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RoboticsTomorrow Newsletter - April 17/13

Festo's BionicOpter Mechanical Dragonfly --- Thousands of Students Gear up for Three Days of Inspiring STEM Competition, Huge Crowds at the 2013 VEX Robotics World Championship --- HoverFly Cameras To Cover Upcoming Golf Events

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Festo's BionicOpter Mechanical Dragonfly
04/15/13, Contributed by, Festo
The mechanics of dragonfly flight are unique: dragonflies can manoeuvre in all directions, glide without having to beat their wings and hover in the air.

Food Processing Without The Human Touch
04/15/13, Len Calderone for , RoboticsTomorrow
Robotic sensory technology is now able to act in the same manner that a person does, adapting to the food manufacturing environment and utilizing vast amounts of information to give us some of the safest food in the world.

The Unmanned Systems Industry
04/15/13, Parag Batavia, Neya Systems, LLC
Overall the unmanned systems industry is healthy and growing, even in this fiscal climate. Commercial applications of unmanned systems in mining, agriculture, and health care continues to grow, as the robustness and maturity of unmanned systems increases.

Danish Robot Reduces Cost, Optimizes Production At Precision Engineering Company
04/15/13, Contributed by, Universal Robots
Rising wages and the intricate management of the labour force have created a challenging work environment for a Singapore-based company, Sky Engineering. For a long time, this precision engineering company tried to reduce their production costs. They finally succeeded with the implementation of Universal Robots in one of their CNC machines. The UR robot was easy to integrate and the company now has the luxury of having one man tending to two CNC machines at any one time — something previously impossible to achieve when all tasks relied heavily on manual labour.

Case Study: Marathon Special Products; Plastic Deflashing Automation System
04/15/13, Contributed by, Compass Automation
The system keeps up with their presses, provides a consistent finish, and alleviates their operators even from having to select the right part program.
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HoverFly Cameras To Cover Upcoming Golf Events

The Golf Channel is apparently testing the use of radio controlled HoverFly cameras to cover upcoming golf events. From the captured video below i'm not sure they with be using them for actual championship play and instead just for secondary or stock shots because the copters are pretty dang loud.
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HANNOVER MESSE 2013 Closing Report: Revving up for "Integrated Industry"
Events
EASTEC
May 14 - 16 2013, W. Springfield, MA
WESTERN MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY SHOW
Jun 04 - 06 2013, Edmonton, AB
RAPID – ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS
Jun 10 - 13 2013, Pittsburgh, PA
ISARC 2013: 30TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS IN CONSTRUCTION, MINING & PETROLEUM INDUSTRIES
Aug 11 - 15 2013, Palais des congres de Montreal; Montreal, Quebec, Canada
WESTEC
Oct 15 - 17 2013, Los Angeles, CA
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