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A company that devoted itself into public welfare

Creality, a professional 3d printer manufacturer, specializes in integrating 3D printing software research,3D printer design, and 3d printer distributing & reselling as a whole.

The company has now grown as a well-recognized brand that has more than 1.6 million users around the world, the annual shipment exceeds 1.2 million pieces, and the growth never stops. With over 1000 professional R&D members and over 100 core patents of independent intellectual property rights, Creality is still not satisfied.

Not satisfied with only being as a business giant, Creality is building for a greater dream, its mission explained well on this point -- Create Reality, Achieve Dreams! --as a mission always bearing in mind, passing on the spirit as an evangelist, facilitating people to enjoy the convenience of 3D printing technology.

The Interesting Space Robotics Project Will Travel Over 11,000Km, Cover 150 Cities in Brazil

The whole project will last 4 months from Aug to Dec. 250 schools in 150 cities across the country will receive the 3D printers sponsored by Creality, and more than 25 schools will be visited by the TECNOMOB unit, a truck transformed into a mobile lab. In the course, each participating school receives licensees to utilize the educational platform, to be downloaded in the students cellphones, computers or tablets. With this fully interactive tool, the students learn how to assemble their own robots, in the device's screen, also learn about NASA's Artemis Mission, which serves as background for the robotics teaching APP.

More Than a Single Project: Creality Is Welcoming Further Public Welfare Cooperation

Due to the lack of machines and education, 3D technology is still a remote area in most countries, though it is promisingly listed as a critical technology that can change the whole world. This is exactly what Creality is pursuing when carry out public benefit activities. Over the past 7 years, Creality have made no bones about popularizing 3D printing technology for young people around the world, helping underprivileged students in any way they can, printing prosthetic limbs for children who have limb difference in Africa, and opening the doors of design for young designers. As a technology innovation enterprise, Creality has been transmitting 3D printing technology in the spirit of evangelists, so that every household can enjoy the convenience brought by science and technology.

So far, Creality's 3D printers have already got good reputations among its users, the brand is also quite in favored by most of 3D printing lovers. However, the principal of helping more people in need never stops. Space Robotics project in Brazil is only a start. In the future, Creality would like to work with any organization from any country to pass along the public welfare spirit, as well as popularizing 3D technology to create a better world.

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Airport Robots Market Forecast to 2028 - COVID-19 Impact and Global Analysis by Application (Landside/Valet Parking and Terminal)" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

According to this report the market is expected to reach US$ 2,108.29 million by 2028, registering a CAGR of 22.4% from 2021 to 2028.

With the rise in real and perceived threats to the national security, continuous efforts are being taken to come up with innovative active interrogation approaches to identify these threats. The most instant perceived threats and their essential materials comprise conventional explosives, weapons, chemical agents, and contraband. With an intent to prevent uncertain events, authorities worldwide are actively focusing on the deployment of advanced systems, including robots, to strengthen security at airports. The robots used for security application at airports are integrated with features such as facial recognition systems, sensors, and cameras to measure pulse rate remotely, which allows them to detect suspicious persons, currencies, weapons and explosives, abandoned objects, and other illicit material without disturbing the operations or flow of passengers at airports. Furthermore, the governments of various countries are investing in the development of their transport infrastructure, including building of new airports. For instance, the Chinese government plans to construct additional 215 airports by 2035. Furthermore, the Indian government plans to build 100 new airports across the country by 2024.

The global airport robots market is segmented by application. Based on application, the market is segmented into landside/valet parking and terminal. The terminal segment dominated the market in 2020. The terminal segment is sub-segmented into airport security and cleaning, boarding pass scanning, airport baggage system, and passenger guidance. The airport security and cleaning segment led the market in 2020.

The airport robots market is experiencing significant growth owing to increasing importance for security at airports. However, the high cost of robots hampers their adoption, especially at small airports in developing or under-developed countries. Meanwhile, the number of air passengers worldwide has increased due to surge in business travel and leisure travel. With the growing footfall at airports, the airport authorities are investing significantly in advance technologies, including robotics, for streamlining their operations. According to a survey conducted by the Air Transport IT Insights, ~32% of airports in the world are in the favor of increasing robotics involvement in their operations.

