09/03/2020 3D printed bionic hand allows amputee to bond with young son for first time For 21 years, Danny Florence has lived with one hand. But when he became a father, he decided to apply for an Open Bionics Hero Arm. With the help of this state-of-the-art prosthesis he can now build ...
05/03/2020 Sensors offer nuclear options A 2D laser profile sensor is being used by the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing and Research Centre (Nuclear AMRC) in a project to develop a smart robotic grinding/deburring solution for welded ...
09/01/2020 The world’s first truly universal torque wrench calibration machine Traditionally, torque wrench calibration machines have been intended for specific manufacturers’ products. For laboratories and OEMs this can be a real nuisance, requiring several different machines ...
03/12/2019 Remote condition monitoring advances are having positive impacts on industry Remote condition monitoring represents one of the most game-changing technologies to have entered the industrial sphere in recent years. By removing the need for time-consuming and costly checks by ...
07/11/2019 I spy with my UVeye An Israeli start-up has taken a system for detecting explosives underneath vehicles and re-designed it for the automotive quality assurance market.
07/10/2019 Predictive maintenance processes are easy to implement With food manufacturers being continually squeezed on price by retailers and asked to fulfil orders for supply that can seem, at best, challenging and at worst highly unrealistic, improving ...
03/10/2019 2000-year-old Herculaneum Scrolls to be decoded using UK synchrotron Researchers led by Professor Brent Seales, will be using Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility in Oxfordshire, to examine and virtually unwrap two complete scrolls and ...
11/09/2019 UK tech company has harnessed and learned to control the speed of light for its revolutionary Dynamic Holographic HUD Platform At the beginning of 2019 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Envisics – a technology company based in Milton Keynes – unveiled a holographic head up display (HUD) platform for vehicles.
09/09/2019 Ensuring stability and safety: drives must comply with EMC requirements In many industrial environments, ensuring the stability of drive controllers is sometimes overlooked. However, according to Mark Checkley, sales and managing manager, KEB Automation, an EMC-compliant ...
05/09/2019 Contactless sensor provides improved monitoring of electromagnetic brakes for elevator, and stage and theatre applications Backwards compatible with conventional electromechanical microswitches, but with none of their inherent limitations, Warner Electric’s WES contactless sensor is claimed to bring improved reliability ...
04/09/2019 Keep on rolling The term ‘Smart Products’ has become part of everyday vocabulary as we acquire ever-increasing numbers of devices that communicate with each other and allow us to control them or access information ...
31/07/2019 Flexible, low-cost translation of diagnostic assays to a simple, easy-to-use device In which applications could a simple, low-cost robotic system that performs on-site, precise fluid mixing and manipulation be used? They could include: diagnostic testing, testing of food and drink ...
09/07/2019 Precision sensors are proving valuable in real time condition monitoring of wind farms A range of unpredictable events such as lightning, stormy weather and rough seas can have serious consequences on a wind turbine, potentially resulting in defective rotor blades, tower movements or, ...
07/06/2019 Using autonomous robots and AI to take humans out of harm in Britain’s nuclear clean-up task There are 4.9m tonnes of legacy nuclear waste in the UK, some of it dating back to the 1950s. Dealing with this using current technologies will take 120 years, cost around £234 billion and require ...
03/06/2019 Electric vehicles are quiet – too quiet. Now a UK company has designed a system that creates noise to alert pedestrians Blind pedestrians are 40% more likely to be hit by a hybrid or electric vehicle (EV) than one with an internal combustion engine (ICE), according to a survey by the Guide Dogs for the Blind ...
09/05/2019 ‘Testing to destruction’ is a term that takes on a very literal meaning at Cranfield Ordnance, Test and Evaluation Centre When he describes what happens at his site, Trevor Lawrence, the operations director of Cranfield Ordnance Test and Evaluation Centre (COTEC) reflects: “Now I think about it, it doesn’t sound like a ...
07/05/2019 The wearables market may have slowed but developments in sensing technology and AI suggest we haven’t seen anything yet Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the provision of healthcare, whether in the form of wearable devices, home diagnostic applications or remote monitoring devices. Powerful ...
03/04/2019 Detecting tumours with optical imaging Near-infrared technology from MIT pinpoints fluorescent probes within living tissue, at a depth approaching that of CT and MRI but at a higher resolution and could be used to detect cancer earlier.
29/03/2019 Soft robots can work side-by-side with humans or as pipe inspection tools Whether it’s grabbing, holding or turning, touching, typing or pressing – in everyday life, we use our hands as a matter of course for the most diverse tasks. In that regard, the human hand, with its ...
01/03/2019 What has been learned from the three-year UK Autodrive project? Announced in the 2015 Autumn Budget, the UK Autodrive project was given the green light, and began on 1 November. One of three UK projects to research and develop connected and autonomous vehicles ...
08/01/2019 A fusion of advanced stainless steel and cloud technology is giving unprecedented insight into industrial and chemical processes From smart homes to connected cars, data gathering and analytics are inexorably finding their way into every aspect of technology, blurring the traditional distinction between hardware and software. ...
14/12/2018 Endoscopy pill passes the test To accelerate the design and test of Sonopill, a revolutionary ultrasound endoscopy capsule, the team behind it required a single, unified instrumentation platform to take it from component and ...
05/11/2018 Inspection in the age of smart manufacturing Metrology is often an overlooked process in manufacturing, when it actually plays an essential role. In particular, inspection helps ensure that component parts fit together accurately and ensures ...
05/10/2018 Integrated port and border security could soon be done via smart glasses Inspecting shipping containers as they move on and off ships and through ports is a time intensive operation. Each ship holds around 2,000 containers and each one takes a few minutes to scan and ...
27/09/2018 Defining autonomous machine vision – A new category “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” These are the words of Buckminster Fuller, an architect, ...
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