ABB To Acquire ASTI Mobile Robotics Group
ABB was an early leader in fixed industrial robots and is still one of the industry leaders. The area of mobile robots has been growing with uses expanding as quickly as engineer’s imaginations. This news is the acquisition of ASTI Mobile Robotics Group by ABB adding...
Neurala Raises $12 Million to Scale Artificial Intelligence for Industrial Manufacturing
Funding isn’t my primary interest, but this one has interest because of all the hype around artificial intelligence (AI). I continue to see articles in major media that imply that AI is a sort of Star Trek technology rather than something we’ve been using for 30 years...
Universal Robots Takes ActiNav Next-Gen Machine Loading on Tour
I guess we have entered the post-pandemic era. Universal Robots is taking its latest technology on tour this summer. By the time I got to this news item, the first date was passed. If you are close to one of these areas, check out this cool technology. Automating...
Zero Day Vulnerabilities in Industrial Control Systems Highlight the Challenges of Securing Critical Infrastructure
Security and industrial control system vulnerabilities spurred many news releases and PR inquiries offering quotes given the wide publicity of the latest ransomware attacks hitting industrial infrastructure. A zero day disclosure of multiple...
ZEDEDA Joins Initiative to Deliver Applications to the Distributed Edge with Google Cloud and Anthos
Jason Shepherd, Ecosystem VP, has been busy building this edge ecosystem and took time to chat with me about this news from ZEDEDA. The bullet points below summarize. First, I thought I do a reminder about “edge orchestration”, the core of ZEDEDA’s offering....
Network Security Vulnerabilities Rising at an Alarming Rate Says Nozomi Report
Chris Grove, security strategist for industrial control systems (ICS) for Nozomi Networks Labs, recently talked with me about the latest research they’ve conducted. The important takeaways concern the rise of ransomware, increased targeting of industrial control...
Google Cloud Visual Inspection AI For Manufacturing Quality Control
What these cloud companies are doing with their platforms is becoming amazing. This news is from Google—a little later than first Amazon Web Services and then Microsoft Azure. It is quickly adding some interesting capabilities. Once again, we’re seeing artificial...
Unstructured Data Management Training and Application
In this year of all things data, I’ve only just discovered a company called Datadobi (news items in March and May). It bills itself as the “global leader in unstructured data management software.” I’ve had an interest in the growth of unstructured data management for...
Better Gripping With Intelligent Picking Robots
Festo has consistently presented me with some of the most impressive creativity within pneumatics, robotics, and automation. This is a fascinating use of artificial intelligence (AI) with robot gripping. Only a couple of years ago, I caught myself thinking that...
DH2i Launches DxEnterprise Smart Availability Software for Containers
Containers have become a must have technology for those pursuing some form of Digital Transformation, or whatever you wish to label it. I’ve written little about the subject. Following is a news release concerning a way for cloud-native Microsoft SQL Server. DH2i, a...
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