Video Friday: Robot Opera

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!):RO-MAN 2021 – August 8-12, 2021 – [Online Event]DARPA SubT…

Discover How Panasonic Corporation Used Simulation of Electronics to Reduce a 2-Year Development Cycle

Download this case study today to learn how Panasonic Corporation used simulation tools for thermal fluid analyses across multiple electronics product lines. This case study details how simulation is used to manage heat in electronics, including methods to meet heat dissipation and heat conduction targets, and more. Source: IEEE Semiconductors

The Real Story of Pixar

The story of Pixar doesn't start with its founding—a tech company's story rarely does. Rather, the original spark often comes from a university lab, a renegade group at a large company, or a hobbyist building stuff for fun. Pixar's story doesn't even start with the creation of Lucasfilm's Computer Graphics…

World-Record Data Transmission Speed Smashed

Researchers at Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Tokyo have almost doubled the previous long-haul data transmission speed record of 172 Tb/s established by NICT and others in April 2020. The researchers recently presented their results at the International Conference on Optical Fiber Communications.In breaking the…