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RAPIRO: This Little Robot Likes Raspberry Pi

2013-08-13 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld

A variety of factors can propel a Kickstarter project to funding success, but there's no denying that the sheer seductiveness of the product is a big one. Case in point: RAPIRO. Short for RAspberry PI RObot, RAPIRO is a super-cute humanlike mini-robot now being offered as a kit on Kickstarter. When assembled, it can walk on its feet, grip items in its hands and swivel its head and waist.

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Intels x86 MinnowBoard ships, sets sight on Raspberry Pi

2013-07-31 17:16:30| Extremetech

It seems every hardware manufacturer and their hardware manufacturing grandmothers are getting in on the cheap, tiny, adorably named computer wave that the Raspberry Pi popularized. Now that the Minnowboard is shipping, it's Intel's turn to take aim at the $35 credit card-sized fruit pie computer.

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New Manufacturing Capabilities for Precision Hexapod Positioners Added by PI

2013-07-03 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

Auburn, MA – Parallel precision positioning specialist PI (Physik Instrumente) recently added a new building with more production floors, metrology labs and RD office space to its factory in Karlsruhe, Germany.<br /> <br /> New High-Load Hexapod Production & Test Facility<br /> Close to 4500 square ft are dedicated for the manufacture and test of heavy duty 6-Axis motion systems capable of moving loads of up to 5 tons with sub-micrometer precision To verify the accuracy of these ...

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