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By 2030, research firm IDTechEx predicts the augmented, virtual and mixed reality market to be over $30 billion. With COVID limiting physical interaction, virtual communication and interaction will be even more important moving forward. The company outlines these trends in a new report, “Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality 2020-2030: Forecasts, Markets and Technologies”. According to the company, virtual, augmented and…
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America Makes and Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials & Manufacturing Directorate Structural Materials, Metals Branch (AFRL/RXCM), announce the awardees of the additive manufacturing (AM) Modeling Challenge Series with $235K to be divided among the awardees. Launched in November 2019 and comprised of four individual challenges, the AFRL AM Modeling Challenge Series represented another innovative approach America Makes and AFRL are…
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MathWorks has announced that a comprehensive “Deep Learning with MATLAB” course is now available, developed in collaboration with NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute. The two-day course is being offered in instructor-led online and self-paced on-demand formats throughout the rest of 2020. On completion, engineers, scientists and researchers will be ready to apply GPU-accelerated deep learning techniques in MATLAB to common applications…
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U.S. manufacturing technology orders decreased 5% in May from the previous month to $219.4 million, according to the latest U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders report published by the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). New orders were 45% lower than in May 2019, and total orders through May 2020 were $1.3 billion, 31% lower than YTD 2019 orders. “We had predicted that…
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Mastercam, developed by CNC Software, Inc., is the featured CAD/CAM software in TITANS of CNC Aerospace Academy, which just launched Monday, June 29, to help train the next generation of highly skilled CNC machinists and eliminate the widening skills gap. Mastercam is a CAD/CAM software. It is the most widely used CAM in industry and education worldwide. The software is…
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The Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) presented its DINO (Distinguished INnovator Operator) Award for additive manufacturing expertise and service to 10 individuals. In lieu of an on-stage ceremony at the annual AMUG Conference, the DINO award presentations were a virtual event. “These are unprecedented times, so we took the unprecedented step of making virtual award presentations,” says Carl Dekker, AMUG…
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OMRON Electronics GmbH now offers its 3D engineering data as a digital product catalog for OEM and industrial customers in cooperation with CADENAS. 3D CAD models of sensors, relays, measuring and inspection devices, industrial robots, controls and panel components are available free of charge in the Strategic Parts Management PARTsolutions as well as at https://omron.partcommunity.com in over 150 common CAD…
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dSPACE has acquired Intempora, a company in the area of real-time development software. This acquisition strengthens the comprehensive dSPACE product portfolio for autonomous driving. The two companies already have a strategic partnership, leading to the integration of the Intempora real-time multisensor application software RTMaps into several dSPACE solutions. Through this acquisition, dSPACE offers a comprehensive, and end-to-end solution for customers…
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RIZE introduces a professional desktop composite 3D printer designed with safety and sustainability as key factors. The RIZE 2XC is the first deliverable of the RIZIUM Alliance, an industry collaboration that includes hardware designers and CAD/CAM software vendors. The company says the RIZE 2XC uses a dual-extrusion 3D print unit from Sindoh, a multi-function 2D and 3D print engine manufacturer…
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Fictiv has established a new collaboration that adds Jabil Inc. as a key part of its global manufacturing network to connect and streamline 3D print prototyping through to mass-scale production using an innovative digital thread. Designed to de-risk and streamline the supply chain through quality, speed, transparency and flexibility, the thread is built to ensure a supported customer experience from…
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Five projects with Pennsylvania universities have received funding through the Manufacturing PA Innovation Program to advance binder jet 3D printing in collaboration with The ExOne Co. In all, the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) awarded $2.8M to Pennsylvania universities for 43 projects to advance manufacturing technology projects. ExOne binder jet systems currently 3D print more than 20 metals,…
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SME, a professional association committed to advancing manufacturing professionals, academia and communities, announces that 15 achievers have been selected to receive the 2020 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. A 2020 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer, Michael P. Sealy, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. Sealy was one…
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The BMW Group officially opened its new Additive Manufacturing Campus in Munich. The new facility will combine production of prototype and series parts, along with research into new 3D printing technologies, and associate training for the global rollout of toolless production, the company says. The campus, which cost €15 million, will allow the BMW Group to “develop its position as…
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AMD has exceeded its moonshot 25x20 goal set in 2014 to improve the energy efficiency of its mobile processors 25 times by 2020, the company says. The new AMD Ryzen 7 4800H mobile processor improves on the energy efficiency of the 2014 baseline measurement by 31.7 times, and offers performance and efficiency for laptop PCs. Greater energy efficiency leads to…
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German cosplay specialist Lightning Cosplay is leveraging 3D printers from Zortrax to create elaborate costumes inspired by fantasy characters. The company was formed by Laura and Ralf Zimmermann in 2012, and now does work for globally recognized producers of computer games such as Bethesda, THQ Nordic or CD Projekt. “Most of our projects are created on commission of game producers…
GENISOM AI makes ICRA debut at conference in Vienna
World's first omni-modal evaluation including tactile sensing for…
North America’s largest robotics and automation event winds down
Automate’s largest day ever draws huge crowds to McCormick Place
