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SOUTHFIELD—It’s certainly hard to find any fun in the many precautions demanded by the Coronavirus pandemic. But a computer science student at Lawrence Technological University has managed to come up …
EAST LANSING—A high school robotics team from Grandville High School won the coveted VEX Robotics Excellence Award and is part of a two-team alliance that took top honors at the …
EAST LANSING—The 2020 Michigan VEX Robotics State Championship will be the largest ever hosted at Michigan State University when 80 teams arrive at Jenison Field House on Sunday, Feb. 23. …
ANN ARBOR—The Robotic Industries Association (RIA), part of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), announced that orders of industrial robotic units rose 1.6 percent in North America in 2019, with …
SOUTHFIELD—The Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation has increased the number of all-girl teams it is sponsoring in Robofest, a competition for student-programmed autonomous robots invented by Lawrence Technological …
ORION TWP.—Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT), North America’s largest independent automation engineering company, announced that vice president of operations services Craig Salvalaggio has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer (COO) of …
NEW HUDSON—Exotic Automation & Supply, a motion control supplier, announced that it is now a distributor for Techman Collaborative Robots, a Taiwanese manufacturer of so-called cobots, or collaborative robots—robots that …
WARREN–Eckhart Inc., the advanced manufacturing automation products and services provider, announced that its recent acquisition, PRI Robotics, will adopt the Eckhart name effective immediately. PRI Robotics, founded in 1995, designs, builds, …
ANN ARBOR–The Robotic Industries Association (RIA) announced that North American robot unit orders are up 5.2 percent through the third quarter, compared to 2018 orders. So far this year, North …
SOUTHFIELD—A South African professional golfer from the 1930s through the 1950s, Bobby Locke, coined the phrase: “Drive for show, putt for dough.” This winter and spring, thousands of students from …