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Notes from the field

Write-ups from deployments we have actually run — including the parts that failed the first time. No trend pieces.

Latest·8 min·Engineering

Most industrial vision projects fail at the lighting rig

Teams spend months on model architecture and days on optics. In our experience the ratio should be reversed — here is the evidence from four deployments.

aimanufacturing
·11 min

How to write a latency budget for a moving robot

Throughput numbers sell private 5G. Worst-case jitter is what determines whether your AMR stops safely. A practical method for specifying the link.

5grobotics
·9 min

DGCA compliance for commercial drone programmes: a practical checklist

What actually needs to be in place before a commercial survey programme can fly in India — permissions, certification, logging and insurance.

drones
·13 min

Benchmarking edge accelerators for factory-floor inference

Jetson Orin, Hailo-8 and Coral compared on the same segmentation workload — throughput, power draw and what the datasheets leave out.

aiiot
·10 min

Designing a sensor node for five years on one battery

Duty cycling, radio selection and the quiescent-current mistakes that quietly halve your field life.

iot
·7 min

Cutting 60% of the mass from a robot end-effector

A walkthrough of topology optimisation and DMLS printing on a real gripper — including the first version that failed FEA.

3drobotics
·9 min

Why AMR fleets deadlock, and the scheduling fix

Local negotiation between robots breaks down exactly when your warehouse is busiest. Central segment reservation is unglamorous and it works.

robotics5g
·8 min

Low-cost air quality sensors are useless without co-location

The drift-correction step that separates a usable municipal network from an expensive random number generator.

iotsmart-cities
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