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| The band moved to Melbourne the following year, where drummer Phil Rudd (formerly of the Coloured Balls) and bassist Mark Evans joined the band. The band's chauffeur, Bon Scott, became their lead vocalist when their singer, Dave Evans, refused to go on-stage. Previously, Scott had been vocalist for the Australian prog rock bands Fraternity and the Valentines. More importantly, he helped cement the group's image as brutes -- he had several convictions on minor criminal offenses and was rejected by the Australian Army for being "socially maladjusted." And AC/DC was socially maladjusted. Throughout their career they favored crude double entendres and violent imagery, all spiked with a mischievous sense of fun. The group released two albums -- High Voltage and TNT -- in Australia in 1974 and 1975. Material from the two records comprised the 1976 release High Voltage in the U.S. and U.K.; the group also toured both countries. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap followed at the end of the year. Evans left the band at the beginning of 1977, with Cliff Williams taking his place. In the fall of 1977, AC/DC released Let There Be Rock, which became their first album to chart in the U.S. Powerage, released in spring of 1978, expanded their audience even further, thanks in no small part to their dynamic live shows (which were captured on 1978's live If You Want Blood, You've Got It). What really broke the doors down for the band was the following year's Highway to Hell, which hit number 17 in the U.S. and number eight in the U.K., becoming the group's first million-seller. AC/DC's train was derailed when Bon Scott died on February 20, 1980. The official coroner's report stated he had "drunk himself to death." In March, the band replaced Scott with Brian Johnson. The following month, the band recorded Back in Black, which would prove to be their biggest album, selling over ten million copies in the U.S. alone. For the next few years, the band was one of the largest ock bands in the world, with For Those About to Rock We Salute You topping the charts in the U.S. In 1982, Rudd left the band; he was replaced by Simon Wright. After 1983's Flick of the Switch, the band's commercial standing began to slip; they were able to reverse their slide with 1990's The Razor's Edge, which spawned the hit "Thunderstruck." While not the commercial powerhouse they were during the late '70s and early '80s, the '90s saw them maintain their status as a top international concert draw. In the fall of 1995, their 16th album, Ballbreaker, was released. Produced by Rick Rubin, the album received some of the most positive reviews of AC/DC's career. Ballbreaker entered the American charts at number four and sold over a million copies in its first six months of release. Stiff Upper Lip followed in early 2000. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide Buy AC/DC Tickets Now! Buy AC/DC Music |  |
This radar sensor business was a "carve-out" of the Radio Frequency and Subsystems business unit within Tyco Electronics. Considered one of the market-leading suppliers of automotive radar sensors in the world, the business designs and manufactures active radar proximity and attribute sensor systems used in vehicle driver assist and safety applications for the global automotive market -- and is Daimler's development partner for automotive radar sensor technology.
The technology and intellectual property included in the transaction includes short-, medium- and long-range radar products. Automotive safety system applications for this technology include blind spot and collision warning, lane change assist, adaptive cruise control An automotive cruise control system that automatically slows down the car if it is moving too close to the vehicle in front of it. A radar or laser unit located behind the grille determines the speed and distance of the vehicle in front. , collision mitigation by braking and side pre-crash sensing, along with back-up and park assist functions. The technology can also be used to trigger other vehicle safety features such as active bumpers, structures, knee bolsters and active seatbelts.
This business includes approximately 115 highly specialized technical, commercial and manufacturing employees who will support the activities required to intensify Autoliv's efforts in the growing automotive active safety market.
This acquisition enables Autoliv to leverage existing customer relationships and safety system capability to increase its strong market position in automotive safety electronics and immediately become one of the largest suppliers of automotive radar products in the world. Existing customers, along with Daimler, include BMW BMW
in full Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
German automaker. Founded as an aircraft engine manufacturer in 1916, the company assumed the name Bayerische Motoren Werke and became known for its high-speed motorcycles in the 1920s. and Chrysler along with other non OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers. "This strategic acquisition will undoubtedly be an important ingredient in our intensified efforts to improve small car safety by creating a 'Virtual Crash Zone' around the vehicle" said Mr. Jan Carlson, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Autoliv.