Various big construction projects, including airport modification and expansion were halted due to COVID-19, specifically in countries such as the US and Canada. For instance, Raleigh-Durham International Airport was on pace to expand its Terminal 1 from nine gates to as many as 22 and proceed with a new security checkpoint and a consolidated rental car facility. The projected expansion was halted due to the pandemic. Similarly, an infrastructure project at Vancouver International Airport has been terminated due to the COVID-19 crisis. Due to stoppage in such big project (expanded till quarter 3 of 2020), airport robots manufacturers lost several potential clients/projects, which impacted their overall cash flow. The impact was not only from the demand side, but also from the supply side.

As manufacturing facilities in the region were not operational for months, the supply chain was disrupted and the procurement of raw material was interrupted. Due to this, OEMs saw prominent challenges in keeping up with the quarterly revenue. Airports also witnessed the importance of robots and other machinery because of reduction of human touch. Moreover, the analysis states that the FY2021 would bring additional demand for airport robots, as airport development projects resume and airport authorities prepare to focus significantly on health and safety of passengers.

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DUBLIN, September 06, 2021--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Growth Opportunities in Robotics, Additive Manufacturing, Sustainable Manufacturing, and Industrial Automation" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The Advanced Manufacturing report covers global innovations and developments related to manufacturing and industrial automation on a monthly basis. Innovations are focused toward improving product traceability, energy efficiency and reducing environmental footprints, integrating product design and manufacturing aspects for reducing time-to-market.

Research focus areas include rapid prototyping (additive manufacturing), light-weighting (multi-material joining, plastics and metals manufacturing, carbon fiber-based composite manufacturing), smart robotics (agile robots, consumer robots, swarm robotics, cobots), monitoring and control (wireless control networks, human machine interface), and simulation and modeling (design and simulation software).

The Advanced Manufacturing and Automation (AMA) Cluster covers technologies that enable clean, lean and flexible manufacturing and industrial automation. Technologies such as three-dimensional (3D) and four-dimensional (4D) printing, wireless sensors and networks, information and communication technology, multimaterial joining, composites manufacturing, digital manufacturing, micro- and nano-manufacturing, lasers, advanced software, and printing techniques, are covered as part of this cluster.

The technologies covered here impact a wide range of industries, such as the impact semiconductor, automotive and transportation, aerospace and defense, industrial, healthcare, logistics, and electronics industries.

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Robotic Piece Picking Solution for Order Fulfillment

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Novel Chemical Vapor Deposition Technology for Compound Semiconductors

Epiluvac's Value Proposition is High Uniformity and High Quality Epitaxial Growth of WBG Crystals

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Desktop Metal's Additive Wood Manufacturing Provides New Way of Upcycling Wood Byproducts

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DIY 3D Printing Kit Enables Large-Scale Production for Non-Commercial Printers

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BOSTON, Sept. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IDTechEx has recently released "Agricultural Robotics Market 2022-2032", a market research report exploring the technical and market factors that are shaping the emerging industry around agricultural robotics. The agricultural robotics industry has grown quickly in recent years, spurred on by advances in robotics technology and artificial intelligence (AI), and may be set to help alleviate some of the labor issues that are currently threatening global agriculture.

Agricultural robotics, as covered in the new IDTechEx report, can be used to automate a range of agricultural tasks, including weeding, seeding, and harvesting of fresh fruit. Some applications of agricultural robotics, including robotic milking, are already developed industries attracting hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue, whereas others, such as fully autonomous tractors, are still emerging and may only reach full commercialization by the end of the decade.

IDTechEx's latest report, "Agricultural Robotics Market 2022-2032", examines the key application areas within the industry. These include robotic weeding, robotic seeding, autonomous tractors, autonomous implement carriers and platform robots, robotic fresh fruit and vegetable harvesting, agricultural drones, and robotic milking. The report highlights companies within each application area working to commercialize products, including analysis of technology readiness and comparisons between products.

In addition to analyzing the key application areas within agricultural robots, IDTechEx also discusses the emerging technologies that are underpinning the growth of the agricultural robotics industry. These include positioning technologies such as RTK-GPS and LiDAR, artificial intelligence, imaging technologies such as hyperspectral imaging, soft gripper and end effector technology, and precision spraying technologies.

The report also includes a discussion of business models within the agricultural robotics industry, such as the advantages and challenges around pursuing a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) business model, as well as some of the market challenges facing the industry, such as regulations, issues around data ownership, and establishing trust with farmers. 10-year market forecasts are provided for the future of the agricultural robotics industry, including breakdowns by region and by application area. Based on IDTechEx's technical and industry analysis, the agricultural robotics market size is forecast to reach $6.7 billion by 2032.

