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    Roll Up: Pangolin-Inspired Robot Is Designed to Travel Within the Human Body
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    Fun Innovations Friday: Roll Up: Pangolin-Inspired Robot Is Designed to Travel Within the Human Body

    Nov. 10, 2023
    Recently, researchers have turned to the pangolin with its unique overlapping scales as a model for the latest technical innovation.
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    Fun Innovations Friday: Labor Shortages Be Damned! Invention of Robotic Chef Turns the Tables
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    Fun Innovations Friday: Labor Shortages Be Damned! Invention of Robotic Chef Turns the Tables

    Oct. 6, 2023
    The French startup Cook-e builds a fully automated, robotic kitchen that assembles a meal, cooks it, and plates it all in under 4 minutes.
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    Automated restaurants are precise, popular, and profitable. Just ask sweetgreen.
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    Fun Innovations Friday: Automated Restaurants are Precise, Popular, and Profitable. Just Ask Sweetgreen.

    Sept. 22, 2023
    Sweetgreen opened its first robotic restaurant in Naperville, Illinois, earlier this year and called it Infinite Kitchen.
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    Special Report: Leaders in Manufacturing Fall 2023

    Sept. 19, 2023
    In this edition of our semi-annual “Leaders in Manufacturing” series, we showcase three top companies whose products, services, and solutions unlock new capabilities and efficiencies...
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    HADAR, or heat-assisted detection and ranging, combines thermal physics, infrared imaging, and machine learning to pave the way to fully passive and physics-aware machine perception. Research led by Zubin Jacob, the Elmore Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and research scientist Fanglin Bao of Purdue University has been published as the cover story of the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
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    Fun Innovations Friday: Thermal Imaging Innovation Creates Broad Daylight In Pitch Black

    Sept. 15, 2023
    The patent-pending innovation HADAR, from researchers at Purdue University, sees texture and depth and perceives physical attributes of people and environments just as they would...
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    Manufacturer Creates a Conscious Cobot for Welding

    Aug. 8, 2023
    Integration of Xaba’s xCognition physics-informed, machine learning model with Rolleri cobots has been proven to increase accuracy and consistency in welding operations in manufacturing...
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    Fun Innovations Friday: Why Program Robots When You Can Control Them With Your Mind Instead?
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    Fun Innovations Friday: Why Program Robots When You Can Control Them With Your Mind Instead?

    Aug. 4, 2023
    This might sound like a futuristic concept, but a new study illustrates just how close we are to applying brain-computer interface technology in everyday life.
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    Fun Innovations Friday: Virtual Try-On Technology Makes Fitting Rooms a Thing of the Past
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    Fun Innovations Friday: Virtual Try-On Technology Makes Fitting Rooms a Thing of the Past

    July 28, 2023
    Powered by artificial intelligence, Zyler virtual try-on technology takes the in-store shopping experience to the next level for Larusmiani, an Italian luxury menswear store.
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    Holy Guacamole! Chipotle Is Using Robots to Cut, Core, and Peel Avocados
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    Fun Innovations Friday: Holy Guacamole! Chipotle Is Using Robots to Cut, Core, and Peel Avocados

    July 21, 2023
    Chipotle Mexican Grill has hopped on the automation bandwagon and is testing out a new cobot with the potential to slash prep times and optimize everyone’s favorite taco topping...