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Industrial robotics market growth expected to remain strong

Control Engineering

Robotics insights Industrial robot market growth is expected to grow at a CAGR of 18% from 2019 to 2029 thanks to robotics being increasingly used in the automotive and electronics industry according to a report by Future Market Insights. This is especially true as robots get smaller and less expensive.

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Robots making farming more sustainable and flexible

Control Engineering

Robotics insights Startups like Farmwise are taking advantage of robots’ abilities to work without a break and handle large-scale tasks individually rather than having a fleet of people doing the same work. Last month, the company unveiled its newest robot, Vulcan, which is more lightweight and pulled by a tractor. “We

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Model developed to help synchronize robots, drones

Control Engineering

In 2014, Cornell researchers first introduced a simple model of swarmalators – short for ‘swarming oscillator’ – where particles self-organize to synchronize in both time and space. The model doesn’t try to model a specific real world swarmalator, such as sperm, robotic drones, or magnetic domain walls.