Rexroth power supply modules won’t play nice with a pacemaker. In fact, many of the components of your industrial motion control and machinery in general can create problems with pacemakers. Here are some of the things that can cause interference with pacemakers: Large motors Large power supplies Electromagnets Generators (including your power supply module, which… Read more »
There’s a lot of talk about whether robots will take away American jobs or add new ones. Joe Kennedy, Senior Fellow at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation thinks we should look at this another way. In an essay at the ITIF blog, Kennedy expresses concern that fear of robots could lead to regulations which… Read more »
Dor Skuler, co-founder and chief executive of Intuition Robotics, believes that it is unethical to build robots that look or sound like humans. It’s wrong, he thinks, for a robot to pretend to be human. Of course it’s not robots that pretend to be human. It’s more that human beings are trying to convince other… Read more »
The new support robots for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been unveiled. Made by Toyota, they range from super cute greeter robots to autonomous vehicles designed to pick up javelins on the field. Toyota is of course a major player in the industrial automation space, but they see the Olympics as an opportunity to strut… Read more »
Robert Bosch, the parent company of Bosch Rexroth, has decided to sell its packaging machinery division to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners. This is not the first time Bosch has gotten involved in mergers and acquisitions. In fact, Bosch Rexroth is the result of a 2001 merger between Mannesmann Rexroth AG and the Automation… Read more »
Manufacturers have been fretting about the Skills Gap for years, seeing a looming crisis which has by now actually arrived in some areas. One of the plausible explanations for the problem is a lack of investment in training. Just 54% of manufacturers invested in worker training in 2018. Estimates say that all manufacturing employee training… Read more »
Robots are often humanoid in appearance.This seems reasonable, since they’re so often taking the place of human beings in executing tasks on a factory floor. Increasingly, they also mimic other life forms, taking on the characteristics of mammals or insects or other creatures to take advantage of evolution. By copying mechanisms that developed over millennia,… Read more »
Robots build things, clean things, and move things. Something a little different is the new robot umpire trying its robotic (and metaphorical) hands at umpiring for professional baseball. Having robots make judgements makes sense. They’re fair, consistent, and unbiased… right? In fact, experience has shown that robots, or AI programs taking on the role of… Read more »
Greg Creed, CEO of fast food behemoth Yum! Foods, reckons that robots will take over fast food joints within the next decade. Fast food is in many ways the perfect industry for automation. These jobs have been the focus of activism to increase the minimum wage. It’s been going on long enough, and with enough… Read more »
Nurses are aware that a lot of their work could be done by a robot. By and large, they believe that they should keep their jobs. Robots, they think, can’t manage the human relationships which are so important in nursing. What’s more, they believe that they train hard and work hard and generally… Read more »
