Thanks to Drones, French Wine Tastes Better

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Lumotive, a startup in Bellevue, Wash., says it has a compact, long-range lidar sensor that is at least as capable as the best machines from its rivals but smaller, cheaper to make, and more robust.

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Optomec has acquired Huffman, partnering its production-grade additive manufacturing (AM) solutions with Huffman’s metal 3D printing systems and software for additive repair in order to obtain a broader market reach.

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World leaders and prominent CEOs are likely the first people you picture in Davos at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting each January. While you may be more likely to hear these higher profile CEOs weigh in on pressing global issues, these headlines only show a small section of those who attend Davos.

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Since Delair first launched in 2011, it has grown from a small drone startup into a global unmanned aircraft systems and asset-management company, with headquarters in Toulouse, France, and offices in Belgium, Singapore, and the US.

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What began as a novelty in the technology world has rapidly advanced to a new way of manufacturing a variety of goods. 3D printing is taking the world by storm and it’s now used to create parts for jets, automobiles, shoes, and even homes that people can live in. The first 3D printer prototypes were smaller and we were amazed watching them slowly create objects through a computer program, but when we viewed one at the local fair some years back, we didn’t imagine what they would be capable of. Some of the 3D printers used privately and commercially range from small in size to very large.

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Optomec, a leading global supplier of production grade systems for 3D printed electronics announced that the company will showcase smart devices manufactured using its Aerosol Jet printers at the Sensors Expo and Conference, held this week at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in California. Optomec will be in booth #1226 where they will demonstrate how products ranging from gas turbine engine blades to consumer hand held devices can be made smart with 3D printed sensors and antennas.

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The commercial use of drones took a leap forwards yesterday when a device was flown for more than seven miles over East Sussex.

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While metal additive manufacturing (AM) technology is gaining momentum, the level of adoption is still quite low compared to traditional subtractive metalworking methods. In 2017, only 1768 metal AM machines1 were sold worldwide compared to hundreds of thousands of computer numerical control (CNC) subtractive machine tools.

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Much has been written and discussed about the merging of the physical, digital and biological worlds with machines. Artificial intelligence has become a catch-all description for replicating something inherently human and embedding it in man-made systems that can perhaps function better, if not at least more efficiently, than our bodies and brains.

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