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Start With Indramat Cables
It’s sometimes difficult to know where to begin when troubleshooting Indramat errors. System diagnostic messages are one of the great features of Indramat motion control systems. An Indramat error code provides vital diagnostic information, but the exact problems that generate the error code can vary. An Indramat EcoDrive Error code F219, for example, may be... […]
Fordlândia
It’s easy to forget just how fascinating manufacturing is. Nowadays, people think of assembly lines as commonplace and unremarkable, not giving a second thought to the fact that automated robots are building our products at a pace that humans could never hope to match. If you were to go back a few hundred years and... […]
Are We Too Impressed by Robots?
Sangbae Kim has written a thought-provoking piece at IEEE Spectrum on the cognitive biases we bring to our understanding of artificial intelligence. One example is the way we get impressed when we see a robot dancing or doing backflips. Kim points out that when we see a human being doing a backflip, we know that it’s... […]