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Intuitive Robot Programming: Simplifying Multi-Hardware Sync

Teach-In-Programming of robots is faced with a fundamental challenge: binding in external hardware und synchronizing robots with diverse hardware components within a simple programming environment. The present solution allows for intuitive programming of multiple robots and adapting existing programs from pre-existing offline programming. Movements and other actions are displayed in a clear diagram representation, from which movement durations or cycle time lines can be seen. There is the possibility to synchronize different components and to edit the recording of movements and to train (“teach-in”).

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Siemens Supplies Locomotives Boosting DB Schenker Rail’s Efficiency

“With this order and the future deployment of these locomotives, DB Schenker Rail will be able to continue improving its competitiveness in Italy,” said…

Life & Chemistry

New study reveals what's behind a tarantula's blue hue

Scientists recently discovered that tiny, multilayer nanostructures inside a tarantula's hair are responsible for its vibrant color. The science behind how…

Earth Sciences

Alaska Permafrost Loss Projected by 2100: Insights from USGS

Northern latitude tundra and boreal forests are experiencing an accelerated warming trend that is greater than in other parts of the world. This warming trend…

Environmental Conservation

El Niño Warming Causes Significant Coral Damage in Central Pacific

Current El Niño conditions in the Pacific Ocean have created high water temperatures that are seriously damaging coral reefs, including those on Christmas…

Earth Sciences

Climate’s Impact: Mountains Erode Faster Than Rebuild

The international study conducted by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program and led by scientists from the University of Florida, The University of Texas at…

Information Technology

Machines Master Learning Techniques: Insights from Max Planck

For humans, and for animals in general, it is normal; but machines have first to learn it: how to learn. To assist them in this process, the Max Planck Society…

Physics & Astronomy

LISA Pathfinder: Pioneering Gravitational Wave Detection

After the launch on 2 December, LISA Pathfinder (LPF) will take up a parking orbit close to Earth and separate from the upper stage of the rocket around two…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Astrocyte Damage in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Damage to astrocytes – star-shaped cells found in the brain and spinal cord – is found in many neurodegenerative conditions, but it's been unclear exactly what…

Life & Chemistry

Lab-Grown Retinal Nerve Cells: Breakthrough by Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a method to efficiently turn human stem cells into retinal ganglion cells, the type of nerve cells located within the…

Event News

Media Registration Open for EGU 2016 Geosciences Assembly

The EGU General Assembly (http://www.egu2016.eu/) is an opportunity for journalists and science writers to learn about new developments in a variety of topics…

Earth Sciences

Lazy Microbes Boost Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Sequestration

The world's soils store on the order of 2500 gigatons of carbon, which is three times the amount in the atmosphere (or equivalent to 9170 gigatons of CO2). Yet…

Life & Chemistry

Soil Crusts Emit Nitrogen Oxides in Arid Regions

For a long time now, researchers have been racking their brains over the large quantities of reactive nitrogen compounds observed in arid regions after periods…

Health & Medicine

UofL Scientists Uncover Key Pathway for Muscle Repair

Researchers at the University of Louisville have discovered a mechanism involved in skeletal muscle repair that may enable clinicians to boost the…

Life & Chemistry

Embryonic Switch Discovered for Cancer Stem Cell Generation

An international team of scientists, headed by researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, report that decreases in a…

Physics & Astronomy

Simulation Reveals Key to Creating Strong Magnetic Fields

The researchers report their findings online on November 30 in advance of publication in the journal Nature. The lead author on the paper is Philipp Mösta, who…

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