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3D printing is one of the 20th century’s most catalytic inventions. The process empowers engineers to innovate in a revolutionary way, designing and building things we couldn’t have imagined even years ago. As the 3D printing trend continues to mature, what is the next step for this disruptive technology? Filemon Schoffer is co-founder and CCO of 3DHubs. In the early…
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Driven by the preferences of a younger generation, consumers are leading the push for more personalized products, putting pressure on design teams to deliver the goods while maintaining speed and flexibility in their engineering processes. Dassault Systèmes, in partnership with CITE Research, recently published the results of its CES 2020 survey on personalization, canvassing 3,000 consumers in the United States,…
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Demand for e-grocery Automating e-grocery processes has suddenly become essential. Nielsen and the Food Marketing Institute project spending on e-grocery to triple by 2022 and many grocers have already reached the point where using pickers as surrogate shoppers, traveling up and down store aisles pulling orders from shelves, has become unsustainable. The economics don’t make sense and the increased congestion…
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SQ4D Inc. (SQ4D) and its autonomous robotic construction system 〈ARCS〉 have built a large permitted 3D printed home. The home is 1,900 square feet and took 48 hours of print time, over an 8-day period. The home was entirely printed and built onsite using less than $6,000 in materials. Future print-time is expected to be cut in half on their…
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Carr Lane Manufacturing, a standard tooling components company, has chosen TraceParts as its service provider for publishing its 3D product catalog on its website and on the TraceParts publishing network. Carr Lane Manufacturing provides a selection of tooling components, clamps, fixturing and related workholding products for all areas of manufacturing. Based in St. Louis, MO, they make tooling items for…
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3D Hubs announces its launch within the German market, opening new offices in Berlin. Entry into the German-speaking market marks a major next step in 3D Hubs’ European ambitions, having opened their new Paris offices in December last year after having raised a Series C funding round of $20 million by various investors including Tony Fadell, the inventor of the…
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America Makes and Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials & Manufacturing Directorate Structural Materials, Metals Branch (AFRL/RXCM), have partnered to offer an additive manufacturing (AM) modeling challenge series, comprised of four individual challenges, with $150K to be divided among awardees. The AFRL AM Modeling Challenge Series represents another innovative approach America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, and AFRL are…
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A strategic partnership between Locus Robotics, a Wilmington, Mass.-based provider of autonomous mobile robots for warehouses, and HighJump, a Minneapolis-based global Provider of supply chain management software solutions and subsidiary of Körber Logistics Systems, was announced yesterday. The companies said they will collaborate to facilitate the development of integration tools allowing for faster, seamless implementations to improve productivity and efficiency…
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Protolabs has announced that the Wayzn Slide is its latest Cool Idea Award winner. Wayzn, the California-based company behind the product, has developed a solution to the problem of how to let your pets in and out of your house, even when you’re not at home. The Wayzn Slide has been honored with a CES 2020 Innovation Award. (CES is…
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Locus Robotics, a leader in autonomous mobile robots (AMR) for fulfillment warehouses, today announced a partnership with HighJump, a global provider of supply chain solutions. Locus and HighJump will work together to facilitate the development of integration tools that will allow for faster, seamless implementations to improve productivity and efficiency for shared retail and third-party logistics (3PL) customers. The partnership…
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The application of machine learning, also known as deep learning, to computer-aided design (CAD) is gradually becoming commonplace. Almost all mainstream CAD programs—Autodesk Fusion and SOLIDWORKS, to name but two—include some form of generative design or topology optimization tools. This allows the software to employ AI-like algorithms to identify the best shapes for the designer’s stated purpose, whether to reduce…
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Siemens Digital Industries Software announced a partnership with global semiconductor IP company Arm, that will bring IP, methodologies, processes and tools together to help automakers, integrators and suppliers collaborate, design and bring to market their next-generation platforms faster. This partnership was formed to address challenging issues to realize active-safety, advanced driver assistance, in-vehicle infotainment, digital cockpits, vehicle-to-vehicle/vehicle-to-infrastructure and self-driving vehicles.…
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MSC Software Corporation (MSC), part of Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence division, has announced Adams-ready VTD (virtual test drive), combining vehicle dynamics and virtual test drive simulation to accelerate the development of next generation Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and safe autonomous vehicles. Adams-ready VTD accelerates development by simulating how a dynamic moving vehicle and its sensors will behave in complex road…
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5G Technology Benefits The next mobile technology revolution is already here, and it could radically change how you provide logistics services. Known as 5G (the fifth generation of cellular technology), all types of mobile, connected devices will see vast improvements in speed, responsiveness, capacity, and other areas. 5G isn’t an inapplicable concept or technology either - it’s going to be…
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Looking at the calendar, I am mildly late with this type of column, which will endeavor to take a peek into 2020, as we are roughly one week into not only a new year, but also a new decade. But better late than never, is the working theme I will have to go with, in this case. And it stands…
GENISOM AI makes ICRA debut at conference in Vienna
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Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
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