It is Autoliv's expectation that this acquisition should not materially impact Autoliv's earnings in 2008 and have an accretive earnings per share effect in 2009.
Headquartered in Stockholm, Autoliv Inc. develops and manufactures automotive safety systems for all major automotive manufacturers in the world. Together with its joint ventures, Autoliv has more than 80 facilities with 42,000 employees in 30 vehicle-producing countries. In addition, the company has technical centers in eleven countries around the world, including 20 test tracks, more than any other automotive safety supplier. Sales in 2007 amounted to US $6.8 billion. The Company's shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. (NYSE: ALV) and its Swedish Depository Receipts on the Stockholm Stock Exchange The Stockholm Stock Exchange (Swedish: Stockholmsbörsen) is a stock exchange located in Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 1863 [1] it is the primary securities exchange of the Nordic Countries. (SSE (1) An earlier full-screen editor in OS/2.
(2) (Streaming SIMD Extensions) A series of additional instructions built into Pentium CPU chips for improved multimedia performance by performing mathematical operations on multiple sets of data at the : ALIV). For more information about Autoliv, please visit our company website at www.autoliv.com.
Tyco Electronics Ltd. is a leading global provider of engineered electronic components, network solutions, undersea telecommunication systems and wireless systems, with 2007 sales of $13.0 billion to customers in more than 150 countries. The company designs, manufactures and markets products for customers in industries from automotive, appliance and aerospace and defense to telecommunications, computers and consumer electronics. With over 7,000 engineers and worldwide manufacturing, sales and customer service capabilities, Tyco Electronics' commitment is its customers' advantage. More information on Tyco Electronics can be found at www.tycoelectronics.com.
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An innovative new robotic cutter for reinstating sewer laterals has been introduced to the sewer rehabilitation industry in North America by American Pipe & Plastics Inc., Binghamton, NY.
Two AM Trim Hydrocutter models are available.
* The AT-100 is for use on pipe with diameters from 4 to 9 inches; and
* The self-propelled AT-200 for pipes ranging from 8 to 18 inches in diameter.
What sets them apart from other cutters is how the cutting tool is powered. Unlike the pneumatic tools widely used today, the American Pipe & Plastics (APPI) tools are driven by high-pressure water.
This means that AM-Trim hydrocutter tools are more powerful and cut more effectively than conventional equipment, says Charles Munson, APPI sewer rehabilitation manager.
"Because air is compressible, pneumatic motors may stall during cutting," says Munson. "However, water is incompressible, so when water raider high pressure is used to drive the cutting motor, much greater torque is developed than can be achieved with a pneumatic motor of similar size. Therefore, a hydro-powered motor will continue cutting at loads that would stall the typical pneumatic cutter. Consequently, less time is spent backing the cutter away front the material to allow the cutter motor to start spinning again. The additional power and torque of the hydro motor allow it to turn larger and more aggressive cutting tools than conventional pneumatic cutters, providing faster cutting through even tough materials like fiberglass."
Both AT-100 and AT-200 models include built-in, self-cleaning CCTV (closed-circuit television) cameras, eliminating the need for a separate camera system.
Minimal access
Munson says that because a camera-cutter "train" is not required, an AM-Trim cutter installation requires access from only one manhole, rather than access at each end of a lined pipe as is necessary when using other cutting systems. Also, a winch at a downstream manhole is not required.
"The AT-100 is positioned with push rods from either an upstream or downstream manhole," explains Munson. "The AT-200 is mounted on a hydro-powered wheeled chassis and is 'driven' into position by the person controlling the cutting operation."
Both systems are compact and portable.
