Exyn Technologies, a pioneer in autonomous aerial robot systems for complex, GPS-denied industrial environments including underground mines, has announced it has achieved the highest documented level of aerial autonomy. At Level 4A Autonomy, Exyn’s drones powered by ExynAI are now capable of free-flight exploration of complex spaces, with complete determination of flight path—at 2+ m/second flight [...]
Saudi Aramco is accelerating the adoption and scaleup of disruptive and multipurpose robotic technologies to deliver safer, cost-effective, and efficient inspection capabilities, emergency response, aerial mapping, project monitoring, security surveillance, and environmental monitoring. In view of Saudi Aramco’s aspiration to be the leading digitalized energy company by 2022, the company is accelerating the adoption and scaleup [...]
The Cygnus Mini ROV Mountable thickness gauge has been specially designed to be mounted onto small observation ROVs with or without a manipulator facility. And most recently, Cygnus worked with the renowned Canadian ROV & crawler specialist-manufacturer "Deep Trekker" - to achieve full integration with their unique and polyvalent ROVs. Deep Trekker was founded in 2010 [...]
Apellix, protecting the world’s built and industrial environments through aerial robotic technology, is celebrating being named a World-Changing Idea of 2021 by Fast Company. Apellix has created and is continuing to improve aerial robotic systems used in the war on corrosion that can prepare surfaces for coating/painting, apply the coatings, and monitor the coating job and [...]
Leading global provider of consulting, compliance checks and engineering support for the security, reliability and cyber security of industrial products, H-ON Consulting relies on OverIT's SPACE1 to provide users with an advanced, immersive and unprecedented remote collaboration experience. The company's remote collaboration system called DIV-CO Collaboration System, for the technical management at customers' facilities, required integration [...]
Working with industry and higher education institutes the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has secured £15mn in funding to develop a ‘smarter testing’ programme sponsored by the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI). "NPL is delighted to be working at the heart of this critical project to increase the trust and confidence in data driven design and development. For [...]
Edmund Optics®, a renowned provider of optical components, continuously expands its product offering to reflect market developments and customer needs. New products are added each month to better serve the industry. EO has released Nonlinear Crystals, which have high laser-induced damage thresholds (LIDTs), and TECHSPEC® Superpolished Substrates, which have extremely low surface roughness, both of which [...]
"Caged drones are a revolutionary tool for flight in confined spaces. Here, we get an expert deep dive comparison on the Elios 2 and the caged Mavic 2. Read on to learn which tool is best for surveillance or industrial inspections in hard to reach places." The linked article is a guest post on Drone Life [...]
Robot vision systems are commonly referred to as machine vision. This vision tool is used in several industrial processes, including material inspection, object recognition, and pattern recognition. Each industry applies its particular values to machine vision. In healthcare, pattern recognition is critical. In electronics production component inspection is important. In banking, the recognition of signatures, optical [...]
Business aviation services provider Jet Aviation has been approved by the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation to use infrared thermography for non-destructive testing (NDT) at its Basel maintenance facility. The technology complements other NDT techniques Jet Aviation uses in Basel such as liquid penetrant, X-ray, magnetic particle, eddy current, and ultrasonic testing. Infrared thermography converts [...]