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When HP CEO Meg Whitman announced in 2013 her company would start building 3D printers, the announcement took not only the 3D printing industry by surprise, but also many inside HP. Researchers rushed to get a prototype up and running in time for a press event a few months later. Fast forward to 2019. Whitman has retired, but what she…
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Hexagon Hosts HxGN 2019 Hexagon, a company with roots in metrology and precision measurement technologies, recently hosted the annual user conference, HxGN Live (June 15-18, Las Vegas, Nevada). Over the last decade, the company has steadily expanded through growth and acquisitions into simulation, autonomous vehicles, location-based intelligence, and manufacturing, among others. One of the most popular demos on the show…
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Airbus Defence and Space is leveraging ANSYS’ embedded software solution to develop an advanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that will be engineered for speed, safety and affordability. Through a new strategic partnership, ANSYS and Airbus Defence and Space will collaborate to innovate a new ANSYS solution for enabling safety-critical flight controls with artificial intelligence (AI), aiming at autonomous flight by…
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At its 31st annual conference, the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) presented Elizabeth Goode of Goode Ink with its President's Award. Goode, the eighth to receive this award, is an additive manufacturing veteran and owner of Goode Ink, which provides consulting services for marketing and strategy. For the past nine years, she has been a key advisor to the AMUG…
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North American sales of machine vision (MV) components and systems that provide vision intelligence to robots and other machines declined 4.5 percent over the same period last year. According to statistics from the AIA, the industry’s trade group part of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), financial transactions for the entire market contracted to $674 million, with sales of MV…
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MathWorks announces expanded access to MATLAB Parallel Server to help speed academic research. Now all researchers and students at academic institutions with a MathWorks Campus-Wide License that includes MATLAB Parallel Server have unlimited access to scale MATLAB programs and Simulink simulations to clusters and clouds. The new flexible usage policy also extends to visiting professors and researchers from other academic…
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Seventy percent of consumers say they are ready to fly in autonomous aircraft in their lifetime according to a comprehensive global consumer survey commissioned by ANSYS. ANSYS’ Global Autonomous Vehicle Study explores consumers’ comfort levels and concerns with self-flying aircraft. Through the survey, ANSYS measured consumer sentiment around the future of autonomous aircraft. Highlights of the survey include: Timeline for…
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Materialise has received FDA clearance for its Mimics Enlight cardiovascular planning software suite. The first release will support clinicians planning complex transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) procedures. Mimics Enlight is based on the strengths of Materialise's Mimics Innovation Suite, which has helped clinicians produce patient-specific 3D models for more than 20 years. Created in collaboration with Henry Ford Health System…
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Mobile Industrial Robots, the first mover and market leader in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), today launched its new mobile robot leasing program. Often refered to as ”robots as a service” (RaaS), leasing lets companies of any size—from small start-ups to multinational enterprises—deploy mobile robot solutions with low (or no) upfront costs and low monthly payments. This lowers financial barriers for…
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Robot orders in North America declined slightly in the first quarter of 2019 compared to the same period last year, according to the latest statistics released by the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), an organization of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). North American companies ordered a total of 7,876 robots valued at $423 million during the three months, a decline…
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Take a closer look at how Stratasys Additive Manufacturing is helping a company entrenched in Powersports vehicles drive innovation forward. Polaris is most commonly known for developing snowmobiles and off-road vehicles. With all the hands-on assembly work that the company does in the plant, they've begun to use 3D printing to change the way that they make tooling. Much of…
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Although electric vehicles are taking off, truly autonomous vehicles still need to happen. Hear what two industry insiders have to say about the progress that has been made…and the challenges that lie ahead. Autonomous vehicles have potential to revolutionize the transportation industry like no other change since the invention of the automobile, according to Siemens. Creating these vehicles demands agile,…
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The Eleven-O-Six student racing team from Hamburg, Germany, used the BigRep ONE 3D printer to increase the speed and shape of their Formula 1. This new video shows how they take it for a spin on the racetrack. BigRep is a future-focused large-scale industrial 3D printer manufacturer based in Berlin with offices in New York, Boston and Singapore. The company…
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HP Inc. opened the doors to its new 3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing Center of Excellence in Barcelona, Spain, said to be one of the world’s largest and most advanced research and development facilities for the next-generation technologies powering the Fourth Industrial Revolution, HP says. The new Center brings together hundreds of the world’s leading additive manufacturing experts in more…
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As a private-label cheese manufacturer, Masters Gallery Foods’ facilities are regularly inspected by current and potential partners as well as numerous third-party auditors. The company processes, ages and distributes a variety of cheese products for its customers. Major regional and national brand retailers and restaurants can get 8-ounce and 2-pound shredded cheese packages; industrial companies can order 640-pound blocks of…
GENISOM AI makes ICRA debut at conference in Vienna
World's first omni-modal evaluation including tactile sensing for…
Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
North America’s largest automation and robotics event takes place June 22-25
