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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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Blog Asher Lake: Why you should embark on a Digital Workforce Journey
According to travel research, most people plan their vacations 4 – 6 months in advance. When I reflect on my own vacation planning, I must say that I fall into this statistic. I feel it gives you just enough time to make travel arrangements, book excursions and get prepared. We recently booked our next vacation to Italy and now we can simply enjoy the daydreams until departure: Who will we meet? What adventures will we have? What type of wines will we try? And my personal favorite, how much gelato will we eat?
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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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‘Successful automation requires a balanced approach’
Christophe Bollard is a Global Business Services leader with extensive experience in organizational transformation, technology and the Future of Work. He has experienced automation both at the end user side and as a consultant. In this interview with Rocking Robots he shares some of his insights on successfully implementing automation.
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Marina Bill has been appointed as new Vice President of the International Federation of Robotics with immediate effect. She represents IFR along with IFR President Milton Guerry.
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The Ukraine armed forces claim they have used the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to destroy Russian armored vehicles. In a video posted on scial media a strike on a military convoy is shown, apparantly by a drone. This would be the first time drones are used to kill in a major conflict, although the Bayraktar has been employed in other engagements as well.
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International
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.