Rexroth and Indramat cabinets are very rarely ever opened. In fact, it’s not uncommon to see cabinets that have never been opened since they were installed originally when your manufacturing started years ago. Very few people actually know what goes on inside these cabinets and can tell you what’s going wrong with your servo drive… Read more »
Monthly Archives: December 2021
Ameca: Uncanny Valley’s New Resident
Ameca, the humanoid robot, looks a lot like a person. Engineered Arts, a UK company, developed Ameca as a platform for future robotic development. It can’t walk or indeed do anything practical, but it does look a lot like a person. The robot is designed to be neutral as to gender and ethnicity. It could… Read more »
Sort of Robots Sort of Reproduce
Xenobots, whose creators describe them as the first “living robots,” were formed from frog stem cells. They can move independently and “live” for about a week before breaking down. They’re not made of inorganic materials, they have no practical purpose, and they can’t be programmed. Still, their makers call them robots. “It’s not so much… Read more »