CO2Meter obtains ISO 9001:2015 certification
The Fabricator
JUNE 22, 2023
CO2Meter.com, a source of gas detection technology in Ormond Beach, Fla., has obtained ISO 9001:2015 certification of its quality management system.
Industry IoT Consortium and Digital Twin Consortium Merge
Gary Mintchell
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Two major sources of technology buzz from around 2015 to 2020 or so found homes in industry consortia within The Object Management Group. I talked often with people from the IIC, aka Industry IoT Consortium , and with the Digital Twin Consortium. These were most likely too much overhead for the supporting suppliers and industry.
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Look Back at 2014 & 2015 “30 Under 30” Program
Fastener News Desk
JULY 10, 2024
The program ran in 2014 & 2015 and then it was put on pause as so many young fastener professionals had been recognized in those two years. SOURCE: FastenerBlog.net RELATED CONTENT: Industrial Supply Association Announces New 2024-2025 Board of Directors MDM’s 2024 Top Fastener Distributors List
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Mcity says open-source digital twin enables cheaper autonomous vehicle testing
Robotics Business Review
DECEMBER 18, 2024
The first open-source digital twin of the Mcity Test Facilitythe University of Michigan’s center for connected and autonomous vehicles and technologiesis now available to the public. ” The digital twin works with TeraSim , an open-source traffic simulator developed by Mcity researchers. .
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Mid-Year Cyber Threat Intelligence Report Critical Start
Gary Mintchell
AUGUST 26, 2024
trillion annually by 2025, up from $3 trillion in 2015. Global cybercrime has shown no sign of decline and is expected to grow by 15 percent per year over the next five years, reaching $10.5
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QLD Premier to open the 2024 National Manufacturing Summit
Manufacturer's Monthly
JULY 16, 2024
In 2015, Queensland established a 50 per cent renewable energy target by 2030. Queensland is accelerating towards its renewable energy targets and now boasts 54 large-scale renewable energy projects since 2015. In 2022, this target was increased to 70 per cent by 2032, and 80 per cent by 2035.
China’s clean heating policies cut premature deaths by 23,000, study suggests
E&T
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
From 2015 to 2021, the impact of winter heating on China’s capital Beijing and 27 other cities saw concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) µg m-3 in 2015. in mainland China to reduce significantly between 2015 and 2021, with significant public health benefits.” from heating activities reduce by 41.3
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Nokia Expands Industrial Edge Offerings
Gary Mintchell
APRIL 25, 2023
The first time edge compute and edge applications came my way was through IT companies—Dell in 2015 and HPE in 2017. Industrial IoT platforms connect, collect and analyze data from disparate sources –including video cameras – unlocking its value. They both still have edge devices and “edge-to-cloud” strategies.
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Teradyne units Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial Robots open joint headquarters
Robotics Business Review
MAY 14, 2024
Source: Teradyne Two leading automation suppliers have moved in together. which acquired Universal Robots (UR) for $285 million in 2015 and Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) for $272 million in 2018. Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial Robots’ joint headquarters and R&D facility in Odense, Denmark. headquarters in Odense, Denmark.
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Hirebotics adds support for Miller Auto DeltaWeld in its Cobot Welder
Robotics Business Review
MAY 21, 2024
Source: Hirebotics As robots increasingly make their way into the world, automation providers are focusing on making the end-user experience faster and easier than ever. The Auto DeltaWeld System is a MIG/Flux-cored, pulsed-capable power source designed for collaborative robots , according to Miller Electric Mfg. The Appleton, Wis.-based
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Forcen closes funding to develop ‘superhuman’ robotic manipulation
Robotics Business Review
APRIL 28, 2024
Source: Forcen Forcen last week said it has closed a funding round of CAD $8.35 ” Founded in 2015, Forcen said its goal is to enable businesses to easily deploy “(super)human” robotic manipulation in complex and unstructured applications. Forcen says its technology will help robotic manipulation advance as vision has.
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Major data breach leaks passwords of seven million Freecycle users
E&T
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
According to Bleepingcomputer.com , a hacker offered up the data for sale on a hacking forum in late May, although the source of the breach was only discovered last Wednesday. As a result, we are advising all members to change your passwords as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience.”