"The AT 100 has features that make it especially well suited to work in smaller pipelines," continues Munson. "The cutter can be configured to fit into a lined four-inch diameter pipeline. The rear section of the cutter can be made to articulate, allowing the cutter to negotiate offsets mid bends in the tight confines of a lined small-diameter pipe. Even with its small size and flexibility, it still has the power to cut through the toughest liners."
In addition to the cutting head, the AT-200 has an optional milling head used for hard cutting operations such as removal of protruding taps. The milling head is a gear box connected to the hydro motor which decreases the speed of the cutter and greatly increases the cutting torque.
Basic components of the cutting systems are: tool cutters; cable reel and cable including water supply hose; control and television cables; control box with CCTV viewing screen; and push rods for positioning the AT-t00. High pressure water is provided...
University of Washington researcher Alexander Mamishev is in the final stage of testing his energy crawler, a 3-inch-tall robot that checks underground high-voltage wires for potential electrical shorts, cracks and damage.
The associate professor of electrical engineering has also started talking to 10 companies and groups interested in commercializing the robot, which uses three sensors to determine the health of electrical cables. Although he declined to identify the parties, he said they include potential private investors as well as power companies.
"This is the first robot built that can inspect power cables autonomously looking for incipient failures," Mamishev said. "It can find cables that may need repair, before they cause problems."
The skinny white robot travels through small cable conduits that are miles and miles long and hard for people to check without digging them up. Today, it is most common to send high voltage down a cable and use acoustics to find cracks, Mamishev said. But this method can increase the size of a crack and make things worse.
Using an automatic sensor robot could extend the life of a cable, he said. Today, about 10 percent of these high transmission cables are housed in underground tunnels or pipes, while the rest are buried in dirt.
Don Von Dollen, program manager for the IntelliGrid Program at the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., is unfamiliar with Mamishev's robot crawler but said monitoring high-voltage cables is one of the holy grails of the electricity industry.
"This is something the industry has been working on for 20 years," he said. "It's a tough research challenge to figure out some way of detecting impending failures in cable systems that are difficult to get to. It's a tough nut to crack."
The UW's robot rides inside an insulated distribution cable. Its heat sensor detects heat dissipation, an acoustic sensor listens for the snap and pop of electrical discharges and a third sensor developed by Mamishev detects the presence of moisture that may have seeped into the insulation. The crawler, which runs on a battery, carries a video camera so that operators can monitor its progress.
Power companies spend thousands of dollars estimating the age of cables and replacing them, Mamishev said. Typically, they either wait until a cable fails or replace it after a set period of time -- whether it needs to be replaced or not. Many don't know where the weak points are in their electrical grids or the extent of damage done by hurricanes and floods. Using the robot would help power engineers determine what cables they can maintain or replace, and how they might hold up if they were part of a grid expecting a lot of growth. The robot is designed for underground, not overhead wires, he said.
Some companies have tried to use radar techniques and others have developed sonar applications to solve the problem, Von Dollen said. A lot of solutions have come and gone, he added.
Said Mamishev, "It's just like car maintenance, only more complex and expensive than maintaining a car. And the financial stakes are much higher."
Mamishev started building the robot five years ago and said some 15 people have worked on it over the years. The current team consists of five people, he said. The project has been funded through National Science Foundation and a consortium of power companies, which has invested some $500,000 in the project so far. Mamishev is currently seeking new grants and funding in order to further test the robot.
Mamishev said commercialization is at least a year away. Researchers and engineers are currently making the robot more flexible. They are programming it to bend its arms out of the way in a tight space or extend its arms if the crawler needs stabilization, for instance.
Maintenance tools such as the robot crawler can dramatically reduce the costs associated with power systems, tunnels and buildings, Mamishev said, and he hopes that robots someday will perform many more maintenance tasks.
