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Improve Object Pick-up with Sensors
When implementing a collaborative robot in a pick and place
application, additional sensors can yield huge benefits. There are a myriad of
ways to do this, each with its own level of complexity and cost. Let’s explore
some options.Fixturing – No Sensor
RequiredThis method is tried and true. The biggest advantage to this
option is its low cost, low tech approach. It requires little to no training
but fixtures can be expensive and lack flexibility.In-Built Part DetectionBefore adding more se
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Aug 23rd 2017
Make Building Automation Easy
Monitoring and controlling building automation systems
entails a juggling act of keeping the temperatures within a specified range, having the lights on during work hours, monitoring device failures, and
maintaining a notification system when malfunctions occur. The advantage to
doing all of these is that a building automation system will have lower energy
usage and maintenance expenses opposed to one that has no automation system.Building automation is the centralization of networked
syste
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Aug 16th 2017
Increase Operational Insight for IoT
Connectivity
is the key to increasing operational insight and improving general operations for OEMs.
The understandings offered by Industrial IoT join to generate immense
value-creation opportunities.Machine
and Factory Health: The complexity of advanced automation and lean supply chains
greatly increases the likelihood that something will go wrong and of that interruption
having extensive cost repercussions. The
extent of these disruptions may be mitigated with the data mining of machin
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Aug 8th 2017
Robots Taking a Bullet to Protect Your Weed
The marijuana industry has embraced
automation in nearly every aspect of production, safety and security. Traditional,
human-staffed outdoor crop security is “fraught with human error,” says Todd Kleperis, Chief Executive Officer of Hardcar Security, marijuana industry security provider. “At night guards
sleep, they play video games and spend time on social media.”
When violent
breaches happen, “these robots can take a gunshot better than a human. If you’ve
ever been shot, it’s very sc
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Aug 4th 2017
2017 Amazon Robotics Competition Won by Budget Robot
This year’s Amazon Robotics competition was designed to find
a machine that could identify, pick up and store item. The winners consisted of
university students as part of the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision. The
team built their machine without a robot arm, instead opting to do the picking
from above using a sliding mechanism and walked away with an $80,000 cash prize."The parts for
the robot were cheap by the standards of typical industrial robots and it could
be built for unde
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Aug 1st 2017