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North American Robotics Sector Shatters First-Half Sales Record

The Robotics Industries Association announced that the North American robotics sector has set a new first-half sales record, selling 14,135 robots valued at $788 million this year. The 2014 first-half sales marked 30 percent increase in units and 16 percent in revenue over the first half of 2013. The best single quarter ever can largely […]

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Process Solutions For Biomass Power Generation Improve Visibility Of Process Data

Sugar cane is usually refined onto biofuel at thermoelectric plants that burn sugarcane “bagasse”, a residue generated from industrial sugar and alcohol production. The process results in steam vapor and electric energy which is usually sold to companies nearby. Typical biomass plants that haven’t been automated usually must to solve  the following problems in order […]

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Researchers Broke a Hexapod Robot’s Leg To See If It Could Teach Itself To Walk Again

Researchers at Sorbonne University in Paris decided to teach a robot how to respond to injury so they recently broke a hexapod robot’s leg in order to figure out how it would react. After breaking it’s leg, the robot was given a database of 13,000 ways to walk again and the crippled robot learned how […]

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Boston-Based Rethink Robotics Partners With Three New Distributors

Boston company, Rethink Robotics, commonly known for it’s Baxter line of industrial robots, announced that it has added three more distributors to partner with as the company continues to build its book of business. The three distributors are Shanghai-based Gaitech International and North America-based RobotShop and Teq. Baxter is already in 18 countries and is […]

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Revenue Rises For Rockwell Automation Thanks To Higher US Sales

Rockwell Automation recorded a 1.56% rise in third-quarter revenue, largely attributed to higher sales in the United States of the company’s motion control and industrial safety products. All in all, revenue rose from $1.62 billion a year earlier to $1.65 billion this year. Rockwell also earned $1.49 per share.

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With Demand Rising, Tesla Forced to Halt Production Temporarily to Install More Robotics

Tesla’s Model S electric luxury sedan is selling so well the company can’t keep up with the orders at the moment. In order to meet the crazy demand for the company’s first mass produced battery electric vehicle (BEV), Tesla has halted factory production for two weeks in order to install more robotics and other equipment […]

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Store In Paris Encourages Humans To Interact With Robots!

A store in Paris called Aldebaran is encouraging its customers to interact with humanoid robots, having acquired two robots, NAO and Pepper. The store itself features a learning space, discovery space, and developer space, but the robots only interact with people in the discovery area as the other areas are designated for programming robots and […]

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Can Automation Clean-Up The Coal Industry, Make It Competitive Again?

The coal industry is in crisis. In China, for example, 70% of coal firms are losing money; much the same is in the cards for coal plants in the United States and elsewhere; the outlook couldn’t be any darker, blacker, murkier. Coal faces a stiff headwind from new alternative energies such as wind and solar […]

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Bioastronautics And The New Robotic Space Gardeners

Harvesting the earth’s bounty, especially plants, goes back to the beginning of human history. The vast majority of humans that ever lived spent a significant amount of time on their hands and knees digging in the earth planting seeds, tending growing plants and harvesting them. Now robots, the new gardeners, are being trained to tend cherry […]

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Korean Baseball Team Introduces a Robot Cheering Section

We’ve all had that time when we couldn’t make it to the game at the last second… It’s a miserable feeling but for whatever reason something comes up and there has to be a change of plans. Korea’s Hanwha Eagles have introduced a way for a robot to take your place at the ballpark, in […]

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