Control Automation Features

Sensing the future: humanoid robots

Sensing the future: humanoid robots

Last year, the Robot Studio decided to make a statement in the world of humanoid robotics when they aspired to replicate the form and function of arguably the most precise, versatile, and complex mechanical system to exist: the human shoulder, arm and hand.

Making frequency-hopping radios a more practical proposition

Making frequency-hopping radios a more practical proposition

New hardware could lead to wireless devices that identify and exploit unused transmission frequencies, using radio spectrum much more efficiently. Larry Hardesty reports.

Three-dimensional monitoring of high-speed fabrication

Three-dimensional monitoring of high-speed fabrication

If you want to gauge the quality of castings on a production line with any degree of accuracy, you need high-speed systems.

Europe's largest automation research project gets underway

Europe's largest automation research project gets underway

March saw the start of the Arrowhead project, Europe's largest ever automation development research project, coordinated by Luleå University of Technology in Sweden.

Vintage ride gets some 21st century treatment

Vintage ride gets some 21st century treatment

Bakken Amusement Park in Klampenborg near Copenhagen is the oldest amusement park in the world and is home to one of the oldest roller coasters in Europe: the ‘Rutschebanen’, a wooden coaster built in 1932.

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