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Cobotics for Automotive: Humans & Cobots Working Side by Side

Posted by Heidi Huff on Mar 3rd 2020

Industrial robots are often large heavy machinery, built for welding or lifting ton-weight objects. They’re used to save humans from performing such dangerous … View More

Self-Repairing Cities Powered by IoT

Posted by Heidi Huff on Feb 6th 2020

You’ve heard of smart cities, but what about self-healing cities? The UK is undertaking a project to make cities self-repairing and free from street work disru … View More

Top Chef: Robot Edition

Posted by Heidi Huff on Feb 4th 2020

In the future – and in some areas now – robots may prepare your food.Robots in RestaurantsSilicon Valley is teeming with robotic restaurants. Zume, a piz … View More

Mining Embraces Smart Tech

Posted by Heidi Huff on Jan 16th 2020

IIoT is improving mining safety and efficiency in a variety of ways. As a result, the smart mining market is expected to grow by 19.7% from 2019 to 2024.Autonomous V … View More

Ocean Clean Up Efforts Go High Tech

Posted by Heidi Huff on Dec 18th 2019

The world’s oceans are in need of a garbage and oil cleanup. IIoT and drones are here to help.IoT Attacks Garbage at Every DepthThe WasteShark, a Roomba-like d … View More

Farming the Benefits of Agricultural IoT

Posted by Heidi Huff on Oct 28th 2019

Field, vineyard and greenhouse farmers are expected to increasingly invest in Industrial IoT, growing the smart farming market to $23.14 billion by 2022. IIoT has a … View More

Doubling Down on IIoT for Oil & Gas

Posted by Heidi Huff on Oct 23rd 2019

While the demand for oil continues, digging to deeper depths and off-shore drilling are becoming a necessity. But these types of drilling are challenging and costly … View More

Laser Technology: Industry 4.0 at the Speed of Light

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Jul 10th 2019

Cats aren’t the only ones chasing lasers. Applied scientists around the globe are working with lasers to move Industry 4.0 at the speed of light. From variatin … View More

Cyborgs in Our Midst: High Tech Assistive Technology in the Age of Cobotics

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Jan 3rd 2019

Images of machines made to look like humans — terminators, replicants and Ex Machina vixens — define the peak of human-robot relations in media. But huma … View More

Rolling the Ball, Not Reinventing It: Robots Augment Industrial Processes in the Beautiful Game

Posted by Leah VanSyckel on Jul 18th 2018

In 2014, over one billion people tuned in to watch the FIFA World Cup final between Germany and Brazil. Many were watching for love of “the most beautiful game … View More

Robots in the Sky: The Rise of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Intelligent Jamming

Mar 1st 2018

By Leah VanSyckel, Sealevel Systems, Inc A drone can be used to steal unauthorized footage of major events, interfere in commercial airspace, deliver military-gr … View More

SeaConnect 370: Agriculture Automation

Sep 19th 2017

A major US city tasked a farming cooperative with ending a regional food desert, which is an area lacking access to groceries and fresh produce. The co-op … View More

IoT vs. IIoT vs. Industry 4.0: What’s the difference and does it matter?

Posted by Katherine Elrod on Sep 10th 2016

Internet of Things. Industrial Internet of Things. Industry 4.0. While related, these terms are not interchangeable. Each entity has a different set of stakeholders, … View More

Compact, Reliable and Can Take the Heat: The Relio R1

Aug 20th 2016

The newest member of the Relio™ family of embedded I/O servers, the Relio R1, is redefining “extended.” With an impressive operating temperature … View More

Automation and Robotics: The Future of Business

Posted by Angelica Roman on Mar 5th 2015

At January 2015’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), we saw (and discussed in a recent blog) that one indisputable technology trend is the Internet of Things. An … View More

12 Days of Techmas: Day 12 is the DEKA Arm

Posted by Angelica Roman on Dec 23rd 2014

Our 12 Days of #Techmas has covered a lot of awesome gadgets, but our final day features a device that seems like it is straight out of the future — the DEKA a … View More

Young Farmers and Driverless Tractors

Posted by Tom O'Hanlan on Jun 20th 2012

Back in the good old days, farming relied on horses or some other type of draft animal and a farmer with a strong back. Today you’ll find fewer people in the f … View More

Industry Trends: Swarm Robotics

Posted by Josh Killinger on Feb 7th 2012

From Alan Turing to Deep Blue and Watson, humans have been trying to create smarter algorithms since computers were invented. There has been much success in the fi … View More

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