How can artificial intelligence be used in robotics? And which vision system enables cobots to take over tasks from humans? The e-paper "Robotics & Automation" provides the answers.

The jury nominated 24 of the numerous applications. On Tuesday afternoon, Prof. Dr. Axel Sikora, head of the jury, announced the winners in the eight categories and presented them with their awards.

NürnbergMesse is expanding its embedded world trade fair to the west: The first embedded world North America will be held in Austin, Texas, from October 8 to 10, 2024.

On February 28, 2023, ifm acquired the Austrian company CMS Automatisierungstechnik. The company is thus strengthening its activities in the field of cloud-based machine diagnostics.

Advantech introduces the 'ARK-7060', an edge computer that offers server-class computing power, flexible expansion options, extensive storage capacity and high network bandwidths for edge applications, according to the company.

TI offers a family of vision processors based on Arm Cortex consisting of six modules. These make it possible to equip applications such as machine vision applications and autonomous mobile robots with extensive image and AI processing functions.

The text robot ChatGPT, which can imitate human speech, has been causing a stir for months. The technology that runs ChatGPT has just been given a major upgrade. However, the software's weaknesses and risks remain.

Microsoft is currently trying to reshuffle the cards in the internet economy with the help of artificial intelligence applications. Google is now responding to the push and is making its AI infrastructure and suitable AI construction kits available to partner companies.

The Fraunhofer spin-off Denkweit and the image processing company IDS Imaging Development Systems will be joining forces in future: the two companies have been cooperating on sales since the beginning of the year.

The IT infrastructure is not a cost block, but the starting point for continuous and successful transformation. Automotive manufacturers and industrial companies can only meet the current challenges on a stable foundation.

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The embedded industry is struggling with a shortage of components and skilled workers. Prof. Dr. Peter Fromm from Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences knows that the latter is now the bigger problem. In this interview, he explains what logistics problems have to do with this.

Vision Components presents the 'VC Power SoM', an FPGA-based hardware accelerator that performs complex image pre-processing.

The 'KO28010' optical pushbutton from Gett Gerätetechnik is designed as a built-in component, like a classic mechanical pushbutton with a bore diameter of 22.3 mm and an outer diameter of the button head of 30 mm.

The AMA Association for Sensors and Measurement has nominated five applications for the AMA Innovation Award 2023 - including three winners of the special 'Young Company' award.

iC-Haus appoints Dr. Alexander Flocke as additional Managing Director alongside Dr. Heiner Flocke. Technical Managing Director and co-owner Manfred Herz takes over the 'Pre-development' department.

STL Systemtechnik Leber, provider of development services in the field of embedded and mechatronic systems, is expanding its management team.

The Escha Group, based in Halver, South Westphalia, generated consolidated sales of more than EUR 102 million in the 2022 financial year, setting a new record.

High-quality panel and box PCs, stable systems for sending video and USB data, expandable IIoT and edge computing concepts and other services can be combined into individual systems with 'Prime Cube' from Schubert.

'embedded. responsible. sustainable. - that is the motto of this year's embedded world in Nuremberg. The meeting place for the embedded community will be accompanied by over 200 hours of specialist presentations at the accompanying conferences.

With the new version of 'Eplan eView Free', the AR function is now directly accessible via a 3D visualization. Navigation in the project is much easier.

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