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Grant awarded to increase artificial intelligence and robotics use in poultry processing

Control Engineering

Researchers in Arkansas and two other states will be using a $5 million grant to increase use of artificial intelligence and robotics in chicken processing to reduce waste in deboning and detect pathogens. Robotics are fit for repetitive tasks but don’t do well with the precision needed to cut up chicken products.”

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Far-sighted vision: Advancements in artificial intelligence to enhance machine vision adoption

Automation Mag

And this is how machine vision can help discrete manufacturing, enabling them with automation,” Montanari explains. You need very well-trained labour to inspect parts in manufacturing and discrete industries,” he explains. “If With the introduction of artificial intelligence, it’s going to be very different.

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Video: AI-enabled item-picking robot speeds fulfillment, is easy to integrate

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand the advantages of an integrated robot, artificial intelligence and machine vision package to better enable robotic item picking. AI-enabled robot insights Integrating a robot, artificial intelligence and a machine vision can more quickly enable robotic item picking.

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How to automate: Best Control Engineering advice, August 2023

Control Engineering

The engineering and runtime environment for PLCs, motion control, and IoT applications empowers engineers to program in the languages they know best or best fit the application. Workloads generated in the cloud, including modern versions of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics, can be migrated toward the edge.

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Robots making farming more sustainable and flexible

Control Engineering

There’s also been a concerted effort to make agriculture smarter as a whole by using big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to help predict what will happen and create more sustainable and better crops. There’s a lot riding on farmers’ ability to fight weeds, which can strangle crops and destroy yields.

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Four-legged robotic system developed for navigating uneven terrain

Control Engineering

Researchers from MIT’s Improbable Artificial Intelligence Lab, part of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), have developed a legged robotic system that can dribble a soccer ball under the same conditions as humans.

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Drones navigate unseen environments with liquid neural networks

Control Engineering

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced a method for robust flight navigation agents to master vision-based fly-to-target tasks in intricate, unfamiliar environments.