residential and commercial air conditioning industry, Midea's Industry 4.0 strategy has successfully transformed and upgraded the company's manufacturing bases to improve the production efficiency by reducing 70 percent of total labor costs.

21 Nov 2015

Northrop Grumman Delivers Center Fuselage Produced on Palmdale Integrated Assembly Line for F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered, on schedule, the center fuselage for the first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to be purchased by Israel, an F-35A conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) variant designated AS-1.

20 Nov 2015

Rockwell Automation Fair 2015: Molex to Highlight Encompass Program Solutions

Molex, LLC will bring a range of Rockwell Automation Encompass Program solutions to the upcoming Rockwell Automation Fair® 2015, November 18 -19, Chicago, IL. At booth 1070, Molex will present three different demonstrations and multiple displays featuring advanced automation technologies.

19 Nov 2015

Automation Electronics News

Safety of Drivers and Other Vehicles Must be Primary in NHTSA’s New Robot Car Policy

SPS IPC Drives 2015: Festo Presents Automation Platform and Robot Control System

UTA's Frank Lewis Honored for Contributions to Advancing Autonomous Aircraft Systems

NASA Selects Proposals for Early Stage Innovations Space Technology Research Grants

Rockwell Automation Debuts New Batch Application Toolkit to Reduce Risk for Batch Control Systems

Trash Trek FIRST LEGO League Robotics Competition Winners Announced

Soloshot Launches Third Generation of Robot Cameraman

Midea Deploys Over 800 Robots and Achieves 4% Worker-Machine Ratio

Northrop Grumman Delivers Center Fuselage Produced on Palmdale Integrated Assembly Line for F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

Rockwell Automation Fair 2015: Molex to Highlight Encompass Program Solutions

A Brain-Inspired Robot Navigation System Cuts Energy Use By 99 Percent

A New AI Tool Accelerates and Enhances Early Dementia Diagnosis

Researchers Create Magnetic Soft Millirobot That Moves and Senses Its Surroundings in Real Time

New Soft Robotic Add-On Provides Safer, More Comfortable Colonsocopy

Nidec Drive Technology’s Omnidirectional Drive Unit to be Adopted for Use in Honda’s New “UNI-ONE”

What Big Pharma Isn’t Telling You About AI Labs

AI Governance Frameworks for Scientific Applications

Inside the Cross-Sector Collaborations Driving AI in Biotech

Thought Leaders

Robot Chef: The Future of Automated Meal Preparation

Tiny Robotic Crab: The Smallest-Ever Remote-Controlled Walking Robot

Resurrecting Ancient Cephalopods with Robots