The pandemic gave e-commerce a major boost, speeding up the trend toward online shopping by several years. Online shopping saw a 6.5% lift in Q4 2022, in spite of relaxed attitudes toward COVID-19. There’s no sign that consumers will be heading back to a reliance on brick and mortar stores. At the same time, American… Read more »
We specialize in electric servos, drives, and controls from Indramat, now Rexroth-Bosch. So why are we even mentioning pneumatics? Because we’ve recently seen discussions of how packaging plants are switching from pneumatics to the smoother electric servos. Is electric better than pneumatic? Electric can be more energy-saving, since compressors usually produce pressure that is not… Read more »
Microsoft has come up with an API that allows ChatGPT to produce code that will control the actions of robots. The object is for people who do not have special knowledge about physics or robotics to use ChatGPT’s stored knowledge about the world to create programs for robots. The API can, for example, be used… Read more »
AI is having a moment. Of course, artificial intelligence has been a powerhouse for technological change over the past few decades, helping us find our way around town, identify machinery that’s about to need maintenance, and choose movies we’re likely to enjoy. But tools like ChatGPT have tickled the fancy of lots of people who… Read more »