“Intelligent Transportation Systems” can mean anything from good exit ramp design to autonomous vehicles that can pack a highway efficiently at high speed without causing accidents. While the utopian picture of smart cars on smart roads saving lives and fuel is still impractical, the evolution of technology designed to make driving more convenient, simpler and safer on a car-by-car basis is inching us closer to the point that the addition of a few linchpins will connect the pieces in a way that
To reduce risk and drive revenue, industrial robotics companies are expanding their customer base beyond manufacturing and assembly within large enterprises in the automotive, electronics and semiconductor industries by way of directed market expansion. The rate, scope and variety of industrial robotics directed market expansion efforts provides opportunities to large and small robotics companies, technology providers, systems integrators and distributors, and domain experts alike.
After changing the market for robotic manipulators with a practical, safe robotic arm, Barrett is trying to revolutionize the design of all robotic graspers with a small, modular, self-contained general-purpose servomotor controller.
The Robotics Technology Consortium (RTC) was created to improve the US Department of Defense’s (DoD) ground robotics technology acquisition process and investment planning, and acts as a facilitator for all of DoD’s joint ground robotics research programs. RTC membership is a must for those companies and research institutions that hope to tap into defense robotics research funding going forward.
Scotland based Touch Bionics has released the first commercial fully-articulated artificial hand – the well regarded and award winning i-Limb. The product itself, which is the result of more than 20 years of R&D work, looks and acts like a real human hand. As such, the i-Limb is a major advance in bionics and patient care. While the market for prosthetic hands is limited, Touch Bionics has a three year lead over competing commercial products.
Robotics manufacturing is one of the fastest-growing industries in Korea; this investment is designed to make Korea a powerhouse in international robotics as well.
Asyst Technologies officials blamed the global economic downturn for declines in sales of flat-panel displays, whose manufacturers were Asyst’s largest customers.
The sixth in Schilling’s manipulator product line has greater lift capacity more angle-of-approach options and a longer reach than Schilling’s other arms.
By Andrew Liszewski
Without a big fat defense contract from the government, how is the average consumer supposed to go about creating their own wise-cracking, sequel-spawning, remake-coming robot sidekick? Since Heathkit never sold a complete Johnny 5 kit, you’ll have to slowly piece together your own. And you can start with this robotic arm available from RED5 for about $60.
While it comes partly disassembled (oh no!) you can put it together without having to do any soldering or wiring. It’s powered by 5 electric motors that allow it to lift a whopping 100g and the arm features a 120 degree wrist pivot, a 300 degree elbow motion and a 180 degree base motion. And if I remember correctly, if you want it to develop some level of sentient intelligence, you’ll need to use it outside during a storm and hope for the best. Just be aware that a lightning strike doesn’t always guarantee it will develop a soul. It sure hasn’t worked for me.
The word robot was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), published in 1920.[14] The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called robots, but they are closer to the modern ideas of androids and clones, creatures who can be mistaken for humans. They can plainly think for themselves, though they seem happy to serve. At issue is whether the robots are being exploited and the consequences of their treatment.
However, Karel Čapek himself did not coin the word; he wrote a short letter in reference to an etymology in the Oxford English Dictionary in which he named his brother, the painter and writer Josef Čapek, as its actual originator.[14] In an article in the Czech journal Lidové noviny in 1933, he explained that he had originally wanted to call the creatures laboři (from Latin labor, work). However, he did not like the word, and sought advice from his brother Josef, who suggested "roboti". The word robota means literally work, labor or serf labor, and figuratively "drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech and many Slavic languages.[15] Serfdom was outlawed in 1848 in Bohemia, so at the time Čapek wrote R.U.R., usage of the term robota had broadened to include various types of work, but the obsolete sense of "serfdom" would still have been known.[16][17]
The word robotics, used to describe this field of study, was coined (albeit accidentally) by the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.
