Motor Drives, Robotics & Controls

    May 2024
    Qorvo Hard-Wires Safety Features into Motor Controllers for 44V-72V Power Tools and Appliances

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    Introduction We're all familiar with the pervasive hum of gas-powered gardening equipment in the spring, summer and fall, from hedge trimmers, leaf blowers, chainsaws, and jack hammers, not to mention the droning of snowblowers in the winter. While gas-powered tools have long been a staple for outdoor mainte
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    Date:
    05/31/2024
    Infineon Announces Next-Generation CoolGaN Transistor Families Built on 8-inch Foundry Processes

    Infineon’s two new generations of high voltage (HV) and medium voltage (MV) CoolGaN™ devices enable customers to use GaN in voltage classes from 40 V to 700 V in a broader array of applications.

    ­Infineon Technologies AG announces two new generations of high voltage (HV) and medium voltage (MV) CoolGaN devices which now enable customers to use Gallium Nitride (GaN) in voltage classes from 40 V to 700 V in a broader array of applications that help drive digitalization and decarbonization. These tw
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    Date:
    05/29/2024
    Charging Robotics and Make My Day to Deploy AI-based EV Charging Management System

    Hovav Gilan, CEO of Charging Robotics

    ­Charging Robotics, Inc., announces that as part of its collaboration with Make My Day Ltd., a market leader in the field of EV fleet management for minimizing EV (electric vehicle) battery consumption, the two companies reached the final stages of development of their software for EV charging management in au
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    Date:
    05/15/2024
    Comparative Analysis of Robot-Assisted Language Learning Systems and Human Tutors in English Conversation Lessons

    The group with the robot tutor made fewer errors and spoke more fluently than the group with human tutors, indicating the effectiveness of robot-assisted learning.

    ­Advancements in large language models, robotics, and software such as text-to-speech, have made it possible to develop robots that can understand language, interact physically, and communicate verbally. These breakthroughs have opened up possibilities for robots to be used for educational purposes. However, th
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    Date:
    05/10/2024
    Transforming Common Soft Magnets into a Next-Generation Thermoelectric Conversion Materials by 3 Minutes Heat Treatment

    Enhancement of the anomalous Nernst effect by microstructure engineering in nanoscale.

    ­A research team from NIMS and Nagoya University has demonstrated that an iron-based amorphous alloy, widely used as a soft magnetic material in transformers and motors, can be transformed into a "transverse" thermoelectric conversion material that converts electric and thermal currents in orthogonal di
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    Date:
    05/10/2024
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