The number of robots used in industrial applications continues to grow and their capabilities continue to evolve. The first stationary industrial robot, the Unimate, was installed in a factory by General Motors in 1961. According to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), the World Robotics report released on Jan. 20, shows that more than 2.4 million industrial robots are currently operating in factories around the world. And this number is expected to grow dramatically in the coming years.

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Real-Time Innovations (RTI) announced it has joined the Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC). RTI joins leading OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers and semiconductor companies such as Arm, NVIDIA, and General Motors in an effort to accelerate the delivery of safe and affordable autonomous vehicles at scale.
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Altium announced that Seeed, the IoT hardware enabler, has embedded the Geppetto electronic design application into its Seeed platform.
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SolidRun, a developer and manufacturer of edge computing solutions, and ASIC solutions provider Gyrfalcon Technology, introduced Janux GS31, a co-developed Arm-based AI inference server optimized for the edge (SRGT-AI31).
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What an ambiguous, loaded question that has become? These days, if someone asks you ?How smart is your car?? it could mean almost anything. Is it a compact electric vehicle (recently discontinued in the U.S.)? Or, can your car drive itself? Does it speak to your equally-smart home? Or is it simply a shrewd investment?

Or, can your car determine who is driving based on how that person drives?

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