Columbia Machine announces partnership with OTTO Motors
January 31, 2018
Manufacturer and integrator of robotic palletizers and load transfer station partners with supplier of autonomous vehicles.
Universal Robots Expands Universal Robots Academy
January 1, 2018
Universal Robots Expands Free Online Training, Adding Three New Modules That Step Up Complexity By Teaching Users How To Create And Work With Coordinate Systems, Variables And Conditional Statements, And...
FAA Develops 3D Printing Roadmap
November 13, 2017
As the industry moves closer to putting flight-critical printed parts into service, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says it is developing guidelines for 3D printing.
How to Design for Additive Manufacturing: First Steps
October 24, 2017
DfAM not only looks at the bare-bones function of a part and its classic assembly techniques, but addresses just how to produce it with additive manufacturing (industrial 3D printing) equipment...
Autodesk and America Makes Held Event to Promote Design for Additive Manufacturing
October 3, 2017
Additive manufacturing still has many gaps to fill to reach maturity. Part of the evolution may be the development of AM-aware simulation tools and design programs.
SOLIDWORKS 2018 Includes Design-for-3D-Printing Tools
October 2, 2017
Designers in the world of 3D printing/additive manufacturing (AM) will find a number of highly useful features among the hundreds announced in SOLIDWORKS 2018.
LIVE Panel Discussion: Balancing Design, Ethics, and Security in the Autonomous Car
September 13, 2017
LIVE panel to discuss autonomous vehicle design development challenges, including ethics, human-machine interface, security, and system simulation
Autodesk Product Design and Manufacturing Collection: More Software, Same Price
August 11, 2017
Autodesk adds CAD-embedded simulation functions and computer-aided manufacturing tools to existing collection at no extra cost.
Stratasys Honors Scholarship Winners for 2017 Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge
June 28, 2017
Judging submissions from more than 900 student inventors, engineers, artists and entrepreneurs, this year's contest was co-hosted by GrabCAD and supported in the GrabCAD Community.
ANSYS, PTC Partner To Bring Simulation to the Industrial Internet of Things
May 31, 2017
The pair announced plans to develop a platform solution that will allow ANSYS engineering simulation capabilities to be easily added to apps built on PTC's ThingWorx IIoT platform.
Researchers Take Aim at Design and Manufacturing Costs
April 25, 2017
A team of researchers at Penn State, industry and other universities is developing an advanced framework that will allow engineers to share engineering data and leverage design and manufacturing-related knowledge...
Fate of Uber and Otto’s Autonomous Vehicles
March 17, 2017
Google's Waymo autonomous tech lawsuit against Uber and specifically against Anthony Levandowski, a former Waymo employee who left the company to start autonomous truck driving firm Otto, which Uber purchased...
3D Printing Metals: Why Support Designs Matter
March 3, 2017
Designing with metal additive manufacturing in mind means understanding how support structures transfer heat.
OTTO Motors to Supply Toyota Motor Manufacturing with Flexible Automation
February 16, 2017
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi will use the OTTO 1500 self-driving vehicle for tire delivery in its assembly plant.
Ford Invests $1 Billion in Autonomous Vehicle and Artificial Intelligence Robotics Firm Argo AI
February 13, 2017
Ford is investing $1 billion during the next five years in Argo AI, combining Ford's autonomous vehicle development expertise with Argo AI's robotics experience and startup speed on artificial intelligence software –...
Other Voices: Building toward the factory of the future from the bottom up
February 6, 2017
Investments in robotics and automation can start in a single work cell.
Sculpteo Uses 3D Printing to Design Fully Functional Bike
January 23, 2017
The project's designers made the bike ready for a 700-mile trip from Las Vegas to San Francisco.
Uber’s Otto Self-Driving Autonomous Truck Makes It’s First (Budweiser Beer) Run
October 27, 2016
The world's first shipment by a self-driving truck included 51,744 cans of Budweiser beer, with a tractor-trailer outfitted with Otto's self-driving kit hauling the beer 120 miles along Colorado's Interstate 25 on Oct. 20.
Uber Acquires Autonomous Truck Startup Otto
August 18, 2016
Uber announced it had acquired Otto, a 90-person start-up focused on developing self-driving truck technology that aims to upend the trucking and shipping industry.
