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Blue Prism to Present Enterprise Robotic Process Automation Software at Major Global Conferences

Blue Prism, the leading developer of enterprise robotic process automation (RPA) software, will be presenting at two major global services and outsourcing conferences this week: the HfS Blueprint Sessions, happening Nov. 17-19 in Chicago; and the Alsbridge Provider Summit, happening Nov. 19-20 in Dallas.

18 Nov 2014

Cornell Engineers Join Team ViGIR for DARPA Robotics Challenge

Cornell engineers are adding their expertise in robot autonomy to the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), a multi-year, international prize competition sponsored by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

18 Nov 2014

Insteon Introduces Remote-controlled Dual-On/Off, Dual-Band Outlet

Insteon®, creators of the world’s premier home automation and control technology, today announced the industry’s first dual-on/off, dual-band outlet. Now consumers can separately and remotely control each of two sockets with a degree of reliability 100 times greater than competing protocols.

12 Nov 2014

Trust Automation Announces Motion Control System Supply Contract for Counterfire Radar Production

Trust Automation, Inc., the world's leading developer of linear servo drives, creator of custom and standard high precision motion, motor control and system design as well as complete power train devices for the defense and other industries, today announced its fourth Low Rate Initial Production contract for the rugged and high tech vehicle automation system for the AN/TPQ-53 (Q-53) produced by Lockheed Martin.

12 Nov 2014

EPFL Researchers Develop Autopilot Device to Control Movement of Flying Windmills

The idea of using kites to collect the energy produced by high altitude winds has been gaining ground amidst the scientific community. EPFL researchers have developed an autopilot device to control and optimize the movement of these peculiar windmills for obtaining an optimal power production.

10 Nov 2014

ABI Research's New Report on Robot Operating System and Open Source Robotics

ABI Research’s new report, Robot Operating System (ROS) and Open Source Robotics, analyzes how ROS—open source software libraries, tools, and a run-time environment—reduces the complexity of robotics software engineering, increases the speed of development and deployment, as well as improves the robustness and maintainability of the resulting systems.

From ABI Research 10 Nov 2014

Forecast & Analysis Report on Global Industrial Controls and Factory Automation Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Industrial Controls and Factory Automation Market by Technology, Field Devices & Application - Global Forecast & Analysis to 2014 - 2020" report to their offering.

6 Nov 2014

Innomech Develops Automated Fuel Cell Stack Manufacturing System for AFC Energy

Fuel cells are one of the most promising new forms of energy generation. The technology is clean, quiet and efficient but the hundreds of layers in a commercial-scale fuel cell stack and the number of stacks needed to generate sufficient power make it almost impossible to manually assemble them at speed. Cambridgeshire-based GB Innomech (Innomech) has designed and recently completed a novel automated manufacturing system that AFC Energy will use to assemble five stacks per day.

From GB Innomech Ltd 3 Nov 2014

Forest Machine Technology Conference to Showcase Robotics, Automation, Telematics and Autonomous Vehicles

Robotics, automation, telematics and autonomous vehicles. These advanced technologies might soon be found in the forest and thereby make it possible to provide forest workers with a safer, more efficient work environment. Organized by FPInnovations and its collaborators, the Forest Machine Technology Conference (FMTC) will be showcasing all this April 21-23, 2015 in Montreal.

29 Oct 2014

Geotab Introduces GO7 Telematics Device for Fleet Management Applications

Geotab, an industry-leading telematics engineering company, today announced availability of its all-new GO7 telematics device designed for fleet management applications to detect all of the vehicle data communications from the engine, drivetrain, instrument cluster and other relevant subsystems.

29 Oct 2014