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ELKHART (AP) You could say Killian Townsend is inquisitive.

I remember when, I was like in the third or fourth grade, that I dragged this big tube TV from down the road into my room and tore it apart, the Elkhart High School freshman said.

Likewise, Weston Markham, a 16-year-old student at Northwood High School, said he loved playing with Legos as a kid and has enjoyed building things for as long as he can remember.

Eventually, Killian and Weston found their way to E3 Robotics Center, a nonprofit program that trains students in kindergarten through grade 12 in the STEM-related disciplines of robotics and code writing.

Brian Boehler, president and executive director, said the overarching goal of E3, which is funded through grants, corporations and private donors, is simply to get students of all grade levels involved in STEM.

For kindergartners and their siblings or neighbors in elementary school, that involves doing activities with Lego blocks.

The program starts at youngest levels with Duplo Lego and standard Lego, where kids are working at problem solving through engineering building challenges, and they are then tasked to come up with solutions in small groups, Boehler said.

The activities become more complex as the students get older.

Older elementary school kids work with Legos that include motors and sensors.

These Legos are different than the ones you had growing up, Boehler said. They can make their creations interact and move based on the world around them using these sensors and motors.

The older students like Killian and Weston work together to make robots that can perform tasks.

For example, last year, Westons team made a robot they programmed to drive around a field and gobble up rubber balls.

The head part has a roller at the very front that will spin and bring balls into it, he said. The entire head can lift and if we run the roller the other direction, it can spit the balls out.

The robot seems to move and perform each task as if by magic. But it is not magic. Instead, team members have planned every aspect of the robots mission. Some team members wrote computer programs to instruct the robot. Other built the robot. But all had to work together.

So, while many people focus on hard skills like computer programming, the students also have to master skills like communication, working in groups and knowing how to organize tasks, Boehler said.

You mix these things all together because some kids will know how to do different things, Weston said.

Killian agrees, noting he worked as one of the programmers for his team.

Our main programmer did mostly autonomous stuff, which is where the robot does things on his own, and I mostly did the manual part where the drivers control it (usually with a joystick), Killian said.

Boehler has a deep history with robotics in Elkhart and with the E3 Robotics program. He was a member of the states first Lego League team when he was a student at Mary Feeser Elementary School.

He graduated from Memorial and then attended Ball State University, where he majored in urban planning and development.

Unfortunately, I graduated in the middle of a recession, so not a lot of cities wanted to redesign or rebuild, Boehler said.

It was around that time that the Elkhart schools asked Boehler to help set up the systems robotics program. At that time he worked for another nonprofit STEM program in Elkhart County called the ETHOS Innovation Center. There, he helped to develop the districts STEM and robotics curriculum and soon, other schools, and homeschoolers came on board.

In 2012, Boehler and co-director Brent Soper founded E3.

Boehler said there is enough interest in robotics and STEM in the area to accommodate more than one program.

We really havent seen a cap yet on (the number of students) that robotics is able to get, he said.

The E3 program had more than 120 students prior to the beginning of the pandemic and even managed to work with about 60 students last year. Boehler hopes to build the numbers back up this year.

Robotics programs statewide have grown as students and parents see the benefits of learning STEM skills such as programming, as well as the soft skills like communication, planning and team building that employers crave, said Chris Osborne, vice president of operations of First Indiana Robotics, which is the nonprofit that works with and oversees robotics programs in the state.

Osborne noted there were 900 students from 42 high schools taking part in the First Robotics Competition in 2012. That number grew to 58 teams and about 1,600 students intending to participate in 2020.

The First Tech Challenge, which is for students in grades seven through 12 and the First Lego League, which is an introductory program for elementary school students, saw similar growth, Osborne said.

Weston, meanwhile, said he believes he has benefited from being in the program.

If I were not in the program, I never would have learned the hard skills, he said, but secondly I would have not learned all the ways to communicate and plan things.

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IDTechEx has recently released "Agricultural Robotics Market 2022-2032", a market research report exploring the technical and market factors that are shaping the emerging industry around agricultural robotics. The agricultural robotics industry has grown quickly in recent years, spurred on by advances in robotics technology and artificial intelligence (AI), and may be set to help alleviate some of the labor issues that are currently threatening global agriculture.

