Summer 2020 Webinars: Robot EOAT: One System, Zero Complexity

  Click on the Link for Webinar Registration   Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 1pm EDT / 10am PDT Link for Webinar recorded on June 23, 2020   Reprinted from Business Wire, September 10, 2019   OnRobot Takes Robot Compatibility to the Next Level with the OnRobot One-System Solution   New unified mechanical and electrical […]

Summer 2020 Robotic Systems Web Training: Advanced Machine Safety

Summary:  Marco Paglietti, Sales Director at Reer Safety, will discuss and answer questions on the latest in Advanced System developments for machine and robotic safety system, including an overview of the existing solutions for safeguarding: Q&A Style Agenda: Introduction of Speakers and Backgrounds The Problem: Orienting and Locating high mix parts for easy and accurate […]

Robot Flex Feeding Principles

Why Use a Flexible Feeder? Flexible feeding is the logical alternative to belt, bin or bowl feeding for automated assembly or packaging. Belt feeding utilizes a motorized conveyor belt to move product through a packing cell.  The product can be on the belt in any orientation, its position and orientation is evaluated by a machine […]

Tend: Leveraging Big Data from Robots: IIoT, Predictive Analysis, and Small Data, Too!

Futura Automation is pleased to be partnered with Tend for robotics monitoring requirements.  We support Tend with both a fixed hardware solution as pictured, for 1-3 robots, or can offer a Virtual Machine solution installed on an Industrial PC.  There is a base level of applications and then two additional levels of progressively sophisticated solutions […]

Futura Automation Previews ATX West 2020 – Anaheim Feb 11-13

Futura Automation is pleased to preview its exhibit #4481 for ATX West / MD&M 2020 in Anaheim, CA on February 11-13.  Several of our manufacturing partners will exhibit with us.  We will be showcasing: Macron Dynamics offers a wide range of belt and screw drive linear actuators that can be customized into Cartesian robots of […]

When Robots Assemble: The Important of Sensation - Futura Automation

Robots and the ‘five senses’

When Robots Assemble: Are They Feelin’ It? Brian McMorris What is required for robots to assemble parts as well as or better than humans? Senses. The key sense for automated assembly is vision. The next most important sense is touch and feel. Sound could be an important feedback for robots, as it already is for […]

Updating Autonomous Vehicles: Nova Episode “Look Who’s Driving”

For those fascinated with the idea of Autonomous Vehicles, here is a new Public Broadcasting Service Nova episode updating the state-of-art: Lucid Motors Tesla Nikola Motor Company Faraday Future AI AV autonomousvehicles robotics autonomousdriving https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/look-whos-driving/

Advantech AI Solutions

Advantech: AI Solutions

Advantech Reveals Edge AI Solutions Powered by Intel® Technologies 2/27/2019 IoT Edge Intelligence Software SolutionsEmbedded Modules & Design-in Services Feb. 2018, Taipei – Advantech, a global leading provider of intelligent IoT systems and embedded platforms, today reveals the industry’s first hardware and software integrated edge AI solutions powered by Intel® Vision Accelerator Design with Intel® […]

The Fourth Age Byron Reese

The Fourth Age

Disruptive Technology and the future of Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Brian McMorris The world is rapidly changing through the broad distribution of advanced technologies such as advanced computing (including quantum computing in the not too distant future), artificial intelligence and robotics. These are disruptive technologies affecting not just businesses, but the entire global economic and political balance […]