Cloud-Controlled, AP-Only Private 5G Platform for the AI-Powered Enterprise
I told Mehmet Yavuz, co-founder and CTO of Celona, that my contacts on LinkedIn had been discussing how 5G private networks had been a non-starter. And he was supposed to explain to me the benefits of a new private 5G solution. He did. The Celona solution, in brief,...
Foundation EGI Secures $23M in Oversubscribed Series A to Build the World’s First Engineering General Intelligence Platform
Tired of the hype and speculation surrounding the term Artificial General Intelligence? How about something that could be a useful tool for engineers? This release breeds questions as well as answers. How do you think you could use it? Foundation EGI platform:...
Deepgram Releases Text-to-Speech in Spanish
Text-to-speech “AI” should be a useful tool for many. I’ve only just heard about Deepgram and posted a few pieces of news (you can search on the site). Of course, most of the world does not speak English, so these tools are beginning to be rolled out in other...
Podcast–Interview with Travis Cox
I seldom interview people for my podcast Gary on Manufacturing. In this case, I had an opportunity to talk with Travis Cox, Inductive Automation's Chief Technology Evangelist about the upcoming Ignition Community Conference as well as the upcoming release of Ignition...
Health Public Service Announcement
I am willing to pay for services, especially health and nutrition, that provide valuable information. Examine.com is one. Their latest newsletter shatters some current myths referring to actual research. Here’s a teaser: Have you heard about granulated beet...
AI and Zuck
No marketing person exists today who can write a news release without a mention of AI. I keep expecting an AI-enabled terminal block. “Now, your electrician will never put the wrong wire in our terminal block thanks to AI…” No CEO can announce corporate strategy...
Hans Beckhoff Receives the Rudolf Diesel Medal
I rarely report on personnel news or even awards. In this case, Hans Beckhoff was awarded a prestigious award in Germany. I have met and talked with him in the past in Verl. He and James Truchard, co-founder of National Instruments, comprise two of the outstanding...
ABB Introduces Compact, AI-powered AMR For Payloads up to 1500 kg
In further AMR news, this from ABB. Notably, much news in this market emanates from a geographical axis of Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland. As ABB explains: ABB extends leadership in AI-powered autonomous mobile robots with ultra-compact, high payload Flexley...
Siemens Announces New Capabilities for Automated Guided Vehicles
This post and the next are Autonomous Guided Vehicle news items from June’s automatica show in Germany. First up, Siemens. The news in brief: Operations Copilot to interact with physical AI agents Vision: Multi-agent systems with physical and virtual AI agents for...
Constraints Are Required For Creativity
Poets across centuries and cultures have developed structures for their poems. Haiku, ballad, sonnet. Poets especially in the 1950s and 1960s explored something called free verse—that is, no outside structure. The teacher of poetry writing at university explained how...