Mercedes Tries Humanoid Robots

Humanoid robots have been the big news in robotics recently. Sometimes they’re presented as a way to make robots cuter — Tesla’s Optima is supposed to be a “buddy,” after all — but sometimes they’re described as fitting into human-oriented spaces better. That’s the approach Mercedes is taking. They’re bringing humanoid robots into their factories… Read more »

Extra Heat and Your Rexroth Systems

We’re centrally located in Northwest Arkansas, making it easy for us to get your machinery to you fast when you need it. Until recently, we used to be in agricultural zone 6. Agricultural zone 6, as defined by the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture), is a designation on the Plant Hardiness Zone Map. This… Read more »

“Stop the Presses!” and Your Servos

Long ago, before online news sources and social media, a remarkable event could lead to someone running into the press room and shouting, “Stop the presses!”. The idea would be to stop your printing press, update the news stories, and then start printing again with the correct and current information. The famous press error “Dewey Defeats… Read more »

Sexist Robots?

It is not news that AI and robots show the same biases their makers and programmers do. We’ve already seen hiring programs eliminating women from consideration for jobs and sorting photos of people by outmoded stereotypes. Sexist robots have stepped it up now. A Saudi male robot named Muhammad patted a female reporter’s posterior in… Read more »

The Century Club

Industry Week is great about bringing us news of manufacturers who have been in business for a century or more. These are the titans of industry, the companies that have stood tall for over a hundred years, weathering economic storms, technological revolutions, and the ever-changing tides of human history. Here are some from their most… Read more »

Manufacturing Madness

Manufacturing madness… is is the political fallout over changes in tarrifs? A more recent version of Mad Hatter disease, the results of mercury poisoning among hatmakers? In fact, it is the annual contest to determine the Coolest Thing Made in South Carolina. 16 local products go head to head in brackets similar to the NCAA… Read more »

Wedding Robots?

Of course you need robots at your factory. Certainly robots are great for warehouses. Construction sites and farms? Increasingly, robots are becoming essential at these workplaces as well. We’re even willing to believe that they can be useful at home. But weddings still don’t seem like an obvious place for a robot. How romantic is… Read more »

Find Rexroth Indramat Manuals

You know that Rexroth Indramat product you have in your plant right now, the one acquired in 1980 — or 1970? Can you put your hands on the manual? I bet the answer is, “No.” That manual has probably biodegraded by now, or it’s in a water damaged box in the back of some forgotten… Read more »

100 New Species Found by Robot

Robotics has good reason to be grateful for biology, but now biology has to be grateful to robots, too. Schmidt Ocean Institute set out on an undersea expedition with an underwater robot and found about 100 new species. Traveling along the Salas y Gómez Ridge stretching between Chile and Easter Island, researchers used a remote-control… Read more »

Robots Inspired by Worms

New ideas in robotics are often inspired by animals. From kangaroos to octopi, creatures from all over the animal kingdom have given great ideas to the roboticist that study them. The latest: earthworms. Japanese researchers created a new robot based on worms that can travel 9 mm per second. If you’re having trouble imagining that… Read more »

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