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Robotics

XO-rbitant Strength: Electric Exoskeletons Give Wearers The Strength Of A Forklift But A Gentler Touch

Fred Guterl
February 13, 2019

In popular culture, automation is generally synonymous with putting people out of work. But in real life it can do the opposite, making workers more effective at the jobs they already have. That’s the case with a full-body exoskeleton under development at Sarcos Robotics, which expects to release a commercial product in early 2020.

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Electrification Software

Xometry: Meet The Matchmaking Masterminds Of Manufacturing

Amy Kover
October 03, 2018
Manufacturing is a notoriously finicky business. But smaller machine shops dependent on a handful of local customers in a single industry are particularly vulnerable to the whims of economic downturns. Since finding new work can be costly and time-consuming, some have been hoping for an Uber-like service for manufacturing.
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Robotics

Snake Eyes: This Slithering Robot Does The Dirty And Dangerous Work So We Don't Have To

Dorothy Pomerantz
June 08, 2018
Inspecting the dimly lit belly of a chemicals storage tank can be a pretty grim task. But one industrious soul does it with grace and ease — and certainly without complaint.
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Solar Power

A Place In The Sun: This New York County Is Working To Source 100 Percent Of Its Power From Renewables By 2021

Fred Guterl
May 21, 2018

Kurt Vonnegut, who spent several years working as a GE publicist in Schenectady, New York, once blamed reviewers unfamiliar with the town for getting him pigeonholed as a science fiction writer. “I and my associates were engineers, physicists, chemists, and mathematicians.

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Digital Highway: How Do You Build Air Traffic Control For The Road? One Smartphone At A Time

Amy Kover
April 09, 2018
When pedestrians braved street traffic in Victorian London in the 1800s, they had to navigate a hazardous morass of trolley cars, horse-drawn buses and donkeys. If the trolley didn’t knock them over, the smell of manure would. But then one invention sorted out much of the chaos: the sidewalk.
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Robotics

Mr. Robot: Rodney Brooks Says Gentler, More Aware 'Cobots' Are Coming To Make Our Lives Easier

Tomas Kellner
November 17, 2017
Few people have done more to bring humans and robots together than Rodney Brooks. Two decades ago, the Australian inventor, mathematician and former MIT professor founded iRobot, the company that designed Roomba, a line of robots that zip around homes and clean dirty floors. Today, he’s still dreaming up clever ways to make robots do our dirty work — but in factories rather than living rooms.
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Smart Specs: OK Glass, Fix This Jet Engine

Kristin Kloberdanz
July 19, 2017
Jet engine makers estimate they lose millions of dollars each year because nuts that seal fluid lines and hoses, called b-nuts, aren’t screwed on just right. If the b-nuts are deemed too loose or too tight during testing, the engine has to be fixed before it can power a plane with paying passengers.
Until recently, there were few good ways to tell if the nut had hit that sweet spot. Workers with torque wrenches had to rely on their skill and judgment to nail the delicate balance.
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Robots

The Hardiman Strikes Back: The Age Of Robotic Snakes And Dexterous Exoskeletons Is Here

Tomas Kellner
April 18, 2017
Fifty years ago, GE engineer and robotics pioneer Ralph Mosher presented a groundbreaking paper at the Automotive Engineering Congress in Detroit. “Man and machine can be combined into an intimate, symbiotic unit that will perform essentially as one wedded system,” he wrote. “The adaptive, reflex control of man can be transmitted directly to a mechanism so that the mechanism responds as though it were a natural extension of the man.
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Minds-Machines

What's Cooking? How Bit Stew, GE's Latest Digital Acquisition, Spices Up The Industrial Internet Of Things

November 15, 2016
Arnold Spielberg: I was always interested in electricity. I liked working with magnets, and I liked working with radios. I knew about Edison and Tesla, but not in detail. I got my first crystal radio set when I was 9. It’s basically a diode that can detect radio waves, and I played around with it. But I never could get it working until a radio repairman who lived next door helped me set it up.
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3D Printing

Melting In Reverse: Magical 3D Printing Process Gets Big Industry Boost

October 07, 2016
Twenty-five years ago, director James Cameron conjured up a liquid metal robot that could assume any form in seconds. But “Terminator 2” was just a movie. The M1 printer, on the other hand, is making that fantastical vision of near instantaneous, on-demand creation a reality.
Developed by Silicon Valley startup Carbon, M1 works by plunging a flat build plate into a liquid bath of resin. An ultraviolet LED projector below then flashes a two-dimensional image—a single layer of a 3D object—through the bath’s translucent container bottom and onto the plate.
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