Bedfordshire-based Mechelec Automation has developed a new trolley collation and packing system for the dairy industry. The TP1002 Trolley Packer is designed to provide fully automated, cost-effective trolley loading, at faster operating ...
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The International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday received its first U.S. shipment, including food and Christmas presents, since two private U.S. space firms each recently suffered a failure on their cargo delivery missions, U.S. space ...
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Have you ever had the sadness facing a disappointing slice of toast when you were starving at the midnight? Have you ever excepted a miracle of a hot chip vending machine that deep fries frozen chips when you get hungry? A Perth-based ...
Cadillac, a division of General Motors has announced that the company is planning to use advanced mixed-material manufacturing techniques to build the new CT6 sedan. The CT6 will be manufactured at the company's Detroit-Hamtramck ...
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An image allegedly depicting action figure prototypes for the new movie has emerged. When Disney released its first teaser for its latest installment of the ongoing Star Wars saga, the online rumour mill span into overdrive. Now, Star ...
More than 160 technology companies based in the Midwestern region of the United States (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin) will debut their consumer ...
(Phys.org) —To say that the Joris Laarman Lab is an innovative type of group is putting it mildly. The Amsterdam place is described as "an experimental playground set up to study and shape the future. It tinkers with craftsmen, ...
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NASA engineers like what they see in Microsoft Kinect 2 as they continue to work on space robots. A NASA video released earlier this month shows how it is leveraging a combination of Kinect 2 along with Oculus Rift, the virtual reality ...
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Stryker Corp. has completed its previously announced $1.7 billion acquisition of Mako Surgical Corp. and its cutting-edge robotic arm assisted orthopaedic surgery technology, Stryker confirmed Tuesday. The goal is to combine Mako's ...
Let's start with the word "robot." The idea behind the word "robot" grows from the ancient concept of the golem. A golem was an artificial person created by people. Frankly, the idea of a golem scared the bejeezus out of the ancients ...
There is a saying in retail that the package sells the product. While this might not be true across the board, for OEM machine builder R.A. Jones, located in Covington, KY, the package does indeed sell the product-the company builds ...
Medical device company Mako Surgical has announced an agreement to acquire the assets of US-based Pipeline Biomedical. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, Mako Surgical will acquire substantially all of Pipeline Biomedical's business ...
NASA's rover Curiosity has drilled into a rock on Mars for just the second time during its mission. Curiosity on Sunday used its robotic arm to drill into a rock dubbed "Cumberland" to collect a powdered sample from inside the rock that ...
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Italian sock knitting machine builder Busi Giovanni has launched a new machine which the company says offers all the usual high-quality components the firm’s customers have come to expect but with an extremely attractive price point. ...
Tags: True Rib socks, sock knitting
The robotic arm on the International Space Station released the SpaceX Dragon early this morning, sending the capsule on its way home. The Dragon capsule, loaded with about 2,600 pounds of used hardware, completed experiments and trash, ...