Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.38
August 11, 2020
…production parts among major aircraft OEMs,” comments Jānis Jātnieks, co-founder and CEO, of AM Craft. “Although COVID-19 has shocked the industry in the last few months, we are seeing efforts to return to business by remodeling passenger planes for cargo shipments, as well as projects to increase customer safety measures and improve the inflight customer experience – for example by providing mobile device charging stations and Wi-Fi infrastructures. In such cases, additive manufacturing is way ahead of slower and more costly traditional methods. “One of the mainstay pillars that enables us to realize this business case into real-world applications is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.55
August 10, 2020
…should only be conducted if deemed necessary. AI can gain info, process it, and provide the output to the patients and care team members via machine learning algorithms. The right combination of AI and predictive analytics technologies can also assist in optimizing hospitals’ operating efficiencies, increasing asset utilization, and maintaining required equipment disinfection. Internet of Things (IoT) IoT-enabled thermometers could potentially be used to take patients’ temperatures from a distance. Similarly, patients can take their own temperatures and upload their data via mobile devices for virtual monitoring by their care team. This enables healthcare providers to efficiently collect more data…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.26
May 01, 2020
…is KeyShot, widely used by product designers and architects. Co-founder Henrik Wann Jensen was presented with a Scientific and Technical Academy Award for his pioneering work on rendering as used in cinema. For years, Jensen insisted the CPU was the best environment for rendering. All that changed in July 2019 when Luxion announced it would support the NVIDIA RTX platform for real-time ray tracing, a key rendering technology. “Our development team was able to quickly show KeyShot with GPU acceleration and [show] where performance could be gained, which further convinced us to move forward with support for NVIDIA RTX,” said…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.21
November 01, 2019
…industries, the companies report. Together, the two companies will co-develop new 3D printed solutions for medical, automotive and apparel applications. DSM and Twikit are currently working on an end-to-end production workflow for 3D printed orthotics and prosthetics, showcasing additive manufacturing's customizability. Combining DSM’s materials and market reach with Twikit’s experience in software development and application development will facilitate improvements in advanced manufacturing techniques, the companies report. The partnership between the two companies will lead to new customizability and made-to-measure turnkey solutions across various industries. DSM and Twikit will explore new applications in the automotive, healthcare, and footwear industries. Twikit’s morphing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.17
September 10, 2019
…bringing 6 Rivers Systems into the fold Shopify will gain a group of staffers with decades of fulfillment software and robotics experience, as well as 6 Rivers Systems’ cloud-based software and collaborative mobile robots, known as “Chuck,” to the Shopify Fulfillment Network. This pairing, said Shopify, will increase the speed and reliability of warehouse operations through various tasks such as inventory replenishment, picking, sorting, and packing. Shopify also explained that that this acquisition is a “critical step to accelerate its growth,” with 6 River Systems continuing to build and sell their offerings for warehouses. The Shopify Fulfillment Network was introduced…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.30
July 12, 2019
…relieving people of tedious tasks.” DHL has already scored gains using AI in three key areas. In one DHL operation, people used to evaluate incoming shipments to determine if extra handling is required. It was a high-speed manual process with on-the-fly decision making that was fraught with the potential for error. DHL now uses AI and computer vision to evaluate incoming shipments and determine proper handling for people on the line. Productivity has increased by as much as 14%. The accuracy of detecting critical pallet properties has also increased along with the speed of handling. Just as important, explains Ha,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.23
July 10, 2019
…can stay at a more comfortable work cell and gain experience working with AMRs. “When you put robots into warehouses it’s typically a better working environment for the human workers,” says Barber. Not all AMRs function alike. Some solutions work on a good-to-person principle, bringing rolling shelves with goods to a workstation, while others work in aisles alongside humans, and others handle material transfer tasks. There are also mobile robots with sorter mechanisms or roller conveyor attachments on top, making it possible for a bot to transfer goods to fixed automation. Another variation are mobile bots that have a picking…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.25
July 01, 2019
…sleeping, so the leakage current dominates,” says Paul Washkewicz, co-founder and vice president of marketing of Eta Compute. “In fact, the real-time clock is completely dominated by leakage and is often the main function that is always on to keep the IoT device synchronized. Often the gains made going from 90 nm to 40 nm—for the SoC [system on a chip] to get more performance or shrink the die for cost—lock the SoC out of markets dominated by off leakage currents.” Designers seeking greater energy efficiency must consider power dissipation, which varies with the processing platform used. “Power dissipation is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.31
May 24, 2019
…and post-process software, and 3D scanning. Emanuel “Ely” Sachs, co-founder of Desktop Metal and inventor of binder jet printing, accepting his Innovation Achievement award from SME. Also on the opening day, RAPID+TCT and SME gave the Innovation Achievement Award to Emanuel “Ely” Sachs, who’s recognized as a pioneer of 3D printing and inventor of binder jet printing, co-founder of Desktop Metal, and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “If you look at the history of manufacturing, it’s a rare opportunity to participate in as fundamental a change from the past,” he said, humbly reflecting on his career to date. 3D…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.64
May 22, 2019
…high-volume environments. With this innovative and collaborative approach, the Locus and RHR solution will drive significant productivity and efficiency gains for shared customers in the retail and third-party logistics (3PL) space. “Locus is recognized as one of the pioneers of autonomous mobile robots for warehouses and we’re thrilled to be working together,” said Leif Jentoft, Co-Founder of RightHand Robotics. “Our companies’ advanced technologies will provide transformative solutions to a variety of industries including pharmaceutical, apparel, grocery, and more. With the growing demands of e-commerce order fulfillment, we can solve our customers’ needs for flexible and reliable technology, with real productivity…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.83
May 22, 2019
…disturbances and respective discontinuities using thermal emission spectroscopy; harnesses co-axial Planck thermometry to provide a verified thermal signature in both temperature and coordinates; uses in-process quality metrics (IPQMs), thermal emission density (TED) and thermal emission Planck (TEP) to analyze internal thermal signatures and melt pool disturbances; contains a graphical user interface for real-time display of live part quality results and automated anomaly detection on thermal mapping images providing location and anomalous region size; collects data with fixed spatial resolution in the X/Y plane and variable Z plane resolution depending on layer height used during the manufacturing process; and is platform-independent…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.53
May 22, 2019
…interface for real-time display of live part quality. Uses Co-Axial Planck Thermometry and other specialized metrics. Learn more here. PrintRite3D gives manufacturers the ability to monitor and analyze key metal AM processes and to identify melt pool disturbances and other discontinuities as they happen. A recent DARPA study says PrintRite3D technology “has been shown to ensure process consistency and product quality in metal additive manufacturing.” The final project for the study was validation of a challenging metal component being manufactured by Honeywell Aerospace using laser bed powder fusion. The conclusion: “This work has demonstrated that a combination of physics-based modeling…