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HEBI Robotics releases H-Series actuators
Robotics Business Review
MAY 6, 2024
Source: HEBI Robotics HEBI Robotics last week during the Robotics Summit & Expo expanded its offerings with its new H-Series platform of smart robotic actuators. Raida began working with HEBI Robotics in 2015, initially as an external business consultant. HEBI’s H-Series Actuators are sealed to IP65.
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PRS Tool Changer from SMW Autoblok works with pneumatic grippers, C40 Inductive Coupler
Robotics Business Review
JULY 10, 2024
Source: SMW Electronics SMW Autoblok Group yesterday launched its new quick-change PRS Robotic Tool Changer line, which can be combined with a variety of pneumatic grippers and C40 Inductive Couplers for contactless, wear-free energy and signal transmission. The PRS Tool Changer provides contactless energy and signal transmission.
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RobotPlusPlus launches HighMate C20 cargo hold cleaning robot
Robotics Business Review
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Source: RobotPlusPlus RobotPlusPlus this week provided live demonstrations of its HighMate C20 Hold Cleaning Robot at the SMM 2024 conference in Hamburg, Germany. since the company’s founding in 2015. The new Highmate C20 Hold Cleaning robot is equipped with five 500-bar high-pressure nozzles. million sq.
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Horizon Robotics raises $696M in Hong Kong’s biggest IPO of 2024
Robotics Business Review
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Source: Horizon Robotics Horizon Robotics, a Chinese developer of autonomous driving technology , is raising HK$5.4 Established in 2015 by former Baidu employees, Horizon Robotics provides advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD) systems for passenger vehicles.
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NI Corporate Impact Report
Gary Mintchell
AUGUST 3, 2022
I hit every year until maybe 2015. of electricity sourced from renewables, plus 113,542 square feet of new buildings and remodels designed to LEED/WELL standards. The first NI Week in Austin, TX I attended was 1998. 100% for Black to white (U.S.) and 101% for Latinx to white (U.S.).
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Stanford researcher discusses UMI gripper and diffusion AI models
Robotics Business Review
MAY 25, 2024
thesis work, and he has open-sourced the gripper design and all of the code so that others can continue to help evolve the AI diffusion policy work. For example, large language models and vision models started with a small data regime in 2015, but now with a huge amount of internet data, it works like magic.
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‘Fundamental’ revamp of planning system needed for UK to meet net zero
E&T
JUNE 7, 2023
Progress in England was stalled in 2015 when planning laws were changed to make it more difficult to gain permission for new onshore wind turbines – in what was effectively a ban. Nevertheless, only 17 new onshore wind farms have so far been approved since 2015, generating just 6.7 megawatts of power; 0.02
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Fourier Intelligence rebrands to Fourier and Fourier Rehab
Robotics Business Review
JULY 16, 2024
Source: Fourier Fourier Intelligence Co. Founded in 2015, Fourier said it has developed robots equipped with dexterity and intelligence for medical rehabilitation, scientific research, and other applications. Fourier Intelligence has rebranded and is now operating under Fourier and Fourier Rehab.
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Prices rise for polyethylene, PET
Plastics News
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Regional PET bottle resin prices also were up 2 cents for the month, according to market sources contacted by Plastics News. Regional PE demand also had been down because processors had built larger-than-normal inventories after the COVID-19 pandemic, sources said. Mexico was the largest source of U.S. billion pounds in 2022.
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NVIDIA, ORBIT-Surgical teach surgical robots key skills in simulation
Robotics Business Review
MAY 26, 2024
The open-source code package is now available on GitHub. She first joined the company as an intern in summer 2015. With it, the ORBIT-Surgical research team demonstrated how training a digital twin in simulation transfers to a physical robot in a lab environment in the video below. Salian has a journalism M.A.,
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Granta Autonomy takes off from stealth with seed funding for drone recon
Robotics Business Review
JULY 10, 2024
Source: Granta Autonomy Conflicts in Ukraine and elsewhere have increased interest in autonomous systems for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions. “Granta Autonomy is committed to ensuring our systems can be readily manufactured across Europe, reducing reliance on external sources.” million U.S.)
