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Meeting Design and Regulatory Challenges of Autonomous Air Taxis

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…enough efficiency such as the motor and the rotor blades just to name a few examples,” Zosel says. “For our first Prototype the design process then was a little over a year.” The company is currently using data collected from its test flights of the 1:1 prototypes into the company’s simulation tools and software to improve the design. The company…


Positive Human-Robot Relationships Will Power the Future Supply Chain Workforce

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…industries: Manufacturing: Boeing and Ford Motor Company both have been pursuing robotic exoskeletons to help reduce risks to workers (Hitch 2018). For even more human-robot collaboration, Volkswagen is teaming up with Dresden, Germany-based startup Wandelbots to more efficiently train industrial robots using an innovative jacket fitted with sensors and actuators. The sensors on the jacket detect human movements in real…


Truckers Prepare For Era of Self-Driving Autonomous Trucks

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…the technology. Lyft and General Motors are combining efforts. And of course, Tesla and its innovative CEO Elon Musk, the peripatetic Canadian-American business magnate, investor, engineer, and inventor are bullish. The U.S. chip-making giant Intel announced Monday that it had reached a deal to acquire an Israeli company called Mobileye for $15 billion. The combination is expected to accelerate innovation…


State of Global Logistics: Delivering above and beyond

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…surveys investigating the freight forwarding, motor carrier, express and warehousing sectors as well as the increasingly important topic of “environment and ethics” in global logistics. While the individual surveys identify a different set of challenges for each of the logistics markets, disruption was one of the most important trends, which was identified across all the segments. In each case, innovation…


NextGen Supply Chain: Time to pay attention to autonomous vehicles

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…Apple and Google to General Motors and Otto, to name just a few of the many. It’s entirely possible that autonomous vehicles are the best funded R&D project in the history of mankind. “Autonomous vehicles are a competition, a race. The quickest and best companies at it will make billions if not trillions from the technology,” says Kevin Lacy, director…


500 Michigan students to tour 35 manufacturing facilities for Manufacturing Day

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…four technical campuses and other local schools will tour 35 high-tech manufacturing locations in the county Oct. 6 as part of National Manufacturing Day. Students will see firsthand the state-of-the-art technologies used in today’s manufacturing and discuss the processes with the highly skilled professionals during facility tours scheduled throughout Oakland County during the morning-long event. “The goal of our third…


Mobile robot colleagues on wheels

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…of a range of electrical motors and components. As a high-mix, low-volume producer, the company was challenged to automate lines that are not always running. As an alternative to more costly, fixed industrial robots, the company deployed a fleet of collaborative mobile robots to automate monotonous and repetitive tasks. “We wanted to build a mobile, flexible robot workforce,” says Matthew…


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