Thanks to hype in the popular media, the term “automation” tends to conjure images of robots, artificial intelligence and the cloud in the minds of most people. The root of most manufacturing ...

Monitoring takes the form of sensors and intelligent devices connected to a digital processor. These monitored values are used for computing and then controlling some sort of real-world action. Many ...

At E3 2011, announcements from gaming hardware makers and publishers have an objective in common: bringing nontraditional ways of interacting with games to a very traditional gamer audience. Erica Ogg ...

The 18 XPlanar movers on the assembly machine built by Automation NTH travel over 18 motor tiles to present the blood test kits to the various reagent filling ...

During Machine Design’s Motion Systems Takeover Week (Oct. 20–24, 2025), we explored how the fusion of mechanical motion and data-driven control is reshaping high-precision applications across ...

Born out of the University of Pennsylvania’s robotics lab, IQ Motion Control is a tech startup that delivers the ultimate drone motor module for versatility and performance. We first gained ...

An electric driver is a system capable of converting electrical energy into mechanical energy. Today’s technology, of course, allows highly sophisticated drives. The autonomous movement of machines ...

CULVER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Salient Motion, an aerospace and defense component supplier, today announced it has closed $12 million in total funding, preseed and seed rounds, to transform the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Nintendo Switch, compared to its predecessors the Wii and Wii U, is a much more traditional game console, with a big emphasis on pad-based ...

EtherCAT is an open, realtime, and deterministic Ethernet fieldbus standard widely regarded as one of the best industrial networks to date. One reason for its growing use is that it's several orders ...