Mechatronics
Pneumatic safety technology and the IIoT
How IIoT principles, along with appropriate pneumatic technology, offer machine safety and operation enhancements.
Machine vision and AI enhance 3-D printing
Adding machine vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to 3-D printing allows industrial printers to produce products that have never been printed before.
Algorithm developed to help automate robots for more complex workspaces
Researchers at the USC Viterbi Center for Advanced Manufacturing have identified an algorithm designed to provide robots short, collision-free solutions in complex manufacturing spaces.
Eight selection criteria for actuation components
Electromechanical systems offer advantages over hydraulic and pneumatic actuators
Top 5 Control Engineering articles November 4-10
Articles about the Engineers' Choice finalists, information and the cloud, control system migration, wet and flooded motors, and IIoT project tips were Control Engineering’s five most clicked articles from November 4-10. Miss something? You can catch up here.
Technique helps robots find the front door
MIT engineers, along with the Ford Motor Company, have developed a navigation method for robots that enables a robot to use clues in its environment to plan out a route to its destination, which can be described in general semantic terms rather than coordinates on a map.
Self-transforming robot blocks can move and identify each other
A team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed self-assembling robotic cubes that can climb over and around one another, leap through the air, roll across the ground, and identify each other.
Mobile machinery manufacturer changes name
SKF Motion Technologies, formerly part of the SKF Group, is now known as Ewellix: Makers in Motion, effective immediately.
Robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation and pushing
Researchers at MIT have developed a system where robots “learn” from a dataset called Omnipush that captures how pushed objects move to improve their physical interactions with new objects.
Logistics industry looking to improve with machine vision
Logistics operations must be able to process massive databases of SKUs and information and enhancements in machine vision can help improve efficiency.