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Deals Sealed at Swiss Plastics Expo Due to Impressive Exhibit

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Presenting the new high speed IntElect S 75 ton machine, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag also showcased its in-house automation prowess, presenting its handle&place SAM-C robot contained inside the production cell. The likes of which have been deployed by NASA robots to collect soil samples on Mars.

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Goods beyond earth: cheaper manufacturing in space

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The intent was to continually manufacture extensive pure medical-research grade or pharmaceutical-grade biological materials – that could be cells and cellular components suspended in liquid or solutions of proteins, hormones and enzymes – in a much purer form than could be achieved here on Earth,” Walker says. In space, we have free energy.