ZenRobotics believes they have the answer to solving the CND waste problem with their intelligent industrial robots.
At Marlin Steel two giant stars-and-stripes flags hang above the heads of the workers, industrial robots and laser cutters.
Its engine and machinery business carries out the manufacture of diesel engines, propellers and crankshafts, industrial robots, pumps and others.
Many industrial robots have to be contained behind strong fences because they can injure people who get in their way.
Fortunately this sort of repetitive work is being automated as Foxconn installs 1 million industrial robots over the next couple of years.
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Industrial robots are getting better at assembly, but they are expensive and need human experts to set them up (who can cost more than the robot).
In 2008, the total world robot population including service and industrial robots was 8.6 million ande xpected to grow to 13 million by the end of 2012.
Wind River (nasdaq: WIND - news - people ) specializes in so-called device software, the fast, small operating systems and middleware that go into all sorts of noncomputer smart devices, from digital video recorders to industrial robots and the Mars Rover.
Germany's Fraunhofer Institute, for instance, is involved in a European initiative to develop robots that are safe enough to operate alongside workers (at present, most industrial robots still have to be caged in case they accidentally hit someone) and capable of understanding simple instructions, including voice commands.
According to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), robots inside the buildings measured radiation levels reached 57 millisieverts per hour.
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The robots currently are being assembled at QBotix headquarters in a non-descript building in a light industrial area of Menlo Park.
Robots like Ava have great potential for multiple applications in business, retail, security, healthcare and industrial environments.
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