Robotics

Sales of professional service robots rose by an impressive 37% in 2021.

Advantech, a global specialist in industrial IoT, is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of itsAIR-030 series, an edge AI system powered by NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, and the EPC-R7300 series for industrial Box PCs powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Orin Nano.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, children were home schooled and kept apart from their friends, peers and the stability of a ‘normal’ routine, all of which affected their mental health and wellbeing.

Nordson Test & Inspection, a division of the Nordson Corporation, has announced that VAS Engineering has successfully installed an Assure FLEX Component Counter and has integrated it into their inventory management process.

Under the Mobile Industrial Robot (MiR) name and led by Walter Vahey, the two Teradyne companies become a single supplier of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), accelerating technology development and market leadership worldwide.

Over the past decade, the global sales volume of industrial robots has tripled, according to Statista. Not only are robots becoming more popular, but their functionality has also increased, allowing more complex tasks to be automated.

Cassie the robot has established a Guinness World Record for the fastest 100 metres by a bipedal robot.

At Engineering Design Show (EDS) 2022, LG Motion’s stand will feature a conveyor system with a cobot and is looking forward to talking to visitors about innovations in industrial automation.

This article originally appeared in the August'22 magazine issue of Electronic Specifier Design – see ES's Magazine Archives for more featured publications. As roboticists encounter limitations imposed by traditional processor architectures, customisation and parallelism are needed to meet forthcoming performance, security, and safety challenges. Victor Mayoral-Vilches, former Systems Architect at Xilinx, AMD Consultant...

This article originally appeared in the August'22 magazine issue of Electronic Specifier Design – see ES's Magazine Archives for more featured publications. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are used in many industries in a growing variety of logistics applications. Unlike fixed material transport systems like conveyors, AMRs can drive around a facility unlimited by a fixed route. Rolf Horn, Applications Engineer at Digi-...