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At CVPR, NVIDIA offers Omniverse microservices, shows advances in visual generative AI
Robotics Business Review
JUNE 17, 2024
Sources: NVIDIA, Fraunhofer IML (right) NVIDIA Corp. Source: NVIDIA JeDi model shows how to simplify image creation at CVPR Creators typically use diffusion models to generate specific images based on text prompts. She first joined the company as an intern in summer 2015. Isha has a journalism M.A.,
How Odense became a leading robotics city
Robotics Business Review
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Source: Invest in Odense The Danish city of Odense has 200,000 citizens, but how did it become a world leader in robotics? Source: LinkedIn I am proud to once again be an ambassador for this event. The sale of UR in 2015 showed that we were doing something right in Odense. Thomas Visti is a serial robotics entrepreneur.
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Agility Robotics partners with leading WMS provider, cuts staff
Robotics Business Review
APRIL 4, 2024
Source: Agility Robotics Agility Robotics made a couple of strategic moves this week as it continues to commercialize its Digit humanoid. There are a lot of warehouse management systems (WMS) on the market, but as one source told The Robot Report , Manhattan Associates is “the standard bearer when it comes to large 3PL operations.”
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10 cobots guarantee ‘just in time’ manufacture of gearboxes
Robotics Business Review
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Cobots to the rescue SEAT’s maintenance team based its automation approach on experience gained from an earlier project from 2015 in which it installed UR cobots at its shotblasting and washing stations. Source: Universal Robots No fixed installations The UR10e cobots currently serve 10 different machining lines.
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WITTENSTEIN presents new miniaturized Galaxie® gearbox
Manufacturer's Monthly
MAY 28, 2023
Dynamic single teeth as well as tooth contact over a large surface rather than simply linear contact when the teeth are in mesh are just two of numerous features which the miniaturised Galaxie ® has inherited as “genetic code” from its multi-award-winning “big brother/sister”, which first appeared on the scene in 2015.
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Saildrone maps unexplored areas of the Gulf of Maine
Robotics Business Review
AUGUST 21, 2024
Source: Saildrone Two Saildrone Voyager uncrewed surface vehicles, or USVs, have surveyed 1,500 square nautical miles (5,144.8 Saildrone has been operating autonomous data collection missions for ocean research, seafloor mapping, and maritime security since 2015. km) in a north-central area of the Gulf of Maine. nm (10,000 sq.
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ABB expands robot production and training in Auburn Hills, Mich.
Robotics Business Review
MARCH 13, 2024
Source: ABB ABB Ltd. Source ABB Customer Experience Center Bubnikovich said ABB’s new Customer Experience Center will “showcase its latest and greatest technologies.” ABB Robotics has invested $30 million in training since 2019 across four locations, opening its Auburn Hills manufacturing facility in 2015.
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igus supplies plastic cable carries for Robotise JEEVES service robot
Robotics Business Review
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Source: igus igus GmbH has supplied its E2.10 Robotise was launched at the Technical University of Munich in 2015. Designed for dynamic applications, Robotise Technologies says the igus E2.10 cable carriers enable JEEVES to perform its role reliably. series of e-chain plastic cable carriers as part of JEEVES.
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MassRobotics resident startups have raised over $1B in seven years
Robotics Business Review
AUGUST 26, 2024
Source: MassRobotics Realtime Robotics gets help ramping up In May 2024, Realtime Robotics received Series B funding led by Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Shanghai-based XYZ Robotics has raised $103 million, including a $20 million Series A+ round , for vision-guided picking systems. bringing its total to $71.5 million. .
