The Robotics Leadership Academy is the result of regional partnerships to retrain workers for careers in robotics.

With Astorino, Kawasaki aims to offer the capabilities of a modern industrial robot at a fraction of the cost of other educational robots.

Women in robotics can advance their careers with agility, curiosity, and mentorship, said Boston Dynamics staffers at a MassRobotics event.

Manufacturers want more visibility into processes and to reskill staffers to work with automation, found Zebra and Azure Knowledge.

RoboticsCareer.org has gotten a refresh to help build interest in manufacturing careers and to connect talent with companies.

Despite being a quickly growing community, the robotics industry still has a diversity problem, particularly when it comes to race.

The ARM Institute is funding a welding scholarship with the Industrial Arts Workshop in the Hazelwood neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

The Eastern Kentucky Advanced Manufacturing Institute, or eKAMI, has been retraining coal miners to be robotics technicians. READY Robotics has offered its Forge/OS brand-neutral software to help.

Cirtronics showed off the robots it makes to high school students during Manufacturing Day to demonstrate that manufacturing careers can be rewarding.

The loneliness of the long-distance robot: A Cornell University robot named Ranger walked 14.3 miles in about 11 hours, setting an unofficial world record at Cornell’s Barton Hall early on July 6. A human – armed with nothing more than a standard remote control for toys – steered the untethered robot. Ranger navigated 108.5 times […]

The Hillman Center for Future-Generation Technologies will be one of two buildings in the 200,000-square-foot complex, which also includes the Gates Center for Computer Science, the university announced Wednesday. The Hillman Center will face Forbes Avenue and serve as the main entrance to the university’s school of computer science. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation […]

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, announced an in-kind software grant with a commercial value of US$23 million to Anna University in Chennai, India. Anna University will utilize Siemens PLM Software’s industry-leading technology to establish a PLM […]

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced an in-kind software grant with a commercial value of US$23 million to Anna University in Chennai, India. Anna University will utilize Siemens PLM Software’s industry-leading technology to establish […]

As automation changes, educators need to maintain pace in the classroom to produce well-qualified graduates. To support this effort, Northern Illinois University (NIU) has unveiled the AutomationDirect Automation Laboratory in its Department of Technology. AutomationDirect’s donation of $100,000 over four years also makes it possible to name a term professorship. NIU’s Department of Technology, which […]

APICS The Association for Operations Management, the global leader in supply chain and operations management certification and training, today announced the launch of its APICS CPIM Pearson VUE Jumpstart Program. The program provides 100 vouchers annually that cover testing fees for the APICS Basics of Supply Chain Management examination. This exam is the first of […]

New research at the Georgia Institute of Technology could soon make predicting the degradation and remaining useful life of mechanical and electronic equipment easier and more accurate, while significantly improving maintenance operations and spare parts logistics. Nagi Gebraeel, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has developed […]

UMass Lowell opened a fully automated biomanufacturing pilot plant with equipment and services donated to the University by corporate partners: Invensys Process Systems (IPS), Wyeth Biotech, and Dakota Systems. Equipment to be donated by Millipore will be used in an adjoining lab to work in tandem with the plant. The new plant and lab will […]

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a new range of integrated curriculum-based solution kits for educators teaching engineering and electronics classes. Each cost-effective solution has carefully designed undergraduate engineering courseware, an ideal mix of teaching slide sets, problem-based student labs and industry-standard measurement equipment. “We introduce this range of curriculum-based solution kits to help educators get the […]

Honeywell announced the winners of a competition to advance innovation in the areas of process simulation and wireless technologies. Anne Muller from University of Dresden, Germany, won the process simulation category and Mohamed Abdul Galeel Salih Mohamed and Mohamad Tamer Nader Chaklab from the Electrical Engineering Department of the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, UAE, […]

The International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) launched an online, interactive job board — the Safety Equipment Industry JobBase — to match qualified professionals with prospective employers. With its focus on safety equipment industry companies and professionals, the Safety Equipment Industry JobBase offers job seekers, ISEA member companies and the safety equipment industry at large an […]

Robotic welding continues to grow in popularity due in large part to the critical shortage of skilled labor, combined with industry’s need to remain cost competitive with lower labor costs and improved productivity. Responding to this trend, Lincoln Electric and FANUC Robotics have partnered to offer the new Robotic Education Cell, an instructional cell that […]

The “ClusterMeisters,” a team of undergraduates from Indiana University and Technische Universität Dresden, will compete in the 2008 Cluster Challenge at SC08, the premier international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. SC, formerly known as Supercomputing, celebrates its 20th anniversary when it opens November 17, 2008 in Austin, Texas. The goal of […]