Robot tech

05/27/2022

Vision and imaging have long been key enabling technologies in widely varying markets.

05/25/2022

The quandary being addressed by the new machine learning method is solving inverse problems, meaning researchers know the result they want but aren't sure the best way to achieve it.

Electrical engineers at Duke University have devised a new method for solving difficult design problems with many potential solutions in a large design space using machine learning. Dubbed the "neural-adjoint method," the approach successfully unearths an optimized design for an electromagnetic comm...

05/23/2022

Researchers at Duke University have demonstrated that incorporating known physics into machine learning algorithms can help the inscrutable black boxes attain new levels of transparency and insight into material properties.

05/20/2022

Remote monitoring, remote programming and predictive maintenance solutions deliver numerous benefits to end-users from reduced downtime and improved robot cell performance to supporting business continuity.

Read how remote monitoring and predictive maintenance can decrease downtime and increase robot cell performance in our a3blog

05/18/2022

The "riders first" vehicle design might be missing some basic car parts, but it's got a ton of legroom.

05/16/2022

SD cards are slow and unreliable as computer storage, but Transcend’s new JetDrive is an amazing way to add extra storage to your new M1 MacBook Pro without paying Apple's absurd prices.

Transcend's JetDrive is a 1TB SD card, and it's cheaper than expanding your MacBook's storage through Apple. It's also slow and won't be good for data you need to access quickly.

05/11/2022

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05/10/2022

Let’s take a look at a small sample of recent deployments, alongside the drivers for automation adoption, and the outcomes for end users.

Take a look at some of the recent automation adoptions from our Association for Advancing Automation members.

05/10/2022

The benefits of applying AI to complex operational data are clear.

The machines, robots, IIoT devices, and applications used in the global supply chain create a deluge of structured and unstructured data.

05/10/2022

The variety of inspection-related tasks in automation processes makes it difficult to label each possible use case.

Automated in-process inspection of parts and products has been executed successfully using machine vision technologies for decades in a multitude of diverse applications for nearly every industrial and manufacturing process.

05/10/2022

Image sensor companies continue to make 3D imaging applications more accessible to camera makers by releasing innovative new offerings.

Just as machine vision innovations drive automation forward, advances in image sensors drive machine vision forward.

05/10/2022

SLAM technologies use visual information to help robots navigate and understand their surroundings.

What is visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)? In short, visual SLAM technologies use visual information to help robots navigate and understand their surroundings.