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May 15 | News
Camera
maker Canon Inc. is moving toward fully automating digital camera
production in an effort to cut costs—a key change being played out
across Japan, a world leader in robotics. According to the company
spokesman, counting on machines can help preserve the country's
technological power.
Feb 27 | News
Earlier
this month, the president's budget canceled joint U.S.-European robotic
missions to Mars in 2016 and 2018. Now top science officials say they
are scrambling to come up with a plan by the end of the summer for a
cut-rate journey to the red planet in 2018. That's when Mars passes
closest to Earth, something that only happens once every 15 years.
8/15/2011 | RDBlog
The editors of R&D Magazine have opened the nominations for the 2012 R&D 100 Awards competition, which will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the awards. If your organization introduced a new product this year, or is planning to, you can begin the entry process now.
7/8/2011 | News
Four months after launching the alpha version, CERN has issued version
1.1
of the Open Hardware Licence (OHL), a legal framework to facilitate
knowledge
exchange across the electronic design community.
5/17/2011 | News
Security concerns are one of the key obstacles to the adoption of new
non-volatile main memory (NVMM) technology in next-generation computers,
which
would improve computer start times and boost memory capacity. But now
researchers from North Carolina State Univ. have developed new
encryption
hardware for use with NVMM to protect personal information and other
data.
1/26/2011 | Tools And Technology
Answering growing demand for equipment dedicated to LED assembly,
manncorp.com now includes LED-capable pick-and-place systems, such as
the MC-388LED, which can also serve as a mid-range placer for today’s
surface mount components.
11/4/2010 | News
Booz
& Company this week released its Global Innovation 1000 Study,
which details the first global corporate R&D spending drop since
before 1997, the first year studied. However, R&D intensity
increased as corporate revenues declined by nearly three times the rate
of reductions in R&D spending.
8/27/2010 | News
MTC’s’
ElectroCeramics business in Bedford, Ohio, has announced its high
volume assembly capability for piezoelectric assemblies and transducers
for applications in a broad range of markets, including medical,
aerospace, industrial, oceanographic, commercial, automotive and
state-of-the-art scientific research.
7/28/2010 | News
Many
of today’s robotics engineers were directly inspired by the George
Lucas sci-fi classic and, unlike the movies, are designing robots that
are both real and practical. A typical lab, such as RoMeLa at Virginia
Tech is filled with wheel-legged hybrid ‘bots, cable-suspended climbing
‘bots, and even a robotic hand.
7/15/2010 | Tools And Technology
Sonic Air Systems, Inc. has announced the
availability of the Sonic COOL-AIR In-line Air Cooler, which delivers
precisely controlled air temperatures from Sonic’s line of pressure
blowers and high velocity air knife systems.
