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...
Curiosity Is A Skill
This is becoming a mini-series on curiosity. Let’s see…a student for 17 years, teacher for one, school board member for eight, wife taught in elementary school for 35. Some people dislike public schools (meant to provide a common education for everyone in a democracy)...
Be Curious, Not Judgmental
Axios Finish Line evening newsletter always brings a brief, insightful nugget into my inbox—sort of like the cherry atop the sundae of the day. Axios is one of my two main news sources. They are journalists and a business, so they do drop into click-bait headlines at...
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