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Kuka Upgrades Robotics for Food Processing Industry

At last week’s Pack Expo, Kuka Robotics announced new options for its robots designed for packaging and palletizing, adding features that make them capable for food-service applications. -- 11.21.08 More


Microsoft Upgrades Robotics Toolkit

Microsoft announced this year’s upgrade to its platform for designing robotics, adding both internal and external performance tweaks, new visual programming tools and a bump in cost of about $100. -- 11.18.08 More

Can We Expect An Influx of Mechatronics Engineers?

Are secondary schools' robotics competitions seeding engineers with holistic thinking? -- 11.14.08 More

Microsoft Spins Out Development Tools from Robotics Kit

Responding to the requests of industrial customers such as Siemens and Tyco, Microsoft recently made two development tools originally released as part of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio available in their own separate toolkit. -- 11.11.08 More

Pack Expo: Machine Vision Frame Grabbers, Cameras, Free Seminars

Matrox Imaging added frame grabbers, Dalsa Corp. added machine vision cameras, and Cognex invites manufacturing professionals to its free machine vision seminars. -- 11.10.08 More

 
 

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Jobs in Mechatronics

The latest jobs available in mechatronics More


Mechatronics Educational Programs

A compilation of undergraduate-and-above educational programs offering mechatronics programs and/or degrees More

On Demand Webcasts

An archive of on demand mechatronic webcasts, including how-to videos of control design for mechatronic systems and examples of mechatronic products like the digital camera and barcode scanner. More

Battery Resource For Engineers

Check out this resource that provides practical battery knowledge for engineers, educators, students.
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Videos/Webcasts

Mechatronics Helps Rescue The Automotive Industry

FREE WEBCAST: Learn how a multi-disciplinary approach to design will save your job.More

Compliance in Mechatronic Motion Systems

FREE WEBCAST: Designs in nature often exploit compliance, while man-made designs often avoid compliance.  

Rubber Circuits Offer Robots Flexibility

Japanese researchers say stretchy rubber circuits could give robots soft and sensitive skins to make them safer.

 

Circuits

Precision Analog Bests Digital in Speed, Noise, Simplicity and Ease of Implementation

Analog beats digital for simplicity and noise. More

C# application controls simple ADC

This Design Idea describes a simple and low-cost ADC that you control using the serial port of a PC running Windows XP/Vista. More

Alarm Monitors Rotational Speed of dc Motor

Use a circuit to monitor the rotating speed of a dc fan motor and sound an alarm if the motor stalls. -- 10.16.08 More

Add Margining Capability To A DC/DC Converter

Adding a current-output DAC to a dc/dc converter's circuit allow you to add margining capability. -- 09.26.08 More

 

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Where are the mechatronics development tools?


What tools are you using to build mechatronics devices? Does it seem harder than it should be?
Posted in: Mining Mechatronics | 11.21.2008.

Mechatronics Improves fMRI Scans


Stefan Wolpert
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Functional MRI scans (fMRI) are a type of brain activity scan where an image of brain activity, based on blood flow, is captured every couple seconds.This single degree of freedom robot, more similar to an actuator, can provide resistance, measure a patient's force, or guide a patient's hand in a certain way. -- 09.04.08
Posted in: Mechatronics on Campus | 09.04.2008.

 
 

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