China will have more robots operating in its production plants by 2017 than any other country as it cranks up automation of its car and electronics factories, the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) said on Thursday. Already the ...
China's governments and industries have been making efforts to develop robots but there has been a lack of direction for the development in terms of application. There were 36,560 robots sold in the China market in 2013, growing 60% on ...
Tags: Robot Development, Robots
36 toys pick up honours across 12 categories. The winners of the Toy Fair Best New Toy Awards have been announced for the seventh year at Toy Fair, predicting some of the top new toys for 2015. Winners range from household names such as ...
Tags: toy retailers, toy industry, Toys
More than 1200 local students in New York City are joining 75,000 students worldwide as they gear up for the 2015 FIRST Robotics Competition, an annual competition that challenges high-school students – working alongside professional ...
Tags: robotics, research, teamwork, Construction
The latest packaging machinery and technology will be introduced at the Empack 2015, which is scheduled to be held at National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham, UK, from 25-26 February. A wide varipkety of suppliers will showcase ...
Tags: packaging machinery, equipment, transit packaging, Agriculture
The robot can be programmed to draw any picture in the sand and can be controlled manually or given file images to draw. For Disney, the whole world is a playground. At least, this is what the latest creation from the studio’s ...
FANUC UK, the UK unit of the Japanese automation company FANUC, has collaborated with automation specialists Festo and Pacepacker to come up with advanced robot palletiser systems that can assist food manufacturers with their packaging. ...
Tags: sacks, crates, boxes, trays, Agriculture
Robot can initiate conversations, remember birthdays and mimic a consumer's movements. Meccano has unveiled its Meccanoid G15 KS robot at CES 2015. The buildable robot uses its 'Mecca Brain' and voice recognition technology to say ...
Taiwan Shin Kong Security Co., Ltd. (SKS), Taiwan's second-biggest private security company, will begin to export entertainment robots sometime in 2015. The company aims to ship about 100 units over the year and generate revenue up to ...
New England Brewing Company has apologized for using a picture of late Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi on its Gandhi-Bot beer cans. The move comes after a lawyer filed a petition in a court in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, alleging ...
Despite a recent slump in smartphone sales, Samsung shipped a staggering 665 million devices over the past 12 months, the company has confirmed. Given that the Korean manufacturer has multiple fingers in multiple tech-related pies, it is ...
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From humanoid entertainment devices to robotic cleaning machines, robots promise to revolutionize the way consumers interact with the world and monitor their health and environment. The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today ...
Swiss car maker Rinspeed is planning to unveil its self driving car named Budii at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show. Rinspeed has teased the car design with two sketches of the vehicle which will be electrically powered and will include ...
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"Many customers are re-ordering as it sells out week after week." Tobar is enjoying strong sales for its new My Magical Mermaid line. The product sees children place a mermaid in water and her tail will swish from side to side, ...
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This was part of a Cartesian pick and place robot solution for handling packs of fresh food. Referred to by UPM as ‘SYSCON’ conveyors, the simplistic ‘groove’ design with side channels made from high molecular, ...
Tags: fresh food packs, Packaging, Conveyor