A company has developed a high-performance ultrasonic piezo electric micropump. The multi award-winning micropump platform coupled with excellent development support enables their industrial, environmental and defence partner to develop new products that need tight pressure or vacuum control. The micropump weighs just 5 grams and offers ultra-fast,

A UK company is finalising the development of years of research and robot standardisation. A core wearable assistive exoskeletons technology will shortly be taken into manufacturing, starting from non-medical applications. Win-win partnerships are sought with end-users and developers, to adjust the existing prototype for existing applications, and

Job scheduling is an important and highly complex process in semiconductor manufacturing. This is routinely carried out by senior planners manually through heuristics. The manual approach provides feasible but not optimum solutions. Increasingly, modern fabs are advancing towards the concept of cyber physical system (CPS) with tightly integrated ph

Electric Vehicles (EV) and Autonomous Electric Vehicle (AEVs) with ten times cheaper running costs and minimal maintenance costs compared to vehicles powered by internal combustion enginesis poised to disrupt the automotive industry. These factors and the environmental impact of the petrol based transport infrastructure has led to renewed interest

Typical production lines in a factory are highly customised and expensive to reconfigure. Stations were centrally controlled by a PLC and sensors are placed along conveyor systems to monitor goods being produced. Such design is often difficult to modify or scale without reprogramming the centralized PLC and going offline to test and commission the

The technology offer presents a simple and easy to install power measurement system, which can be retrofitted onto the cranksets of bicycles. Power measurement system is beneficial for measuring and translating cycling effort into power output data. The power performance provides a good understanding and assessment of cycling performance, allowing

Surface preparation and treatment are necessary and common steps in many manufacturing processes. Disinfection of work surfaces to remove micro-organisms is a requirement in the food processing industry as well as in healthcare. Currently, the methods of surface preparation / disinfection included, chemical cleaning, which typically involves the us

Aircraft that can take off and land directly without the need for a runway - such as helicopters and quadcopters - is attractive for personal, commercial and military applications as they require less physical space and infrastructure compared to traditional fixed-wing planes. Furthermore, rotary winged aircraft are less efficient at generating lif

Several safety devices must be installed in elevator systems for the safety of the passengers in passenger carrying elevators as dictated by law, such as limit switches, floor position sensors, overspeed sensors, door safety sensors etc. One of the important safety devices in the elevator system is the overspeed sensors which detect whether the ele

Welding may often be perceived as a simple manufacturing process but is in fact very complex with many factors affecting quality of the welded joints. Poor welding quality is usually the technology bottleneck during development of new products. Arc welding is the most widely used welding process, but it is not suitable for welding of special alloys

Today's business environment sustains mainly those companies committed to a zero-defect policy. Therefore, the prompt detection of rare quality events has become an important issue and create an opportunity for manufacturing companies to move quality standards forward. Machine learning as a tool has been applied in many fields including quality con

Urban reconnaissance scenarios are extremely dangerous, particularly when entering buildings where no prior intelligence information may be available. The ways that reconnaissance missions are run currently involves sending out security personnel to specific locations, there is some use of fixed sensors, and more recently use of robotic vehicles in

Non-iterative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (NI-SLAM) is a patented method for position tracking and environment dense reconstruction, using affordable sensors such as depth camera and inertial sensors. Compared to traditional SLAM methods, the superior real-time processing speed of NI-SLAM is achieved by an innovative method of data regist

There are 2.2 billion blue-collar without a company e-mail address or any other digital communication channel by their employer in many industries such as automotive, pharmaceuticals or logistics. They all want the same: fast, simple, digital communication. They're kept in the past of poor management communication although all of them have smartpho

An Italian Research Institute has developed a manipulation device that allows the gripping by vacuum of micro-components and integrates a novel, vacuum-assisted system to support their release. The manipulation of millimeter and sub-millimeter components is very challenging due to the predominance of the superficial adhesion forces over the gravita

Visual Perception module (3D sensor, depth camera, stereo vision camera) that allows mobile robots to perceive their environment in 3D, localize themselves, recognize and identify objects of interest, avoid obstacles, and create a 3D map (SLAM - Simultaneous Localization and Mapping). Visual Perception module (3D sensor) includes a pair of passive