Why I Automate: Manufacturer Finds Promising Gains with Automation
Job loss was on everyones mind. Results showed that the opposite took place. Higher quality led to more orders and an increase in the number of jobs.
Opto Diode Introduces CalSensors' SCD-B Infrared Detectors
New single-channel detectors (SCD-B) feature anti-reflective-coated silicon windows
New A/D and D/A Converter FMC from VadaTech Offers High Sampling Rates
VadaTech, a manufacturer of embedded boards and complete application-ready platforms, has announced a new FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) that is both an A/D and D/A converter.
Integro Technologies Launches Machine Vision Ecommerce Website
Integro Technologies, a leader in machine vision integration, announces the launch of a new ecommerce website where businesses and individuals can purchase machine vision products directly.
DE-STA-CO Gives Press Room Customers 150 More Ways to "Accelerate" Automation Line Productivity
DE-STA-CO has added more
than 150 parts to its Accelerate® Collection of lightweight tooling.
The collection, introduced in 2013, was expanded in response to
customer requests for additional options to increase automated
press room stamping line speed. Accelerate is the worlds lightest
standard line of end effectors.
Servo-Tek Publish 8pg Comprehensive DC Tachometer Catalog
The new Servo-Tek Products Company tachometer catalog includes detailed specifications of all Servo-Tek high performance DC tachometers for precision speed control applications.
11th Asia International Industrial Automaiton Exhibition,2015
Professional automation exhibition for INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION (Production and Process Automation), ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS, ROBOTICS, INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION IT & SOFTWARE
MORGAN ADVANCED MATERIALS EXTENDS REFLECTOR GLAZE RANGE
Developed for high-energy pulsed Q-switching infrared laser applications, a new, high-absorption samarium oxide glaze from Morgan Advanced Materials means it is now able to offer three grades of glaze for laser systems.
Intelligrated launches redesigned, enhanced OnTimeParts.com spare parts procurement website
User-friendly features improve ordering experience
Servo-Tek Publish 8pg Comprehensive DC Tachometer Catalog
The new Servo-Tek Products Company tachometer catalog includes detailed specifications of all Servo-Tek high performance DC tachometers for precision speed control applications.
VERSABALL Beer Pong Robot
From Empire Robotics:
The VERSABALL is a squishy balloon membrane full of loose sub-millimeter particles. The soft ball gripper easily conforms around a wide range of target object shapes and sizes. Using a process known as “granular jamming”, air is quickly sucked out of the ball, which vacuum-packs the particles and hardens the gripper around the object to hold and lift it. The object releases when the ball is re-inflated. VERSABALL comes in multiple head shapes and sizes that use the same pneumatic base... ( Empire Robotics' site )
Four Robotics Related Kickstarters For January
EVB: Replace the brain of your LEGO® EV3 with BeagleBone / X PlusOne: Your Ultimate Hover + Speed Aerial Camera Drone / The ProtoCam+: An easy way to build projects and prototypes around your Raspberry Pi Camera Module with your A+ and B+ Raspberry Pi / Tektyte: LogIT Specialised Circuit Testers
Harmonic Drive® Publish 148pg Comprehensive Gearhead Catalog
The new Harmonic Drive® gearhead catalog includes detailed specifications of all Harmonic Drive® high performance gearheads for servo and stepper motors.
Gudel Introduces the Base-RAP Dress-out Solution
Standard routing and protection solutions for cable management from TrackMotion cable carrier to robot base.
Robot Learning Manipulation Action Plans by "Watching" Unconstrained Videos from the World Wide Web
From Yezhou Yang, Yi Li, Cornelia Fermuller and Yiannis Aloimonos:
In order to advance action generation and creation in robots beyond simple learned schemas we need computational tools that allow us to automatically interpret and represent human actions. This paper presents a system that learns manipulation action plans by processing unconstrained videos from the World Wide Web. Its goal is to robustly generate the sequence of atomic actions of seen longer actions in video in order to acquire knowledge for robots. The lower level of the system consists of two convolutional neural network (CNN) based recognition modules, one for classifying the hand grasp type and the other for object recognition. The higher level is a probabilistic manipulation action grammar based parsing module that aims at generating visual sentences for robot manipulation.
The list of the grasping types.
Experiments conducted on a publicly available unconstrained video dataset show that the system is able to learn manipulation actions by “watching” unconstrained videos with high accuracy.... ( article at Kurzweilai.net ) ( original paper )
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FAULHABER Drive Systems at the Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston from April 30 to May 1 in Hall C at Booth 534
Faulhaber will be presenting their drive systems for robotics and smart technology. Robots are versatile and can be found in many areas, for example, transporting goods, operating on patients or supporting the agriculture industry. With the help of robots, processes can be automated, the flow of materials optimized and employees relieved. Equipped with FAULHABER drive systems, these robots can take on tasks where the demands on function and applications are high.
