Automation in Restaurants

Automation is the norm in many industries, but now the restaurant industry is looking to capitalize on it as well. Restaurants all across the globe are pulling employees and plugging in automation. Japan has long been at the forefront in automation and robotics, so it comes as no surprise that they have some of the… Read more »

Industrial Automation for Custom Cars

Industrial automation has a lot of advantages. Automated systems can decrease energy consumption and increase efficiency, improve production output, and lower the number of mistakes that might occur on a line. But industrial automation is also quite versatile. It’s not limited to a single function. In fact, industrial automation is so versatile, that it sometimes… Read more »

What Robots Can Learn from Turkeys

Turkeys are great. You probably had a similar thought yesterday, but Benjamin Franklin was contemplating the greatness of turkeys hundreds of years ago. He said that the turkey is a, “respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America… He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would… Read more »

Bolstering U.S. Manufacturing

The manufacturing industry is tied into the identity of the United States. Manufacturing is an integral part of the U.S. economy, and is stronger now than it has been in years. The U.S. manufacturing industry has added more than 700,000 jobs since February of 2010, which is the fastest growth rate in the industry since… Read more »

Industrial Internet of Things in Space

Industry greatly benefits from the Internet of Things (IoT), and the more connected things become, the more industry benefits. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) leads to increased productivity, more data and information, increased efficiency, higher profits, and less waste. Many industrial sectors are already implementing machine-to-machine connectivity, but the IIoT is still young in… Read more »

Do Legacy Operating Systems Affect Integration?

The Industrial Internet of Things is a truly exciting concept. If every factory robot could be integrated to be in constant communication with everything else in the factory, or even factories elsewhere, the industrial industry would be totally revolutionized. People are all for it. The Industrial Internet of Things is well-received, but there is a… Read more »

When Will Robots be Unremarkable?

Whenever a new robot comes out, the world is amazed. We have seen some truly incredible robots in the past few years. Technology in robotics and automation is becoming so advance and sophisticated that we are seeing robots created that we thought could only exist in science fiction. But the more the technology advances, the… Read more »

Next Generation of Industrial Robots

The next generation of industrial robots is going to make factory robotic arms look obsolete. The automated machinery we’re familiar with today is enormous, super heavy, and expensive. They’re often difficult to program and generally too unsafe to deploy around human workers with out some sort of protective barrier. However, we are approaching a new… Read more »

Google’s Top-Secret Robotics Projects

You may have heard of a little internet company called Google. A survey conducted by Pew reports that 91% of adults on the internet use search engines to find the information they’re looking for. Google processes an average of 40,000 user searches every second of the day! At that rate, Google processes over 3.5 billions… Read more »

Industrial Wearables

Wearable technology — is that a thing? We’re here to tell you that wearable technology is definitely a thing now. The 1960s television show Get Smart oracled the use of wearable technology in the form of a shoe phone. Whether it was due to tech issues or for sanitary reasons, the shoe phone never came… Read more »