This January, after a 7-year, 2-billion-mile journey strapped to the side of the Cassini orbiter, the Huygens probe decelerated 12,000 mph in less than 2 minutes before parachuting to the frozen surface of Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons.
Kenmore International (Oslo, Norway) is one of Europe's leading manufacturers of wire-on-tube evaporators. These evaporators are exported around the world for use in domestic refrigerators and industrial bottle coolers.
More than half of all new manufacturing plants go out of business within 6 years, according to a recently published study of Canada's manufacturing sector.
Each year, Wabash Technologies (Huntington, IN) manufactures more than 20 million sensors, and 5 million fuel injector stators and actuators for the automotive, heavy vehicle, agriculture, construction and small-engine markets.
Michael G. Lutomski, NASA's risk manager for the International Space Station program, will deliver the opening keynote at Assembly Technology Expo (ATExpo) and the International Robots & Vision Show, taking place Sept. 27-29 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois.
The North American robotics industry had its best opening quarter ever, with new robot orders up 30 percent, according to statistics released by Robotic Industries Association (RIA).