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To operate a DC motor from an AC power source, an electronic speed control is needed. The control converts the AC voltage of the power supply into a DC voltage for the...
As physical AI continues to advance, it will increasingly be able to tackle tasks previously limited to humans, especially those requiring rapid adaptability in operations that traditional automation and AI systems could simply not handle. Training physical AI models may seem like a daunting task, but read on to learn how to simplify it.
Elmo, an Isreal-based servo drive technology developer, announced the availability of a new motion controller and new servo drives for a wide range of...
SiLC Technologies has announced the launch of Eyeonic®Edge, the newest addition to their laser scanner product lines. The Eyeonic Edge along with the Eyeonic Trace product...
Schneider Electric announced at Automate its new offering — Industrial Automation Modernization as a Service — designed to help industrial organizations modernize...
Humanoid robots are moving beyond eye‑catching demos and into real-world operations. This shift is being driven less by hardware and more by advances in AI....
NVIDIA has announced NVIDIA Halos for Robotics, the industry’s first full-stack, comprehensive safety system for robotics and physical AI that unifies AI compute...
UnitX, a pioneer in AI-powered visual inspection for manufacturing, recently launched DeteX, an AI-powered smart camera. DeteX is purpose-built to eliminate the manufacturing vision...
Teradyne Robotics, the company behind Universal Robots (UR) and Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR), is demonstrating how physical AI is transforming industrial automation at Automate...
Manufacturers are constantly looking for ways to improve efficiency and reduce repetitive tasks through robotics, but for those just beginning their automation journey, the first...
Researchers create world's first electronic‐photonic quantum chip…speeding up a camera shutter a trillion times yields material discoveries…how LiDAR is going digital. Read all about it in this...
OMRON Robotics will demonstrate the next generation of its flagship LD Series autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) — the LD-150 and LD-300 — at Automate 2026. Attendees...
At Automate 2026, RealSense unveiled the RealSense™ D585 Pro, a new AI-native depth camera that combines advanced depth sensing, edge AI acceleration, and a software-defined platform designed...
Across factory floors and supply chains, physical AI is starting to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds. How much do you know about physical AI? Test your knowledge with this quiz.
See the new products, including Amada Weld Tech's next-generation UB Series Linear DC Resistance Weld Controls; Igus' ReBelMove Pro modular, customizable autonomous mobile robot; Logic's Octopus, an overhead industrial picking robot; and more.
Through a technology partnership that breaks new ground in the machine tool industry, Siemens offers an automation solution for the busy, multi-tasking, small to mid-sized machine shop, as it combines a digital twin of the software and programming of its popular SINUMERIK 828 CNC, working in tandem with a KUKA robot, to simplify the operation and programming in part handling for the machine tool operator. Read on to learn more.
If you are building a high-accuracy gantry system inhouse, understand that the tolerance for error is measured in microns, while the number of interacting failure modes is vast. Read on for more tips.
For a variety of industries, helping hands are often hard to find, and it’s an issue that’s been consistent in recent years. Given this, many companies are considering transitioning to automation, including through the use of collaborative robots or cobots, for short. Read on to learn more about them.
Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute have designed a system that makes an off-the-shelf quadruped robot nimble enough to walk a narrow balance beam. Read on to learn more.
The University of Lincoln is addressing a significant barrier in agricultural robotics by designing fleets of robots capable of operating safely within complex farm environments. Ceres Agri-Tech has developed JABAS.AI, an AI-enabled autonomy platform that facilitates real-time robot navigation and coordination, even in areas with unreliable GPS and connectivity.
The Robotics Innovation Center, located at the Institute of Science Tokyo University, has established a laboratory at its Yushima campus where robots conduct medical experiments previously performed by human researchers, aiming to automate nearly the entire research process. Read on to learn more.
Mathematical analysis of crowd density is notoriously complex because there are so many possible paths and interactions to consider. Read on to learn what a Harvard team did to get around this difficulty.
Scientists are striving to discover new semiconductor materials that could boost the efficiency of solar cells and other electronics. But the pace of innovation is bottlenecked by the speed at which researchers can manually measure important material properties. A fully autonomous robotic system developed by MIT researchers could speed things up. Read on to learn more.
In this compendium of articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology, learn how breakthroughs in materials science are enabling exciting new applications in defense...
