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Robotic Research Uses Innovations to Assist Healthcare in COVID-19 Crisis

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…that are compatible with the cleaning methods used at a hospital. The design has been approved for use in select departments, with broader uses currently under evaluation. “Our team wanted to help out in any way we could to support the local frontline health care providers who are working around the clock to assist those impacted by the COVID-19 public…


How Robotics Can Improve work-life balance this festive season

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…feet up instead of manually cleaning floors, and personal assistants in our smartphones mean we don’t even have to move our thumbs to make a command. We are accepting robotics and artificial intelligence into our lives more and more, because it makes things easier. Warehouses should be adopting this attitude too. Collaborative robots, or cobots, are already helping some warehouse…


ABI Research: Robotics industry set for change

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…automation will be maintenance and cleaning. There are already over 5,000 autonomous floor scrubbers in U.S. retail stores and commercial buildings. With Softbank’s deployment of mobile cleaners for offices being rolled out in Asia and the United States, cleaning robots will become a common sight within the service economy. Even more esoteric form factors, like quadrupeds, are expected to increase…


Finding the Sweet Spot in Metal 3D Printing

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…time associated with preparing and cleaning up the metal powder. “Organizations need to understand the part outside of the [metal AM] system and how it needs to be processed,” says Tyson Gregory, metals application engineer at EOS Solutions. “Often that is underestimated and adds to the cost.” Before contracting for metal AM services from a third-party, it’s important to codify…


Materials Madness: AM Gains Traction for Production Applications

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…reducing the extensive post-processing solvent cleaning cycles associated with other, similar technologies, they say. The addition of PRO-BLK-10 to the 3D Systems materials lineup addresses both productivity and final part quality concerns. The new Figure 4 materials produces parts that come out of the printer with very good surface finish, and the post-curing cycle is 90 minutes in a UV…


Stratasys Introduces Digital Anatomy 3D Printer

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…printing applications. A Blood Vessel Cleaning Station that removes support material from inside 3D-printed blood vessels is also being released. The new Stratasys 3D printer is expected to see adoption primarily by medical device companies, which require new ways to drive faster adoption of technologies and procedures—and academic medical centers. The solution also supports efforts to move from time-based surgical…


3D Systems Unveils Material to Enable Direct Digital Production of Plastic Parts

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…significantly reduces the extensive solvent cleaning cycles needed with other technologies. In customer testing of a variety of parts, using the Figure 4 system and the new production black material delivered a part in hand on average up to 4X faster (including print and cure time), compared to customers’ existing 3D production systems. “Through collaboration with its customers, 3D Systems…


Despite Robophobia, Robotics Have Positively Impacted Warehouses

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…farmers adopting robotic milking. Robotic cleaning Going back to how humans are developing robots to make our lives easier, robotic cleaning is also a hot topic. Robot vacuum cleaners have been around for a while now, but only recently are they becoming widely available and cost efficient for the general public. These smart robo-vacs come with the ability to be…


Nano Dimension Introduces DragonFly LDM for Continuous Digital Manufacturing of Electronics

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…management algorithms with an automatic self-cleaning of its print heads every few hours. The new system is equipped with real-time automatic material monitoring capabilities that ensure maximized runtime. The new technology minimizes the frequency and duration of scheduled downtime to typically just one weekly maintenance operation. DragonFly LDM Technology Features & Benefits Long uninterrupted printing for increased uptime and improved…


Masters Gallery puts safety first in their Warehouse

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…doors, which are designed for cleaning and processing rooms due to their ability to withstand daily cleanings and washdowns. The doors’ one-piece radial header—which is machined from a single block of UHMW plastic—meets the USDA and FDA clean-up standards. Three other FasTrax doors are used in the plant’s packaging and finishing environments—areas that don’t require washdown capabilities. “These doors do…


Edge Computing Opportunities and Frustrations

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…providing initial results that were between 75% and 80% accurate. After cleaning and reducing the raw data, the process was repeated and classifier accuracy improved significantly, to over 95%, according to the article.


Deep Learning and Design Engineering

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…effort should be put into cleaning and formatting data so it is useful to train a deep neural network. However, this is much more software engineering than machine learning.” Data labeling can be laborious and expensive. “The other challenge is the complex math involved,” Nehemiah says. “You have millions of operations that can seem like a black box, so it’s…


The Essentials of Dock Maintenance

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…and efficient operation going forward. Cleaning may sound fairly mundane, but it can have a big impact. Typically, technicians thoroughly clean all equipment and components. This includes removing debris from pits, around doors and other key areas. And it’s not just cleaning for cleanliness sake. Debris can obstruct moving parts, limiting their efficiencies. There’s also the matter of safety of…


Sealed Air wins two awards at ISSA Innovation

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…products and services in the cleaning and sanitation industry. The winners were the TASKI swingo 2100 micro-rider and TASKI Intellibot SWINGOBOT 755, two floor cleaning machines. The TASKI swingo 2100 micro-rider is among the smallest machines in its category, using on-board solutions to reduce labor, chemical, water and energy. The TASKI Intellibot SWINGOBOT 755 is a compact scrubber that enables…


Fixed Path: Robots help company rethink production

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…one million parts per year, cleaning and packaging cylindrical gears used in lawnmowers. One collaborative, two-armed robot is fed parts from a traditional caged industrial robot, and, using both arms, moves the parts into a slot to clean the machine oil before placing the parts into two boxes. “Our customers want a quality part, at a competitive price, delivered on…


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