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…including health tech, aviation and plastic recycling. ForSight Assistive Devices: Wearable devices to safely guide visually impaired users through unfamiliar and dynamic environments. HeadStrait Labs: Medical devices that improve patient outcomes during prehospital care and emergency transportation. Humotech: Wearable device platforms enabling researchers and developers to accelerate innovation in prosthetics, orthotics and exoskeletons. Journey Robotics: Aviation automation offering to improve…
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Motion plastics and robot component producer igus GmbH recently announced the winners of its 2024 vector awards. The company said its vector awards are a biennial competition that honors bold, exciting projects that incorporate igus e-chain cable carriers. The winners of the 9th vector awards - selected from 328 applications from 37 countries - were decided by a panel of…
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…machinery (4,123 units, +6%) and plastic and chemical products (3,213 units, +5%). They represent a market share of 9% and 7% of industrial robot installations in 2023, respectively. Canada and Mexico Robot installation in Canada reached 4,616 units – up 43%. The automotive industry accounts for 55% of the country´s robot installations. Sales to the automotive sector rose by 99%…
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…robot components producer igus motion plastics recently showcased its latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI), smart maintenance, and low-cost robotics at Hannover Messe 2024 in Hannover, Germany. With a focus on zero-lubrication and CO2-neutral solutions, igus introduced its igusGO AI-powered app alongside a series of smart sensor technologies. Igus said its new technologies are designed to streamline maintenance and optimize…
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…system can differentiate between glass, plastics, and what it classes as “other” materials. This classification process leverages machine vision for initial identification, followed by a “squeeze test” with the robot's gripper for verification when classification certainty is low. Flexiv said it has high hopes that with future refinements, Rizon will be able to accurately differentiate between plastics, metals, glass, waste…
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…Cambrian’s systems can pick a wide range of parts, including transparent, plastic, and shiny metal. Cambrian is also backed by ff Venture Capital (ffVC), who invested in the company’s seed round. ffVC initially seeded Cambrian after the company graduated from its startup accelerator, AI Nexus Lab, in partnership with NYU's Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn.
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…scenes and objects, including transparent plastic, polished cylinders or dark reflective parts. Fizyr identifies each item with segmentation, shape detection and material detection. Its algorithms prioritize the actions to be taken, utilizing cascade learning to analyze inputs, calculate optimal actions and direct the robot. After each pick, a new image allows Fizyr to recalculate, account for any changes that occurred,…
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…and contains 25% post-consumer recycled plastic by mass. The TC53e-RFID offers integrated short-range UHF RFID, enabling associates to take inventory in the backroom, validate tickets at a concert or verify all items in a shopping cart from up to nearly 4 ft/1.2m away with the same device ergonomics as the standard TC53e. The TC5Xe series, WT6400 and WT5400 are all…
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…life sciences, pharmaceutical and biomedical, plastics & rubber, and others. While each of these industries showed an overall decline compared to 2022, the last three months of the year saw higher sales in automotive (both OEM and components), metals, semiconductor & electronics/photonics, plastics & rubbers, metals and the All Other Industries category, resulting in an increase of 20% over the…
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…(77 lbs). Along with its plastic bins, as part of the rollout to McKesson Canada, Ocado also will utilize metal bins for fire safety. The company’s metal bins help reduce fire loss risk by 99.4%, according to testing done by FM Global. Ocado’s battery replacement robot (pictured above), supports the OSRS robots to allow an automated battery exchange and charging…
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…for fresh produce stored in plastic crates. “Fruit and vegetables are an extremely important commodity group for REWE customers -but characterized by heavy physical labor in the warehouses, which makes it difficult to recruit personnel,” said Lars Sibel, director SCM and logistics at Rewe Markt GmbH. “Cimcorp offers a unique solution to automate fruit and vegetable picking and alleviate physical…
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…a 3-month return on investment. Plastic components for automated pipetting Once you’ve made the decision to automate your pipetting processes, the next steps are choosing components & hardware and integrating them. Metal ball bearings are often chosen as part of the guide system for lift and travel movements, however these bearings require constant external lubrication. External lubricants can prove especially…
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Innovative Plastics Technology in Modern Analytics Medicine and natural sciences are dependent on the dosing of very low liquid volumes within seconds. Thereby modern analytics increasingly requires the aspiration and dispensation by automated pipetting systems, which alone are able to meet the requirements for quantities, speed and accuracy and improve workflow efficiency. Manual pipetting as a working technique in the…
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…the world leader in motion plastics and moving cable management systems, is launching a new energy supply system for SCARA robots in cleanrooms: the Clean SCARA Cable Solution is made of tribologically optimized high-performance plastics and works almost particle-free according to ISO Class 2 even in high-speed applications. It is also stronger and more user-friendly than classic corrugated hoses. In…
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…discuss the lease program during a panel at the Paper and Plastics Recycling Conference in Chicago on Oct. 12.
From geometry preparation to AI-assisted analysis, integrated CFD workflows…
Software-based GripperAI manages mixed picking through basic geometry
Safety, communication and motion control components enable smooth operation
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