Many ancient mythologies include artificial people, such as the mechanical servants built by the Greek god Hephaestus[18] (Vulcan to the Romans), the clay golems of Jewish legend and clay giants of Norse legend, and Galatea, the mythical statue of Pygmalion that came to life. In Greek drama, the Deus Ex Machina was contrived, literally God from the machine, as a dramatic device that usually involved lowering a deity, usually Zeus, by wires into the play to solve a seemingly impossible problem.
In the 4th century BC, the Greek mathematician Archytas of Tarentum postulated a mechanical steam-operated bird he called "The Pigeon". Hero of Alexandria (10–70 AD) created numerous user-configurable automated devices, and described machines powered by air pressure, steam and water.[19] Su Song built a clock tower in China in 1088 featuring mechanical figurines that chimed the hours.[20]
Al-Jazari (1136–1206), a Muslim inventor during the Artuqid dynasty, designed and constructed a number of automated machines, including kitchen appliances, musical automata powered by water, and the first programmable humanoid robots in 1206. The robots appeared as four musicians on a boat in a lake, entertaining guests at royal drinking parties. His mechanism had a programmable drum machine with pegs (cams) that bumped into little levers that operated percussion instruments. The drummer could be made to play different rhythms and different drum patterns by moving the pegs to different locations.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) sketched plans for a humanoid robot around 1495. Da Vinci's notebooks, rediscovered in the 1950s, contain detailed drawings of a mechanical knight now known as Leonardo's robot, able to sit up, wave its arms and move its head and jaw.[21] The design was probably based on anatomical research recorded in his Vitruvian Man. It is not known whether he attempted to build it. In 1738 and 1739, Jacques de Vaucanson exhibited several life-sized automatons: a flute player, a pipe player and a duck. The mechanical duck could flap its wings, crane its neck, and swallow food from the exhibitor's hand, and it gave the illusion of digesting its food by excreting matter stored in a hidden compartment.[22] Complex mechanical toys and animals built in Japan in the 1700s were described in the Karakuri zui (Illustrated Machinery, 1796).....In 1889 a Turkish - Ottoman robot had been buit by Ottoman Palace engineers to be sent as a gift to the Japenese Empirer during the period of Abdülhamit II . Its name was ALAMET.That robot had a shape of human nearly with same sizes , ıt had a clock inside some mechanical sisytem to let it move and a voice player to sing the ezan the islamic lyric to call prayer to mosque.it could sing the ezan every hour, it could walk half meter , it could open its arms,ıt could bend forward like a muslim prayer,turn around itself and go back to its place.Its clothes were made of gold and silver.An the robot could sing the ezan every hour.It has still some pictures from the placa of Yıldız in İstanbul.
The Japanese craftsman Hisashige Tanaka (1799–1881), known as "Japan's Edison" or "Karakuri Giemon", created an array of extremely complex mechanical toys, some of which served tea, fired arrows drawn from a quiver, and even painted a Japanese kanji character.[23] In 1898 Nikola Tesla publicly demonstrated a radio-controlled torpedo.[24] Based on patents for "teleautomation", Tesla hoped to develop it into a weapon system for the US Navy.[25][26]
In 1926, Westinghouse Electric Corporation created Televox, the first robot put to useful work. They followed Televox with a number of other simple robots, including one called Rastus, made in the crude image of a black man. In the 1930s, they created a humanoid robot known as Elektro for exhibition purposes, including the 1939 and 1940 World's Fairs. [27][28] In 1928, Japan's first robot, Gakutensoku, was designed and constructed by biologist Makoto Nishimura.
The first electronic autonomous robots were created by William Grey Walter of the Burden Neurological Institute at Bristol, England in 1948 and 1949. They were named Elmer and Elsie. These robots could sense light and contact with external objects, and use these stimuli to navigate. [29]
The first truly modern robot, digitally operated and programmable, was invented by George Devol in 1954 and was ultimately called the Unimate. Devol sold the first Unimate to General Motors in 1960, and it was installed in 1961 in a plant in Trenton, New Jersey to lift hot pieces of metal from a die casting machine and stack them.[30]
