Pepper, a popular humanoid robot, is designed to identify human emotions and to respond to them. 10,000 of these devices currently work in banks, cruise ships, stores, and bars. The makers recently introduced an app that allows people without programming skills to write scripts for their Pepper robots. Sophia, a lifelike robot famous for saying,… Read more »
There’s Ethernet… and then there’s the industrial Ethernet. One big difference is the distinction between soft and hard deadlines for delivery of information. An ordinary Ethernet connection treats a delivery failure as a total failure. It tried to deliver the information, the information was not delivered, so let’s all move on with our lives. Or… Read more »
IndraControl XM has been certified by six boards in America and in Europe for marine environments and offshore installations, including extreme environments. What’s an extreme environment? After all, Rexroth industrial motion control systems have been functioning perfectly in washdown environments for decades. It’s not as though they’re prima donnas requiring ideal conditions for performance. The… Read more »
A new historical study of the effects of technology on the job market over the past 165 years confirms that automation isn’t the threat to human jobs that some would have us believe it is. Certainly, the study found plenty of examples of jobs that disappeared because of technology… and of new jobs that arose… Read more »
Rexroth industrial motion control is an integral part of the Eiffel Tower, the Panama Canal, and NASA spacecraft. Why should anyone get excited about its part in producing coffee pods for those trendy pod-based coffee machines? Because Rexroth is part of a solution to a big problem. Conveyor belts are important to modern manufacturing…. Read more »
Analyst Nick Heudecker says that only 50% of firms say they want to use big data… and only 15% actually do. If you’d like some slightly harder data, a recent PwC survey found that just 30 percent of U.S.-based industrial manufacturing senior executives said that their companies were planning to increase spending on information technology… Read more »
Manufacturing in America continues to grow, and more manufacturing jobs were brought to the U.S. last year than were sent abroad. But there are definitely pressures on manufacturing. And the solution to that pressure could be flexibility. Customization Brands, retailers, and consumers all demand customization. Special labeling for store brands is nothing new, but now… Read more »
What’s the goal for manufacturing in the United States? Do we want to see lot of new, Industry 4.0 factories built? Rexroth’s Dr. Steffen Haack says it’s not necessary. New factories may seem hopeful and make good headlines, but they’re not always the path to prosperity. Older facilities can be updated. Often, production processes are… Read more »
A Russian robotics company claims to have created a robot that can tell when people are lying. It can also tell, according to the manufacturer’s press release, whether people are using drugs or would be likely to give up secrets. The photo here isn’t really a picture of the robot in question. Known as Trubot,… Read more »
Rexroth has been involved in plenty of exciting projects, from the Panama Canal to the Eiffel Tower. So it’s no surprise that Rexroth is involved in an important engineering effort in Venice. Venice is not your ordinary city. It’s made up of 118 islands and 150 canals. People travel by gondola and on foot. Climate… Read more »
