Zebra Divesting or Closing Robot Unit?
Zebra Technologies winding down Fetch-based mobile robot group news from the Robot Report. Steve Crowe writes in the news item, “Zebra Technologies is winding down its autonomous mobile robot (AMR) division. The group was built around Zebra’s $290 million acquisition...
Human-Like Bin Picking Solution Powered by On-Arm AI Vision
This news came to me touted as an industry first. Actually, I’ve already written about a similar application. That does not denigrate the accomplishment. It only speaks to marketing. AI has been a part of vision systems as long as I can remember. AI as an automation...
Another Robot Stack
I recently wrote about a company that designed its own “stack” of its robot plus an autonomous mobile robot. Stack must be a new trend. I have written about Flexxbotics a few time over the past three years. The company features several several current and former...
Growth Seen For Global Manufacturing Output in 2025
It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.—Attributed to Yogi Berra This is the season of predictions. Take them with a grain of salt. They are useful thought experiments. Extrapolation from past data is fraught with potential errors. Policy...
Manufacturing Marketing Outlook
It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.—Attributed to Yogi Berra I received this commentary by Steve Carpenter, Chief Operating Officer, Creditsafe regarding the company’s 2026 Manufacturing Outlook. This is the season of predictions. Take...
Teradyne Establishes US Operations Hub in Metro Detroit
Not long after news from another automation supplier about an investment in manufacturing in the US, here comes news from Teradyne Robotics about an investment in suburban Detroit. I’m sure it’s beneficial for Teradyne both for saving shipping costs (we won’t mention...
2025 AI in Embedded Systems Report Offers Insight Into AI Adoption and Security Gaps
I met a new neighbor the other day. We talked a bit about what we had done in our prior employment lives. Turns out she has a friend who gave her a copy of his book. She loaned Software Test Attacks to Break Mobile and Embedded Devices by Jon Duncan Hagar to me to...
Flexiv Unveils a Compact AMR Built for Real Work Environments
I just listened to two tech guys on a podcast talking about Google as a full stack AI company with its Gemini plus its own TPU chips—no reliance on Nvidia’s GPUs. Contrast with OpenAI, which only owns the software. It depends upon Nvidia for the chips and others to...
Creative Work
I started writing this blog in 2003. The first name was Gary’s Radio Weblog—I used Dave Winer’s Radio Userland. I moved the blog to SquareSpace a bit later and renamed it Gary’s FeedForward to parallel my work at Automation World magazine. When I left Automation World...
Ignition Pro Security Tips
Jennifer Faylor from Inductive Automation wrote this blog—Ignition 8.3 Pro Tips: Supercharge System Security—a few weeks ago offering some security tips for users of Ignition. There’s more. Check out the blog for the entire essay. She begins, “In honor of...
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