Kontron acquires industrial mainboard business from Fujitsu
Kontron S&T AG is taking over Fujitsu's industrial mainboard business based in Augsburg as part of an asset deal with Fujitsu Technology Solutions.
read more...read more...Interview with David McQueen, Tetakawi
Mexico - a country with potential?
Mexico has been in the news recently mainly because of the border disputes with Donald Trump. However, the country is also an important production location for North American industry. David McQueen explains in an interview why Mexico is an interesting market for foreign companies despite Trump.
read more...8th Technology Forum for Automated Guided Vehicles and Mobile Robots
Developments such as adaptable production and the booming online trade place the highest demands on intralogistics. To meet these requirements, digital networking, artificial intelligence and machine learning offer innovations for driverless transport systems and mobile robots. On September 18, 2019, the 8th Fraunhofer IPA Technology Forum will present new approaches and applications.
read more...Friedrichshafen and Düsseldorf in rotation
Messe Düsseldorf as the new organizer of Saw Expo
Messe Düsseldorf is now the organizer of Saw Expo, the special interest trade fair for the sawing industry, which will take place every two years in Friedrichshafen.
read more...International robotics competition
World champion with igus: Bremen robots win RoboCup
Team B-Human from Bremen showed what robots can achieve not only in industry but also in soccer at this year's international robotics competition RoboCup in Sydney. Here, the German champion in the Standard Platform League won the world championship title against the reigning world champion from Leipzig.
read more...New impetus for 3D printing
At the 16th Rapid.Tech + FabCon 3.D, during the hottest days of summer 2019 so far, a concrete, application-oriented exchange on the current possibilities and future developments of additive manufacturing (AM) took place - this was the verdict of the almost 4,500 visitors, the 180 exhibitors and the more than 100 speakers at the Rapid.Tech Congress and the 3D Printing Conference.
read more...Materials for additive manufacturing
Superalloys in additive manufacturing
Scientists at the Fraunhofer IWS have developed methods that allow more materials to be used in additive manufacturing than before. The prerequisite: improving the industrial 3D printers currently in use so that these machines can also process very strong and extremely heat-resistant alloys.
read more...Said, (asked,) done
The VerbBot project of the Chair of Robotics and Embedded Systems at the University of Bayreuth is investigating how to enable flexible natural language instruction of robots for force-based tasks.
read more...Bremen robots win Robocup 2019 in Sydney
Robots are also finding their way into soccer. This year, Team B-Human from Bremen showed what the little robots can do in this popular sport at the international robotics competition Robocup in Sydney.
read more...Intelligent, connective, sensitive
Smart gripping as the future of gripping technology. The wbk Institute of Production Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is developing approaches to increase the degree of autonomy of grippers.
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