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Canada’s Ocean Supercluster Announces $10.5m Hydroaware Project Expanding Hydropower and Safeguard Habitats Using AI-Powered Fish Monitoring

March 6, 2024 Canada’s Ocean Supercluster (OSC) has announced the HydroAware Project to expand hydropower and safeguard habitats using AI-powered fish monitoring. This project will help the advancement of fish monitoring technology by enhancing reliable fish tracking in harsh marine environments and increasing the availability of fish tracking insights from remote locations. Led by Innovasea…

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Police Tactical Vest: IoT and AI to Enhance Safety on Operations

March 1, 2024 The new tactical IoT solution, which attaches to pre-installed body armor, ensures redundant safety and connectivity through a state-of-the-art AI-enhanced warning device that is independent of current radio systems The innovative connected tactical vest project uses artificial intelligence (AI) for its abnormal-situation detection system and can transmit this warning to a command…

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Leveraging All-In-One Automation Architecture to Create Robust Artificial Intelligence (AI)

February 22, 2024 The seemingly rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) in 2023 has sparked excitement and speculation across industries, here Omron explores how all-in-one automation platforms form a solid foundation for implementing AI The seemingly rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) in 2023 has sparked excitement and speculation across industries that currently deploy a…

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Generative Artificial Intelligence Takes Siemens’ Predictive Maintenance Solution to the Next Level

February 15, 2024 Siemens is releasing a new generative artificial intelligence (AI) functionality into its predictive maintenance solution – Senseye Predictive Maintenance. This advance makes predictive maintenance more conversational and intuitive. Through this new release of Senseye Predictive Maintenance with generative AI functionality, Siemens will make human-machine interactions and predictive maintenance faster and more efficient…

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Webinar: IO-Link Safety: Transforming the Future of Safety Communication and Diagnostics

February 1, 2024 With manufacturing companies moving into industry 4.0, data generated on the plant floor is increasing in importance. IO-Link has been a great success in reducing installation cost, providing greater flexibility and increased data to the user while keeping the communication universal. In the upcoming Webinar IO-Link Safety: Transforming the Future of safety…

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ABB Acquires Sevensense, Expanding Leadership in Next-Generation AI-Enabled Mobile Robotics

January 11, 2024 ABB has announced that it has acquired Swiss start-up Sevensense, a leading provider of AI-enabled 3D vision navigation technology for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Sevensense was founded in 2018 as a spin-off from Swiss technical University, ETH Zurich. “This marks a significant step towards our vision of a workplace where AI-enabled robots…

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Siemens Delivers New Innovations in Immersive Engineering and Artificial Intelligence to Enable the Industrial Metaverse

January 10, 2024 Siemens unveiled innovations that are combining the real world and the digital worlds to redefine reality as it opened CES 2024, the world’s leading technology gathering. Siemens announced new partnerships and breakthroughs in AI and immersive engineering to enable the industrial metaverse, and highlighted how these technologies are empowering the world’s innovators…

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Siemens and AWS Join Forces to Democratize Generative AI in Software Development

January 10, 2024 Siemens to integrate Amazon Bedrock into its Mendix low-code development platform to allow customers to create new and upgrade existing applications with the power of generative AI Siemens and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are strengthening their partnership and making it easier for businesses of all sizes and industries to build and scale…

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Siemens Xcelerator: AI Integrated in Mecalux’s New Picking Robots Boosts Efficiency

January 8, 2024 Mecalux, a global provider of automated warehouse solutions, warehouse management systems, and stacker cranes, and the technology company Siemens have combined their expertise and experience in the field of industrial automation technologies. The partnership will optimize picking tasks in warehouses and logistics centers with a new solution that uses artificial intelligence. The…

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Cognex Launches the In-Sight 3800 Vision System for Fast, Accurate AI-based Inspections

January 4, 2024 High-speed, high-resolution In-Sight 3800 system is ideal for high-speed applications Cognex Corporation, a leader in industrial machine vision, has released the In-Sight® 3800 Vision System. Designed for high-speed production lines, In-Sight 3800 offers an extensive vision toolset, powerful imaging capabilities, and flexible software to deliver a fully integrated solution for a wide…

Four Predictions for 2024: AI Set to Supercharge Robotic Automation
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Four Predictions for 2024: AI Set to Supercharge Robotic Automation

December 14, 2023 What 2024 has in store for the world of robotics and automation By Anders Billesø Beck, VP of innovation and strategy at Universal Robots We’ve reached that point in the year when it’s time to reflect upon the trends from the past 12 months, while looking ahead at what 2024 has in…

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Siemens Acquires BuntPlanet to Strengthen its Artificial Intelligence Portfolio in the Water Sector

December 14, 2023 Siemens has announced the acquisition of BuntPlanet, a technology company based in San Sebastian, Spain. BuntPlanet’s award winning software has been deployed around the world to support customers with smart metering solutions, water quality, asset management, and integration of hydraulic models and artificial intelligence for detecting leaks and other anomalies in water…

Battery Formation for EV Batteries: A Critical Step in Battery Production
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Battery Formation for EV Batteries: A Critical Step in Battery Production

Battery formation is a critical step in the process of producing batteries for electric vehicles. Festo’s EV solutions make this process more efficient, accurate, and optimized. August 10, 2023 By Krystie Johnston Festo is a leading supplier of pneumatic and electrical automation technology, and they are supporting the Canadian automotive industry with innovative products, optimized…

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ABB Advances Industry 5.0 With New Automated Flexible Line in China

May 17, 2023 ABB LV Installation Materials Co., Ltd. Beijing celebrated a new milestone with the official opening of an automated flexible miniature circuit breaker (MCB) production line. The factory, which is ABB’s production hub in China for the critical safety components in electrical circuits, is a showcase for advanced principles within the concept of…

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HMS Network’s Anybus Products: Connecting Robot Accessories to Any Industrial Network

April 17, 2023 Robots need accessories to work efficiently. But what’s the easiest way to connect the accessories to factorynetworks? The easiest way is to use HMS Networks’ ready-made Anybus products, as RSP found out. The number of industrial robots operating in factories worldwide continues to rise. To use robots efficientlyand maximize productivity, companies attach…

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The Manufacturing Automation Platform (MAP) from Vention: A Platform for the Next Generation of Industrial Automation Practitioners

April 17, 2023 Quinn Harker For the past 30 years, industrial automation has undergone relatively few changes to the way automation is designed and deployed. Traditional automation technology was developed (and priced) for high-throughput manufacturing, making it most accessible to only those who could afford complex, custom integration services. This left most manufacturers—the ones who…