Agricultural robotics, as covered in the new IDTechEx report, can be used to automate a range of agricultural tasks, including weeding, seeding, and harvesting of fresh fruit. Some applications of agricultural robotics, including robotic milking, are already developed industries attracting hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue, whereas others, such as fully autonomous tractors, are still emerging and may only reach full commercialization by the end of the decade.

The report also includes a discussion of business models within the agricultural robotics industry, such as the advantages and challenges around pursuing a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) business model, as well as some of the market challenges facing the industry, such as regulations, issues around data ownership, and establishing trust with farmers. 10-year market forecasts are provided for the future of the agricultural robotics industry, including breakdowns by region and by application area. Based on IDTechEx's technical and industry analysis, the agricultural robotics market size is forecast to reach $6.7 billion by 2032.

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Moscow, September 6

Russia's new space station will operate autonomously to a large extent, using artificial intelligence as well as include extravehicular robots, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin has said.

"The system itself, the station itself with artificial intelligence elements should demonstrate intelligence of the highest level," the Roscosmos chief was quoted as saying by TASS news agency.

He added that robotics should be used aboard Russia's new orbital station.

The new orbital outpost in conjunction with the Zeus nuclear-powered space tug can serve as a prototype for future systems of lengthy inter-planetary flights, he said.

Rogozin said the agency aims to develop the new space station with a higher efficiency factor than that of the current International Space Station (ISS).

In April, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov announced that the condition of the ISS left much to be desired and Russia might focus on creating its own orbital outpost.

"We want to make a station whose efficiency factor will be several orders of magnitude higher than that of the ISS," Rogozin said on the YouTube channel Soloviov Live.

Rogozin also noted that Roscosmos will start deploying the new Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS) in five-six years.

"We are planning to start deploying this station somewhere in five-six years," he said.

"This will be a completely new generation of orbital modules. The new station will feature open architecture and similar modules will replace each other when they use up their service life," Rogozin added. IANS

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In October 2020, I wrote the following in my closing column on The Robots Are Coming:

[..] From the above, it seems that robots in horticulture are about much more than merely replacing a workforce that we currently do not have enough people for. Yes, robots will eventually take over part of this boring, repetitive work from humans. But the true value will rest with offering opportunities for new business models. For instance, data collected by robots that are already used in greenhouses for harvesting will have an important role to play in this!

The answer to the question How is the robot revolution changing our way of life? for horticulture will be that it offers opportunities that we cannot even imagine right now! What is clear, in the horticulture of the future people and robots (cobots) will work together more than ever [..]

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So how are those robots doing now a year later? In any event, you can see them popping up everywhere these days.

The report Strijd om agrarische robots barst los (Battle for agricultural robots erupts), published last year by the ABNAMRO Group, provides a large number of examples. This report is largely based on the use of robots in cattle breeding, arable farming and outdoor crops. Among the frontrunners is the company Lely, which is a global leader in the development of the milking robot. Meanwhile, they have also developed robots for various other parts of dairy farming.

We are mainly seeing systems for weeding in agriculture. H2L developed a sorting robot for tulip cultivation. Several robots are already being developed for fruit cultivation as well. A drone is used to pick apples and the company Bx recently showed a video on Linkedin of the robot dog Spot from Boston Dynamics walking through an apple orchard with a camera and sensors.

There is also a lot going on around this subject where greenhouse horticulture is concerned. Robots are being developed for picking tomatoes, various crop operations such as leaf pruning and pollination. Work is also being done on systems that can predict tomato) harvests and that can take measurements of crops. All these data and measurements are important for the grower to be able to manage their crop in the greenhouse as effectively as possible. A good number of companies are invested in this around the world. See, for example, the development map of greenhouse robotics.

Yet for the grower, it is not all that clear which robot they should buy. There is not yet one that is 100 %ready and can do all the work that people do. Still, it is essential that growers and tech developers start working together in order to take the final steps in developing a robot that can pick, count, detect and predict.

The World Horti Center in the Dutch city of Naaldwijk is organizing an event on November 24 and 25 on the theme of robotics and autonomous cultivation in greenhouse horticulture to help ensure that tech, horticulturalists and scientists can find each other. The themes Today and Tomorrow will be used to build and strengthen the ecosystem surrounding the development of horticultural robots. This will be done by presenting inspiring stories, examples from other sectors and by organizing matchmaking sessions between the various parties.

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Someday you may send a robot to attend a meeting for you. Its like youre there, only youre not.

