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RoboticsTomorrow Industry Newsletter - Dec 2012

Machines Imitate Life --- Toradex Oak Sensors to Become Open Source --- New Arduino Esplora With Built-in Onboard Sensors

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Machines Imitate Life
12/14/12, Contributed by, MICROMO
In an increasingly virtual world, the ability to simulate touch provides powerful advantages, for example allowing an online shopper to “feel” a shirt fabric. Enter the discipline of haptics, which involves using robotics with sophisticated feedback and controls to simulate a tactile experience for the user.
 

Interview With Nena Street, The Global Robotics Innovation Park
12/14/12, Nena Street, The Global Robotics Innovation Park
Our vision is that GRIP will serve as the central hub of the Upper Midwest robotics industry. The robotics industry offers a compelling regional economic development opportunity for the Upper Midwest.

Spherical Vehicle - Mechatronics Demonstrator
12/14/12, Contributed by, MICROMO
Complex position control, in combination with fast mechanical implementation of the necessary commands, represented a challenge to both developers and the integrated components.

Face of the Future
11/30/12, Contributed by, MICROMO
Micro drives gives humanoid service robots human traits.

Interview with Michael Walker, CMO of Bossa Nova Robotics
11/30/12, Michael Walker, Bossa Nova Robotics
Consumer robotics is the next big frontier. Military, academic, and industrial robotics are thriving segments due to an abundance of financial resources and clear cut cost benefits in costs, safety and efficiency. Small businesses will start to have access to technology that was only available to larger enterprises (e.g. manufacturing, warehousing robots).

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New Arduino Esplora With Built-in Onboard Sensors

The Arduino Esplora is a microcontroller board derived from the Arduino Leonardo. The Esplora differs from all preceding boards in that it provides a number of built-in, ready-to-use set of onboard sensors for interaction. The Esplora has onboard sound and light output interfaces. It alos has the potential to expand its capabilities with two Tinkerkit input and output connectors, and a socket for a color TFT LCD screen. Like the Leonardo board, the Esplora uses an Atmega32U4 AVR microcontroller with 16 MHz crystal oscillator and a micro USB connection capable of acting as a USB client device, like a mouse or a keyboard.

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Allegro A4979 Programmable Stepper Motor Driver IC for Robotic Applications

The A4979, a flexible microstepping motor driver IC with improved programmability and diagnostics, offers a built-in translator for easy operation. It is a single-chip solution, designed to operate bipolar stepper motors in full-, half-, quarter- and sixteenth-step modes, at up to 50 V and 1.5 A. The A4979 has diagnostic features such as stall detect overcurrent protection and open load detection. It can be used in textile and robotic placement applications and also in microscopes and industrial imaging.

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Micromo

For over 50 years, MICROMO has provided the highest quality, custom micro motion solutions for markets such as medical, aerospace, defense and robotics in North America. Decades ago in Germany, it all started with the FAULHABER coil, the landmark invention by Dr.Fritz Faulhaber. The self-supporting, ironless rotor coil design paved way for a new industry that produces millions of motors today.

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News

Toradex Oak Sensors to Become Open Source


Wynright Introduces Automotion™ AutoSort 20 for Growing Distribution Centers


UT Arlington Research Institute launches Assistive Robotics Lab


Microscan Introduces the Smallest Imagers Available with Embedded Ethernet


 Stäubli to Exhibit at Automate 2013

Events

AUTOMATE 2013
Jan 21 - 24 2013, Chicago, IL


20TH ANNUAL ROBOTICS INDUSTRY FORUM
Feb 20 - 22 2013, Orlando, FL


MICRO MANUFACTURING CONFERENCE & EXHIBITS
Apr 16 - 17 2013, Minneapolis, MN


2013 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGIES FOR PRACTICAL ROBOT APPLICATIONS
Apr 22 - 23 2013, Boston, MA


EASTEC
May 14 - 16 2013, W. Springfield, MA

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