Robotics, Automation & Control

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Access your resource for innovative automation technologies and applications. Find technical briefs and applications that play an essential role in today's age of automation in industrial manufacturing and medical industries.

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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
In just three weeks, the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at UC Berkeley built a robotic COVID-19 laboratory.
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INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
The newest edition of NASA's small, foldable robots successfully traversed rugged terrain in the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
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Blog: Packaging & Sterilization
Robots are in high demand as medical professionals seek hands-free ways to disinfect environments and contain the spread of coronavirus and COVID-19.
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Briefs: Transportation
Applications include homeland security, vehicle anti-collision systems, telecommunications systems, and industrial instrumentation.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The newest PLCs can directly access Internet resources, much like a mobile device, to obtain information for improving operations.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Manufacturers are beginning to realize the same benefits by cloud-connecting their equipment and processes on the shop floor.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
As advancements in technology continue to define how pneumatic or electromechanical linear devices lift, move, or place a load, the requirements of excellent closed-loop positioning and accuracy greatly increase
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Square trusses replace round for enhanced strength and robotics compatibility.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This technology could help control driverless cars and automated warehouses.
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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
The new Mars Rover Name is Perseverance, thanks to a suggestion from Virginia 7th grader Alex Mather.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The new arm design enables unmanned aerial vehicles to fly in windy conditions.
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Blog: Test & Measurement
See what the SuperCam will do when it arrives on Mars in 2021.
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INSIDER: Medical
A bulk-machined “Pop-Up” MEMS process was developed for creating mesoscale machines up to several centimeters in dimension.
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INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Rutgers University engineers have developed an automated way to produce polymers, making it much easier to create advanced materials aimed at improving human health. While a human researcher may...
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This robot “blood” stores energy, transmits force, operates appendages, and provides structure, all in an integrated design.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Today's advanced smart CNC controls allow manufacturers to optimize the manufacturing process right on the factory floor
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Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
Encoder The AI25 hazardous series AI25 encoder from Dynapar (Gurnee, IL) is suited for Class 1 Division 2 applications where a Zone 1 or Division 1 encoder may have previously been specified. It features both BiSS and SSI...
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Briefs: Motion Control
Such grippers would be suited for human-robot partnership in assembly lines in the automotive, electronic packaging, and other industries.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Filaments with embedded circuitry can be used to print complex shapes for biomedical and robotic devices.
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Facility Focus: Test & Measurement
Explore Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's first space flight complex.
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Articles: Motion Control
5G has the potential to provide connectivity for a range of different uses in manufacturing.
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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Cornell researcher T.J. Wallin explains what's so cool about a robot that sweats.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
An upgraded mini robot can leap over obstacles with ease.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
This microrobot with soft actuators can crash, fall, and collide without being damaged.
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Briefs: Energy
Loosely connected disc-shaped “particles” can push and pull one another, moving together to transport objects.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Various components are used to assemble robots that are more aware of their surroundings.
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Briefs: Materials
This microbot can walk on land, swim, and walk underwater.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A system senses tiny changes in shadows on the ground to determine if there’s a moving object coming around the corner.
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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
If a satellite breaks in orbit, there's not much that can be done. A professor envisions a new idea for refueling and repair.
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