Ursula O’Sullivan-Dale, Author at Robotics and Automation

Man’s new best friend?

Ursula O’Sullivan-Dale — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:19:17 +0000

High-yield, repetitive industrial robots have long dominated automation, but a new generation of safe, collaborative robots is starting to shift this landscape. Ursula O’Sullivan-Dale reports The primary distinction between traditional [...]

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NHS and Royal Mail trial drones for key deliveries in Scotland

Ursula O’Sullivan-Dale — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:39:36 +0000

Skyports Drone Services (Skyports) has announced an extension of its mail delivery project in the Orkney Islands with Royal Mail and the completion of drone delivery trials in partnership with [...]

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Inverness Airport trials autonomous vehicles to transport passengers

Ursula O’Sullivan-Dale — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 11:31:35 +0000

Inverness Airport has launched a pilot programme featuring autonomous vehicles to transport passengers between the new rail station and the airport terminal. The trial includes two types of automated people [...]

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ABB to acquire specialist in measurement and analytical solutions

Ursula O’Sullivan-Dale — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 11:18:42 +0000

ABB has announced its agreement to acquire Födisch Group, a German company specialising in advanced measurement and analytical solutions for the energy and industrial sectors. This acquisition will enhance ABB’s [...]

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Chocolatier partners with Rockwell on production-line automation

Ursula O’Sullivan-Dale — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:38:07 +0000

Rockwell Automation, Inc., a specialist in industrial automation and digital transformation, has partnered with Icelandic chocolatier Nói Síríus to improve the company’s production-line efficiency and streamline maintenance operations. Nói Síríus [...]

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MassRobotics start-ups collectively raise more than US$1bn

Ursula O’Sullivan-Dale — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:26:13 +0000

MassRobotics, which calls itself the world’s largest independent robotics hub, has announced that its resident start-ups have collectively raised more than US$1bn (£757m) in venture funding since its inception in [...]

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Deep Robotics reveals first-ever humanoid

Ursula O’Sullivan-Dale — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 07:49:55 +0000

Deep Robotics, a developer of embodied AI and robotics systems, has expanded its portfolio by introducing its first humanoid robot model, Dr.01. This marks a strategic shift for the company [...]

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Coval unveils second generation of cobot vacuum grippers

Ursula O’Sullivan-Dale — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:10:07 +0000

Coval, a French manufacturer of vacuum systems, has introduced the second generation of its CVGC carbon vacuum gripper, designed for use with collaborative robots (cobots). In 2019, Coval released its [...]

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AGVs to deliver food and medicine at new Irish hospital

Ursula O’Sullivan-Dale — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 08:00:57 +0000

Patients at the new National Children’s Hospital in Rialto, Dublin will receive food and medicine delivered by robots, according to the Irish Daily Star. The hospital is set to feature [...]

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Nvidia AI architecture creates detailed 3D landscape ‘in minutes’

Ursula O’Sullivan-Dale — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 08:00:49 +0000

Leading chipmaker Nvidia’s researchers recently demonstrated Nvidia Edify, a multimodal AI architecture, by creating a detailed 3D desert landscape in minutes. The team showed how, with the help of an [...]

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