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Sundance is a proud member of the VineScout project and as such we were involved in the most recent testing of the robot which took place in the Douro region of Portugal. The Douro is known for its historic farming methods, but while traditional viticulture remains...

We set up four demo systems to enable the participants to get some hands on experience with them.  The workshop started with a few presentations on image processing applications including a presentation on the reVISION stack and then moved on to a tutorial...

By Dr Kofi Appiah

Date and Time

Thu 12 July 2018 – 08:30 – 17:00 BST

Location

Sheaf 4301, Sheffield Hallam University

Howard Street, Sheffield. S1 1WB

Sundance is delighted to have joined the West of England Robotics network. Industry, entrepreneurs and academia have joined forces to create a new network aimed at establishing the West of England as the country’s leading region for robotics. The West of England...

After some in house testing we are now confident that we can place 0201 devices without issue. To test our capabilities we had our chief design engineer produce a small test board with over 1500 0201 component places at various angles (banks of 0 and 90, as well as a...

We have designed a new I/O board for a customer’s project using SolidWorks PCB to carry out the placement and routing.  This is new for us as we would normally use Cadstar for this part of the procedure.  The advantage of  the new approach is that it provides a...

We are in the final stages of the Tulipp Project – www.tulipp.eu – and part of the project goal is to open the concept to a wider Ecosystem. We need external resources/experts that can use it to give feedback to Partners and then also improve it, so will require the PhD student to be interested in Image Processing, Sensors and Robotics.

The use of Unmanned Vehicles (UVs) in different markets has increased significantly. Currently, most important markets are aerial video/photography, precision farming and surveillance/monitoring. Ongoing technical development, e.g. in size, endurance and usability,...

New pick and place machine… Sundance has upgraded our in-house automated surface mount assembly manufacturing equipment.  Our new Mycronic MY12 pick and place machine can place 0201 components, which is a significant upgrade over the 0402 component limitation of...