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GE to Provide Robotic Inspection Systems for Alinta Energy’s Gas-Fired Power Plants

Showcasing its expanding predictive maintenance portfolio for power plant operators worldwide, GE’s Power Services business has signed an agreement to deploy advanced robotic inspection tools to inspect utility Alinta Energy’s gas-fired power plants in Australia and New Zealand.

22 Mar 2016

Taylor Morrison and Legrand Partner to Revolutionize Household Automation with Interactive Home 2.0

Taylor Morrison, a leading national homebuilder and developer, and Legrand®, a global leader in high-performance network infrastructure hardware, have partnered to revolutionize household automation through the launch of Taylor Morrison's newest high-tech product, the Interactive Home 2.0™.

16 Mar 2016

ABB‘s Integrated Automation Solution to Manage End-to-End Production in SCA’s Expanded Pulp Mill

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, will provide integrated solutions using ABB’s market-leading automation platform System 800xA and custom-engineered software for pulp processes. The solution includes engineering for the control system and optimization of all processes at SCA Östrand's expanded pulp mill in Timrå, Sweden opening in June 2018, as well as the design of the control room.

15 Mar 2016

ABB to Contribute Grid Automation Technology to Digital Substation Project in Scotland

ABB has been selected to participate in the FITNESS (“Future Intelligent Transmission NEtwork SubStation”) project of SP Energy Networks, a UK-based electricity transmission and distribution network operator, along with other partners.

15 Mar 2016

FRCC at Kettering University Allows Bentley Robotics Team to Create More Opportunities for Students

In their second year as a team, members of the Bentley High School FIRST Robotics team -- Robo-Raptors -- are ready to push themselves harder and further than before.

10 Mar 2016

Penn State Researchers Reveal Some Assembly Needed to Boost Ratings of Robots

Robot makers may want to follow Ikea's strategy for customer satisfaction and give people a chance to partially assemble their new robots to ease acceptance of the devices, according to Penn State researchers.

9 Mar 2016

Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center Chosen for Major New Federal Research Projects

Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) has been selected as a prime contractor or subcontractor on four major new federal research projects totaling more than $11 million over the next three years. The projects range from research on a wheel that can transform into a track to automated stress testing for critical software.

9 Mar 2016

Flushing Raider Robotics Team Uses Space in FRCC at Kettering University

The Flushing Raider Robotics Team 5561 was created for students to learn to work together as a team, gain professionalism and gather engineering and programming skills they can’t get in their high school classrooms.

4 Mar 2016

Direct Transcription Enables Unstable Ball-Balancing Robot to Perform Series of Tasks

When you go to make your movement across a room or down a path your brain makes thousands of tiny decisions on how best to move, such as how to use your weight, what obstacles or uneven surfaces there may be and how rigid or soft your limbs and joints should be. How to teach a robot how the same decision making process is an ongoing question in robotics but a team from ADRL, ETH Zurich and NCCR Robotics explores numerical methods for trajectory optimisation.

26 Feb 2016

First Automated Human Movement Machine Learning Tool from FocusMotion for Developers

FocusMotion, a motion recognition algorithm company dedicated to improving health through tracking and translating human movement, today announced Creator, the first machine learning tool that allows developers to teach the FocusMotion algorithm new movements.

12 Feb 2016

Automation Electronics News

GE to Provide Robotic Inspection Systems for Alinta Energy’s Gas-Fired Power Plants

Taylor Morrison and Legrand Partner to Revolutionize Household Automation with Interactive Home 2.0

ABB‘s Integrated Automation Solution to Manage End-to-End Production in SCA’s Expanded Pulp Mill

ABB to Contribute Grid Automation Technology to Digital Substation Project in Scotland

FRCC at Kettering University Allows Bentley Robotics Team to Create More Opportunities for Students

Penn State Researchers Reveal Some Assembly Needed to Boost Ratings of Robots

Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center Chosen for Major New Federal Research Projects

Flushing Raider Robotics Team Uses Space in FRCC at Kettering University

Direct Transcription Enables Unstable Ball-Balancing Robot to Perform Series of Tasks

First Automated Human Movement Machine Learning Tool from FocusMotion for Developers

Generative AI and the Rise of the Intention Economy

Neural Networks Show Promise in Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer

Could Hydrogel Microrobots be the Start of a New Era in Precision Medicine?

3D-InAus Project: Creating 3D Environments with Mobile Robots and LiDAR

AI-Powered Predictions for Aggressive Skin Cancers

Robots and Renewable Energy: Hydropower Inspections

Robots and Renewable Energy: Wind Farm Monitoring

Robots and Renewable Energy: Solar Plant Security

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