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Monday 3 September 2018
ITRI unveils bionic palm with six degrees of freedom
Taiwan government-funded Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has newly developed a bionic palm that can catch objects in a more agile way and can be applied to the medical...
Monday 3 September 2018
Zukku to come to Taiwan
Zukku, a palm-size service robot selected to guide visitors to the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020, will be introduced to the Taiwan market for use in retail stores, restaurants and service...
Monday 3 September 2018
Hiwin unveils robots with 3D vision for fast biscuit packaging
3D machine vision is increasingly applied to production lines as it can achieve fast and accurate vision that human eyes can hardly do, and a typical application is seen in an automated...
Friday 31 August 2018
Human-machine collaboration in growing use
Unmanned factories are usually considered the ultimate achievement in smart manufacturing but they are actually rare because key technologies needed to construct them far complicated...
Friday 31 August 2018
Memory IC to account for 53% of total 2018 semi capex, says IC Insights
Total semiconductor capital expenditures are forecast to rise to US$102.0 billion in 2018, the first time that the industry spends more than US$100 billion on capex in one year, according...
Thursday 30 August 2018
Robots for multiple industrial, service uses highlighted at TAIROS 2018
Taiwan makers are highlighting their robust prowess in robot production and smart manufacturing systems at the 2018 Taiwan Automation Intelligence and Robot Show running August 29-31...
Thursday 30 August 2018
Anchor offers predictive maintenance to increase product value
Taiwan-based Anchor Tech, a provider of smart buildings control systems, is actively striving to apply its control, monitoring and maintenance solutions to commercial properties including...
Wednesday 29 August 2018
Driverless vehicles serve urban and rural areas differently
While mature infrastructures, stable system technologies, sound supervision regulations and public acceptability are required to support the development of driverless vehicles, such...
Wednesday 29 August 2018
Over 380,000 industrial robots sold globally in 2017, says IFR
In 2017, 380,600 industrial robots were sold globally, increasing 29.3% on year, according to World Industrial Robot 2018 published by International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
Wednesday 29 August 2018
Electronic component manufacturing to take up 36% of collaborative robots to be used in Taiwan
Manufacturing of electronic components including ICs and PCBs will account for 36% of collaborative robots to be deployed in Taiwan in the future, followed by metal working with 32%,...
Monday 27 August 2018
AI can help travel service firms better meet consumer needs, says Lotus executive
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied to the travel service industry to better gauge the real needs of consumers through deep machine learning, according to CH Kuo, chief strategy...
Monday 27 August 2018
ITRI starts operation of AIdea
Taiwan government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has kicked off operation of AIdea, a platform for developing AI (artifical intelligence) solutions to enterprises'...
Friday 24 August 2018
Taipei smart lavatory to double as emergency call center
A Taipei park has kicked the official use of Taiwan's first smart public lavatory allowing citizens to experience IoT-backed smart living, and the lavatory will double as an emergency...
Wednesday 22 August 2018
Taipei to trial no-cash convenience store
Taipei's Department of Information Technology, to promote its smart city program, will cooperate with OK Mart convenience store chain to set up a no-cash retail store at the city...
Wednesday 22 August 2018
Taiwan has advantages in developing healthcare innovations, says Acorn Campus co-founder Chester Wang
Co-chairman of SVT Angels and co-founder of Acorn Campus Ventures, T Chester Wang taught college courses in Saudi Arabia and invested in real estate in Silicon Valley before he began...