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The University of Bristol creates hand-manipulated robot arms with force feedback.

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Mouser and Molex have published an e-book about the changes taking place in industrial automation. The e-book, Connector & Antenna Solutions for Industry 4.0, covers topics in industrial automation, including digital twinning, deep learning, and neural networks. The book also spotlights the Molex Industrial Automation Solution (IAS) 4.0, as well as Molex products such as …

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Imec has developed a thin-film monolithic image sensor that captures light in the near-infrared (NIR) and short-wavelength infrared (SWIR). Based on a monolithic approach, the process promises an order of magnitude gain in fabrication throughh  put and cost compared to processing today’s conventional IR imagers, while at the same time enabling multi-megapixel resolution. To date, infrared …

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The LESA Centre at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York has pioneered and patented lighting-based Time of Flight sensing for privacy-preserving and occupant position measurement. Lighting-based Time of Flight (ToF) sensing plays an essential role in technologies ranging from safe, autonomous self-driving cars to SMART phones with facial recognition capabilities. Using the same concept, LESA’s precise …

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SkyWater Technology, the only US-owned pure-play foundry which operates an old 200mm Cypress fab in Bloomington, Minnesota, is to receive a $170 million investment from the US Department of Defense (DoD). SkyWater will be expanding its Trusted Foundry facility to add clean room area and supporting infrastructure to enable Strategic Rad-Hard and other complementary technologies. The initial …

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SoftBank has offered a $5 billion debt package to WeWork which is set to run out of cash in mid-November. On top of that Softbank will offer $3 billion to buy out existing WeWork shareholders and bring forward to this year  a $1.5 billion investment in WeWork which had been scheduled for next year, reports …

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Low clamping voltage, high surge transient voltage suppressors (TVS) from Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (AOS) are designed for Vbus protection. The AOZ8621UNI series of six TVS are suitable for USB Type-C Power Delivery (PD), in laptops and smartphones and any application using the PD protocol that can deliver up to 100W. The series covers a …

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Please take part in our poll and have your say on the destination of an Elektra 2019 Award. For the Consumer Product Innovation category, sponsored by Avnet, we are looking to readers to express their choice.

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Georgia Tech is to develop circuit breakers for >1MW dc power links up to 100kV – with wind farms, electric aircraft and electric ships in mind. Direct current power transmission is more efficient than AC (see below), but high-power dc is far harder to interrupt than ac – there is no current zero crossing in …

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