NASA’s On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1), the first to robotically refuel a satellite not designed to be serviced, and will also demonstrate assembly and manufacturing technologies and capabilities, has passed its mission critical design review (CDR). This is an important milestone that paves the way for the construction of the spacecraft, payloads, and ground system.
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Mexico has officially started the COLMENA Project, the first Mexican lunar exploration mission. The mission, which will land on the moon in June, consists of five small robots that will be placed on the lunar surface. They are already on board the Peregrine Lander, made by the US Astrobotic company, and ready to travel the 384,400 kilometers that separate Earth from the moon.
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Tobias Kopp, akademischer Mitarbeiter von Prof. Dr. Steffen Kinkel, Professor an der Fakultät für Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik der Hochschule Karlsruhe (Die HKA) und Leiter des Instituts für Lernen und Innovation in Netzwerken (ILIN), verteidigte erfolgreich seine Dissertation und durfte sich anschließend über die seltene Auszeichnung „summa cum laude“ für seine Promotion freuen.
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Bosch acquires Atlatec as part of autonomous driving-strategy
Bosch has acquired Atlatec, provider of high-resolution digital maps for driver assistance and automated driving. The Karlsruhe-based company will become part of the Bosch Cross-Domain Computing Solutions division as an independently operated company. The company, which was spun off from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2014, employs around 25 people in Germany, Japan, and the United States.
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FANUC, supplier of CNCs, robotics, and factory automation has introduced the new CRX-5iA, CRX-20iA/L and CRX-25iA collaborative robots, the latest additions to its CRX series that includes the CRX-10iA and CRX-10iA/L collaborative robots. FANUC will demonstrate all five CRX models at IREX (International Robot Exhibition), March 9-12, 2022 at the Tokyo Big Sight in booth E4-04, and at IREX Virtual, March 1-18, 2022.
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Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team and TIBCO continue partnership on processing data
The Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team has continued its partnership with TIBCO. Over the past season, the F1 team has used TIBCO Spotfire in race simulations that influence up-to-the-minute car setup and configuration decisions. The team also used the TIBCO Cost Visualizer Tool for detailed cost-value analysis across engineering and finance data sources to comply with FIA cost cap regulations.
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ABB will deliver a comprehensive range of robotic solutions for Scania’s new highly automated battery assembly plant in Sweden. The new facility is part of Scania’s strategy in the electrification of heavy vehicles. Scania will invest more than SEK 1 billion ($108 million) in the facility over several years and the new Södertälje plant is expected to be fully operational by 2023.
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Several researchers have recently published their findings in providing robots with sensitivity. A Korean research team has developed an electronic skin that can sense tactility just as humans do. And a team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) has introduced a soft haptic sensor that uses computer vision and a deep neural network to accurately estimate where objects come into contact with the sensor and how large the applied forces are. They both work to the aim of robots being able to feel their environment as accurately as humans and animals.
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New robotics virtual reality training simulator for surgery
VirtaMed, provider of medical simulation training, and Memic Innovative Surgery, provider of surgical robotic technology, announced a partnership to develop a new virtual reality simulator program to support surgeon skills training for the Hominis Surgical System.
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Lightning eMotors has completed the expansion of its manufacturing campus in Loveland, Colorado by 102,000 square feet to a total of over 226,000 square feet and reconfigured workstations throughout the plant to incorporate advanced automation and augmented reality systems across multiple workstations and assembly areas.