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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One year after opening a LEED gold certified distribution center in West Grove, PA, Dansko celebrated the first birthday of its innovative facility. Built by Pennsylvania-based construction company W.S. Cumby, the distribution center works ...
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Many older engineers first became interested in electronics through hobbies in their youth—assembling kits, participating in amateur radio, or engaging in other experiments. But I have wondered whether or not students entering ...
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We went into the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials with what we thought were realistic expectations. And generally, we had the right idea: the robots are very slow, very deliberate, and not always successful. But overall, we've been surprised ...
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Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information, products and solutions announces the launch of open access journal, Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management. Neurosurgery ...
We're super excited for the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials that run tomorrow and Saturday,and we hope you are too.Before we get all wrapped up in it,though,it's important to understand what's realistic to expect from the robots during the ...
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. The recent robot-related news from Apple, Amazon, and Google shows serious momentum for the ...
A true Tier-1 WCS must be equipped to handle 2D barcode and RFID data for individual unique SKU track and trace requirements.Multi-channel order fulfillment, referred to in the logistics industry as omni-channel fulfillment, is increasingly ...
The Internet of Things, which excludes PCs, tablets and smartphones, will grow to 26 billion units installed in 2020 representing an almost 30-fold increase from 0.9 billion in 2009, according to Gartner. ?Gartner said that IoT product ...
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Google has acquired Boston Dynamics, a company that builds robots that mimic the movements of humans and animals with stunning dexterity and speed. Boston Dynamics is the eighth robotics company that Google has acquired in the past six ...
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has appointed Chunyuan Gu as head of its business in China and the North Asia region as of Jan. 1, 2014. Gu, born in China in 1958, joined ABB in 1989 and has enjoyed a long career ...
While some people may think their minds are being numbed by scrolling through images of cats playing piano, or dogs eating biscuits, one computer is doing the same and getting smarter. A computer cluster running the so-called the Never ...
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Statoil and the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) have formed a partnership to explore how technologies and knowledge from the space and oil and gas industries can be relevant to one another. Statoil and NASA have ...
Robotic Industries Association (RIA) today announced that Chattanooga, Tenn., based company, Automation IG, has received the RIA Certified Robot Integrator designation. In order to become certified, Automation IG completed a rigorous ...
Robotic Industries Association (RIA) today announced that Rimrock Corporation has received the RIA Certified Robot Integrator designation. In order to become certified, Rimrock Corporation completed a rigorous process which includes an ...
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