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Automation / Robotics
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LTE-M connectivity provides AI and security at the edge
Avnet launches solution that combines its SmartEdge Agile IoT device with Octonion’s Brainium software platform and Sequans’ Monarch chipset to enable plug and play connectivity solutions for IoT
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Smart camera includes multi-colour light, high-rez image sensor
OMRON AUTOMATION FHV7-series smart camera with an all-new multi-colour light and high-resolution image sensor for advanced vision inspections on high-mix production lines. Unit provides multi-colour light alongside a range of best-in-class image sensors (0.4MP to 5MP, with 12MP coming in…
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EPTECH Shows coming to Montreal, Mississauga
Table-top trade show format exhibits soup to nuts for electronic designers, engineers
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Sidewalk Toronto faces growing opposition, calls to cancel project
Plans for a high tech Toronto community led by an Alphabet Inc.-backed entity should be scrapped, say politicians and prominent Canadian business and technology leaders. In the wake of a leaked report last week that revealed Sidewalk Labs’ interest in…
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Sidewalk Labs CEO responds to criticism around tax and transit plans
Sidewalk Labs’s chief executive officer says it’s too “premature” to abandon any ideas it unveiled Thursday for a high-tech Toronto community it hopes to build, despite the concepts being met with fierce criticism. In an interview with The Canadian Press,…
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Sidewalk wants cut of property taxes, development fees for Quayside project
Sidewalk Labs is plotting to expand its proposal for a high-tech Toronto community by funding transit and underground infrastructure and trying to snatch up a portion of development fees and property taxes typically funneled towards the city. The Alphabet Inc.-backed…
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BlackBerry to get $40M in federal funds to support self driving car development
The Liberal government is giving $40 million in federal money to BlackBerry to help the company develop self-driving car technologies. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in the Ottawa suburb of Kanata on Friday to announce the support for BlackBerry, the one-time smartphone…
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Optical Control expands support in Western Canada
Optical Control Americas has entered a manufacturers’ representative agreement with G2 Manufacturing, which will represent the firm’s class-leading component counting technology throughout Western Canada. “We keep growing and adding ‘best in the industry’ partners, and John Gilby is no exception,”…
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Pentagon outlines its first AI strategy
US plans to deploy significant investments in artificial intelligence for military purposes
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ITC celebrates its 25th Anniversary
ITC Inc., Concord ON, marks its 25th anniversary as a master distributor in Canada, of electrical components, products, devices and accessories for control and automation systems, control panels, machinery and power distribution. A trusted resource for industrial electrical and automation…
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Is Canada getting wise to AI commercialization, or churning out more research?
Some universities sign agreements that effectively hand over the fruits of AI research to their tech partners, turning innovation hubs into branch plants
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Modular AOI platform is optimized to inspect wave, selective soldering
MEK SpectorBOX modular AOI platform is optimized for the inspection of wave & selective soldering of through hole & surface mount components. Unit inspects printed circuit boards (pcbs) inside solder frames, directly from the conveyor system. Unit can be equipped with 9 cameras:…