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GTX CEO Chairs So. California COVID-19
Supplies Taskforce E
GTX Corp., a pioneer in the field of health and
safety wearable technology, announced, in an
effort to support the community at large from
the coronavirus pandemic, that CEO Patrick Ber-
tagna now chairs the Southern California Bio-
medical Counsel COVID-19 Supplies Taskforce.
SAMWHA ELECTRIC Receives Attention in
Electronics for the Smart City Industry E
SAMWHA ELECTRIC, a manufacturer spe-
cialized in electrolytic capacitors in Korea,
launched a conductive polymer hybrid electro-
lytic capacitor leveraging advanced technology
to cope with increasing demand for electronic
components used for the smart city industry—
a future strategic market.
Everflow JV to Manufacture Vanadium
Redox Flow Batteries in KSA E
Nusaned Investment and SCHMID Group have
closed the JV transaction in Saudi Arabia, fo-
cusing on manufacturing and technology de-
velopment in the field of vanadium redox flow
batteries.
NVIDIA Chief Scientist Releases Low-Cost,
Open-Source Ventilator Design E
NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally released an
open-source design for a low-cost, easy-to-as-
semble mechanical ventilator.
Intel Joins GA Tech in DARPA Program to
Mitigate Machine Learning Attacks E
Intel and the Georgia Institute of Technology
(Georgia Tech) announced that they had been
selected to lead a Guaranteeing Artificial In-
telligence (AI) Robustness against Deception
(GARD) program team for the Defense Ad-
vanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Intel is the prime contractor in this four-year,
multimillion-dollar joint effort to improve cy-
bersecurity defenses against deception attacks
on machine learning models.
Universal Robots Launches the World's
First Autonomous Bin Picking Kit for
Machine Tending Applications E
The complexity of automated bin picking is
well-known throughout the industry, requiring
huge efforts in both integration and program-
ming. Today, most bin picking products are
solely focused on the vision aspect of bin pick-
ing and often require hundreds of lines of ad-
ditional programming to bridge the gap from
"pick" to "place" —especially if the "place" is
not just dropping into a box or tote but accu-
rately inserting the part into a fixture for fur-
ther processing.
Cadillac Products Manufacturing Medical
PPE to Help Healthcare Workers Fight
COVID-19 in Michigan E
Cadillac Products Automotive Company and
Cadillac Products Packaging Company have
launched an effort to fight COVID-19 by com-
bining workforces, capabilities, and factories to
manufacture medical personal protective equip-
ment (PPE) for frontline doctors and nurses.
Robotics Duo Digs Into the Weeds With
Winning AI Project at Hacketer.io E
Kevin Patel and Nihar Chaniyara grew up
among rural India's herbicide-treated crops of
corn, sugarcane, and mangos. Today, they cul-
tivate organics with data, vision models, and
GPUs.
SEMI Update on COVID-19 Resources E
SEMI gives an update on the resources they
have available to members regarding COVID-19.