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UK automotive manufacturing carbon footprint falls to lowest ever level
SMMT
JULY 11, 2022
Industry greener and cleaner with less energy use and more sustainable energy sourcing. In addition, since 2015 the industry has ensured that 95% of a vehicle by weight goes through a takeback network to be re-used, recycled or recovered. Waste to landfill per vehicle falls to lowest ever level – down -96.2%
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Mcity gives green light to remote autonomous vehicle testing, calls for federal standards
Robotics Business Review
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Source: Marcin Szczepanski, Michigan Engineering Detroit is known as Motor City, the unofficial capital of the automotive world. Opened in 2015, Mcity was the world’s first proving ground designed for connected and automated vehicles. In 2022, a $5.1
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Polytron Awarded 2024 System Integrator of the Year
Polytron
DECEMBER 13, 2023
This involves identifying potential vulnerabilities, establishing contingency plans, and diversifying supply chain sources to mitigate future disruptions. Polytron is a member of the System Integrator Hall of Fame having been awarded in 2015, 2019, and now 2024.
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Commodity prices rise; engineering resins drop
Plastics News
MARCH 24, 2023
Regional PE demand also had been down because processors had built larger-than-normal inventories after the COVID-19 pandemic began, sources said. By comparison, the export market share of North American PE sales averaged only 24 percent from 2015-18. Prices for all grades of PE were down a net of 2 cents for full-year 2022.
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Demand for integrated robot control surges
Robotics Business Review
MAY 23, 2024
Source: Universal Robots Just before Hanover Messe, Siemens announced its cooperation with two collaborative robot vendors, UR and JAKA. Partners of Siemens SRCI Robot Control System | Source: Siemens What is machine-integrated robot control? Integrated robot control is not a new concept.
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Kiva Systems founders to enter Logistics Hall of Fame as mobile robot pioneers
Robotics Business Review
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Source: Kiva Systems / Logistics Hall of Fame In 2003, Mick Mountz, Dr. Peter Wurman, and Prof. Source: Logistics Hall of Fame. Its AMRs navigated safely around distribution centers with sensor fusion of data from sources such as camera and inertial sensors to determine the robot’s position in the warehouse.
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PickNik Robotics releases MoveIt Pro 6 to cut developer costs, time to market
Robotics Business Review
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Source: PickNik Robotics PickNik Inc. Founded in 2015 for the Amazon Picking Challenge , PickNik Robotics has developed software to help organizations improve precision and efficiency in industries ranging from aerospace to construction and logistics. HiveBotics used MoveIt Pro to develop the Abluo bathroom-cleaning mobile manipulator.
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Europe has a key role to play in the development of robots, humanoids
Robotics Business Review
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Source: Adobe Stock While headlines often spotlight U.S. The company first sold the UR5 cobot in 2008, followed by the launches of UR10 in 2012 and UR3 in 2015. for $285 million in 2015, the introduction of the e-Series in 2018, and reaching the industry milestone of 50,000 cobots sold worldwide in 2020.
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Imagry moves to make buses autonomous without mapping
Robotics Business Review
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
Source: Imagry Autonomous vehicles often rely heavily on prior information about their routes, but new technology promises to improve real-time situational awareness for vehicles including buses. Imagry says its software enables buses to autonomously handle complex situations such as roundabouts. ” Apply to speak. and Haifa, Israel.
SDUK-Nolato-Hi-Tech connectivity project crowned supplier partnership winner
i4.0 today
DECEMBER 11, 2024
The company previously won Best Technology Application of the Year in 2015 and 2016, and Best Training & Development Programme in 2023. SDUK and Hi-Tech Automation provided a single source solution with the advantage that the cells were built and tested locally off-site.
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Ceratizit Promotes Managing Director for Cutting Tools Division
Modern Machine Shop
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Source: Ceratizit USA Inc. In 2015, he took on the responsibility of managing a global aerospace OEM, gaining international experience and expanding his expertise in the cutting tool market. Troy Wilt, managing director of Ceratizit USA, cutting tools division. Ceratizit USA Inc. Wilt then moved into sales management.
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Adapta Robotics execs explain development strategies for testing and inventory robots
Robotics Business Review
JUNE 3, 2024
Source: Adapta Robotics Starting a robotics company is always challenging, as inventors and entrepreneurs scramble to get access to capital and tap the local talent pool. Source: Adapta Robotics Know thy customers Were you developing these systems for specific customers, or did you already have broader applications in mind?
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