Robots on the march: Robotics platforms and development tools
EDN
Robotics is gaining momentum as an engineering discipline. A variety of available platforms and tools supports it. This article is the first of a two-part hands-on project exploring the topic.
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GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms: Proficy Batch Execution 5.1 software
Control Engineering
Charlottesville, VA – GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, has released Proficy Batch Execution – Version 5.1. The release focuses on ease of use, performance, and system integration to improve customer productivity and reduce operational costs, the company said. The version of the Batch Execution software product introduces features to simplify and improve the design, maintenance, and operation of batch processes.
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The Mathworks adds support for parallel apps, multithreaded computations, 64-bit platforms
EDN
Meant to help engineers and scientists model increasingly complex systems in less time by allowing development of parallel applications independently of the resources that are available for execution, the Natick, Mass.-based technical computing and model-based design software leader today is announcing four enhancements in its MATLAB and Distributed Computing Toolbox products meant to allow increased performance and large data set handling.
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