Nimble avatar robotscollaborative mechanical systems that allow a human operator in one location to feel as if they are in another locationwill be the focus of an international competition that includes Northeasterns robotics team, among 37 clubs out of 150 around the world to advance to the semifinal stage of a $10 million competition.

Six members of the universitys team depart Boston on Monday for Miami, where they will compete head-to-head with clubs from Canada, Russia, Colombia, South Korea, and other nations from Sept. 11-13. The 20 best teams will share the $2 million prize. They move on to the finals in the fall of 2022 for a chance to win part of the $8 million purse.

Northeasterns team, led by mechanical and industrial engineering professor Peter Whitney, is comprised of Stephen Alt, who is pursuing a masters degree in computer science; Eric Schwarm, who is in his sixth year studying mechanical engineering; mechanical engineering graduate student Chunpeng Wang; computer engineering graduate student Rui Luo; and Tarik Kelestemur; who is pursuing a doctoral degree in robotics and machine learning.

Judges will be looking for robots to complete a wide range of tasks that involve social and physical interactions designed to mimic real-world scenarios, says Whitney. The tasks include attending a meeting, visiting a museum where the robots operator interacts physically with objects, and piecing together a puzzle.

All of the dimensions of human-to-human interaction are up for grabs, Whitney says.

What makes the Avatar XPrize different from other robotics competitions is that the judges, not the competing teams, put the mechanical systems through the paces. After an hour-long training period, the judges are the operators and they are the ones with whom the avatar interacts.

So we play no role in the competition, says Whitney. Its a little bit frightening to just have a one-hour period to train someone to use your system. And so that gives you kind of a sense of how easy-to-use your system needs to be.

He points out that some of the judges will be experts in robotics, while others will have extensive experience in other areas such as virtual reality or computer systems. And that makes it a big challenge for us to design our system, not just to be very functional for skilled operators, but it has to be very functional for newbie operators.

One of Northeasterns advantages heading into the competition is the frequent interactions between the hardware and software teams in the robotics lab at the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex.

We have hardware and software all on the same floor and in the same lab, says Schwarm. We see each other every day and work with each other on everything.

Another plus is that students on the team come from multiple research groups that are proficient in different areas, adds Whitney.

For example, in electrical and computer engineering professor Hanu Singhs group, they have expertise in mobile systems that are reliable and can operate under adverse communication and network quality conditions. In professor Taskin Padirs group, they have strong knowledge of human-machine systems and system interface design.

And then in my group we have a focus on tactile technology that gives the operator the ability to have a fine sense of touch, says Whitney. No one part of the system is the most important part. They all work together.

Combining all of that proficiency and know-how gives rise to optimism that Northeasterns mechanical arm will foster the human-to-human interaction between the person operating the robot and the human recipients of that interaction.

Because thats what this competition is ultimately about, says Whitney. Its about human-to-human connection, not about human-to-robot connection.

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Sydney space startup HEO Robotics, has raised a seed round to launch its HEO Inspect product.

The raise was led by David Harding, founder and CEO of Winton Group. The size of the investment was not disclosed.

Angel investors Tim Parsons, Matt Ryall, Christian Thaler-Wolski and Phil Hayes-St Clair also backed the round, while existing HEO investors such as Solai Valliappan doubled-down on their holdings.

Its the first major investment for HEO Robotics, which is already profitable. The seed funding will allow the company to scale its services to help monitor an expected 40x increase in satellite numbers over the next decade.

HEO Robotics provides visual inspection services for satellites and space debris for their operators to monitor the condition of their space assets.

The company uses existing Earth observation satellites in orbit, using software to redirect the focus of those cameras to inspect other inspection cameras. The business currently has access to 25 satellites in various orbits for its monitoring.

The seed funding will be used to release HEO Inspect, which is currently live being used by customers in a private beta.

HEO Robotics was co-founded by aerospace and robotics engineers Dr William Crowe and Dr Hiranya Jayakody.

Crowe, who is the spacetech startups CEO, said the company believes in space sustainability so is using cameras that are already in space for the task rather than adding to the growing congestion above the Earth.

In-orbit inspection is an incredibly important part of keeping space sustainable, he said.

One of the easiest ways to reduce debris is to monitor existing spacecraft and either troubleshoot known issues or help predict future failures.

David Harding, a cybersecurity and deep tech investor, has nominated Joshua Kennedy-White join the HEO Robotics board.

I am pleased to have had the opportunity to back Founders Will and Hiranya and HEO Robotics, which looks to have considerable potential in the burgeoning commercial space industry, he said.

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