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IIoT technologies that form the building blocks of smart factories and smart metering systems must be reliable when it comes to battery life. Since these devices perform computing operations at the edge, they need to ensure their processors can perform these tasks on a low electrical charge. Ambi...
Rise of the robots The word "robot" was coined in1920 by the Czech playwright Karel Capek, who imagined artificial, fully functional servants. For most of their history however, robots have been silent,inelegant devices sitting out of sight in factories.Things are starting to change, however....
Take the hot computerized horizontal looms as an example, the biggest feature of the machine that began to be made in China around 2004 is to save labor. Before that, many of the wool textile factories in Dalang used hand-held machines and automatic belt conveyors. The former needs one wor...
The first Industrial Revolution in the UK was completed around the late 18th to early 19th century, approximately between 1760 and 1840.The Enclosure Movement(圈地运动)in Englandled to many small landowners losing their property, resulting in a new class of landless laborers to work in factories....
Riseoftherobots Theword"robot"wascoinedin1920bytheCzechplaywrightKarelCapek,whoimaginedartificial,fullyfunctionalservants.Formostoftheirhistoryhowever,robotshavebeensilent,inelegantdevicessittingoutofsightinfactories.Thingsarestartingtochange,however.Robotshavebenefitedfromrapidinnovationsinsmartphones,whichbroughtcameras...
“robot” was coined in 1920 by the Czech playwright Karel Capek. In “R.U.R.” (“Rossum’s Universal Robots”) Capek imagined artificial, fully functional servants. For most of their history, however, robots have been dumb, inelegant mechanical devices sitting out of sight in factories. ...
Rise of the RobotsThe word “robot” was coined in 1920 by the Czech playwright Karel Capek. 1 For most of their history, however, robots have been dumb, inelegant mechanical devices sitting out of sight in factories.Things are starting to change, however. 2 They brought cheap cameras and...
Headquartered in Eastern Pennsylvania, Petroleum Service Company (PSC) was founded in 1924 and incorporated in 1930. We are homegrown, yet international. You may know us as a local brick-and-mortar distributor of oil and lubricants, but we’ve grown to become much more than that. ...
The word ‘robot’ can be defined as “a machine that can navigate through and interact with the physical world of factories, warehouses, battlefields and offices” (Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2014). To famously quote Warren Bennis, “The factory of the future will have two employees, a man ...