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For the first time, stroke patients are being rehabilitated at home with the help of videogame technology from Microsoft. Professor Philip Breedon, Professor of Smart Technologies, Nottingham Trent University, has used the Xbox Kinect, a gaming device which senses movement and voice commands, to help patients with facial palsy.

Entrepreneur, actor and record producer Nick Cannon will serve as the Entertainment Matters Ambassador for the 2015 International CES, the CEA (Consumer Electronics Association) has announced. Sponsored by Variety, Entertainment Matters is a content-focused CES program developed for Hollywood’s film, television and digital communities.

Kuka's compact robots in the KR Agilus series are precise, agile and fast. As agile systems these five-axis and six-axis handling units feature short cycle times and high repeatability, particularly for pick-and-place tasks. Synchronous servo motors from Kollmorgen's AKM series play a major role in achieving this high dynamic performance and precision. Using collaborative co-engineering, the two companies were able to reduce the installation volu...

WIDIA has a saying: “Extreme Challenges – Extreme Results.” Over the years, this has come to mean metalworking productivity breakthroughs for numerous shops from such well-known WIDIA names as VariMill, VariTap, WIDIA Victory, and numerous others. In the future of what some have coined Industry 4.0 extreme opportunities exist in the digital integration of tooling data and knowledge to the shop floor. Extreme results are possible...

Lantronix announced the launch of its new SLC 8000 – the industry’s first modular console manager.Designed to reduce deployment and management costs and time by providing secure, centralised out-of-band management to most IT equipment, the new SLC 8000 can be expanded from eight to 48 ports.In a typical deployment, each port would manage one piece of IT equipment such as a switch, router, or server.This modular design makes the SLC 80...

Chemical Etching Technology Stimulates New Product Development for Mesh and Filter Applications

Decentralizing servo technology can bring machine and plant construction savings during installation. Two additional advantages include reduced cabinet heat loads and more straight forward drive architecture. The question arises however, which technology is better, an integrated motor/drive solution or a detached motor and drive?

Local Energy Appliances (LEA), a start-up company specialising on smart systems and solutions for electrical grids in developing countries, has joined IAR Systems' Green Innovation Program. IAR's sponsor programme supports development projects in eco-friendly technology. As part of the programme LEA has been provided with free licences of IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM.

Advantest is once again offering engineers and designers the chance to participate at its VOICE 2015 annual Advantest Developer Conference. The test equipment supplier has issued an international call for papers focusing on innovative test solutions for system-on-chip (SoC) and memory semiconductor devices and handler solutions.

The Hedelius range of high precision machining centres is now available from exclusive UK and Eire agent, YMT Technologies. Renowned throughout Europe for precision and reliability in every industrial engineering sector, each Hedelius CNC machine tool is produced in-house at the company’s 12,000 m2 state-of-the-art facility in Meppen, Northwest Germany. All Hedelius machining centres embody one basic principle; they are completely orientate...