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Fukushima plant clean-up postponed by robot development delays

E&T

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) had originally planned to begin removing melted fuel from the Unit 2 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant last year, 10 years after the disaster triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011. However, experts have said the completion target is too optimistic.

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Redefining Laser Cutting: What’s Next for Metal Fabrication?

Fabricating & Metal Work

Manufacturers continue to responded with automated cutting and sorting systems that feature robots and automated mobile robots that keep your production humming along efficiently, with less operator intervention. A persistent technology around since the 1960s, these laser sources were new only to our industry. TRUMPF Inc.

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How Rising Demand is Changing Electric Car Manufacturing

ATS

Consider: In the decade from 2011 to 2021, the number of electric vehicles on the road increased by nearly 100-fold, from 22,000 in 2011 to over 2,000,000 in 2021. Electric vehicle batteries rely on rare earth materials, for example, which must be sourced differently than traditional vehicle production materials.

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NVIDIA picks 6 noteworthy autonomous systems of 2023

Robotics Business Review

Top row, from left to right: the Ella smart stroller, Soft Robotics’ food packer, and the TM25S. Source: NVIDIA Outside the glare of the klieg lights that ChatGPT commanded this past year, a troupe of autonomous machines nudged forward the frontiers of robotics, according to NVIDIA.

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Amazon Web Services’ Growth Strategy in Latin America: Still Day 1

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

In 2011, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched three Availability Zones in Brazil to support its global cloud computing platform, while its competitors continued to serve LATAM customers from Miami data centers for several more years. Figure 1 – Source: AWS. Cloud Computing Growth. Education and Technology Literacy. Visit: [link].

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Butterfly Network to bring Ultrasound-on-Chip tech to surgical robotics

Robotics Business Review

Source: Butterfly Network Butterfly Network Inc. announced this week that it has partnered with Mendaera to commercialize a new surgical robotic system. It will combine Butterfly’s portable ultrasound sensors and software with Mendaera’s robot technology, said the companies. ” The Burlington, Mass.