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The Industrial Control & Automation market, also known as “smart manufacturing”, is expected to reach $300 billion globally by 2020 with a compounded annual growth rate of 8.50% from its 2013 level of $170 billion. The US will continue to lead but the greatest growth will occur in China, India and Brazil, according to the 2014 […]
While companies like Google in the United States are performing robotics tests in private, a group in the UK called Robotics Autonomous Systems (RAS 2020), is looking to test robots in public. RAS works under the UK’s Technology Strategy Board, with their main goal being to advance robotics in the country from autonomous cars to […]
Internet Of People + Internet Of Things With IP Addresses Experienced, perhaps “jaded”, battle scarred veterans of industrial manufacturing hear it all the time: a new technology is on the horizon that will change your life for the better, make you rich, lead to your promotion and make you the envy of your co-workers and […]
Waltham-based tech firm, Boston Engineering recently received a $200,000 grant directed at commercializing it’s robot tuna which could have military applications, but is designed to secure ports, inspect ships, and locating contraband. The robot tuna is called the BIOSwimmer, and technically is identified as a unmanned underwater vehicle, a product that could be extremely useful […]
DARPA’s three year, $2 million Robotics Challenge, recently lost a participant in the Japanese team Schaft, which was acquired by Google in November. Rumor has it that Google has its eyes on a commercial product, and let’s face it Google doesn’t have to prove it self in a robotics contest. DARPA program manager Gill Pratt […]
Ever wonder where the bandwidth comes from that makes Gmail and YouTube videos run so smoothly? Google uses its private “B4 Network” which is a undersea network of fiber optic cables. In fact, 99% of the world’s international communications occur beneath the ocean’s waves. As far back as the 1860’s, the British laid telegraph cables […]
Meet your new housekeeper! A four-legged, starfish-like robot called Tody. Tody is the product of Turkish designer Rana Alper, who designed the robot’s shape after a starfish but drew inspiration from an octopus for the way Tody moves around. Tody moves by utilizing polymer-metal composites as artificial muscles and latches on to surfaces with octopus […]
Heliostat Test Facility Breaks World Record Currently most of the world’s energy is generated using fossil fuels and we are looking for a “bridge” to 2050 when most energy can be produced via zero emission renewable resources such as the sun. At a solar thermal test plant in Newcastle, Australia, the day when the world can […]
A robot valet named Ray begins working today at Duesseldorf airport in Germany, and you can book the valet via smartphone. All a traveler has to do is simply take their vehicle to a drop-off point, confirm their car is empty, then Ray will take their car to one of 249 parking spaces specifically for […]
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words Industrial automation and data visualization are helping airlines improve fuel efficiency by processing company data and data from the National Airspace System. Airlines now crunch real time data related to flight times, arrival times, flight numbers, origins, arrival cities, weather conditions, wind speed and other critical variables. This […]
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