Embedded Executive Podcast

My definition of Industry 5.0 has to do with putting people and robots into the same environment, and having them work and operate together, safely and securely. How we get to that point is still a matter of contention. For a better understanding of what it means and how we get there, I talked to Sameer Wasson, the Vice President and Business Unit Manager for Texas Instruments’ processor business in this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

Engineers have been designing PCBs for a long time. As components get smaller and more integrated, and a frequencies increase, the complexities increase exponentially. The tools are generally keeping pace, but that doesn’t make them any easier to use. In this week’s Five Minutes With...podcast, I spoke to Lawrence Romine, a vice president of Altium, one of the leaders in PCB design. We also chatted briefly about the company’s annual conference, Altium Live, that teaches designers the ins and outs of PCB design.

Industrial robots have been used for automotive assembly for quite some time. Now, they are expanding their use into just about any industrial application you can think of, and they’ll be including the use of AI in those robots. Where does the AI come in and how does it work? Those are the first questions I asked Kai Wang, a Director on NexCOBOT’s Robot and Automation team in this week’s Five Minutes With...discussion.

In our Special Edition of the Embedded Executive podcasts, we are interviewing execs to see how their engineering teams are dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. We are looking at companies in different parts of the world, and big companies and small companies. In this interview with Sasha Wolloch, President of Raltron Electronics, we get a peek at how it’s going in my home state of Florida.